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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Madison P. Jones
Inventing Ecosystems

This open access book examines the origins of the "ecosystem" concept through the perspective of the rhetoric of science and technology. Studying the pioneering work of ecosystems ecologists Eug…

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, The Quest for Liberation shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. …

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Marcus Willaschek,
Kant: A Revolution in Thinking

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Crit…

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Adebayo Oluwayomi
Foundations of Black Epistemology

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorou…

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Daniel Nolan
Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy

Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversatio…

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Antti Taipale
Religious Instruction for Soldiers in the First English Civil War, 1642-1646

This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy. It argues that thus far, the remarkable differences between the tea…

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Robyn Creswell
City of Beginnings

"City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development o…

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Natasha Wheatley
The Life and Death of States

An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the…

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa's most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866…

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Writing Conceptual Histories

Writing Conceptual Histories introduces conceptual history as a research perspective and as a lens through which we can study the past and present. This book provides students and researchers with an over…

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Science, Faith, Society: New Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Polanyi

The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyi's social, political philosophy. The essays combine philosophical and historical approaches to show Polanyi's social tho…

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Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell
Social Bonds and Historical Time

This book analyses the social dimension of historical time, and explores how we emotionally and intellectually bind ourselves to the past, and project these ties onto our present and future.Gustafsson Cho…

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Vanessa Rampton
Making Medical Progress

Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held e…

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Riccardo Bernardini
The Art of the Self

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962) was the pioneering founder of the famous Eranos Conferences, which since the early 1930s have attracted to Ascona (Switzerland) some of the most influential scholars of the …

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Nicki Kindersley
New Sudans

Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan's capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working peop…

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Michael Falk
Romanticism and the Contingent Self

This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with writers believing in the 'centrality' of the self. Challengi…

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical…

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Ethan R. Sanders
Building the African Nation

How did people in East Africa come to see themselves as 'Africans,' and where did these concepts originate from? Utilizing a global intellectual history lens, Ethan Sanders traces how ideas stemming from …

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István Hont,
Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx

István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished materia…

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