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Knowing God by experience the spiritual senses in the theology of William of Auxerre / by Coolman, Boyd Taylor, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…A synaesthetic beatific vision -- The manifold effects of the metaphysical good -- The Trinity as manifold delectable -- Creation : the manifestation of the delectabilia divina -- The virtue of faith : knowledge of God in a visual mode -- The virtue of charity : love of God in a tactile mode -- Symbolic theology : exterior perception of God's effects -- Mystical theology : interior perception of God's effects -- Taste and see : the spiritual senses and the Eucharist -- Conclusion : spiritual apprehension : the spiritual senses and the knowledge of God.…”
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Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / by Kornbluh, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.…”
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Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
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Displacing Christian origins philosophy, secularity, and the New Testament / by Blanton, Ward

Table of Contents: “…Strauss on the production of religious texts in the age of industrial media -- Paul's secretary : Heidegger's apostolic light from the ancient Near East -- Reason's apocalypse : Albert Schweitzer's fully eschatological Jesus and the collapse of metaphysics -- Conclusion: Displacing Christian origins as displacements of religion and secularity.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief -- Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim -- The ontology of society in Nostromo -- Part III. …”
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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Displacing Christian origins philosophy, secularity, and the New Testament / by Blanton, Ward

Table of Contents: “…Strauss on the production of religious texts in the age of industrial media -- Paul's secretary : Heidegger's apostolic light from the ancient Near East -- Reason's apocalypse : Albert Schweitzer's fully eschatological Jesus and the collapse of metaphysics -- Conclusion: Displacing Christian origins as displacements of religion and secularity.…”
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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Conradian bewilderment : the metaphysics of belief -- Contingency, interpretation, and belief in Lord Jim -- The ontology of society in Nostromo -- Part III. …”
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Rational theology in interfaith communication Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age / by Madelung, Wilferd

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Yūsuf al-Baṣīr's Refutation of Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Proof for the existence of God -- Excerpt from part two of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Maqdisiyāt -- Excerpt from Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Book of intimation (Kitāb al-talwīḥ ilā l-tawḥīd wa l-ʻadl) -- Excerpt from the Book of revision of the Book of Aristotle on metaphysics by Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī -- Facsimiles.…”
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Torah in the observatory Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs / by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Providence and the rabbinic tradition -- Mosaic prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides -- Eschatology and miracles -- Creation, miracles, revelation -- Song of Songs and Gersonides' world -- Maimonides and Gersonides on astronomy and metaphysics -- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the nature of science -- Politics and perfection: Gersonides vs. …”
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Myth and the mechanistic universe an essay in the comparative study of religions / by Lane, James Eric, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient symbolic forms -- Myth and "metaphysics" -- Secret of the state -- Ritual enactment of the world -- Historiography of astronomy in ancient China -- Myth and astronomy in ancient China -- Christian myth and knowledge -- Religious forms and physical science in the modern world -- New myth of proportion, numbers, and precision -- Galileo's science of local motion -- New myth of magic and power -- Mechanistic universe -- Religious forms and physical science -- Religious forms and history -- Myth and the technicalist world -- From cosmos to history -- Myth and the mechanistic universe.…”
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Torah in the observatory Gersonides, Maimonides, Song of Songs / by Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Providence and the rabbinic tradition -- Mosaic prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides -- Eschatology and miracles -- Creation, miracles, revelation -- Song of Songs and Gersonides' world -- Maimonides and Gersonides on astronomy and metaphysics -- Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the nature of science -- Politics and perfection: Gersonides vs. …”
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Myth and the mechanistic universe an essay in the comparative study of religions / by Lane, James Eric, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient symbolic forms -- Myth and "metaphysics" -- Secret of the state -- Ritual enactment of the world -- Historiography of astronomy in ancient China -- Myth and astronomy in ancient China -- Christian myth and knowledge -- Religious forms and physical science in the modern world -- New myth of proportion, numbers, and precision -- Galileo's science of local motion -- New myth of magic and power -- Mechanistic universe -- Religious forms and physical science -- Religious forms and history -- Myth and the technicalist world -- From cosmos to history -- Myth and the mechanistic universe.…”
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The philosophy of science : a contemporary introduction / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-, McIntyre, Lee C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Causation, inexact laws, and statistical probabilities -- Laws and explanations in biology and the "special sciences" -- The structure of scientific theories -- Epistemic and metaphysical issues about scientific theories -- Theory construction vs. model building -- Induction and probability -- Confirmation, falsification, underdetermination -- Challenges from the history of science -- Naturalism in the philosophy of science -- The contested character of science -- Science, relativism, and objectivity.…”

The philosophy of science : a contemporary introduction / by Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-, McIntyre, Lee C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Causation, inexact laws, and statistical probabilities -- Laws and explanations in biology and the "special sciences" -- The structure of scientific theories -- Epistemic and metaphysical issues about scientific theories -- Theory construction vs. model building -- Induction and probability -- Confirmation, falsification, underdetermination -- Challenges from the history of science -- Naturalism in the philosophy of science -- The contested character of science -- Science, relativism, and objectivity.…”

Rational theology in interfaith communication Abu l-Husayn al-Basri's Mu'tazili theology among the Karaites in the Fatimid Age / by Madelung, Wilferd

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Yūsuf al-Baṣīr's Refutation of Abu l-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī's Proof for the existence of God -- Excerpt from part two of Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Maqdisiyāt -- Excerpt from Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī's Book of intimation (Kitāb al-talwīḥ ilā l-tawḥīd wa l-ʻadl) -- Excerpt from the Book of revision of the Book of Aristotle on metaphysics by Sahl b. al-Faḍl al-Tustarī -- Facsimiles.…”
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Duns Scotus by Cross, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Sacraments -- App. 1. Metaphysics and the transcendental attributes -- App. 2. …”
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Aristotle a guide for the perplexed / by Vella, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Science (episteme) -- Division of the sciences according to aims and objects -- Demonstration (apodeixis) -- The axioms of the sciences -- Being or substance (ousia) -- Being before aristotle -- Being in the categories -- The science of being: first philosophy -- Being in metaphysics zeta -- Nature (physis) -- Principles of change -- The four causes or explanations (aitiai) -- Defense of teleology -- Soul (psyche) -- Soul as substance, form and actuality -- What the student of soul investigates -- Perception -- Thought -- Success (eudaimonia) -- The practical science of ethics -- The chief and final good for human beings -- Virtues of character -- Virtues of intellect.…”
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Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness / by Scheman, Naomi

Table of Contents: “…Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.…”
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