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Arnold Geulincx Ethics
Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) is a key figure in the history of ideas, whose concepts have been seen as precursors to those developed by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz and Kant. His Ethics presents a treatment of virtue from the standpoint of occasionalist metaphysics. The great Irish writer Samuel Beckett stated that Geulincx, with his emphasis on the powerlessness and ignorance of the human cond…
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- 9789047411383
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- v, 146 p.: ill
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- 200.9 ARN l
History and drama: the Pan-European tradition
Aristotle’s neat compartmentalization notwithstanding (Poetics, ch. 9), historians and playwrights have both been laying claim to representations of the past – arguably since Antiquity, but certainly since the Renaissance. At a time when narratology challenges historiographers to differentiate their “emplotments” (White) from literary inventions, this thirteen-essay collection takes a f…
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- 9783110604276
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- viii, 202p.: ill. ; 24 cm
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- 809.2 HIS h
History and cultural memory in neo-Victorian fiction: Victorian afterimages
History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, …
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- 978023022858
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- ix, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 823.809358 MIT h
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