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Recherches Sur L'art Statuaire Considere Chez Les Anciens Et Les Modernes Ou Memoire Sur Cette Question Proposee Par... Recherches Sur L'art Statuaire Considere Chez Les Anciens Et Les Modernes Ou Memoire Sur Cette Question Proposee Par L'institut National De France - Quelles Ont Ete Les Causes De La Perfection De La Sculpture Antique Et Quels Seraient Les Moyens D'y Attein (French, Paperback)
Toussaint Bernard Emeric-David
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise, Contenant Les Synonymes De Girard, Beauzee, Roubaud,... Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise, Contenant Les Synonymes De Girard, Beauzee, Roubaud, D'alembert, Etc (French, Paperback)
Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
M. Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore Libri Tres (Latin, Paperback): Marcus Tullius Cicero M. Tulli Ciceronis De Oratore Libri Tres (Latin, Paperback)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback): Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback)
Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hermes Trismegiste - Traduction Complete, Precedee D'une Etude Sur L'origine Des Livres Hermetiques (French,... Hermes Trismegiste - Traduction Complete, Precedee D'une Etude Sur L'origine Des Livres Hermetiques (French, Paperback)
Louis Menard
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Vies Des Savants Illustres Du Dix-Huitieme Siecle (French, Paperback): Louis Figuier Vies Des Savants Illustres Du Dix-Huitieme Siecle (French, Paperback)
Louis Figuier
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Women and the Puranic Tradition in India (Paperback): Monika Saxena Women and the Puranic Tradition in India (Paperback)
Monika Saxena
R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Puranic traditions in ancient India - the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute - against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300-1000. Puranas (lit. ancient narratives) are brahmanical texts that largely fall under the category of socio-religious literature which were more broad-based and inclusive, unlike the Smrtis, which were accessible mainly to the upper sections of society. In locating, identifying, and commenting on the multiplicity of the images and depictions of women's roles in Puranic traditions, the author highlights their lives and experiences over time, both within and outside the traditional confines of the domestic sphere. With a focus on five Mahapuranas that deal extensively with the social matrix Visnu, Markandeya Matsya, Agni, and Bhagavata Puranas, the book explores the question of gender and agency in early India and shows how such identities were recast, invented, shaped, constructed, replicated, stereotyped, and sometimes reversed through narratives. Further, it traces social consequences and contemporary relevance of such representations in marriage, adultery, ritual, devotion, worship, fasts, and pilgrimage. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, sociology, literature, and South Asian studies, as also the informed general reader.

Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback): Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz De Levizac Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback)
Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz De Levizac
R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
OEuvres De Denis Diderot - Dictionnaire Encyclopedique (French, Paperback): Denis Diderot OEuvres De Denis Diderot - Dictionnaire Encyclopedique (French, Paperback)
Denis Diderot
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Histoire De La Civilisation Morale Et Religieuse Des Grecs (French, Paperback): Petrus Van Limburg Brouwer Histoire De La Civilisation Morale Et Religieuse Des Grecs (French, Paperback)
Petrus Van Limburg Brouwer
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Pythagore Et La Philosophie Phythagoricienne - Contenant Les Fragments De Philolaus Et D'archytas (French, Paperback):... Pythagore Et La Philosophie Phythagoricienne - Contenant Les Fragments De Philolaus Et D'archytas (French, Paperback)
Anthelme Edouard Chaignet
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Histoire De L'ecole D'alexandrie (French, Paperback): Jules Simon Histoire De L'ecole D'alexandrie (French, Paperback)
Jules Simon
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Le Progres Par Le Christianisme - Conferences De Notre-Dame De Paris (French, Paperback): Joseph Felix Le Progres Par Le Christianisme - Conferences De Notre-Dame De Paris (French, Paperback)
Joseph Felix
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Philoponus - On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2 (Hardcover): Owen Goldin Philoponus - On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2 (Hardcover)
Owen Goldin
R5,266 Discovery Miles 52 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The" Posterior Analytics" contains Aristotle's Philosophy of Science. In Book 2, Aristotle asks how the scientist discovers what sort of loss of light constitutes lunar eclipse. The scientist has to discover that the moon's darkening is due to the earth's shadow. Once that defining explanation is known the scientist possesses the full scientific concept of lunar eclipse and can use it to explain other necessary features of the phenomenon. The present commentary, arguably misascribed to Philoponus, offers some interpretations of Aristotle that are unfamiliar nowadays. For example, the scientific concept of a human is acquired from observing particular humans and repeatedly receiving impressions in the sense image or percept and later in the imagination. The impressions received are not only of particular distinctive characteristics, like paleness, but also of universal human characteristics, like rationality. Perception can thus in a sense apprehend universal qualities in the individual as well as particular ones.

Under the Sign of the Shield - Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (Hardcover, Revised): Froma I. Zeitlin Under the Sign of the Shield - Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes (Hardcover, Revised)
Froma I. Zeitlin
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Described as "a powerful, brilliant, and original study" when first published, this second edition of Froma Zeitlin's experiment in decoding the Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the light of contemporary theory now updates her explorations of the tragic struggle between Eteocles and Polyneices, the doomed sons of Oedipus, with a new preface, a new afterword, and the addition of the relevant Greek texts. The mutual self-destruction of the enemy brothers in this last act of the cursed family is preceded (and determined) by one of Aeschylus' most daring innovations through the pairing of the shields of attackers and defenders in the central scene of the play as an extended dialogue explicitly concerned with visual and verbal symbols. In a preliminary consideration of the relations between language and kinship and between city and family, between self and society, as determining forces in fifth-century drama, the heart of the book is a detailed investigation of this tour de force of semiotic energy. Zeitlin's decipherment of this provocative text yields a heightened appreciation of Aeschylus' compositional artistry and the complexity of his worldview. At the same time, this study points the way to Zeitlin's larger engagement with the special ideological role that the city of Thebes comes to play on the tragic stage as the negative counterpart to the self-representation of Athens.

Teleologie und Naturalismus in Der Altchristlichen Zeit - Der Kampf Des Origenes Gegen Celsus Um Die Stellung Des Menschen in... Teleologie und Naturalismus in Der Altchristlichen Zeit - Der Kampf Des Origenes Gegen Celsus Um Die Stellung Des Menschen in Der Natur (German, Paperback)
Aug Kind
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Histoire De La Civilisation Morale Et Religieuse Des Grecs - (Pt. 2, T. 1-6) Depuis La Retour Des Heraclides Jusqu'a La... Histoire De La Civilisation Morale Et Religieuse Des Grecs - (Pt. 2, T. 1-6) Depuis La Retour Des Heraclides Jusqu'a La Domination Les Romains (French, Paperback)
Petrus Van Limburg Brouwer
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oeuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback): Denis Diderot Oeuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback)
Denis Diderot
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
La Vie Et Les Ecrits De Platon (French, Paperback): Anthelme Edouard Chaignet La Vie Et Les Ecrits De Platon (French, Paperback)
Anthelme Edouard Chaignet
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback): Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel Des Synonymes De La Langue Francaise (French, Paperback)
Francois Pierre Guilaume Guizot
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
OEuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback): Denis Diderot OEuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback)
Denis Diderot
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ideen Zur Geschichte Der Philosophie (German, Paperback): Friedrich August Carus Ideen Zur Geschichte Der Philosophie (German, Paperback)
Friedrich August Carus
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oeuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback): Denis Diderot Oeuvres De Denis Diderot (French, Paperback)
Denis Diderot
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Origins of Ancient Greek Science - Blood-A Philosophical Study (Paperback): Michael Boylan The Origins of Ancient Greek Science - Blood-A Philosophical Study (Paperback)
Michael Boylan
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story of how science progressed and the critical context in which important methodological questions were addressed. The end result is an account that arises from debates that are engaged in and "solved" by different writers. These stopping points form the foundation for Harvey and for modern philosophy of biology. Author Michael Boylan sets out the history of science as well as a critical evaluation based upon principles in the contemporary canon of the philosophy of science-particularly those dealing with the philosophy of biology.

Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Paperback): Mark T. Conard Nietzsche and the Philosophers (Paperback)
Mark T. Conard
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nietzsche is undoubtedly one of the most original and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy. With ideas such as the overman, will to power, the eternal recurrence, and perspectivism, Nietzsche challenges us to reconceive how it is that we know and understand the world, and what it means to be a human being. Further, in his works, he not only grapples with previous great philosophers and their ideas, but he also calls into question and redefines what it means to do philosophy. Nietzsche and the Philosophers for the first time sets out to examine explicitly Nietzsche's relationship to his most important predecessors. This anthology includes essays by many of the leading Nietzsche scholars, including Keith Ansell-Pearson, Daniel Conway, Tracy B. Strong, Gary Shapiro, Babette Babich, Mark Anderson, and Paul S. Loeb. These excellent writers discuss Nietzsche's engagement with such figures as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Socrates, Hume, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Rousseau, and the Buddha. Anyone interested in Nietzsche or the history of philosophy generally will find much of great interest in this volume.

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