Intellectual History – alle Bücher, Seite 7

Benoît Vermander
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies

Vermander revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "comparative philosophy" is conducted today. In the vulgate of intellectual histor…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Hans Blumenberg's History and Philosophy of Science

This book highlights and develops a hitherto neglected area of Hans Blumenberg's contributions, i.e., history and philosophy of science. It covers both Blumenberg's works on the history of ideas and conce…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Fighting with the Past

Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, ninete…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Melissa Ann Kaul
Animals in Premodern Japan

In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how And¿ Sh¿eki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chi…

lieferbar ab 28.12.2025.

Buch

Ibn Taymiyya's Thought

A fresh reading of medieval thinker Ibn Taymiyya, offering pathbreaking insight into his lasting relevance in debates on Islam, authority, and religious thought.Ibn Taymiyya's Thought: Corpus, Reception, …

lieferbar ab 2.3.2026.

Buch

Giulia Torello-Hill, Andrew J Turner,
Jodocus Badius Ascensius' Praenotamenta to Terence

Offering the first scholarly edition and English translation of Praenotamenta , a treatise on ancient drama by Flemish scholar, editor and publisher Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), along with his in…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Kelly Clancy
Playing with Reality

'A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the min…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Nicola Miller
Republics of Knowledge

"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century a…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Justin Smith-Ruiu
On Drugs

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here?On Drug…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Todd Kontje
Global Germany Circa 1800

Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what i…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Hendrik Dey
The Making of Medieval Rome

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is t…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

J. Mackenzie Pierce
Sounds of Survival

"A major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twen…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Georgios Varouxakis
The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

lieferbar innerhalb von 1-3 Tagen

Buch

Andrew Hammond
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought

"In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poe…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch

Michelangelo Guida
Islamist Political Thought in Turkey

Islamism is a powerful political force in contemporary Turkey. But what are the roots of this ideology? This book provides an intellectual history of Islamism in Turkey, tracing the thought of key figures…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Sean Delehanty
Company Men

How an esoteric economic theory--and its most devout believers--changed the world forever.In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its sharehol…

lieferbar ab 4.11.2025.

Buch

Jacob T. Snyder
Leisure

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future. Leisure is a genealogy of the concept of leisure, from its peak in the classical age to its inversion and …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

The Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary

Bringing together cutting-edge research from a team of experts, this Handbook provides an all-encompassing account of dictionaries in context. It considers the cultural, social, intellectual and book hist…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Robert P. Wettemann
Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs Volume 79

Seamlessly blending social, military, intellectual, and technological history, Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs weaves an engaging narrative about the roots of American ingenuity during WWII--and makes a comp…

lieferbar in mind. 4 Wochen

Buch