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Catherine and Diderot
The Empress, the Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73790-7
EAN 9780674737907
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The centurys most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived ...
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As If
Idealization and Ideals
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23771-1
EAN 9780674237711
Idealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we encounter. Our beliefs, desires, and sense of justice are bound up with these ideals, and we proceed 'as if' our representations were ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 47,30 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98676-3
EAN 9780674986763
SummaryThis panoramic reappraisal shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered for so long to so many Central Europeans across divides of language, religion, and region. Pieter Judson shows that creative government and intractable problems the far-flung empire could not solve left an enduring imprint on successor states. Its lessons are no less important today.In a panoramic ...
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Karl Marx
Greatness and Illusion
- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 720 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97161-5
EAN 9780674971615
As much a portrait of his time as a biography of the man, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion returns the author of Das Kapital to his nineteenth-century world, before twentieth-century inventions transformed him into Communisms patriarch and fierce lawgiver. Gareth Stedman Jones depicts an era dominated by extraordinary challenges and new notions about God, human ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,20 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98397-7
EAN 9780674983977
Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how personal wealth in the pursuit of redemption led Church doctrine concerning the afterlife to evolve from speculation to firm reality. This new relationship to money set the stage for the Church's domination of medieval ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 372 páginas
PVP: 37,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66044-1
EAN 9780674660441
Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 310 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97592-7
EAN 9780674975927
"Fascinating, eloquent, and learned...A powerful reminder of the ability of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of human minds to accept differences without denouncing them." Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch and Liberty's ExileIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 314 páginas
PVP: 37,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66046-5
EAN 9780674660465
"How could I allow my soldiers to sail on this disloyal and cruel sea?" These words, attributed to the most powerful caliph of medieval Islam, Umar Ibn al-Khattab (634-644), have led to a misunderstanding in the West about the importance of the Mediterranean to early Islam. This body of water, known in Late Antiquity as ...
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Inequality
What Can be Done?
- Harvard University Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97978-9
EAN 9780674979789
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 39,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97985-7
EAN 9780674979857
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Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo; Manetti, Giannozzo; Marsh, David; Pagliara, Daniela
Against the Jews and the Gentiles - Books I-IV
- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 426 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97497-5
EAN 9780674974975
Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 420 páginas
PVP: 27,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97498-2
EAN 9780674974982
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation of the complete works of Plotinus (204-270 CE), the founder of Neoplatonism. The 1492 edition also contained an ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 450 páginas
PVP: 27,16 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97559-0
EAN 9780674975590
Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73731-0
EAN 9780674737310
In 1654, Englands Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spains vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, a large expedition sailed to the West Indies, under secret orders to take Spanish colonies. The English Conquest of Jamaica presents entrenched imperial fantasies confronting Caribbean realities. ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
PVP: 32,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65976-6
EAN 9780674659766
An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one anothers equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. In a major new work, Jeremy Waldron attempts to remedy that shortfall with a subtle and multifaceted account of the basis for the Wests commitment to ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97566-8
EAN 9780674975668
Many scholars and activists seek to eliminate 'race''the word and the concept'from our vocabulary. Their claim is clear: because science has shown that racial essentialism is false and because the idea of race has proved virulent, we should do away with the concept entirely. Michael O. Hardimon criticizes this line of thinking, arguing that we ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 356 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97208-7
EAN 9780674972087
Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and arguably the most successful. They are not technically alive, but'as infectious vehicles of genetic information'they have a remarkable capacity to invade, replicate, and evolve within living cells. Synthesizing a large body of recent research, Michael Cordingley goes beyond our familiarity with viral infections to show ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 54,40 €
ISBN 978-0-674-66010-6
EAN 9780674660106
Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated the societies it conquered, bringing civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet interpretations of this 'Romanization' of Western Europe tend to erase local identities and traditions from the historical picture, leaving us with an incomplete understanding of the diverse cultures that flourished ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 346 páginas
PVP: 43,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73755-6
EAN 9780674737556
During his invasion of Creek Indian territory in 1813, future U.S. president Andrew Jackson discovered a Creek infant orphaned by his troops. Moved by an 'unusual sympathy,' Jackson sent the child to be adopted into his Tennessee plantation household. Through the stories of nearly a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their biological parents, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 680 páginas
PVP: 25,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-99705-9
EAN 9780674997059
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 17. Livys history, composed as the imperial autocracy of Augustus was replacing the republican system that had stood for over 500 years, presents in splendid style a ...
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