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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 18

Herausgegeben von Manuel Baumbach, Burkhard Mojsisch und Olaf Pluta

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The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 12. 2007

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This journal is devoted to the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages. It concentrates on research documenting the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and philosophical traditions, such as the Arabic, Judaic, Byzantine and… read more
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De Anima: Die Rezeption der aristotelischen Psychologie im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert

Sascha Salatowsky

Aristoteles’ De Anima ist einer der zentralen Texte der Philosophiegeschichte. Seine grundlegende Leistung liegt in der alle Lebewesen umfassenden ontologisch-ontischen Bestimmung der Seele und ihrer Vermögen, einschließlich der Lehre vom Geist (nous), deren nähere Explikation seit der Antike Anlaß… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 43] 2006. xiv, 407 pp.
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Intellectus und Imaginatio: Aspekte geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Herausgegeben von João Maria André, Gerhard Krieger und Harald Schwaetzer

Dieser Band stellt einen Beitrag zum Verständnis geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus dar. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Begriffe intellectus und imaginatio, deren historischer und sachlicher Zusammenhang untereinander und ihr Verhältnis zu weiteren Aspekten der menschlichen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 44] 2006. viii, 157 pp.
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Mystique et Philosophie: Grunt, abgrunt et Ungrund chez Maître Eckhart et Jacob Böhme

Virginie Pektaş

Par le biais d’une méthode philologique, historique, et philosophique, ce livre établit l’absence de lien direct entre Maître Eckhart et Jacob Böhme. En réalité, le concept de la “philosophie mystique allemande”, commençant soit disant avec Eckhart et finissant avec Böhme, a son origine dans la… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 45] 2006. x, 324 pp.
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Analogy as Structure and Process: Approaches in linguistics, cognitive psychology and philosophy of science

Esa Itkonen

The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 14] 2005. xiv, 249 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 10. 2005

Edited by Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta and Rudolf Rehn

This journal is devoted to the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages. It concentrates on research documenting the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and philosophical traditions, such as the Arabic, Judaic, Byzantine and… read more
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Controversies and Subjectivity

Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal †

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical… read more
[Controversies, 1] 2005. x, 411 pp.
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Die Aktualität der Philosophie Kants: Bochumer Ringvorlesung Sommersemester 2004

Herausgegeben von Kirsten Schmidt, Klaus Steigleder und Burkhard Mojsisch

This book is a collection of articles based on a lecture series about Kant's philosophy. The contributions present an excellent overview of Kant's work – the subjects range from metaphysical, ethical, aesthetical, teleological, historical and political aspects to questions of mind, nature and… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 42] 2005. xii, 264 pp.
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Grammar and Philosophy in Late Antiquity: A study of Priscian's sources

Anneli Luhtala

This book examines the various philosophical influences contained in the ancient description of the noun. According to the traditional view, grammar adopted its philosophical categories in the second century B.C. and continued to make use of precisely the same concepts for over six hundred years,… read more
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Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community

Jack Sidnell

Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 pp.
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Aristotelisches Wissen und Glauben im 15. Jahrhundert: Ein anonymer Kommentar zum Pariser Verurteilungsdekret von 1277 aus dem Umfeld des Johannes de Nova Domo. Studie und Text

Henrik Wels

On March 7, 1277, Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemned a list of 219 theological and philosophical theses. This condemnation had a lasting impact on the teaching of philosophy and theology at the late-medieval universities, and many philosophical and theological texts of this time contain… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 41] 2004. clxxii, 162 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 9. 2004

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This journal is devoted to the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages. It concentrates on research documenting the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and philosophical traditions, such as the Arabic, Judaic, Byzantine and… read more
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Brain and Being: At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts

Edited by Gordon G. Globus †, Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello

This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to “think together” in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 58] 2004. xii, 354 pp.
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A History of Language Philosophies

Lia Formigari

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role. read more
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Mind and Causality

Edited by Alberto Peruzzi

Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes?On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest?Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism?By considering the developmental,… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 55] 2004. xiv, 235 pp.
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Das Wissen vom Guten: Bedeutung und Kontinuität des Tugendwissens in den Dialogen Platons

Marcel van Ackeren

This analysis of the relation between virtue and knowledge focuses on the following aspects: i) Virtue and Happiness can be objects of knowledge; ii) Virtue is knowledge; iii) The search for knowledge is aiming at – and justified by – the human to be happy. Plato therefore defines philosophy not as… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 39] 2003. x, 370 pp.
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Richard Billingham “De Consequentiis” mit Toledo-Kommentar: Kritisch herausgegeben, eingeleitet und kommentiert

Stephanie Weber-Schroth

The theory of consequences is one of the most important developments of medieval logic and was an integral part of the logic curricula at universities. One of the most famous authors of school tracts in the 14th century was Richard Billingham who was well known for his Speculum puerorum, a famous… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 38] 2003. xxviii, 335 pp.
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Schlußfolgerungslehre in Erfurter Schulen des 14. Jahrhunderts: Eine Untersuchung der Konsequentientraktate von Thomas Maulfelt und Albert von Sachsen in Gegenüberstellung mit einer zeitgenössischen Position

Rainer Grass

As the title indicates the author presents a contemporary theory of consequence. In so doing he establishes a terminology that enables a description, interpretation and evaluation of medieval theory independently of medieval vocabulary.In the interest of better understanding the medieval writers… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 37] 2003. x, 264 pp.
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Consciousness Emerging: The dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language

Renate Bartsch

This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 39] 2002. x, 256 pp.
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Consciousness Evolving

Edited by James H. Fetzer

A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 34] 2002. xx, 253 pp.
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Das Problem des Unendlichen im ausgehenden 14. Jahrhundert: Eine Studie mit Textedition zum Physikkommentar des Lorenz von Lindores

Thomas Dewender

The focus of this book is on the theory of infinity in Lawrence of Lindores’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics”. Written shortly before 1400, Lindores’ text played an important role in disseminating the natural philosophy of John Buridan and his disciples in the 15th century. In the first part of… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 36] 2002. x, 430 pp.
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Die Philosophie in ihren Disziplinen: Eine Einführung. Bochumer Ringvorlesung Wintersemester 1999/2000

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch und Orrin F. Summerell

The disciplines of philosophy make up its methodological and thematic branches of study; they reflect its self-understanding as a science according to both its basic tasks and its different approaches to them. The contributions to this anthology, arranged according to the main disciplines of… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 35] 2002. viii, 286 pp.
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Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse

Senko K. Maynard

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
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The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, philosophy and the Modistae

L.G. Kelly

Much is known about the grammar of the modistae and about its eclipse; this book sets out to trace its rise. In the late eleventh century grammar became an analytical rather than an exegetical discipline under the impetus of the new theology. Under the impetus of Arab learning the ancient sciences… read more
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Selbst – Singularität – Subjektivität: Vom Neuplatonismus zum Deutschen Idealismus

Herausgegeben von Theo Kobusch, Burkhard Mojsisch und Orrin F. Summerell

This anthology examines stations in the development of Neoplatonist thought between its origins in late antiquity and its modern culmination in the philosophy of German Idealism. Aspects of the latter receive extensive treatment, in contrast to other anthologies on the Neoplatonic tradition. This… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 148] 2002. viii, 304 pp.
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Unfolding Perceptual Continua

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 41] 2002. vi, 296 pp.
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Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu

Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 204] 2001. vi, 301 pp.
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Meister Eckhart: Analogy, Univocity and Unity

Burkhard Mojsisch

The thought of Meister Eckhart — the Dominican theologian, the preacher, the master of language, the mystic — exudes a remarkable fascination on the modern mind, not the least due to its characteristic interplay of scholastic-academic and vernacular terminology. This volume presents the only… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 145] 2001. xvi, 220 pp.
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Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics

Michael Fortescue

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 6] 2001. viii, 311 pp.
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Philosophiehistorie als Rezeptionsgeschichte: Die Reaktion auf Aristoteles' De Anima-Noetik. Der frühe Hellenismus

Andreas Kamp

No single theoretician provoked a greater tradition of the reception of his thought throughout changing times and across diverse cultures than did Aristotle, and so Hegel, who calls him the ‘teacher of the human race’, well describes the man known for ages simply as ‘the philosopher’. The present… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 33] 2001. viii, 315 pp.
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Platons ‘Parmenides’ und Marsilio Ficinos ‘Parmenides’-Kommentar: Ein kritischer Vergleich

Arne Malmsheimer

Gemeinhin gilt der Platonische Dialog ‘Philosophos’, auf den Platon selbst im ‘Sophistes’ verweist, als verschollen. Eine genaue Analyse des ‘Theaitetos’ sowie der sog. Eleatischen Dialoge kann jedoch erweisen, dass Platon die Trilogie ‘Sophistes’, ‘Politikos’ und ‘Philosophos’ mit dem ‘Parmenides’… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 34] 2001. x, 325 pp.
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Umbrüche: Historische Wendepunkte der Philosophie von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Festschrift für Kurt Flasch zu seinem 70. Geburtstag

Herausgegeben von Klaus Kahnert und Burkhard Mojsisch

Umbrüche ist keine lückenlose Darstellung aller Wendepunkte in der Philosophiegeschichte, sondern eine Sammlung von Beiträgen, die sowohl bekannte Neuanfänge als auch bislang wenig beachtete Denkbewegungen analysieren ­ bis hin zu Auseinandersetzungen mit Anregungen, die für sich selbst genommen… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 144] 2001. xii, 312 pp.
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The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology

Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton

These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
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Die Disputatio de anima rationali secundum substantiam des Nicolaus Baldelli S.J. nach dem Pariser Codex B.N. lat. 16627: Eine Studie zur Ablehnung des Averroismus und Alexandrismus am Collegium Romanum zu Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts

Henrik Wels

The Disputationes in libros De anima, contained in the Paris Codex B.N. lat. 16627, were recorded for centuries under the name Cesare Cremonini. This study shows the Disputationes to be a transcript of a lecture held by the Jesuit Nicolaus Baldelli (1573-1655) and so, on the basis of the only known… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 30] 2000. viii, 153 pp.
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Entmachtung der Zeichen?: Augustin über Sprache

Klaus Kahnert

This volume presents the first book-length study of Augustine’s philosophy of language. Taking as its theme the relation of language and thought, it highlights the tension in Augustine’s philosophy between a pointed epistemological devaluation of language and a profound consciousness of its… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 29] 2000. x, 271 pp.
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Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 19] 2000. xxiv, 448 pp.
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L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome IV: Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610)

Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et Paul Chavy

L’Époque de la Renaissance. Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610), a collaborative literary history of the second half of the sixteenth century in Europe, responds to a number of challenges, including those critical of the Renaissance concept itself in favour of a broader Early Modern concept. It… read more
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Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contributions by some exponents of cognitive grammar (Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen), and philosophers of language… read more
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Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective

Adrian Pilkington

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 209 pp.
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Schelling: Zwischen Fichte und Hegel/Between Fichte and Hegel

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth, Alfred Denker und Michael Vater

“Schelling has undergone his philosophical education before the public” — so G. W. F. Hegel in criticism of the novel systematic projects which his philosophical ally and later rival F. W. J. Schelling successively made public. Today, however, Hegel’s derisive judgment can be seen not to hold:… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 32] 2000. viii, 423 pp.
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Sprache und Dialektik in der Aristotelischen Philosophie

Rudolf Rehn

Entgegen der Ansicht, Aristoteles sei als Sprachphilosoph und -wissenschaftler “nur sehr wenig über Platon hinausgekommen” (H. Arens, R. Haller u.a.), will die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigen, daß Aristoteles einen tiefgreifenden Einschnitt in der Entwicklung der Sprachwissenschaft und -philosophie… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 31] 2000. xii, 357 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 4. 1999

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

Contents Band 4 (1999): Harald Holz: Die Ironie des Sokrates, insbesondere im Blick auf Prozeî und Tod; Filip Grgic: Plato’s Meno and the Possibility of Inquiry in the Absence of Knowledge; Burkhard Mojsisch: Der Dialog als sechste wichtigste Gattung in Platons Sophistes; Reinhold F. Glei: Lux… read more
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Dietrich von Freiberg: Neue Perspektiven seiner Philosophie, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft.. Freiberger Symposion, 10–13 März, 1997

Herausgegeben von Karl-Hermann Kandler, Burkhard Mojsisch und Franz-Bernhard Stammkötter

Spätestens seit dem Abschluß der kritischen Edition der Werke Dietrichs von Freiberg im Rahmen des ‘Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi’ ist die philosophische Bedeutung seines Denkens offenkundig. Dietrichs Philosophie ist aus der Philosophiegeschichte des Mittelalters nicht mehr… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 28] 1999. viii, 287 pp.
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The Presence of Mind

Daniel D. Hutto

Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or, will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a legitimate place in the explanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 17] 1999. xiv, 252 pp.
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The Primacy of Movement

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 14] 1999. xxxiv, 583 pp.
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Abhandlung über die bedeutsamen Verhaltensweisen der Sprache. [Tractatus de Modis significandi.]: Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt und eingeleitet von Stephan Grotz

Thomas von Erfurt und Stephan Grotz

Der lange dem Duns Scotus zugeschriebene Traktat des Thomas von Erfurt wird hier erstmals in einer deutschen Übersetzung vorgestellt. Er gilt als der abschließende Höhepunkt der spekulativen Grammatik, einer der gewichtigsten Ausformungen der spätmittelalterlichen Sprachtheorie. Von Bedeutung… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 27] 1998. liv, 116 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 3. 1998

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

Contents Band 3 (1998): Martina Stemich: Vorsokratische Philosophie als Seelentherapie? Am Beispiel Heraklits; Burkhard Mojsisch: Logos and epistême in Plato’s Dialogues Theaetetus and The Sophist. The Constitutive Role of Language in Plato’s Theory of Knowledge in his Late Philosophy; Jens… read more
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Consciousness and Qualia

Leopold Stubenberg

This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 5] 1998. x, 367 pp.
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Die Entdeckung des Raums: Vom hesiodische “χάος” zur platonischen “χώρα”

Thomas Kratzert

Von »chaos« zu sprechen, ist en vogue. Seit den 70er Jahren ist der Gebrauch des Begriffs auf einem unaufhaltsamen Vormarsch. Im bereich der Physik reaktiviert, hat der Begriff »chaos« eine popularistische Faszination erlangt, die ihre gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ursachen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 26] 1998. x, 128 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 2. 1997

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This annual is devoted to the philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Concentrates on research which documents the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; Focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and… read more
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The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought

Jeffrey Wollock

The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent, but of… read more
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Sein – Reflexion – Freiheit: Aspekte der Philosophie Johann Gottlieb Fichtes

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth

Das Denken Johann Gottlieb Fichtes (1762-1814) gehört zu den großen Entwürfen der europäischen Philosophie. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre entwickelte erstmals eine Theorie des absoluten Ich als Grundlage aller Wissenschaften. Damit schuf er das Fundament für die Entstehung des sog. Deutschen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 25] 1997. vi, 320 pp.
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Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in cognitive science and consciousness

Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin, Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogáin

The Reaching for Mind workshop, held at AISB ’95, explicitly addressed itself to the current crisis in Cognitive Science. In particular, the issue of how this discipline can address consciousness was a leitmotiv in the workshop. The conclusion seems inescapable that there is a need for two sciences… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 9] 1997. xii, 498 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 1. 1996

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This annual is devoted to the philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Concentrates on research which documents the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; Focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and… read more
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Die Einheit der Welt: Die Qi-Theorie des Neo-Konfuzianers Zhang Zai (1020–1077)

Wolfgang Ommerborn

Der Neo-Konfuzianismus bildet mit seinen verschiedenen Strömungen die wichtigste Geistesschule des imperialen China seit der Song-Zeit (960-1279). Er entstand als Reaktion auf die das chinesische Denken in den Jahrhunderten vorher stark beeinflussenden Schulen des Buddhismus und des Neo-Daoismus… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 23] 1996. iv, 349 pp.
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Heraklit: Der Werdegang des Weisen

Martina Stemich Huber

In der älteren Tradition wird Heraklit zu den Naturphilosophen gezählt, doch sein Denken grenzt sich vom reinen Ansammeln von Wissensmaterial und den kosmologischen Spekulationen der ionischen Naturphilosophen ab. Heraklit distanziert sich vom allgemein erfahrbaren Wissen und geht mit Hilfe der… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 24] 1996. vi, 282 pp.
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Aristoteles contra Augustinum: Zur Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Zeit und Seele bei den antiken Aristoteleskommentatoren, im arabischen Aristotelismus und im 13. Jahrhundert

Udo Reinhold Jeck

In der sog. »aristotelischen Zeitaporie« (Physik IV) äußert sich Aristoteles zum Verhältnis von Zeit und Seele. Dieser Text gehört zu den umstrittensten Abschnitten seines Zeittraktates. Zur Interpretation rekonstruiert die vorgelegte Untersuchung die Entwicklungslinien der Analysen zur Zeitaporie… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 21] 1994. xvi, 521 pp.
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Destructiones modorum significandi und ihre Destruktionen

Herausgegeben von Ludger Kaczmarek

Die Sprach- und Zeichentheorie des späten 13. und frühen 14. Jahrhunderts ist in den letzten Jahren in wachsendem Maße Gegenstand inhaltlich-systematischer Auseinandersetzungen und historischer Bewertungen geworden. Dies gilt neben den modistischen Schulen auch und gerade für ihre eher… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 9] 1994. xii, 138 pp.
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Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircian ethics and aesthetics

Edited by Herman Parret

Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in… read more
[Semiotic Crossroads, 6] 1994. xiii, 381 pp.
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Speculum philosophiae medii aevi: Die Handschriftensammlung des Dominikaners Georg Schwartz († nach 1484)

Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen

Das 15. Jahrhundert gehört zu den am wenigsten erforschten Epochen des mittelalterlichen Denkens, obwohl diese Periode für unser Verständnis der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit von große Bedeutung ist. Es verfestigten sich innerhalb der Scholastik Strömungen und Schulen wie der Thomismus, der… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 22] 1994. xii, 169 pp.
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Aegidius Aurelianensis: Quaestiones super De generatione et corruptione

Herausgegeben von Zdzisław Kuksewicz

Obwohl nach der Verurteilung von 1277 der Lateinische Averroismus als eigenständige Schule verschwand, entstanden dennoch in den Jahren zwischen 1280 und 1300 in Paris neue Aristoteles-Kommentare, die ein lebhaftes Interesse für heterodoxe aristotelische Lehren bezeugen. Heute kennen wir mehr als… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 18] 1993. xxviii, 237 pp.
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Le traité de Pierre d’Ailly sur la Consolation de Boèce, Qu. 1: Édition et étude critiques

Marguerite Chappuis

L’édition critique de la première question du traité (Utrum aliquis philosophus per inquisitionem philosophicam in naturali lumine ad veram humanae beatitudinis notitiam valeat pervenire) est basée sur les sept manuscrits connus, dont deux autographes.L’auteur du traité, le maître parisien Pierre… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 20] 1993. xlii, 438 pp.
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Rezeption und Interpretation der Aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter: 1. Teil

Christoph Flüeler

Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden. Gleich nach dem Erscheinen der ersten vollständigen Übersetzung wurde dieses Werk von der gelehrten Welt des Abendlandes mit grossem Interesse… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 19:1] 1993. xvi, 335 pp.
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Rezeption und Interpretation der Aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter: 2. Teil

Christoph Flüeler

Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden. Gleich nach dem Erscheinen der ersten vollständigen Übersetzung wurde dieses Werk von der gelehrten Welt des Abendlandes mit grossem Interesse… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 19:2] 1993. viii, 206 pp.
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Signs, Dialogue and Ideology

Augusto Ponzio

Signs, Dialogue and Ideology illustrates and critically examines — both historically and theoretically — the current state of semiotic discourse from Peirce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. Ponzio is in search of a method to… read more
[Critical Theory, 11] 1993. xviii, 185 pp.
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Signs, Science and Politics: Philosophies of language in Europe 1700–1830

Lia Formigari

This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was… read more
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Historia Philosophiae Medii Aevi: Studien zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters. Festschrift für Kurt Flasch zu seinem 60. Geburtstag. 2 Bänder

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch und Olaf Pluta

An impressive collection of 51 articles by foremost scholars in the field of the history of medieval philosophy, discussing such subjects as 14th century logic; the influence of Ockham, Ficino, Aquinas and Duns Scotus; connections between philosophy and theology, and between philosophy and… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 142] 1992. xxxvii, 1164 pp.
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John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics

Edited by Joseph L. Subbiondo

In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.
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La Charpente modale du sens: Pour une sémio-linguistique morphogénétique et dynamique

Per Aage Brandt

Cet ouvrage est consacré à l'analyse des modalités — épistémiques, aléthiques, déontiques et ontiques — et propose une réécriture de la théorie de Greimas à partir d'une nouvelle conception dynamique du phénomène modal. L'introduction et l'interrogation sémiotique de la théorie des catastrophes de… read more
[Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1992. 370 pp.
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Logical Semiotics & Mereology

Richard M. Martin

The papers in this volume are concerned with a variety of vitally important topics in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and in the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems. All of them make fundamental use,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 16] 1992. xiii, 282 pp.
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De betekenis als verhaal: Semiotische opstellen

Algirdas Julien Greimas

De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse model gaat er immers vanuit dat de meest uiteenlopende verschijnselen… read more
[Semiotisch Perspectief, 1] 1991. x, 245 pp.
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Die Kyniker in der modernen Forschung: Aufsätze mit Einführung und Bibliographie

Herausgegeben von Margarethe Billerbeck

Die Protestbewegungen und gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen unserer Zeit haben dazu beigetragen, das Interesse an den antiken Kynikern und ihrer Lehre von der Umwertung aller Werte neu zu wecken. Geprägt durch Diogenes von Sinope und Krates von Theben, seinen markantesten Vertretern, war der Kynismus… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 15] 1991. viii, 324 pp.
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The Empire of Signs: Semiotic essays on Japanese culture

Edited by Yoshihiko Ikegami

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L’Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.
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[Foundations of Semiotics, 8] 1991. xii, 333 pp.
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Het semiotisch pragmatisme van Charles S. Peirce

Onder redactie van Hans van Driel

Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is een invloedrijke Amerikaanse wetenschapsfilosoof. Hij is de grondlegger het van semiotisch pragmatisme, een tegenhanger van het structuralisme van Ferdinand de Saussure.De filosofie van Peirce gaat er vanuit dat kennis over de werkelijkheid niet anders kan worden… read more
[Semiotisch Perspectief, 2] 1991. 139 pp.
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Medieval Mereology

Desmond Paul Henry

Mereology is the theory which deals with parts and wholes in the concrete sense, and this study follows its varied fortunes during the Middle Ages. Preliminary indications as to its metaphysical situation are followed by a brief sketch of Boethius' contribution. Peter Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers,… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 16] 1991. xxv, 609 pp.
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Modes of Knowledge and the Transcendental: An introduction to Plotinus Ennead 5.3 [49]

Henri Oosthout

The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience. Yet in the late treatise Ennead 5.3 [49], Plotinus shows himself a philosopher of the transcendental, rather than of the transcendent. Starting from a critical… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 17] 1991. vii, 200 pp.
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Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs: Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, si ve quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789)

Johann Cristoph Hoffbauer

Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E. Innis The 33 sections of this classic text by Hoffbauer have a twofold focus: a descriptive inventory of signs, and a… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 4] 1991. xxxi, 116 pp.
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Sémiotique en jeu: A partir et autour de l'œuvre d'A.J. Greimas

Sous la direction de Michel Arrivé et Jean-Claude Coquet

Fruit d’une décade tenue au Centre culturel de Cerisy en 1983, l’ouvrage réunit une quinzaine de contributions qui sont autant de signes d’ouverture de la part d’une discipline en cours d’évolution. La mise en question porte á la fois sur les postulats (philosophiques et épistémologiques) de la… read more
[Actes Sémiotiques, 5] 1991. 334 pp.
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Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal: Timely meditations on philosophy

Robert H. Cousineau

This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of… read more
[Not in series, 48] 1991. x, 225 pp.
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L'Algèbre des signes: Essai de sémiotique scientifique d'après C.S. Peirce

Robert Marty

La classification des signes de C.S. Peirce en icones, indices et symboles est universellement reconnue. Est-ce le resultat d'une heureuse rencontre ou la preuve de la pertinence du système de pensée qui l'a produite? Est-ce l'absence d'une présentation scientifique de la sémiotique de Peirce qui… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 24] 1990. xviii, 409 pp.
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Paradigmen der Moderne

Herausgegeben von Helmut Bachmaier

Die in dem Band versammelten Aufsatze sind aus einer Ringvorlesung 1984/85 an der Universitat Konstanz hervorgegangen. Sie versuchen, die Logik der Wiener Moderne exemplarisch zu erhellen. Nach dem Verlust des Zentralwertes (Broch) und dem Zerfall des Habsburger Ordens wurde in Teilbereichen von… read more
[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 3] 1990. xxiii, 287 pp.

Conceptual Relevance

Joseph Grünfeld

[Not in series - Grüner, 140] 1989. 248 pp.
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Laien in der Philosophie des Mittelalters: Hinweise und Anregungen zu einem vernachlässigten Thema

Ruedi Imbach

Die Frage nach der Laien in der Philosophie des späteren Mittelalters wurde bis jetzt kaum oder gar nicht thematisiert. Entweder beschränkte sich die philosophiehistorische Forschung auf die Erschliessung der Texte aus der gelehrten und universitären Tradition des Philosophierens oder unterließ es,… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 14] 1989. 174 pp.
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The Language of Psychotherapy

Rudolf Ekstein

Ekstein's book brings together papers on a number of themes which have occupied his thinking during the last 40 years. In the Wiener Kreis, the Vienna circle of philosophers, he studied, together with his professor Moritz Schlick, the philosophy of science, the analysis of language, and the… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 11] 1989. xviii, 336 pp.
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Paris School Semiotics: Volume II: Practice

Edited by Paul Perron and Frank Collins

It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain… read more
[Semiotic Crossroads, 3] 1989. xv, 225 pp.
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Exploring Postmodernism: Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20–24 August 1985

Edited by Matei Calinescu and Douwe W. Fokkema †

The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a… read more

Geteilte Sprache: Festschrift für Rainer Marten

Herausgegeben von Utz Maas und Willem van Reijen

[Not in series - Grüner, 71] 1988. vi, 350 pp.
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Le sublime du quotidien

Herman Parret

Une phénoménologie de la quotidienneté révèle des moments de fracture esthétique. L'interruption du sublime engendre des instants d'allégresse et de bonheur, et confirme notre sentiment d'existence. L'aisthèsis quotidienne transcende de loin l'eidétique du regard et de la lumière; elle n'est… read more
[Actes Sémiotiques, 6] 1988. 294 pp.
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Charles S. Peirce's Method of Methods

Roberta Kevelson

In all disciplines there are specifiable basic concepts, our universes of discourse, which define special areas of inquiry. Semiotics is that ‘science of sciences’ which inquires into all processes of inquiry, and which seeks to discover methods of inquiry. Peirce held that semiotics was to be the… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 17] 1987. xiii, 180 pp.
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Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien

Gérard Deledalle

Le présent ouvrage est la première introduction française à une lecture systématique de Peirce. Par une reconstruction chronologique qui tente à supprimer quelques-uns des pseudo-problèmes que l’édition thématique des écrits de Peirce ont soulevés, cet ouvrage tente à donner une idée aussi exacte… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 14] 1987. ix, 114 pp.
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Grundzüge einer Psychologie des Zeichens (1901)

Richard Gätschenberger

Although Richard Gätschenberger can be regarded as one of the important sign theorists in the first third of the 20th century, nothing much about the man and his works is currently known. Long before there was a widespread philosophical interest in language, Gätschenberger had already laid the… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 3] 1987. xv, 135 pp.
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Imitation and the Image of Man

James S. Hans

In the Imitation and the Image of Man James S. Hans presents his conception of the mimetic. His primary goal to this study is to broaden several kinds of discourse: first, to redfine our conception of the literary; second, to expand our ideas of the kinds of things that can be treated together;… read more
[Cultura Ludens, 3] 1987. xviii, 163 pp.
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Informal Fallacies

Douglas N. Walton

The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 4] 1987. x, 338 pp.
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Le savoir partagé: Sémiotique et théorie de la connaissance chez Marcel Proust

Jacques Fontanille

Une analyse systématique et détaillée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l’œvre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui dévoile, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d’une théorie et d’une… read more
[Actes Sémiotiques, 4] 1987. 227 pp.
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Leibniz. Language, Signs and Thought: A collection of essays

Marcelo Dascal †

Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language? What role does this interest play in his philosophical system? In the essays here collected, Marcello Dascal attempts to tackle these questions from different angles. They bring to light aspects of Leibniz’s work on these and related… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 10] 1987. xi, 203 pp.
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Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, Philosophical Analysis: Papers in the Philosophy of Language

Edited by Dino Buzzetti and Maurizio Ferriani

This volume brings together papers originally presented at a seminar series on Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis, held at the University of Bologna in 1984. The seminars aimed at considering various aspects of the interplay between linguistic theories on the one… read more
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Approaching Postmodernism: Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21–23 September 1984, University of Utrecht

Edited by Douwe W. Fokkema † and Hans Bertens

Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and… read more
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Kritiker der Unsterblichkeitsdoktrin in Mittelalter und Renaissance

Olaf Pluta

Die Destruktion der rationalen Psychologie als Doktrin ist, dem gängigen Urteil nach, das Verdienst von David Humes Essay Of the Immortality of the Soul und Immanuel Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Hume und Kant stellen aber nur Höhepunkte einer Bewegung dar, deren Beginn wesentlich früher… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 7] 1986. xii, 138 pp.
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Les Idéologues: Sémiotique, philosophie du langage et linguistique pendant la Révolution française. Proceedings of the Conference, held at Berlin, October 1983

Edited by Winfried Busse and Jürgen Trabant

Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 12] 1986. xvi, 404 pp.
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Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

Translated and annotated by Walter H. Maurer

The Ṛgveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the… read more
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Charles S. Peirce and the Linguistic Sign

David A. Pharies

This monograph is about the semiotics of lexical signs, and is of particular interest for historical linguists, in particular those interested in etymology. Specialists in linguistic change have long noticed that certain classes of words seem to be in part exempt from regular patterns of sound… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 9] 1985. vi, 118 pp.
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The Charmides of Plato: Problems and Interpretations

Nico van der Ben

The Charmides is among Plato's most intriguing and perplexing dialogues. The range of subjects touched or treated is extremely wide: matters logical, epistemological, moral, ethical, political, and religious. In many cases, these are discussed in a highly inconclusive and aporetic way, especially… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 8] 1985. v, 107 pp.
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Exigences et perspectives de la sémiotique: Recueil d'hommages pour A.J. Greimas. / Aims and Prospects of Semiotics. Essays in honor of A.J. Greimas

Sous la direction de Herman Parret et Hans-George Ruprecht

The two monumental volumes making up this collection of essays hold the names of the world’s most renowned and respected scholars in the field of semiotics, and does more than full justice to the extraordinary career of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Before this mer á boire of some seventy five essays… read more
[Not in series, 23] 1985. lxxxv, 1066 pp.
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Language and Logic: A speculative and condition-theoretic study

Johan van der Auwera

In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.
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Petites Mythologies de l'œil et de l'esprit: Pour une sémiotique plastique. (Eye on mind; a collection of short mythologies. Towards a theory of plastic semiotics)

Jean-Marie Floch

La sémiotique plastique refuse la confusion du visible et du dicible. Tout ce qui fait sens peut être soumis à l’analyse: la saturation d’un rouge, le parallélisme ou le croisement de deux lignes ou encore le rappel d’un même agencement de formes et de volumes dan un espace bâti. Les sept études… read more
[Actes Sémiotiques, 1] 1985. 223 pp.
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The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines

Martin L. Manchester

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to… read more
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Significs and Language: With an introduction by H.W. Schmitz

H. Walter Schmitz

This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 5] 1985. (ii)cclxvii, 170 pp.
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Slavic Structuralism

Endre Bojtar

This work examines Czech Structuralism from the mid-nineteen twenties until 1948 (J. Mukařovský, R. Jakobson, F. Vodička, R. Wellek, etc.), the Polish so-called Integral School, lasting from about 1930 until 1945, (M. Kridl, K. Budzyk, F. Siedlicki, D. Hopensztand, S. Żółkiewski), as well as R.… read more
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Sémiotique et philosophie. (Semiotics and Philosophy)

Georges Kalinowski

La réflexion sur le droit et la morale a conduit Georges Kalinowski à la logique et à la philosophie. Au début des années cinquante, il crée – à côté de G.H. von Wright et O. Becker – la logique des normes. Sémiotique et philosphie prolonge ses différentes études de logique, métalogique… read more
[Actes Sémiotiques, 3] 1985. 293 pp.
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Aristotle's Theory of Language and its Tradition: Texts from 500 to 1750, sel., transl. and commentary by Hans Arens

Hans Arens

This volume contains a fragment from Aristotle’s Peri Hermeneias [16a1–17a7], with a translation into English and a commentary. This fragment is crucial to the understanding of Aristotle’s thinking about language. It is followed by (translations of) commentaries on Aristotle’s text by scholars… read more
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Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism: (The Harvard University Erasmus Lectures, Spring 1983)

Douwe W. Fokkema †

In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary… read more
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The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity: Descartes, Kant and W. Sellars

Joseph Claude Evans

The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy. A critical appreciation of Kant's achievements requires that we be able to view Kant's positions as transformations of pre-Kantian philosophy, and that we understand the ways in which contemporary… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 5] 1984. xii, 138 pp.
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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach: Volume 1: The literary and philosophical debate

Edited by Mihai Spariosu

After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or ‘imitation’ regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher’s translation of and introduction to… read more
[Cultura Ludens, 1:1] 1984. xxix, 287 pp.
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Politico-economic writings: An annotated reprint of 'Zeitungsartikel und Vorträge', edited by J.C. Nyíri

Karl Wittgenstein

This volume contains an annotated reprint of Wittgenstein's "Zeitungsartikel und Vorträge", edited by J. C. Nyíri. The writings are preceded by an extensive introduction by J. C. Nyíri and Brian McGuinness. English summaries and notes have been provided by Barry Smith. read more
[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 1] 1984. xl, 240 pp.

Quellen zur Ethik Theophrasts

William Fortenbaugh

[Studien zur Antiken Philosophie, 12] 1984. x, 380 pp.
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Schopenhauer and the Ground of Existence

Bernard Bykhovskii

[Philosophical Currents, 30] 1984. vi, 194 pp.
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Umberto Eco

[Not in series, 16] 1984. xi, 242 pp.
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The Social Significance of Telematics: An essay on the information society

Lars Qvortrup

The assumption underlying this book is that we are facing a societal transformation, a “silent revolution” in fact, with consequences at least as far reaching as those of the Industrial Revolution. The author of this book wants to intervene in the current discussion about this revolution, a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:7] 1984. xviii, 228 pp.
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'Studies in Logic' by Members of the Johns Hopkins University (1883)

Edited by Charles S. Peirce

This volume contains a facsimile reprint of the 1883 Boston edition of Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University, edited by Charles S. Peirce. In relation to this work there are three mutually related aspects of Peirce’s thought which deserve to be particularly emphasized: the… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 1] 1983. lviii, vii, 203 pp.
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The History of ΤΕΛΟΣ and ΤΕΛΕΩ in Ancient Greek

Frits M.J. Waanders

The aim of the present study is to determine the different meanings of telos and teleoo and of their compounds and derivatives, to trace the semantic interrelations, synchronically and diachronically, and thus, hopefully, to discover the most likely etymology (or: etymologies, if in historical… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 147] 1983. xxi, 350 pp.
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Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory: Three Essays. New edition

With an introduction by J. Peter Maher

Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by J. Peter Maher. On the Origin of… read more
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 6] 1983. xlvi, 84, 78 pp. (altog. 210 pp.).
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Semiotics and Pragmatics: An evaluative comparison of conceptual frameworks

Herman Parret

Looking at the ‘semiotic landscape’ – the panorama of constituted semiotics – two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called ‘Continental’… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:7] 1983. xii, 136 pp.
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Thematic Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism

Patrick L. Bourgeois and Sandra B. Rosenthal

The themes chosen for study in this volume are deeply embedded within the respective structures of phenomenology and pragmatism, though often implicitly so. Each of the six chapters begins with the phenomenological perspective and then proceeds to the pragmatic focus. The intent of each chapter is… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 17] 1983. viii, pp. 207
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What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance (1903)

Victoria Lady Welby

In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term ‘significs’. One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby’s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 2] 1983. xlii, xxxii, 321 pp.
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Method and Language

Joseph Grünfeld

This monograph explores the relationship between method and language. The notion of method is inherent in everything we can claim to understand. The language conventions which make a question meaningful cannot be challenged at the same time the problem is posed. Problems exist only relatively to… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 137] 1982. vii, 208 pp.
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Das Bild der Antike in der Deutschen Romantik

Helene M. Kastinger Riley

Die vorliegende Arbeit sollte beitragen an ein besseres Verständnis der romantischen Literatur im zeitgenössischen Kontext. Es wird untersucht wie die die Klassik und die Romantik sich mit einander verhalten haben anhand von Einzelanalysen. Auf tradiotionelle Grenzen wie Früh-, Hoch- oder… read more
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Psychologism and Psychoaesthetics: A historical and critical view of their relations

John Fizer

Unlike studies which confine psychologism to the second half of the nineteenth century, and to an explicit claim of psychology as a ‘Grundwissenschaft’ during that period, this work attempts to trace psychologism's emergence in Greek antiquity, in hedonistic tendencies of the Renaissance, and in… read more
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Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and literature in Austria-Hungary and her successor states

Edited by Barry Smith

The majority of the papers in the present volume were presented at, or prepared in conjunction with, meetings of the Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy, a group of philosophers interested in the work of Brentano and Husserl and of the various thinkers who fell under their influence. One… read more

Die Analyse der Polis durch Aristoteles

Eckart Schütrumpf

[Studien zur Antiken Philosophie, 10] 1980. xviii, 400 pp.
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Godfrey of Fontaine's Abridgement of Boethius of Dacia's Modi Significandi sive Quaestiones super Priscianum Maiorem: A text edition with English translation and introduction

Edited by A. Charlene Senape McDermott

This volume presents the Latin text, critically established by Heinrich Roos, S.J. and Jan Pinborg (Copenhagen 1969), together with an English translation on opposite pages. This is prefaced by an introductory article, which places Boethius the Dane’s Modistic grammar into historical perspective. A… read more

Marxism, Science and the Movement of History

Alan R. Burger, Hyman R. Cohen and David H. Degrood

[Philosophical Currents, 27] 1980. vi, 298 pp.
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Pragmatism and Phenomenology: A Philosophic Encounter

Sandra B. Rosenthal and Patrick L. Bourgeois

In the philosophic world today, pragmatism and phenomenology can be found standing at a crossroad. Though each has arrived there via divergent paths and for very different reasons, the direction that each takes in the future may be significantly influenced by the suggestions the other has to offer.… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 89] 1980. viii, 199 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 3: 1937–1970 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 3] 1979. ii, 576 pp.

Dialectics and Revolution: Volume II

David H. Degrood

[Philosophical Currents, 26] 1979. vii, 232 pp.
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Ecce Homo! A Lexicon of Man

Luigi Romeo

This fascinating lexicon presents a compilation of approximately a thousand labels with which man has referred to himself in literary history. This is an indispensible reference tool for anyone interested in the accomplishments of Homo.

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[Not in series, 11] 1979. xv, 163 pp.

Explorations in Philosophy and Society

Charles Cunneen

[Philosophical Currents, 23] 1978. vi, 280 pp.

Science and Society in Ancient India

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

[Philosophical Currents, 22] 1978. viii, 441 pp.

Crisis and Consciousness

Ralph M. Faris

[Philosophical Currents, 20] 1977. vi, 208 pp.
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Summa modorum significandi; Sophismata: New edition, on the basis of G. Wallerand's editio prima

Sigerus De Cortraco

The writings of Siger of Courtrai were first edited by Gaston Wallerand in 1913. This new edition on the basis of Wallerand's editio prima , with additions, critical notes, and an introduction by Jan Pinborg, reprints the two works from that edition that have an immediate relevance for the study of… read more
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 14] 1977. xli, 108 pp. Small-4to.

Kierkegaard

Bernard Bykhovskii

[Philosophical Currents, 16] 1976. x, 122 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 4: Zur Musikwissenschaft, 1909–1960. Konzertkritiken, 1923–1933 und 1945–1952

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 4] 1975. 606 pp.

John Dewey's Aesthetic Philosophy

Philip M. Zeltner

[Philosophical Currents, 12] 1975. viii, 127 pp.
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Adolf Glassbrenner: His Development from 'Jungdeutscher' to 'Vormärzler'

Heinz Bulmahn

Adolf Glassbrenner (1810–1876) was a German humorist and satirist. The aim of this study is to show that Glassbrenner’s writings were rooted within the abstract idealism of the Young Germans. Special focus lies on the period between 1840 and 1849, Glassbrenner’s most active writing period, and… read more

Studien zur Ethik des Aristoteles

Arthur von Fragstein

[Not in series - Grüner, 37] 1974. 475 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 2: 1922–1937 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 2] 1973. 672 pp.

East–West Dialogues: Foundations and Problems of Revolutionary Praxis

Paul K. Crosser, David H. Degrood and Dale Riepe

[Philosophical Currents, 5] 1973. ix, 180 pp.

The Teaching of Critical thinking

Edward D'angelo

[Philosophical Currents, 1] 1971. ix, 78 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 1: 1907–1921 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 1] 1969. ii, 607 pp.
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Philology of the Gospels (1898)

Friedrich Blass

[Not in series - Grüner, 14] 1969. ix, 250 pp.
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