The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that ...(展开全部)

A model of readability and clarity. Translation in English, including an introduction and a brief glossary. This dialogue is among Plato's most difficult. Whitaker provides a clear entry to Plato and Platonic thinking and a succinct translation of the work itself.

Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a collection of sophisticated tricks, or even as an elaborate joke. This work presents ...(展开全部)

In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive recipients, Scandinavians conver...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Students and teachers worldwide will applaud this collection of Freccero's articles, destined to prove of lasting importance. In an arrangement based on the structure of the Commedia , the articles enable the contemporary reader to approach the astonishing poetic coherence of Dante's poems without sacrifice of the poem's rich historicity and detail. It is a...(展开全部)

From Library Journal Students and teachers worldwide will applaud this collection of Freccero's articles, destined to prove of lasting importance. In an arrangement based on the structure of the Commedia , the articles enable the contemporary reader to approach the astonishing poetic coherence of Dante's poems without sacrifice of the poem's rich historicity and detail. It is a...(展开全部)

The Seat of the Soul is about the birth of a new species -- and the explosion of human perception past the five senses. It is about the values of the soul -- harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is about authentic power -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. It is about nonphysical guides and Teachers. The Seat of the Soul is written for the...(展开全部)

The Seat of the Soul is about the birth of a new species -- and the explosion of human perception past the five senses. It is about the values of the soul -- harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is about authentic power -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. It is about nonphysical guides and Teachers. The Seat of the Soul is written for the...(展开全部)

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburg’s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of ...(展开全部)