harvard university press nov 2008 (15 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. The publication of his Latin translations of the dialogues in 1484 was an intellectual event of the first magnitude, making the Platonic canon accessible to western Europe after the passing of a millennium and establishing Plato as an authority for Renaissance thought. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus,' which he explicates as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a sublime work of theology. In the commentary on the 'Ion,' Ficino explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God. Both works bear witness to Ficino's attempt to revive a Christian Platonism and what might be called an Orphic Christianity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West This book offers an opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Folengo (1491-1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published--as 'Merlin Cocaio'--the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo. This edition provides the first English translation of this send-up of ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra. Also included in this volume is the Carmina Varia, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of curious tales questioning the ownership of airspace and a reconstruction of a truly novel moment in the history of American law, Banner's book reminds us of the powerful and reciprocal relationship between technological innovation and the law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - To the ancient Greeks, providence was the inherent purpose and rational structure of the world. In Christian thought, it became a benign will ¿providing¿ for human well-being. And in our own ever more secular times¿is providence lost Perhaps, but as Genevieve Lloyd makes clear in this illuminating work, providence still exerts a powerful influence on our thought and in our lives; and understanding how can help us clarify the functioning¿or, increasingly, disfunctioning¿of concepts of freedom and autonomy that define our modernity. Such an understanding is precisely the goal of this book, which traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy. Beginning with early versions of providence in ancient Greek thought, Lloyd follows the concept through its convergence with Christian ideas, to its role in seventeenth-century philosophical accommodations of freedom and necessity. Finally, she shows how providence was subsumed into the eighteenth-century ideas of progress that eventually rendered it philosophically superfluous. Incorporating rich discussions of thinkers from Euripides to Augustine, Descartes and Spinoza to Kant and Hegel, her lucid and elegantly written work clearly and forcefully brings the history of ideas to bear on our present confusion over notions of autonomy, risk, and responsibility. Exploring the interplay among philosophy, religion, and literature, and among intellect, imagination, and emotion in philosophical thought, this book allows intellectual historians and general readers alike to grasp what it actually means that providence can be lost but not escaped.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the first half of the 20th century, the U.S. moved to the center of global cultural production. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these transformative developments This book attempts to address this question in a series of close readings of major texts from this period.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity-the basis for patriarchal rule-in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. Micale challenges this triumphant vision by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Challenging many modern assumptions about the extent of judicial power, and by exploring judicial duty in its social context, this book raises sobering questions about the nature of law and the possibility of government under law.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity This book argues that the answer lies to a large extent in institutional differences across societies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Considers David Hume's views on character, desirable character traits, his treatment of historical characters, and his own character as shown not just by his cheerful death - and what he chose to read shortly before it - but also by changes in his writings, especially his repudiation of the celebrated 'A Treatise on Human Nature'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to productively remap their relationship to the world around them.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collects the main essays from this last, productive period of the author's career. This title also includes some notable earlier essays which contain discussions and are quite often referred to by other philosophers. It offers a defined picture of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers working at the height of his powers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Economic Structure of International Law presents a rationalist analysis of the structure of international law. It employs social scientific techniques to develop an understanding of the role of law in international society. In doing so, it delves into the question of compliance and reveals the real-world circumstances under which states might adhere to or violate international law.Joel P. Trachtman explores such topics as treaty-making and jurisdiction; the rise, stability, and efficiency of custom; the establishment of international organizations; and the structure and role of international legal dispute settlement. At the core of the book lies the question of the allocation of legal power to states. The Economic Structure of International Law presents policymakers and scholars with an over-arching analytical model of international law, one that demonstrates the potential of international law, but also explains how policymakers should choose among different international legal structures.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Organization of Firms in a Global Economy presents a new research program that is transforming the study of international trade. Driven by the availability of new micro data sets and innovative theoretical models, it focuses on the level of firms, products, and stages of production rather than on countries and industries. It addresses such questions as why only a small proportion of firms in a given industry export and why an even smaller proportion invest abroad; why exporters tend to be more productive than nonexporters; why almost one-third of international trade takes place between units of the same firm and why as much as two-thirds involves multinational firms as exporter, importer, or both; and why international trade may have been the most important driver of organizational changes in the corporation that have been taking place in the last decade.Until a few years ago, models of international trade did not recognize the heterogeneity of firms and exporters, and could not provide good explanations of international production networks. Now such models exist and are explored in this volume.