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Language: en
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Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Peter Lang
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Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-23 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steepl
Language: en
Pages: 164
Pages: 164
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Rodopi
The book explores, in novel form, what can happen to us, whether professor or student, as a result of the philosophical classroom. The approach is to consider t
Language: en
Pages: 338
Pages: 338
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we
Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
In Balanced Wonder, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder, in dialogue with Neo-Aristotelian philosophers, arguing that the experience