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Thomas aquinas, theologian
In Thomas Aquinas, Theologian Thomas O'Meara considers Aquinas the theologian and his influence, past and present. O'Meara focuses on Aquinas as teacher and preacher, and theology as the subject of his thought and most of his writings. Studying the Summa Theologiae as well as providing an overvie...
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Regret
“This book is a stimulating and, as far as I can see, original examination of regret . . . the overall argument of the book is that if regret is focused so much on remorse that it results in an over scrupulous and excessive examination of past mistakes then it can bring about no positive result; ...
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Electronic literature
A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the ...
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The city of the gods
In The City of the Gods, John S. Dunne traces humanity’s political and social mythologies from ancient Sumer to the present, showing how they reflect the diverse responses of each era to the inevitability of death.
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Dante now
Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre Dame conference, includes some of the particular on three intensely cultivated areas of Dante studi...
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Boom and bust in puerto rico
Who is to blame for the economic and political crisis in Puerto Rico—the United States or Puerto Rico? This book provides a fascinating historical perspective on the problem and an unequivocal answer on who is to blame.In this engaging and approachable book, journalist A. W. Maldonado charts the ...
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Woody allen
In this extended essay, Vittorio Hösle develops a theory of the comical and applies it to interpret both the recurrent personae played by Woody Allen the actor and the philosophical issues addressed by Woody Allen the director in his films.
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A dialogue on natural philosophy (dragmaticon philosophiae)
This long-awaited English translation of William of Conche’s Dragmaticon Philosophiae now makes available what is arguably the most original and systematic synthesis of western thought concerning the structure of the physical universe, as it was understood in the twelfth century.The Dragmaticon r...
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Native and natural
Peter McQuillan analyzes a number of key words in the Irish language—duchas, duthaigh, dual, and saoirse—along with derivatives and associated terms in order to reveal their relationships to historical and cultural texts. He demonstrates how the pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic range of these t...
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Language, religion, knowledge
Higher education and university-based research rank among the main forces shaping our world. Focusing on knowledge rather than institutions, Language, Religion, Knowledge offers penetrating insight into how higher learning took its present form and the direction in which it is headed. The first s...
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Four scraps of bread
Four Scraps of Bread is Magda Hollander-Lafon’s memoir of her time in Auschwitz and her homage to the men and women who perished in the Holocaust.
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The phenomenology of spirit
The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegel’s remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and self-conscious forms. The work explores the inner...
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Liturgy and architecture
Ritual and architecture have provided the abstract and the tangible foundations of group worship from the era of the first Christians to the present-day ceremonial of the Church.Through the centuries the buildings that house liturgical practices have developed their own specific individuality, an...
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A vision quest
This book represents Dunne's most sustained engagement with modern scientific materialism and the great circle of love
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The fullness of being
According to a fairly standard view, there are several reasons for denying that existence is a real property of individuals. One is that 'exists' cannot be predicated of individuals, and another is that first-level properties are parasitic on individuals for their actuality, which is something th...
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Visual translation
Visual Translation breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contributing to the fields of French humanism, textual translation, and the reception of the classical tradition in the first half of the fifteenth century.While the prominence and quality of illustrations in French manuscri...
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The stanford law chronicles
In the midst of a long and distinguished academic career, Alfredo Mirandé left his position as professor of sociology and chair of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, to attend law school at Stanford University. This book is an extraordinary chronicle of the events in his l...
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Natural right and political philosophy
University of Notre Dame political philosophers Catherine and Michael Zuckert explore the concept of natural right in the history of political philosophy.
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Swift's landscape
Swift’s Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape by emphasizing the influence of th...
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Disarming beauty
Grappling with the interaction of Christian faith and modern culture, Carrón explores the meaning of faith, truth, and freedom and reveals the essentials in maintaining and developing Christian faith.
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Icons of hope
Icons of Hope presents an interpretation of the last things shaped by the view that the blessed dead in heaven continuously engage in the redemptive task of forgiveness.
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Camus on justice
Camus on Justice investigates Albert Camus’s rich and overlooked theory about the relationship between the absurd, politics, and revolution.What is the purpose of our lives? Camus on Justice grapples with this complex question through a unique look at the work of Albert Camus. Craig DeLancey argu...
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Civility
In this lively conversation on an increasingly significant theme, major philosophers and religious scholars argue the issue on three levels. The first is manners: Henry Rosemont argues the Confucian case that manners are the substance of social relations, while Edwin Delattre and Adam Seligman be...
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Love beneath the napalm
Stories examine the effects of colonialism and the Vietnamese War on the Vietnamese and the American and French foreigners who became inextricably connected with their fate.
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Heidegger’s atheism
Heidegger’s Atheism explains what Heidegger meant when he said that all philosophy is atheistic. This unique book traces the development of his explanation of philosophy as a methodological atheism, and relates it to his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Nietzsche. A predominant issue throughout...
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Generals and admirals, criminals and crooks
U.S. flag officers are intended to be exemplary defenders of duty, honor, and country—but what can we learn by exposing the bad leaders lurking within these venerable ranks?There is an ugly strain of criminal and unethical leadership in the upper ranks of the American military. Despite the exempl...
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Precious bane
Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopeless...
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The view from within
This book is a thorough evaluation of the arguments made by contemporary philosophers about the normative character of reason and the derivative problem of relativism.
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In good company
By exposing a different account of politics—the church as polis and "counterstory" to the world's politics—Stanley Hauerwas helps Christians to recognize the unifying beliefs and practices that make them a political entity apart from the rest of the world.
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God, the moon, and other megafauna
Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's...
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On having a heart attack
Notre Dame English professor emeritus William O'Rourke recounts his heart attack and the experiences he had during recuperation. From the resulting heightened awareness of his mortality, O'Rourke asks us to change behaviors and to pay attention to our health.
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Thomistic papers vi
The essays in this volume offer a critique of From Unity to Pluralism: The Internal Evolution of Thomism by Gerald McCool, SJ. Twelve philosophers in this collection analyse key aspects of McCool's interpretation of Aquinas, which stands opposed to the motivating ideals found in One Hundred Years...
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Ruling women
Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions and antagonisms among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief.
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Wing to wing, oar to oar
Despite current concerns for “family values” and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction o...
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Following kohlberg
Most moral philosophers and psychologists have missed something crucial in the work of Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–87), best known for his theory of stages of moral development. In Following Kohlberg: Liberalism and the Practice of Democratic Community, Donald R.C. Reed clearly illustrates how the Ko...
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Finding ireland
Richard Tillinghast writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history.
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European christian democracy
European Christian Democracy presents a series of essays by leading experts that analyze the importance of Christian Democracy in European politics. This interdisciplinary volume features contributions from American and European historians and political scientists. In this book, scholars explore ...
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The claims of poverty
Crasson examines the status of poverty in late medieval England as both a sacred imitation of Christ and a social stigma.
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Religion and politics in enlightenment europe
Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenmen...
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Godly letters
Colacurcio analyzes the works of first-generation American Puritans, focusing on this early literature of "godly letters" in rhetorical, theological, and political terms.
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Listen to the mourners
This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nāzik Al-Malā’ika’s Arabic poetry.One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nāzik Al-Malā’ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the formalistic classical modes of Arabic poetry t...
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March 1917
In March 1917, Book 4 the willing and unwilling participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their next steps amidst unraveling chaos.One of the masterpieces of world literature, The Red Wheel is Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s multivolume epic work about the Russian Re...
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A search for wisdom and spirit
Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the true self is the "liberation of the image ...
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Making a modern political order
Sheehan’s thoughtful book makes a convincing case that the modern political order arises out of people’s shared expectations and hopes, without which the nation state could not exist.Every political order depends on a set of shared expectations about how the order does and should work. In Making ...
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Aristotle's political philosophy
Aristotle’s Political Philosophy offers a concise and accessible overview of Aristotle’s political thought in his Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Rhetoric.Aristotle’s writings on politics are known for their legendary complexity and contradictions. In Aristotle’s Political Philosophy, renowned ...
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Climbing the divide
The poems in Climbing the Divide celebrate with praise and amazement the wonders and risks of wilderness and family, of friends before and after the war. The boy in these poems grows up during World War II, feisty in spite of losses and the harsh, hardscrabble land where he lives. Surrounded by h...
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The priority of the person
In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that “person” is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. The present vo...
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Aristotle's discovery of the human
Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts.In Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and th...
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Hume's ethical writings
Writing in an age that exalted reason, the Scottish-born skeptic David Hume was the first modern philosopher to emphasize the role of psychology, or “passion,” in the formulation of moral judgments and ethical systems. Included in this edition of his writings is the entire text of An Enquiry Conc...
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The early episcopal career of athanasius of alexandria
This historical study examines in detail the first seven years of Athanasius's career as bishop of Alexandria from the time of his election and consecration as bishop in 328 to his banishment by Emperor Constantine following the Synod of Tyre in 335. Thoroughly examining the modern historical and...
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