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Vico

A Study of the 'New Science'

By: Leon Pompa

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Vico

A Study of the 'New Science'

By: Leon Pompa

A new chapter analyzing Vico's conception of the development of law has been added to this edition of a unique work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521388716

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9780521388719

Human Nature and Historical Knowledge

Hume, Hegel and Vico

By: Leon Pompa

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Human Nature and Historical Knowledge

Hume, Hegel and Vico

By: Leon Pompa

This is a challenging book about the presuppositions of historical knowledge.

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248

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892201

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9780521892209

Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

By: Leon Pompa

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Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

By: Leon Pompa

Founded in 1966, The Institute For Cultural Research brought together an eclectic group of individuals - from the sciences, the arts, business, government, and all manner of other disciplines.Established under the leadership of the writer and thinker Idries Shah, ICR considered profound questions facing human society, seeking answers by tackling problems in new ways. Or rather, as Shah insisted - in an ancient way. Such systems were employed routinely by human civilisation, until recent divisions and sub-divisions disrupted well-honed methods of advancement and progression.ICR's Monographs were written by invitation of the board of trustees - ranging widely in subject from the importance of storytelling to secret societies in West Africa. An extraordinary cornucopia of published work, they form a unique resource in their own right, and are being made available by The Idries Shah Foundation.

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1784793671

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9781784793678

The What and the Why of History

Philosophical Essays

By: Leon J. Goldstein

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The What and the Why of History

Philosophical Essays

By: Leon J. Goldstein

A collection of papers dealing with history as a way of knowing, not a mode of discourse. It attempts to render intelligible explaining the past and knowing the past, mainly systematically but also through attention to Collingwood's work.

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BRILL

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9004103082

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9789004103085

Reading the Illegible

Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

By: Laura Leon Llerena

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Reading the Illegible

Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

By: Laura Leon Llerena

Reading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media. The book discusses the stories surrounding the creation of the Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598–1608), the only surviving book-length text written by Indigenous people in Quechua in the early colonial period. The manuscript has been deemed “untranslatable in all the usual senses,” but scholar Laura Leon Llerena argues that it offers an important window into the meaning of legibility. The concept of legibility allows us to reconsider this unique manuscript within the intertwined histories of literacy, knowledge, and colonialism. Reading the Illegible shows that the anonymous author(s) of the Huarochirí Manuscript, along with two contemporaneous Andean-authored texts by Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, rewrote the history of writing and the notion of Christianity by deploying the colonizers’ technology of alphabetic writing. Reading the Illegible weaves together the story of the peoples, places, objects, and media that surrounded the creation of the anonymous Huarochirí Manuscript to demonstrate how Andean people endowed the European technology of writing with a new social role in the context of a multimedia society.

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University of Arizona Press

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081654753X

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9780816547531

Conceptual Tension

Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism

By: Leon J. Goldstein

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Conceptual Tension

Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism

By: Leon J. Goldstein

Conceptual Tension: Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism is a critical philosophical examination of the role of concepts and concept formation in social sciences. Written by Leon J. Goldstein, a preeminent Jewish philosopher who examined the epistemological foundations of social science inquiry during the second half of the twentieth century, the book undertakes a study of concept formation and change by looking at the four critical terms in anthropology (kinship), politics (parliament and Rousseau’s concept of the general will), and sociology (individualism). The author challenges prevailing notions of concept formation and definition, specifically assertions by Gottlieb Frege that concepts have fixed, clear boundaries that are not subject to change. Instead, drawing upon arguments by R.G. Collingwood, Goldstein asserts that concepts have a historical dimension with boundaries and meanings that change with their use and context. Goldstein’s work provides insight for philosophers, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, and Judaica scholars interested in the study and meaning of critical concepts within their fields.

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Lexington Books

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149850423X

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9781498504232

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

By: Leon Kuczynski

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Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

By: Leon Kuczynski

This handbook provides an interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations. It focuses on cognitive, behavioural and relational processes that govern immediate parent-child interactions and long-term relationships.

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SAGE

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0761923640

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9780761923640

Stonehenge City

A Reconstruction

By: Leon Stover

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Stonehenge City

A Reconstruction

By: Leon Stover

Stonehenge dates its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times). It attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is more than an array of great standing stones. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected. That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence--royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. Here (apart from Homer) begins European literature, derived from oral traditions. The entire book is richly illustrated.

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McFarland

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1476611343

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9781476611341

On The Contrary

Leading The Opposition In A Democratic South Africa

By: Tony Leon

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On The Contrary

Leading The Opposition In A Democratic South Africa

By: Tony Leon

The memoirs of former Opposition leader Tony Leon provide a unique glimpse into the political life of South Africa in the democratic era. In incisive, finely focused prose, On the Contrary records Leon's thirteen-year leadership of the Democratic Alliance and its predecessor, the Democratic Party, years in which the party grew from its marginal position on the brink of political extinction into the second largest political force in South Africa. This is an adventure in ideas that involves vivid real people - friends, colleagues and enemies alike. There is new light shed on many of the figures who have shaped modern South Africa, including Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Thabo Mbeki. A trained lawyer, Tony Leon entered Parliament at age 32 at the dawn of South Africa's period of revolution and reform. He actively participated in the constitutional negotiations that led to the birth of the democratic South Africa.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868424936

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Vico

A Study of the 'New Science'

By: Leon Pompa

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Vico

A Study of the 'New Science'

By: Leon Pompa

A new chapter analyzing Vico's conception of the development of law has been added to this edition of a unique work devoted almost exclusively to an interpretation of the New Science.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521388716

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Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

By: Leon Pompa

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新科学

英文版

By: 维柯,Giambattista Vico

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新科学

英文版

By: 维柯,Giambattista Vico

责任者译名:庞帕。

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Vico

Vico

Human Nature and Historical Knowledge

Human Nature and Historical Knowledge

Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

The What and the Why of History

The What and the Why of History

Reading the Illegible

Reading the Illegible

Conceptual Tension

Conceptual Tension

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

Stonehenge City

Stonehenge City

On The Contrary

On The Contrary

Vico

Vico

Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

Vico's Theory of the Causes of Historical Change

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