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Asian Mythologies
These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.
The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought
This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
American, African, and Old European Mythologies
Here are 80 articles on mythologies from around the world, including Native Americans, African, Celtic, Norse, and Slavic, and about such topics as fire, the cosmos, and creation. Also includes an overview of the Indo-Europeans and an essay on the religions and myths of Armenia. Illustrations.
Writing the History of the Mind
For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalité. Traditionally, the study of the mind and of its limits and capabilities was the domain of philosophy, however in the first decades of the twentieth century practitioners of the emergent human and social sciences were increasingly competing with philosophers in this field: ethnologists, sociologists, psychologists and historians of science were all claiming to study 'how people think'. Scholars, including Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Léon Brunschvicg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien Febvre, Abel Rey, Alexandre Koyré and Hélène Metzger were all investigating the mind...
Centres of Medical Excellence?
Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling students: who went where; how did they travel; what did they find when they arrived; what did they take back with them from their studies. Even a single individual could transform medical studies or practice back home on the periphery by trying to reform teaching and practice the way they had seen it at ...
Histoire des manuscrits gnostiques coptes : La correspondance Doresse-Puech 1947-1970
Les échanges de lettres entre Doresse et Puech, qu'on trouvera ici accompagnés de repères chronologiques, institutionnels et biographiques, couvrent vingt-trois années de l'histoire de la recherche sur les manuscrits gnostiques coptes de Nag Hammadi, 1947-1970. On a là le premier ensemble de lettres édité et justifié, et non plus des citations ou extraits provenant d'une seule partie, concernant ce domaine de la culture historique que sont les études gnostiques.
History of Humanity
Volume IV deals with the 'Middle Ages'. It starts with the expansion of Islam and closes with the discovery of the New World. Various events during this period led to a significant expansion in communications: the rapid spread of Islam and of Gengis Khan's Mongol Empire, as well as the Crusades and the development of trans-Saharan and maritime routes around Africa to the Indian Ocean, leading to multiplied exchanges between the peoples and cultures of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Catalogue collectif des périodiques de sciences humaines, économiques, juridiques, politiques et sociales conservés dans les bibliothèques de la Région Alsace
Ce catalogue collectif est extrait du CCN. Il recense environ 22 000 titres de périodiques reçus et/ou conservés dans les 92 bibliothèques participantes de la Région. Le recensement des publications éditées et conservées depuis 1945 est quasi exhaustif. « Copyright Electre »
