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Katie Ebner-Landy
The Character Sketch as Philosophy

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of moral and political education. Yet Enlightenment thinker…

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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Jamal J Elias
After Rumi

The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, whose devotion to Rumi was rooted in ideas of emotio…

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Johannes Scotus Eriugena,
Periphyseon

Called the "final achievement" of ancient philosophy, Periphyseon draws on knowledge of both the Greek and Latin Christian theological traditions, remarkable in the Carolingian world. It present…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Adams Family,
Adams Family Correspondence

From Quincy, MA, John and Abigail Adams watched and felt the impact of a US embargo on British trade, while Senator John Quincy Adams drew Federalist ire for his role in its passage. In 236 letters, Volum…

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Nancy Felson
Regarding Penelope

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and re…

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Tamara Surani Fernando
Shallow Blue Empire

A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the la…

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Marsilio Ficino,
Commentary on Plotinus

A preeminent Renaissance philosopher on the founder of NeoplatonismMarsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority…

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Dov Fox
The Conscience of Care

American law categorically protects clinicians who invoke conscience to refuse standard care, from Plan B to IVF. Yet clinicians enjoy no conscience protections when they offer prohibited care, as in stat…

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Douglas Frame
Hippota Nestor and Beyond

In Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, Douglas Frame revisits the Homeric figure of Nestor, who he argues derives from twin figures in Indo-European myth, and dates the composition and performance…

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Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim,
The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit, who lived at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony in the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. Her plays are preeminently written for women and mo…

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Manon Garcia
The Joy of Consent

In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics o…

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Raymond Geuss
Not Thinking like a Liberal

"An instant classic....an intellectual feast and an existential feat!" -Cornel West "By intertwining autobiography and conceptual critique, Geuss underlines the idea that in order to gain a…

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Eddie Glaude
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. weaves personal anecdotes and meditations to offer a positive vision for Black politics: the importance of ordinary people assuming the mantle of leaders and heroes our democracy despe…

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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David Gooblar
One Classroom at a Time

From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US college campus was a sanctuary of…

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Dylan Gottlieb
Yuppies

How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies may …

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Anthony Grafton
Magus

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic cur…

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Umberto Grassi
What God Kept for Himself

A revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials.Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series…

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