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Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy

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.

ISBN: 9780823262755

The Singular Voice of Being

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.

ISBN: 9780823284573

On Being and Cognition

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

Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

Peggy Kamuf

How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The Death Penalty, is pursued in the analyses of four fictional texts. The context of the remains of the death penalty in the contemporary U.S. frames these engagements and extends their pertinence today.

ISBN: 9780823282296

Later Medieval Metaphysics

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.

ISBN: 9780823244737

Mental Language

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.

ISBN: 9780823272600

Treatise on Consequences

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.

ISBN: 9780823257188

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

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

The Vatican Mythographers

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...

ISBN: 9780823228928

The Logic of the Trinity

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...

ISBN: 9780823234769

Ens rationis from Suárez to Caramuel

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).

ISBN: 9780823244768

Dante and Islam

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.

ISBN: 9780823263875

Punishment and Inclusion

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.

ISBN: 9780823262427

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference

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.

ISBN: 9780823264629

Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity

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

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond

Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway

Edited by Martin Chase

Explores the blurring of boundaries between genres (skaldic and eddic), periods (Viking Age, medieval, early modern) and cultures (Icelandic, Scandinavian, English, continental) in Old Norse-Icelandic poetry.

ISBN: 9780823257812

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

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

Medieval Education

Medieval Education

Edited by Ronald B. Begley, Joseph W. Koterski 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

Form and Feeling

Form and Feeling

The Making of Concretism in Brazil

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa

Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi and Luisa Valle

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling: The Making of Concretism in Brazil features a collection...

ISBN: 9780823289110

On the Ego and on God

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

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

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...

ISBN: 9780823234745

Voluptuous Philosophy

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...

ISBN: 9780823226962

Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning

Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning

Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Now in paperback, this important book explores the central role of historical thought in the full range of Heidegger’s thought, both the early writings leading up to Being and Time, and after the...

ISBN: 9780823222643

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

Medieval Cultures in Contact

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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