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In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II.

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A collection of essays by Orthodoxy, Catholic, and Protestant scholars on Christianity’s relationship to liberal democracy and the legacy of Emperor Constantine for Christian political thought.

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Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration’s debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe.

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In an era of catastrophes natural and man-made, a great French philosopher ponders human responsibility. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with the author.

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A study of ancient Latin and Greek words frequently translated religion with a view to showing how such mistranslation seriously obscures our understanding of those cultures including their Jewish and Christian versions.

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This is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre by investigating, through an analysis of both textual and manuscript evidence, the ways in which Dante redefines the medieval theory of authorship as defined by Medieval scholars, among whom Bonaventure was the most prominent one.

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Translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. This book should be of concern to students of religion, and sexuality, especially as they impinge on questions of representation. It emphasizes the consequences for thinking about sexuality offered by Lucretian materialism.

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This book, the result of cooperation between the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the Dewey Center at the University of Cologne, provides an excellent example of the international character of pragmatist studies agai

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Focusing on the body as a site of rupture and signification, this book shifts the paradigm for the study of modernity in the Arab context from questions of representation, translation, and cultural exchange to an engagement with a genealogy of symptoms and affects embodied in texts from the nineteenth-century onward.

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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.

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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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The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.

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Employs business concepts and analyses to explore the operations and activities of media firms and the forces and issues affecting them. This book surveys the structures and operations of various media, including their business characteristics and business models, how they differ from other products and services, and why failure rates are so high.

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