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The Skepticism of Michel de Montaigne
  • Language: en

The Skepticism of Michel de Montaigne

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the work of Michel de Montaigne, considering his Essays as a whole. Building on the premise that Montaigne was an important part of the skeptical crisis but that his skepticism was not shaped by Sextus Empiricus, the book first describes the history of skepticism. It then shows that Montaigne is closer to the Academic skepticisms than to the absolute skepticism of Pyrrhonism, and that the Christian tradition left a more important mark in Montaigne’s Essays than originally thought. Through this exploration of Montaigne’s original and complex work, the book reveals Montaigne’s affinity with Socrates and Saint Augustine. It examines the powerful currents of skepticism t...

Manual de debate
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 154

Manual de debate

Manuel Bermúdez, impulsor del debate académico a nivel universitario en España, y Jorge Lucena, subcampeón mundial de debate universitario en lengua hispana, nos presentan un manual imprescindible para adentrarse en el debate académico, su historia, sus técnicas y estrategias, la construcción y destrucción de líneas argumentales, los torneos... y para adquirir altas capacidades en oratoria. El debate como herramienta académica ha comenzado a desarrollarse ampliamente por todo el mundo. Como actividad que fomenta la expresión oral y el pensamiento crítico hay pocas iniciativas que sean más formativas y productivas. Con este manual lograrás acercarte a esta disciplina y mejorar t...

Overheard in Seville 2013
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 62

Overheard in Seville 2013

An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana Scholarship.

Visitors from beyond the Grave
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Visitors from beyond the Grave

The monograph deals with the topic of ghosts in universal literature from a polyhedral perspective, making use of different perspectives, all of which highlight the resilience of these figures from the very beginning of literature up to the present day. Therefore, the aim of this volume is to focus on how ghosts have been translated and transformed over the years within literature written in the following languages: Classical Greek and Latin, Spanish, Italian, and English.

Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology, Europhras 2019, held in Malaga, Spain, in September 2019. The 31 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers in this volume cover a number of topics including general corpus-based approaches to phraseology, phraseology in translation and cross-linguistic studies, phraseology in language teaching and learning, phraseology in specialized languages, phraseology in lexicography, cognitive approaches to phraseology, the computational treatment of multiword expressions, and the development, annotation, and exploitation of corpora for phraseological studies.

Staging Doubt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 839

Staging Doubt

This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and French drama, dedicating detailed readings to plays by Shakespeare, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Rotrou, Desfontaines, and Cervantes. While all the plays employ similar dramatic devices for "putting skepticism on stage", the study explores how these dramas, however, give different "answers" to the challenges posed by skepticism in relation to their respective historico-cultural and "ideological" contexts.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 3618

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Overheard in Seville 2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 90

Overheard in Seville 2015

An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on American philosopher, poet, critic, and best-selling novelist George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana scholarship.

The Christian Roots of Individualism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

The Christian Roots of Individualism

The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity. This book surveys how the birth of the Christian worldview affected the evolution of individualism in Western culture as a cultural meme. Applying a biological metaphor and Richard Dawkins’ definition of a meme, this work argues the advent of individualism was not a sudden innovation of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment, but a long evolution with characteristic traits. This evolution can be mapped using profiles of individuals in different historical eras who contributed to the modern notion of individualism. Utilizing excerpts from original works from Augustine to Nietzsche, a compelling narrative arises from the slow but steady evolution of the modern self. The central argument is that Christianity, with its characteristic inwardness, was fundamental in the development of a sense of self as it affirmed the importance of the everyday man and everyday life.