A Watch Over Mortality

A Watch Over Mortality
Author: Harold Raley
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791431542

An in-depth study of the thought of contemporary Spanish philosopher Julian Marias, in the context of Ortega y Gasset and his times and twentieth-century Spanish culture.

Travelling Across Cultures

Travelling Across Cultures
Author: Spanish Association for American Studies. Congreso
Publisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2000
Genre: Cultural pluralism
ISBN: 9788481218404

Encyclopedia of the Essay

Encyclopedia of the Essay
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135314101

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

José Ortega y Gasset's Metaphysical Innovation

José Ortega y Gasset's Metaphysical Innovation
Author: Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791422366

Huéscar presents a systematic critique of idealism and modernity, framing Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological philosophy as the most refined and far-reaching version of idealism. He includes the essentials of the system of categories adopted by Ortega in order to overcome idealism.

Annals of Theoretical Psychology

Annals of Theoretical Psychology
Author: Arthur W. Staats
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461564565

I have been involved in constructing a unified theory for many years, in considering the state of psychology's unity-disunity, and in generally attempt ing to persuade our profession to work on its unification. In this work I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with the works of a number of other psychologists whose statements indicated that they had something to say on these topics. I saw also that it would be very productive for psychology to have these individuals address themselves to psychology's disunity-unity, consid ered as a problem that should be confronted and addressed. In 1983 I began to indicate that it was my intention to devote a book to the topic, as seen through the eyes of a group of prominent psychologists concerned with related issues. It was very fortunate from my standpoint that Joseph Royce and later Leendert Mos, who were editing this series, were interested in this book. I accepted the former's invitation to do within the present series the book I had planned. Although I must assume responsibility for selection of the contributors, for the book's organization, and for the first editing of their papers for substance, Pro fessor Mos offered to help in an editorial capacity and I am most grateful for his contributions to the formal editing. The volume is much improved as a result of his careful efforts, which in one case involved rewriting material.

Incan Insights

Incan Insights
Author: José Antonio Mazzotti
Publisher: Iberoamericana Editorial
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9788484893202

Examines the "Royal Commentaries" of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and sets forth a new and alternative reading of this foundational text, paying close attention to the indigenous sources and Andean resonance of the work.

Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800

Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
Author: Marco Condorelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 110864094X

The early modern period is a key historical era for the standardisation of languages in Europe, in which orthographies played an important role. This book traces the development of European spelling systems in the early modern era, and is unique in bringing together several strands of historical research, across a diverse range of Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, including Polish, German, French, Spanish, Lithuanian, Czech, Croatian and English. Whilst each chapter includes a case study on a particular language or script, the volume in general follows a broad thread of discussion based on models and methods relevant to many languages, showing how empirical approaches can be applied across languages to enrich the field of historical orthography as a whole. The first volume to diachronically explore the standardization of spelling systems from a cross-linguistic perspective, this is an invaluable resource for specialists and those interested in historical European studies more broadly.

Galdos and the Art of the European Novel

Galdos and the Art of the European Novel
Author: Stephen Gilman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400855217

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman relates the writer and his work to the nineteenth century novel as a genre and traces his artistic growth during a twenty-year period, from his initial historical fable, La Fontana de Oro, to his masterpiece, Fortunata y Jacinta. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.