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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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Nicolas Guilhot
Conspiracy

A bracing intellectual history that illustrates how the modern and contemporary obsession with conspiracy theories stems not from the slipperiness of truth but from the inability to imagine a positive fut…

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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…

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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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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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Madison P. Jones
Inventing Ecosystems

Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

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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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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Philippe Borgeaud,
What is Religion?

Classical Scholarship in Translation

How should we explain differences in religious belief and practice? Philippe Borgeaud's ambitious intellectual history tells the story of how reflection on religious phenomena emerged, throughout the cent…

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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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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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Derya Yalimcan
Land of Zion and the Fountainhead of Fire

Here, the intellectual history of the world is touched because it retraces the old lines along which humanity, again and again, searching, stumbling, rebelling, or yielding, tries to find its way. From th…

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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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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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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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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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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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Eric Baffour Awuah,
Revitalizing Decolonization through Dance Scholarship

Situates the Black dancing body as a locus of intellectual labor, historical memory, and resistance, challenging logocentric paradigms that marginalize embodied knowledge.1963 marked a pivotal moment in G…

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