This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the process by which speculative philosophy was gradual...Lasīt vairāk
The Social Contract Rediscovered conducts a critical analysis of the historical evolution of legitimacy, tracing its development from natural law to positive law and finally to post-modern critiques. It fills a scholarly gap by addressing t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503606371)
The term Enlightenment still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full of practical knowledge associated with the body a...Lasīt vairāk
The term Enlightenment still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full of practical knowledge associated with the body...Lasīt vairāk
Explores the tradition of Hermetic spirituality that flourished in Roman Egypt during the first centuries CE. It was grounded in experiential techniques that had a powerful effect on the consciousness of practitioners. Their goal was to heal the sou...Lasīt vairāk
This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past, in order to more fully understand it. It shows how an embodied epistemology is par...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009590358)
This Element proposes that, in addition to using traditional historical methodologies, historians need to find extra-textual, embodied ways of understanding the past, in order to more fully understand it. It shows how an embodied epistemology is par...Lasīt vairāk
This Element discusses the new consideration of the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century thought on the epistemologies of progress and the fast-growing body of scholarship identifying the role of scepticism in Enlightenment philosophy across E...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009614207)
This Element discusses the new consideration of the ambiguities inherent in eighteenth-century thought on the epistemologies of progress and the fast-growing body of scholarship identifying the role of scepticism in Enlightenment philosophy across E...Lasīt vairāk
Presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching. This book focuses on the critical relationship between teaching and epistemology...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first volume dedicated to suspension of judgment. It features cutting-edge research from leading scholars on one of the main areas of contemporary epistemology and neighbouring fields. The contributors examine the concept of suspension f...Lasīt vairāk
For some, Hooker and Anglicanism are basically reformed; for others, fundamentally Catholic; for some embodying a middle way between Roman Catholic and Protestant extremes; and for others simply confused and incoherent. This book challeng...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive review of numerous areas of pseudoscience and related pathological science. It not only describes the factual bases for rejecting pseudoscientific claims, but also emphasizes the psychological processes that lead...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a comprehensive review of numerous areas of pseudoscience and related pathological science. It not only describes the factual bases for rejecting pseudoscientific claims, but also emphasizes the psychological processes that lead...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a profound exploration of the epistemological frameworks that have influenced Chinese intellectual history from ancient times through the Song Dynastys Neo-Confucianism. It provides a nuanced analysis of how knowledge systems withi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009506830)
In late seventeenth-century Europe, scholars crafted the research university as a haven for critical inquiry in defiance of political and economic pressures. Across new fields, from experimental science to archaeology and museology, academics abandon...Lasīt vairāk
