Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P704
ISBN: 9780881469554
Price: $16.00
Reading devotionally--reading to recall sacred text in ways that call the reader to respond ethically to that text--runs contrary to reading habits of many scholars and lay readers of Søren Kierkegaard. As much as Jamie Lorentzen attends to devotional reading habits in this book, he writes for readers to whom Kierkegaard himself attended, namely, individuals navigating innately human crossroads of existence where nihilism, religious skepticism, and religious belief meet.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1050
ISBN: 9780881460735
Price: $40.00
This collection of essays brings together a range of distinguished and exciting new Thoreau scholars from across the globe who address some of the implications of Thoreau's manifold explorations of the nature of time and their meaning for his world and ours--and show how sustained attention to a writer from our not-so-distant past can help us reimagine our future.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P714
ISBN: 9780881469622
Price: $25.00
The eight essays in this volume were first presented at the 2023 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the fifteenth annual conference sponsored by Mercer University's Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles. The volume explores the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P715
ISBN: 9780881469639
Price: $30.00
Maimonides's GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED (completed ca. 1191 CE) is among the most important and elusive works in the history of Judaism and philosophy. Among the greatest difficulties has been determining what genre of writing it belongs to.
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For those who wish to study ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS with care, this translation offers access that has hitherto been unavailable in English to the meaning of Aristotle's treatise.
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For those who wish to study ON THE GENERATION OF ANIMALS with care, this translation offers access that has hitherto been unavailable in English to the meaning of Aristotle's treatise.
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