Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, demonstrates the intellectual universality that Friedell saw as guarantor of the continuity and regeneration of European civilization.
A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed.
This ground-breaking book uncovers a hidden history of the professional development of serving teachers. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Wendy Robinson reveals an optimistic and liberal age of high class conferences in the 1920s and 1930s, in London hotels and Oxford colleges, free from government control, where teachers from across the country and abroad, gathered for professional, intellectual and cultural 'refreshment'.
The second edition of this major innovative text covers a wide variety of business law topics in considerable depth and at a high academic standard while maintaining an easily readable style. The text includes the English legal system and dispute resolution; the law of contract; sale of goods and the supply of services; agency; the law of torts; consumer credit; company and partnership law; employment law; intellectual property; trade descriptions, misleading prices and product safety. The integrated approach taken emphasises the policy behind the law and how different areas of law are interconnected.
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Lloyd Kramer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D., Cornell University This course is an opportunity to explore the major thinkers and historic challenges that shaped the mind of Europe in the 19th century.Intellectual history emphasizes the exchanges of ideas and debates that went on among people from other places and times.But it also stresses the importance of a continuing dialogue between the present and the past.
