Global Origins of the Modern Self, From Montaigne to Suzuki 9781438473864, 9781438473857

The Formation of the Modern Self: Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant 9781350245457, 9781350245495, 9781350245471

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded

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From Montaigne to Montaigne [1 ed.] 1517906377, 9781517906375

Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-ce

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Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest 9781474463423

Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean drama A new way of a

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The history of development : from Western origins to global faith 9781786997586, 1786997584

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To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its Origins to the Modern State of Israel 0571254233, 9780571254231

Zionism is one of the most misunderstood and controversial of all political doctrines. To the Promised Land illuminates

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Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau 9780804767576

Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite di

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Power of Distraction, The: Diversion and Reverie from Montaigne to Proust 1350342947, 9781350342941

From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to

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New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy 9781503628342

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní peopl

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The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction 9781685858186

The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development

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The revolutionary origins of modern Japan 0804710481

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