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Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines

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Death: Philosophical Soundings
0812693302, 9780812693300

In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R. Nielsen brings music and philosophy into a fruitful and mutually illuminating dial

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Brand New.

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Contemporary cultural and intellectual historians, literary theorists and critics, philosophers, and social scientists w

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With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the

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In recent years the study of modern South Asian history has been extended beyond the range of older accounts of British

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This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the fe

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Voices are material, somatic, and musical. They are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abst

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These twelve essays, all in English, include studies on Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Chamisso, Hauptmann, Mann, and Br

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Many, fascinated by Hindu mysticism, confuse permanent Hindu beliefs with certain current Western religious movements. I

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The book tackles the challenging theme of death as seen through the lens of literature and its connections with history,

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