Winner of the sixth annual Morris Forkosch Prize, given by the Journal of the History of Ideas, for the best book published in intellectual history in 1992. In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the concept of literature that we accept today first took shape between the mid-sixteenth century and the early ...
Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a 'spatial' way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes that occurred. He describes how by the late fifteenth century the language arts of the trivium had ...
This work investigates "cultural instruments", meaning normative forms of analysis and practice that are central to Western culture and in the course of their history came to be ways of understanding and controlling different cultures. Examples are: notions of autonomy and the division of intellectual, social, cultural, and aesthetic practices; ...
Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers quite new interpretations of what it was to be a person - to experience who-ness - in other times and places, involving new understandings of knowing, ...
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Societe d'Etude Du XVIIe Siecle
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 91 pp. Very Good. A very few ink markings by professor. Also Hans Bots on Lettres et la tolerance dans les trois premiers periodiques hollandais, Caldicott on Le gouvernement de Gaston d'Orleans. X19. read more
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Grossvogel, David I. (Ed. ); Halliburton, David; Mehlman, Jeffrey; Reiss, Timothy J.; Gallop, Jane; Robbe-Grillet, Alain;...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University
Date Published: 1976
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean but age-darkened. Wraps have general light shelf wear, edge rubbing, corner creasing.; Contents: Halliburton, "The Hermeneutics of Belief and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion"; Mehlman, "Teaching Reading: The Case of Marx in France"; Reiss, "Cartesian Discourse and Classical Ideology"; Gallop, "The Ladies' Man"; interview with Alain Robb-Grillet; Barthes, "The Dolls of Bunraku; Brown, "Creasions and Destroyings: ... read more
Description: Academic Journal. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 134 pp. Near Fine. Topics: Jean de Patmos, Peirce vs. Chomsky, semiologie musicale, Ionesco many others. Very Scarce. P15. read more
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