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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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Rachel Kantz Feder
Revolutionary Shi'i Modernism in Iraq

While Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr has often been portrayed as a fundamentalist or sectarian Islamist, this study repositions the scholar as a revolutionary Shi'i modernist and a critical figure in global intel…

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Rachel Kantz Feder
Revolutionary Shi'i Modernism in Iraq

While Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr has often been portrayed as a fundamentalist or sectarian Islamist, this study repositions the scholar as a revolutionary Shi'i modernist and a critical figure in global intel…

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Esotericism in East Asia

This pioneering open access book offers a new take on esotericism by centering the often-overlooked contributions of East Asian thinkers to the development of this field of knowledge. The intellectual his…

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Alessandro de Arcangelis
Vico, Hegel and the Making of Modern Italy

Embracing a transnational approach to 19th-century Italian intellectual history, this book examines the encounter and amalgamation of local and foreign philosophical traditions, chiefly represented by the…

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Hiroaki Kawanishi
The Virtues of Divergence

Hiroaki Kawanishi sheds light on theological trends of the eleventh/seventeenth century Ottoman world, an area of research that remains understudied in existing scholarship. The author challenges the &quo…

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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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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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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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Aaron Alexander Zubia
The Political Thought of David Hume

Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume's philosophy gave rise to liberalism's unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination.Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Davi…

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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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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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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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Barhadbeshabba, "The Cause of the Foundation of Schools"

Philosophy and Sciences in the Christian Orient - Band 3

The Cause of the foundation of schools, which has been written around 600 by the East Syriac author Barhadbeshabba, is practically unique in intellectual history by explaining the anthropological phenomen…

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Ibn Taymiyya's Thought

Islam, Culture and Society

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, …

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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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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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