Religion & Philosophy; Linguistics
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KABBALAH IN ITALY, 1280-1510
A SurveyMOSHE IDEL
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You Save: 62%This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost scholars of the doctrine. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and li... Learn More -
THE COMMANDING SELF
IDRIES SHAH
£3.95The Commanding Self, in Sufic terminology, is that mixture of the primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding. This book was d... Learn More -
THE SACRED HISTORY
How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our WorldJONATHAN BLACK
£8.50A beautifully written book seeking to show the workings of the supernatural in history, and depicting the evolution of the world according to myth and legend and sacred religious and scriptural histor... Learn More -
A PEOPLE OF ONE BOOK
The Bible and the VictoriansTIMOTHY LARSEN
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You Save: 59%Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. Larsen explores the scripture-saturat... Learn More -
FEAR OF FREEDOM
With the Essay ‘Fear of Painting’CARLO LEVI
Edited By :STANISLAO PUGLIESE
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You Save: 44%Carlo Levi was a painter, writer and antifascist Italian whose political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. In this period he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memo... Learn More -
EDITH STEIN
A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
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You Save: 51%Edith Stein was a German intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. She studied with Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, was a pioneer in the women's m... Learn More -
OUT OF EDEN
Adam and Eve and the Problem of EvilPAUL W KAHN
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You Save: 60%A book which begins with the sentence 'Evil makes us human' must surely compel attention; and this is no ordinary account of what is usually meant by the problem of evil. Instead, Kahn's aim is to exp... Learn More -
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIENDSHIP
MARK VERNON
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You Save: 79%Friendship, we believe or hope, is elastic enough to connect us across the web of complex lives, and strong enough not to snap. But is it? Vernon examines the love called friendship upon which so much... Learn More -
THE WISDOM BOOKS
Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: a Translation with CommentaryROBERT ALTER
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You Save: 41%This new translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible holds some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient me... Learn More -
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Edited by DEAN MOYAR
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You Save: 75%The nineteenth century is a period of stunning philosophical originality, characterised by radical engagement with the emerging human sciences. Often overshadowed by twentieth-century philosophy that ... Learn More
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