Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738175627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Inconceivable Polytheism
Author: Francis SchmidtPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9783718603671
Category : Gods
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Idea of Semitic Monotheism
Author: Guy G. StroumsaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192653865
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century—from the Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. Guy G. Stroumsa focuses on the concept of Semitic monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the mid-nineteenth century on the basis of the postulated and highly problematic contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of which the Near East was demoted from its traditional status as the locus of the Biblical revelations. This innovative work studies a central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however, it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day.
Chambers's Encyclopædia
Author: Chambers W. and R., ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Normality
Author: Peter CrylePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022648419X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer to a general state of health and the orderly function of organs. But beginning in the middle of the twentieth century, normal broke out of scientific usage, becoming less precise and coming to mean a balanced condition to be maintained and an ideal to be achieved. In Normality, Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens offer an intellectual and cultural history of what it means to be normal. They explore the history of how communities settle on any one definition of the norm, along the way analyzing a fascinating series of case studies in fields as remote as anatomy, statistics, criminal anthropology, sociology, and eugenics. Cryle and Stephens argue that since the idea of normality is so central to contemporary disability, gender, race, and sexuality studies, scholars in these fields must first have a better understanding of the context for normality. This pioneering book moves beyond binaries to explore for the first time what it does—and doesn’t—mean to be normal.
The Survival of the Pagan Gods
Author: Jean SeznecPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691029887
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life. After a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Jean Seznec traces the fate of the gods from Botticelli and Raphael to their function and appearance in Ronsard's verses and Ben Jonson's masques.
The Significance of the Hypothetical in the Natural Sciences
Author: Michael HeidelbergerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110210622
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
How was the hypothetical character of theories of experience thought about throughout the history of science? The essays cover periods from the middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. It is fascinating to see how natural scientists and philosophers were increasingly forced to realize that a natural science without hypotheses is not possible.
Rome the Law-giver
Author: Joseph DeclareuilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Among the many treatises on Roman law there is none which gives in brief compass a better analysis of legal concepts and procedure in the various periods of legal development.
Lost Worlds
Author: Jonathan DewaldPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027107423X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today. According to Dewald, we need to view Febvre and other Annales historians as participants in an ongoing cultural debate over the shape and meanings of French history, rather than as inventors of new topics of study. He closely examines the work of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, the antiquarian Alfred Franklin, Febvre himself, the twentieth-century historian Philippe Ariès, and several others. A final chapter compares specifically French approaches to social history with those of German historians between 1930 and 1970. Through such close readings Dewald looks beyond programmatic statements of historians’ intentions to reveal how history was actually practiced during these years. A bold work of intellectual history, Lost Worlds sheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian’s task came into being. Understanding this larger context enables us to appreciate the ideological functions performed by historical writing through the twentieth century.