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The Singular Voice of Being

John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference

Andrew T. LaZella

Reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s theory of the univocity of being in connection to his conception of ultimate difference. Develops a systematic account of ultimate difference from disparate discussions throughout his corpus.

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Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

Edited by Gyula Klima

The essays of this volume explore the conceptual relationships among intentionality, cognition and mental representation as conceived by some of the greatest medieval philosophers, including Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham and Buridan, and some of their lesser known, but in their own time equally influential contemporaries.

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On Being and Cognition

Ordinatio 1.3

John Duns Scotus

Translated and Edited by John van den Bercken

In this book Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of intellect and the object cooperate in generating actual cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting skepticism and analyzing the way the knowledge in the case of abstractive cognition.

ISBN: 9780823270736

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Mental Language

From Plato to William of Ockham

Claude Panaccio

Translated by Joshua P. Hochschild and Meredith K. Ziebart

This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.

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Treatise on Consequences

John Buridan

Translated by Stephen Read

This entirely new English translation of Buridan’s classic treatment of logical consequence aims to make accessible to the modern reader the foremost treatment of the subject in the middle ages. The translation is accompanied by an introduction in which Buridan’s ideas are set in their historical context and clearly explained.

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Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Edited by Seeta Chaganti

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.

ISBN: 9780823243242

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Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference

Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean

Edited by Ryan Szpiech

This collection of fourteen essays by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the nature of exegesis during the High and Late Middle Ages (11th to the 15th Centuries) as a discourse of cross-cultural and inter-religious conflict, paying attention to the commentaries of scholars in the Western and Southern Mediterranean.

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Punishment and Inclusion

Race, Membership, and the Limits of American Liberalism

Andrew Dilts

This book gives a theoretical and historical account of felon disenfranchisement, showing deep connections between punishment and citizenship practices in the United States. These connections are deployed quietly and yet perniciously as part of a political system of white supremacy, shaping contemporary regimes of punishment and governance.

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The Logic of the Trinity

Augustine to Ockham

Paul Thom

This book recounts the remarkable history of efforts by significant medieval thinkers to accommodate the ontology of the Trinity within the framework of Aristotelian logic and ontology. These efforts...

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Dante and Islam

Edited by Jan M. Ziolkowski

Controversy has raged about Christian perspectives on Muslims in Dante’s Divine Comedy. One extreme emphasizes “clash of civilizations,” another peaceful cohabitation. Dante’s fit within orientalism remains debated. Sifting the issues requires investigating the Qur’an and Islamic learning, Dante’s images of Muhammad, and engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Italy.

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Ens rationis from Suárez to Caramuel

A Study in Scholasticism of the Baroque Era

Daniel D. Novotný

Examines theories of intentional impossible objects (entia rationis) of several scholastic authors of the Baroque era (Francisco Suárez, Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza, Bartolomeo Mastri, and Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz).

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The Vatican Mythographers

Ronald E. Pepin

The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle...

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Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

Teodolinda Barolini

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the...

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Lacan and the Limits of Language

Charles Shepherdson

This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision...

ISBN: 9780823227679

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Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being

Vanessa Lemm

This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm...

ISBN: 9780823230280

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Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

Drucilla Cornell

In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical “man’s man” to pushing the boundaries of the...

ISBN: 9780823230136

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Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Edited by Naoko Saito and Paul Standish

What could it mean to speak of philosophy as “the education of grownups”? This book takes Stanley Cavell’s much-quoted, yet enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations...

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Medieval Education

Edited by Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J.

This volume offers original studies on the subject of medieval education, not only in the formal academicsense typical of schools and universities but also in a broader cultural sense that includes...

ISBN: 9780823224258

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On the Ego and on God

Further Cartesian Questions

Jean-Luc Marion

Translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner

In this most recent of his seminal studies on Descartes, Jean-Luc Marion brings together essays on the topics of the ego and of God, most of them previously unavailable in English. More than any...

ISBN: 9780823227556

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Voluptuous Philosophy

Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment

Natania Meeker

Eighteenth-century France witnessed the rise of matter itself—in forms ranging from atoms to anatomies—as a privileged object of study. Voluptuous Philosophy redefines what is at stake in the...

ISBN: 9780823226962

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Later Medieval Metaphysics

Ontology, Language, and Logic

Edited by Charles Bolyard and Rondo Keele

This multi-author work focuses primarily on 13th and 14th century Latin treatments of the most important metaphysical issues of the day. Though standard ontological topics are covered in detail—e.g., existence, universals, form, and accidents—there is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived to include epistemology, language, and logic.

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Other Others

The Political after the Talmud

Sergey Dolgopolski

Other Others intervenes both to the study of the Talmud and Jewish Thought in its aftermath, and to political theory in general. Reclaiming the role of the Talmud for contemporary political theory, the book also turns on the lens of that theory to reexamine the Talmud.

ISBN: 9780823280193

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Heidegger's Philosophy of Science

Trish Glazebrook

This book concerns itself with an issue that is not sufficiently addressed in the literature: Heidegger’s philosophy of science. Although a great deal of attention is paid to Heidegger’s later...

ISBN: 9780823220380

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Medieval Cultures in Contact

Edited by Richard F. Gyug

Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world, the west’s debts to Byzantium, European expansion during...

ISBN: 9780823222131

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Freud and Monotheism

Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

Edited by Gilad Sharvit and Karen S. Feldman

Contributor(s): Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Ronald Hendel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, Yael Segalovitz, Gilad Sharvit and Joel Whitebook

Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic work.

ISBN: 9780823280032

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The Singular Voice of Being

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

On Being and Cognition

Mental Language

Treatise on Consequences

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference

Punishment and Inclusion

The Logic of the Trinity

Dante and Islam

Ens rationis from Suárez to Caramuel

The Vatican Mythographers

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture

Lacan and the Limits of Language

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Medieval Education

On the Ego and on God

Voluptuous Philosophy

Later Medieval Metaphysics

Other Others

Heidegger's Philosophy of Science

Medieval Cultures in Contact

Freud and Monotheism

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