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Music in the Writings and Imagination of Silesian Humanists /
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Sound-Worlds of Central Europe explores the sound-world of early modern Silesia via the writings of humanists active there in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who both observed musical culture and actively participated in it: a poet, a publisher, a pedagogue, a physician, a historian, and a regionalist. Such an approach makes it possible to reconstruct their perceptions and understandings of music-a constitutive element of this community. As these authors concentrated more on the representation of music than the art itself, the book reflects the collective memory of the republic of scholars: their individual and common imaginarium.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004707252
A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy : Volume III:The Crisis of Humanism /
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The culmination of Eliezer Schweid's life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical developments, with extensive primary source excerpts. Volume Three, "The Crisis of Humanism," commences with an important essay on the challenge to the humanist tradition posed in the late 19th century by historical materialism, existentialism and positivism. This is background for the constructive philosophies which sought at the same time to address the general crisis of moral value and provide a positive basis for Jewish existence. Among the thinkers presented in this volume are Moses Hess, Moritz Lazarus, Hermann Cohen (in impressive depth, with a thorough exposition of the Ethics and Religion of Reason ), Ahad Ha-Am, I. J. Reines, Simon Dubnow, M. Y. Berdiczewski, the theorists of the Bund, Chaim Zhitlovsky, Nachman Syrkin, and Ber Borochov.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004380608 :
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A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought /
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This book provides a comprehensive but concise introduction to Chinese Buddhism and the study of Buddhism in China: their Indic roots, their Sinicization, the development and philosophies of the three central lineages, the natural exchange between Buddhist cultures and schools of thought, the foundations of Buddhist studies in China, and the chief schools and sects in Chinese Buddhism as well as their characteristics and ethos.
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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004700345
Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice /
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The Renaissance has a peculiar status in philosophical historiography: it tends to disappear from the dominant narrative-as Charles Schmitt famously noticed-but it also resurfaces unexpectedly in marginal reception histories. This book casts light on intellectual constellations or geographical areas, which have traditionally been considered peripheral to the emergence of the Renaissance. The case studies presented in the book explore philosophical historiography as a political practice, showing how, in times of cultural crisis or change, the scholarly rediscovery of the Renaissance often served to develop or legitimise an ideal of social, religious or moral reform. Driven by personal concerns and political choices, historiography is revealed as an act of dissent against mainstream reconstructions.
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1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004722323
Helius Eobanus Hessus, sein Leben und seine Werke : Band I, mit portrait. Ein Betrag zur Cultur- und Gelehrtengeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts /
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Anhang: Verzeichnis der Schriften und Veröffentlichungen Eobans. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789060040928).
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1 online resource (703 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004535435
Institutions of education, then and today : the legacy of German idealism /
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The theme of "Institutions of Education: then and today" not only corresponds with the basic questions raised in German Idealism, but is also central to the question of whether it is legitimate to study German Idealism in our era. Elaborating on this project immediately raises the problem of institutional differentiation, which characterizes multicultural society. Does the variety of educational institutions not, by definition, exclude the shared conception and realization of adulthood that is presupposed by German Idealism? This book shows that German Idealism can still participate in the contemporary debate on education: it is not only helpful in raising relevant questions, but can also be transformed into positions which can deal with the pluriformity that characterizes contemporary society.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004184152 :
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The Alphabetisation of Thought : Orthography, Locke, and Natural Philosophy /
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The Alphabetisation of Thought is a bold and original study about the rise, spread and dominance of orthographic thinking in the Early Modern period. Starting out as a local, grammatical mode of thinking, it soon gained momentum, strength and depth, turning into a development that provoked a wholesale reorganisation of thought along the lines of alphabetical writing. The study brings together an unprecedented range of texts from areas as diverse as grammar, epistemology, classical scholarship, natural philosophy and cryptography. A major source of evidence is Locke's doctrine of ideas as laid out in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding . Echoing the orthographic debate of the preceding 150 years, it affords not only crucial insight into the final stages of the alphabetisation process, but also glimpses of its legacy.
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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004684850
Pre-modern Mathematical Thought : The Latin Discussion (13th-16th Centuries) /
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This book takes readers through an exploration of fundamental discussions that redefined mathematics and its philosophical significance in the centuries foregoing modernity. From William of Auvergne's paradoxes of infinity to Christoph Clavius' interpretation of Euclidean principles, it examines the evolving understanding of central issues among which continuity, the existence of mathematical objects such as numbers, and the way humans can make true statements regarding such things. Each chapter sheds light on how premodern scholars bridged mathematics and philosophy, forging concepts and approaches that continued to influence early modern thought. A compelling read for historians, philosophers, and anyone intrigued by the origins and enduring legacy of mathematical ideas as both tools for inquiry and objects of reflection. Contributors are Joël Biard, Stephen Clucas, Clelia V. Crialesi, Vincenzo De Risi, Daniel Di Liscia, André Goddu, Kamil Majcherek, Paolo Mancosu, Aurélien Robert, Sabine Rommevaux, Sylvain Roudaut, and Cecilia Trifogli.
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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004734159
Philippus de Diversis, Description of the Illustrious City of Dubrovnik : A Unique 15th-Century Urban Record /
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This is the first English-language translation of the description of 15th-century Dubrovnik by the humanist Philippus de Diversis. The text provides a unique description of all aspects of urban life; it is unusual in that it includes themes which were not usually found in city praises, such as the plague control measures and the functioning of public offices. Diversis' aim was to describe "the honour and the reputation of the city of Dubrovnik, which through his endeavour was to last forever". His work is documentary, literary, and personal, and as this edition testifies, it is still read and admired six centuries later.
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1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004755642
Anthologies of historiographical speeches from antiquity to early modern times : rearranging the tesserae /
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Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters' orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.
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1 online resource (xi, 546 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004341869 :
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Briefwechsel /
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Contains the texts of 448 letters written- or received by the great Alsatian humanist ( 1485 - 1547). pp. 592 - 618: Index bibliographicus des Beatus Rhenanus (68 entries). Furthermore texts of 22 inscriptions, 6 poems and 19 epigrams.
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1 online resource (724 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004616615