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Byzantine Philosophy

Since its publication in French in 1949 by the Presses Universitaires de France, Basil Tatakis' Byzantine Philosophy remains the sole work of its kind, an analysis of the rise of Christianity in the E...

Last Men in London

In his previous science-fiction novel, Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon envisioned 2 billion years of history, in which modern humans represented the first and most primitive of 18 increasingly adva...

The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Published shortly before the author's death in 1919, The Journal of a Disappointed Man presents a remarkable memoir that addresses struggles with poverty, inadequate education, and the creeping paraly...

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and mo...

Je, Tu, Nous

A passionate celebrator of sexual difference, Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that cel...

Alfonso X of Castile-Le n

Alfonso X 'the Learned' of Castile (1252-1284) was praised in his lifetime as a king who devoted himself to discovering all worldly and divine knowledge. He commissioned chronicles and law codes and c...

Inception & Philosophy

A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning mo...

Europa Und Nach-Europa

Total Football

Football systems, changing room banter and a couple of mops solve the big questions of life - immortality, happiness and why England always lose, in a new play tackling the beautiful game. After se...

Dealing with Dictators

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period,...

Commentary on De Administrando Imperio

The De Administrando Imperio, compiled by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in the tenth century, is one of the most important historical documents surviving from the middle Byzantine period, containing...

Militarizing Men

A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a real man is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The lin...