The essay film : from Montaigne, after Marker / by Corrigan, Timothy, 1951-

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Crime and forgiveness : Christianizing execution in medieval Europe / by Prosperi, Adriano

Table of Contents: “…Thou shalt not kill -- A starting point: Cesare Beccaria -- The law of forgiveness, the reality of vengeance -- The murderer's confession -- The earthly city, the right to kill, and the ecclesiastical power to intercede -- Bodies and souls: conflicts and power plays -- Confessions and communion for the condemned: a rift between church and state -- Buried with donkeys: the fate of the body -- A special burial place -- The criminals' crusade -- "I received his head into my hands" -- Factional conflict and mob justice in the late Middle Ages -- "Holy justice": the turning point of the fifteenth century -- The service -- Political crimes -- Rome, a capital -- Reasoning on death row: the birth and development of the arts of comforting -- A charity of nobles and the powerful: the new social composition of the companies -- The voices of the condemned -- Compassionate cruelty: Michel de Montaigne and Catena -- The fate of the body -- Public anatomy -- Art and spectacle at the service of justice -- Capital punishment as a rite of passage -- The arrival of the Jesuits: confession and the science of cases -- Laboratories of uniformity: theoretical cases and real people -- Devotions for executed souls: precepts and folklore -- Dying without trembling: the Carlo Sala case and the end of the Milanese confraternity -- Comforting of the condemned in Catholic Europe -- "...y piddiendo a Dios misericordialo matan": the Jesuits and the export of comforting around the world -- The German world, the Reformation, and the new image of the executioner -- Printing and scaffold stories: models compared -- The slow epilogue of comforting in nineteenth-century Italy…”
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Philosophers of the Renaissance /

Table of Contents: “…Andersson -- Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and philosopher / Günter Frank -- Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst -- Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz -- Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf -- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. …”

Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

The writer's reader : vocation, preparation, creation /

Table of Contents: “…-- Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library" -- Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" -- Henry Miller, "Reading In the Toilet" -- Katherine Anne Porter, "My First Speech" -- Jorge Luis Borges, "Literary Pleasure" -- Michel de Montaigne, "Of Books" -- Raymond Carver, "On Influence" -- Ha Jin, "Deciding to Write in English" -- Georges Perec, "Approaches to What?" …”

Philosophers of the Renaissance

Table of Contents: “…Andersson -- Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and philosopher / Günter Frank -- Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst -- Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz -- Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf -- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. …”
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This fish is fowl : essays of being / by Xu, Xi, 1954-

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Global origins of the modern self, from Montaigne to Suzuki / by Alpert, Avram, 1984-

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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

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Montaigne : a life / by Desan, Philippe

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Everything must change : philosophical lessons from lockdown / by Bufacchi, Vittorio, 1957-

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Zen and Western Philosophy : Philosophers' Ideas in Haiku. by Baronett, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Thales -- Pythagoras -- Heraclitus -- Zeno of Elea -- Socrates -- Democritus -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Epicurus -- Euclid -- Archimedes -- Chrysippus of Soli -- Epictetus -- Marcus Aurelius -- Augustine of Hippo -- Anselm of Canterbury -- Thomas Aquinas -- William of Ockham -- Jean Buridan -- Niccolò Machiavelli -- Copernicus -- Michel de Montaigne -- Giordano Bruno -- Francis Bacon -- Galileo Galilei -- Thomas Hobbes -- René Descartes -- Pierre de Fermat -- Blaise Pascal -- Margaret Cavendish -- Anne Conway -- John Locke -- Baruch Spinoza -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Isaac Newton…”
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The tempest : a case study in critical controversy / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Table of Contents: “…-- Literary study, politics, and Shakespeare : a debate -- Literary politics / George Will -- The best way to kill our literary inheritance is to turn it into a decorous celebration of the new world order / Stephen Greenblatt -- Sources and contexts -- from Of the cannibals / Michel de Montaigne -- from True repertory of the wrack / William Strachey -- from A discovery of the Barmudes / Sylvester Jourdain -- Reasons for colonization / Richard Hakluyt -- from Letter to Philip, great prince of Spain / Bartolomé de Las Casas -- The monster Caliban / Daniel Wilson -- A portfolio of images of Caliban -- from The Elizabethan world picture / E.M.W. …”

New directions in literature and medicine studies /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer's Romance Writing / Corinne Saunders -- Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse / Vasiliki Dimoula -- Reading the DSM-5 Through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing / Christine Marks -- Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide / Marilyn McEntyre -- "L'Ceul Gauche Barre": Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola's Novels / Janice Zehentbauer -- Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel's Pathologiae Libri, Ambrose Pare's Des Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne's Essais / Yuri Kondratiev -- The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller's Embodiment of Language / Sun Jai Kim -- Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet / Federica Frediani -- Reading Colonial Dis-ease / Disease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction / C. …”

Montaigne's politics : authority and governance in the Essais / by Fontana, Biancamaria

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Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne /

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Montaigne and the low countries (1580-1700) /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Montaigne et Erasme : bilan et perspectives / Michel Magnien -- Echos de la Révolte : Montaigne et les Pays-Bas du XVIe siècle / Anton van der Lem -- Michel de Montaigne, Marie de Gournay and Justus Lipsius : some overlooked particulars preserved at Leiden University Library / Jeanine G. de Landtsheer -- Entre Lipse et Scaliger : Bonaventure Vulcanius (1538-1614) et la première réception des Essais de Montaigne / Kees Meerhoff -- Dominicus Baudius lecteur de Montaigne / Olivier Millet -- The early reception of Montaigne in Holland : Van Hout, Coornhert and Spiegel / Johan Koppenol -- P.C. …”
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The matter of mind : reason and experience in the age of Descartes / by Braider, Christopher, 1950-

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Renewing the mind : a reader in the philosophy of Catholic education /

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Same-sex marriage in Renaissance Rome : sexuality, identity, and community in early modern Europe / by Ferguson, Gary, 1963-

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