Author: Ruth WhelanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The Anatomy of Superstition
Author: Ruth WhelanThe Anatomy of Superstition
Author: Ruth WhelanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book investigates what actually happens when Pierre Bayle writes about the past and challenges the still prevalent view that he is dispassionate in the way he treats the subjects of the more than two thousand articles in his biographical Dictionnaire historique et critique. It opens with two case studies of the way he uses the sources available to him, which reveal a committed writer at work. Subsequent chapters explore the theory that shapes his erudition; the method that he devised to discern falsehood from truth; his critical approach to Scripture; his conceptual reconstruction of the past. Bayle emerges from this as a writer whose interest in the past is more than antiquarian. The ideal of impartiality, which he drew from Renaissance conceptions of history, is not neutral but always situated. For all their apparent objectivity, the articles in the Dictionnaire are actually shaped by the debates, conflicts, and politics of Bayle's own time and place. In 1989, when this book was first published, its intertextual and contextualised reading of Bayle was innovative. Although many similar studies followed, this book led the way by developing an approach that allows us to gain access to the deeper strata of Bayle's thought.
The Anatomy of Superstition
Author: Ruth WhelanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780729403726
Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy ... A New Edition, Corrected and Enriched by Translations of the Numerous Classical Extracts by Democritus Minor
Author: Robert BURTON (Author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy ... The sixth edition, corrected and augmented by the author. By R. Burton
Author: Robert BURTON (Author of “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It, in Three Partitions
Author: Robert BurtonSuperstition: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Stuart VysePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551310
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert BurtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depression, Mental
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Superstition ...
Author: Robert Green IngersollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Superstition
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Tangled Chain
Author: Ruth A. FoxPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520337182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.