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19 produkter
Nietzsche and Literary Studies
Inbunden, 2024
1685 kr
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Nietzsche and Literary Studies tackles the literary implications of Nietzsche's philosophy and the philosophical implications of his approaches to style and expression. The book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche's writings, which in turn draw on two and a half millennia of literary and …
Classical Pasts
The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
Häftad, 2005
667 kr
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The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current …
Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future
Inbunden, 2002
2047 kr
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Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. The …
Time, History, and Literature
Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Av Erich Auerbach, James I. Porter
Häftad, 2016
303 kr
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Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed. Time, …
Farewell to Matters of Principle
Philosophical Studies
Av Vincent Descombes, Josue Harari m. fl.
E-bok, 1989
752 kr
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This book is the latest addition to the Odéon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen , the …
Homer
The Very Idea
Inbunden, 2021
273 kr
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The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth.
Homer
The Very Idea
Häftad, 2023
203 kr
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The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an …
Constructions of the Classical Body
E-bok, 2025
1249 kr
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Classical scholarship has traditionally neglected the prominence of the body in antiquity. Constructions of the Classical Body theorizes that the study of antiquity is necessarily a study of the body, and that attention to this fact can lead to a much-needed shift in the way in which classical …
The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece
Matter, Sensation, and Experience
Inbunden, 2010
2314 kr
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This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James I. Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis …
Classical Pasts
The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
E-bok, 2021
1066 kr
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The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the current …
Time, History, and Literature
Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach
Av Erich Auerbach, James I. Porter
E-bok, 2021
410 kr
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Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first time Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis , is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular …
Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future
Häftad, 2002
498 kr
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Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. The …
Invention of Dionysus
Inbunden, 2000
1367 kr
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This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. These continuities are displayed above all in the entanglement of his surface narratives, …
Invention of Dionysus
Häftad, 2000
330 kr
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This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. These continuities are displayed above all in the entanglement of his surface narratives, …
The Sublime in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2016
1947 kr
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Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. …
The Sublime in Antiquity
Häftad, 2020
729 kr
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Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word ('sublimity') and by a single author ('Longinus'). The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. …
The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece
Matter, Sensation, and Experience
Häftad, 2016
871 kr
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This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James I. Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis …
