Västerländsk filosofi: medeltiden & renässansen ca 500 - ca 1600

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Med Essayer skapade Michel de Montaigne (15331592) inte bara en ny prosagenre, utan odlade även en för sin tid unik stil, som skickligt anpassats till svenskan av Jan Stolpe. Genom personliga anekdoter understryker Montaigne texternas subjektivite...

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Michel de Montaigne (15331592) betraktas som en av renässansens viktigaste filosofer. Han föddes i en familj bestående av jurister och handelsmän, och kom som vuxen att tjänstgöra vid domstolen i Bordeaux. 1580 utkom den första versionen av Essaye...

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Hur hade någon som jag kunnat gestalta sitt liv? En kvinna som inte vill fastna i konventioner och som vill ha en egen relation till de stora frågorna: vad det är att vara människa och hur vi kan förhålla oss till sanning, vara och liv? Filosofen ...

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, ...

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1588 publicerade Michel de Montaigne del tre av Essayer. Det unika tilltal som präglar Bok I och II hade då gått in en ny fas, som präglas av kritisk reflektion och tillbakablickande. Montaignes ordlekar och metaforer har mognat, och det förekomme...

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Vem kan bättre sammanfatta medeltidens vetande än Dante? För första gången i svensk översättning utkommer nu Convivio där astronomi, filosofi, kultur och religion diskuteras i prosa och dikt av en av världslitteraturens mästare. Convivio är därtil...

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'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' Guardian One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life i...

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Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited...

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Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was w...

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For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven d...

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Filosofi i medeltidens värld är fjärde delen i Peter Adamson bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor . Medeltiden har ofta behandlats som en dunkel parentes i filosofins historia, men Peter Adamson visar att den är en lång och innehållsrik period...

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This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and t...

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Cabala del cavallo pegaseo tillhör Brunos italienska filosofiska dialoger och publicerades ursprungligen 1585. Det är en av Brunos mest gåtfulla och vackra texter, som kombinerar flera av hans grundläggande filosofiska teman med en rikt utvecklad ...

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In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose ...

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This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and t...

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The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, vi...

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2014 Reprint of 1945 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The first part deals with Greek cosmology and is the longest, the most elaborate and, on the whole, the liveliest part of a boo...

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Following a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts. He also relates their contents and Aquinas's teachings to those of other...

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1570 säger Michel de Montaigne upp sitt jobb som jurist i Bordeaux. Han är 38 år och han har kommit fram till att det är dags att dra sig tillbaka till sitt gods utanför staden. I ett av godsets tornrum placerar han sitt skrivbord och sitt bibliot...

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The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subj...

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First published fifteen years ago, Ethica Thomistica is widely recognized as one of the finest introductions to St. Thomas's moral philosophy. Though the book has been out of print for several years, scholars and students still refer to it as the ...

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The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subj...

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In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view a...

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