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The Constitution of the Human Being

Max Scheler

• Paperback
• Max Scheler was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - with Husserl and Heidegger - wh... Lees meer

Agon in Nietzsche

Yunus Tuncel

• Paperback
• Provides a comprehensive study of Nietzsche’s relationship to the agonistic culture of ancient Greece. The book examines not only the overt elements o... Lees meer

The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage

Richard C. Taylor, Irfan A. Omar

• Paperback | Marquette Studies In Philosophy
• Provides a dozen studies of language, discourse, debate, and reasoning with a focus on theological and philosophical issues central to the three tradi... Lees meer

Opposition and Philosophy

Piotr Hoffman

• Paperback | Marquette Studies in Philosophy
• Asks how the concept of opposition can be instrumental in solving some of the notorious problems of philosophers, with special attention to Sartre and... Lees meer

Tolle Lege

• Hardcover
• Brings together more than a dozen essays on central metaphysical and theological themes in Augustine and other medieval thinkers. The authors are note... Lees meer

Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine

Roland J. Teske

• Paperback | The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy
• Augustine established that “the distension of the mind is a necessary condition of our perceiving temporal wholes”. At the same time, as Teske explain... Lees meer

For the Benefit of All

Jeffrey T. Ramsey, Margaret Nettesheim Hoffmann

• Hardcover | Urban Life Series
• Faye McBeath believed in the importance of civic duty and in focusing resources on the Milwaukee community. This book will guide the reader through th... Lees meer

Native Footsteps

• Hardcover
• Gathers together thirteen documents, twenty-five interviews, and twenty-seven illustrations, most of them colour photographs, to celebrate the canoniz... Lees meer

Sports as Soul-Craft

Paul Marcus

• Paperback
• For Marcus, each sport is a “parable of life” that depicts the existential challenges and dilemmas that ordinary people face as they attempt to fashio... Lees meer

Policing in Milwaukee

George L. Kelling

• Paperback
• Kelling, who has studied policing for over forty years, explores the history of policing through the story of the fascinating changes in the operation... Lees meer

Critique of Practical Reason

Immanuel Kant

• Paperback | Marquette Studies in Philosophy
• Explores the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops... Lees meer

Understanding and Misunderstanding Negative Theology

Rowan Williams

• Hardcover | The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology
• Rowan Williams distinguishes four modes of 'negative theology' - what we do not and cannot know about God. He argues that such theology is best approa... Lees meer

Advancing Mariology

• Hardcover | Marquette Studies in Theology
• Presets ten lectures in Mariology. Topics include Catholic and Orthodox liturgical and theological traditions; the story and image of Mary at Guadalup... Lees meer

The Story of My Life

Richard Moran

• Hardcover | The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy
• A philosophical essay on the role of narrative autobiography in the effort of self-understanding. It originated as the 2015 lecture in the annual seri... Lees meer

The Self

Anthony Kenny

• Paperback | The Aquinas Lecture in Philosophy
• Covers the philosophical concept of the self. Kenny concentrates here on two of the roots of ""self"" - the epistemological root and the psychological... Lees meer

Everything is Interconnected

• Paperback | Marquette Studies in Theology
• Today's overlapping social and ecological crises portend Bernard Lonergan's memorable remark that ""the world lies in pieces before us and pleads to b... Lees meer

No Struggle, No Progress

Howard Fuller, Lisa Frazier Page

• Paperback
• Presents the story of one man’s life journey into the heart of the struggle to reform the US’s schools. Howard Fuller has dedicated his life to helpin... Lees meer

Unsettled Boundaries

• Paperback | Marquette Studies in Philosophy
• Presents contemporary reflections of Chinese and Western philosophers who explore issues of common interest in aesthetics focused on interrelations of... Lees meer

Joan of Arc at the University

• Paperback
• This compilation of essays and accompanying CD-ROM focuses on the era and influence of Joan of Arc. The CD-ROM features colour graphics, 3D illustrati... Lees meer

Fluent in Faith

Donald J. Mueller, Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore

• Paperback
• Shares the story of a remarkable, contemporary woman who, in 1968, with the blessing of the Milwaukee Archdiocesan Latin American Office, a then 56-ye... Lees meer

Paradigms of Political Change

Jan Herman Brinks

• Paperback | Marquette Studies In Philosophy
• Written before 1989, when he was stationed in East Berlin with Dutch television and utilised his stay there to write this book as a dissertation for t... Lees meer

Ressentiment

Max Scheler

• Paperback
• Offers a response to the criticisms of Christianity outlined in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, in which Nietzsche argues that Christianity is a "sla... Lees meer

A Moment of Danger

• Paperback
• A Moment of Danger marks a timely intervention into media history. Reminding us of the complex ways in which media and politics are inextricably conne... Lees meer

Called to be Saints

Benjamin T. Peters, Dorothy Day

• Hardcover | Marquette Studies in Theology
• Called to be Saints offers a theological and historical analysis of the role that Fr. John Hugo and the retreat play in understanding Dorothy Day and ... Lees meer