Humanities books

This essential history tells the fascinating story of encounters between Chinese and Western traditions of world...  Read More >>

Represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives:...  Read More >>

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A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

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This volume offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing...  Read More >>

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous...  Read More >>

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Examining churches, altars, vestments, and liturgical time through a medieval liturgist's eyes, this book offers...  Read More >>

Sidonius Apollinaris' fifth-century Letters are a highpoint of Latin literature and a unique document of the end...  Read More >>

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Xiaojun Feng presents a compelling new framework through which to analyse labour precarity via a study of China...  Read More >>

Writing in the wake of the French Revolution, Johann Gottfried Herder attempted to develop a political philosophy...  Read More >>

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Goodman shows how Emerson's essays embody sets of oppositions or 'contrary tendencies,' and argues that we miss...  Read More >>

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This book considers knowledge, explanation, and understanding in neuroscience, offering a critical introduction...  Read More >>

This book presents a powerful new approach to interpreting the works of Immanuel Kant, which emphasizes continuities...  Read More >>

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity,...  Read More >>

Reappraises the Schumanns' artistic and cultural contexts and traces their critical reception from the nineteenth...  Read More >>

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This book highlights the construction and repeated use of racial stereotypes of the Afro-Argentine population, and...  Read More >>

A comprehensive treatment of law and morality in Kant which sheds new light on Kant's practical philosophy more...  Read More >>

Petersen offers a new interdisciplinary approach to restitution in the aftermath of the Second World War and the...  Read More >>