• Bianca Grootfaam I was looking for love

  powers on the earth

  The non-fiction story in this book is about me and some of the situations my family members and I went through. I rather not talk about others, but you need to understand what my background is and what my foundation was made of in order to understand my struggle in life. I want you to learn from my mistakes. All I can tell you in short about my story is that I was looking for love. Are you too looking for love? It is necessary for you to understand that there is a power that guides your destiny....

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  Engels | ePub2, 4 MB | Highly Favored Publishing, Veenendaal | 2017

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• Piotrek Świątkowski Deleuze and desire

  analysis of The logic of sense

  Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to a variety of authors of many different domains; the sophisticated conceptual framework; the creation of new concepts and the injection of existing concepts...

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  Engels | 246 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Between text and tradition

  Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages

  New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...

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  Engels | Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Translating at the court

  Bartholomew of Messina and cultural life at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily

  The importance of Bartholomew's oeuvre and cultural life under the reign of Manfred. An important chapter in the rediscovery of Aristotle in the Middle Ages is the oeuvre of Bartholomew of Messina (Bartholomaeus de Messana), a translator at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily (1258-1266). However, the impact of both Bartholomew and Manfred on the cultural and intellectual life of their time remains understudied, especially in comparison to the attention received by the translator's contemporary,...

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  Duits | Engels | Frans | Italiaans | 426 pagina's (PDF, 8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Fréderike Geerdink Bans, jails and shameless lies

  censorship in Turkey

  Press freedom in Turkey is a hot topic. If a (well known) journalist is detained, prosecuted or sacked in Turkey, the news is covered in full in many Western countries. Nevertheless, many articles and reports reveal only a part of what really happens: they tell the story of the journalist, newspaper or TV broadcaster involved, but not that of the underlying mechanisms. No wonder: these are not easy to explain in a paragraph or two, or in two or three minutes. On the one hand, the lack of press freedom...

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  Engels | 113 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Eva Tas Foundation, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Kadoc Christian homes

  religion, family and domesticity in the 19th and 20th centuries

  Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the motherly ideal of the 'angel in the house'. This book revisits the Christian home of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and sheds new light on the stereotypical distinction between the private and public spheres and their inhabitants. Emphasizing the importance of patriarchal domesticity during the...

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  Engels | 228 pagina's (PDF, 18 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Islam & Europe

  challenges and opportunities

  Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated an annual debate/lecture series, beginning with a focus on Islam in today's world and in Europe in particular. Seven well-known influential authorities - each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future - recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A.&...

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  Engels | 192 pagina's (PDF, 3,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Orpheus Institute Ohne Worte

  vocality and instrumentality in 19th-century music

  The musical thought and practice of canonical composers. What can music tell us-without words? Can it depict scenes, narrate stories, elucidate beliefs? And can it be an instrument through which we access the inner lives not only of musicians from the past but of ourselves, today? In Ohne Worte five scholars and performers probe these and related questions to illuminate both the experience and performance of nineteenth-century music. Drawing on a rich range of sources, they reveal the musical thought...

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  Engels | 230 pagina's (PDF, 10 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Rockwell F. Clancy Towards a political anthropology in the work of Gilles Deleuze

  psychoanalysis and Anglo-American literature

  'Political anthropology' as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze's work. This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two competing 'political anthropologies', conceptions of the political and the respective accounts of philosophical anthropology...

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  Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Political and legal perspectives

  Before the last quarter of the eighteenth century there was a generally clear and remarkably uniform pattern of church-state relationships across Europe. In the course of the nineteenth century this firm alliance between political and religious establishments broke down. Religious pluralism developed everywhere, though at different speeds, requiring church and state to reach fresh solutions. This volume Political and Legal Perspectives highlights the impact of broad political change, 'democratization',...

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  Engels | 248 pagina's (PDF, 28 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Sylvana van den Braak A fri wortu

  censorship in Surinam

  Free speech (Fri Wortu) is not common in Surinam. Sylvana van den Braak shows how, after the military coup in the 1980s, a period began of censorship and dictatorship. Despite democratic elections, the government is still trying, in his own special way, to influence the media. The business community agrees with it. Besides that the small community of Surinam and the relationships pave the way for self-censorship. The truth can only be heard on the street, where the local language Sranan is spoken....

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  Engels | 68 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Eva Tas Foundation, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Ancient perspectives on Aristotle's De anima

  Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume offers a selection of papers by distinguished scholars, exploring...

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  Engels | 218 pagina's (PDF, 1,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• A versatile gentleman

  consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement

  Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...

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  Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Andrea Alciati Andreae Alciati contra vitam monasticam epistula

  Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church's hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans' hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to...

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  Engels | Latijn | 144 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy

  "Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...

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  Duits | Engels | Frans | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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• Magdalena Bieniak The soul-body problem at Paris, ca. 1200-1250

  Hugh of St-Cher and his contemporaries

  The soul-body problem was among the most controversial issues discussed in 13th century Europe, and it continues to capture much attention today as the quest to understand human identity becomes more and more urgent. What made the discussion about this problem particularly interesting in the scholastic period was the tension between the traditional dualist doctrines and a growing need to affirm the unity of the human being. This debate is frequently interpreted as a conflict between the 'new' philosophy,...

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  Engels | Latijn | 264 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Kadoc Charity and social welfare

  How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief. Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce criticism,...

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  Engels | 312 pagina's (PDF, 31 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Recognition and redistribution in multinational federations

  World's leading theorists of multinational justice on sub-state national minority groups. Almost without exception, multinational states across the West are facing existential crises precipitated by the resurgence of sub-state national minority groups. This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading theorists of multinational justice in order to analyse two of the most frequent areas of debate and dispute in multinational federations: recognition and redistribution. The authors address...

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  Engels | 246 pagina's (PDF, 2,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Kadoc Mission & science

  missiology revised

  Science as an instrument to justify religious missions in secular society. The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was...

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  Engels | Frans | 438 pagina's (PDF, 3,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• Everyday life practices of Muslims in Europe

  Bijdragen over de dagelijkse gewoonten van moslims in Europa.

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  Engels | 234 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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