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Moral Seascapes
We are no strangers today to visual representations of human suffering at sea: the refugee crisis that continues to play out in the seascape between Europe and Africa (and not only there) yields an ever-growing archive of humanitarian tragedy. As both a visual backdrop and a lethal medium of unequal mobility, maritime space and landscape play a significant role in mediating the ethical demands of this crisis. Yet, there has been little exploration of the longer history of morality’s role in our understanding of aesthetic representations of the sea. The diverse contributions in Moral Seascapes explore the various symbolic forms through which these shifting moral norms and values have been manifested, contributing to debates concerning the place of the sea in visual and literary cultures and the history of morality and emotion, as well as the emergence of modern subjectivity. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives such as visual culture, experimental art history, literary studies, history and philosophy, Moral Seascapes develops distinctive new insights into the relationship between the moral cultures of modernity and the image of the sea.
A Philosopher at the Crossroads
This study explains how one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), broke new ground by engaging with the scholastic tradition while maintaining his ‘humanist’ sensibilities. A central claim of the monograph is that Pico was a 'philosopher at the crossroads,' whose sophisticated reading of numerous scholastic thinkers enabled him to advance a different conception of philosophy. The scholastic background to Pico’s work has been neglected by historians of the period. This omission has served to create not only an unreliable picture of Pico’s thought, but also a more general ignorance of the dynamism of scholastic thought in late fifteenth-century Italy. The author argues that these deficiencies of modern scholarship stand in need of correction.
Galileo’s Telescope
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.
Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World
Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the period from 1500 to 1850. Until now, learned medicine has remained a secondary subject in scholarship on Inquisitions. This volume delves into physicians’ contributions to the inquisitorial machinery as well as the persecution of medical practitioners and the censorship of books of medicine. Although they are commonly depicted as all-pervasive systems of repression, the Inquisitions emerge from these essays as complex institutions. Authors investigate how boundaries between the medical and the religious w...
Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000
In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told. Rather than emphasizing successful publications and famous compilers, they explore encyclopedic enterprises that somehow failed. With a combined attention to script, print, and digital cultures, the volume highlights the many challenges facing those who have pursued complete knowledge in the past three hundred years. By introducing the concepts of stranded and strandedness, it also provides an analytical framework for approaching aspects often overlooked in histories o...
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
An illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of Rene Descartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered.
Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland
Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period-typically labelled 'orthodoxy'-as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content. Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively min...
2002
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Aftershock
I ricchi sono sempre più ricchi. I poveri sempre più poveri. La concentrazione dei dividendi è sempre più nelle mani di poche persone. I banchieri non sembrano aver imparato la lezione degli anni precedenti e stanno ricominciando ad imporre i loro diktat ai governi. Di conseguenza, le paure e le incertezze delle persone sono aumentate a dismisura. Andando di questo passo come sarà il mondo nel 2020? In che modo l’economia riuscirà a risollevarsi? Robert Reich pensa che essa abbia bisogno di affrontare riforme strutturali, in grado di rilanciare i consumi, difendere il lavoro e il potere d’acquisto delle famiglie, altrimenti la società sarà vittima del populismo dei demagoghi e dell’estremismo politico e religioso. Con lucidità e una capacità d’analisi fuori dal comune, l’ex ministro del lavoro di Clinton ripercorre la storia, le idee e gli uomini che hanno portato al cosiddetto “svuotamento” del ceto medio e rivendica come necessaria una nuova stagione di trasformazioni e cambiamenti in seno all’economia e alla società.
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EDIZIONE SPECIALE: CONTIENE UN ESTRATTO DI LA BELVA, IL NUOVO ROMANZO DI FRANCESCA BERTUZZI Un thriller inquietante nell'oscura provincia italiana Un caso editoriale in vetta alle classifiche. La verità più scomoda e inquietante che si possa immaginare In uno di quei piccoli paesi della provincia italiana all’apparenza tranquilli, ma in cui il male esiste, si nutre e cresce fra le vie strette, le case decadenti e i bar semibui, sta per avere inizio l’incubo. È qui che abita Danny, una ragazza di origine africana, arrivata in Italia ancora bambina, insieme alla madre e alla sorella. Una sera, dopo aver chiuso il locale in cui lavora, Danny viene aggredita. Fa appello a tutte le forze c...
