Speeches for the Dead : Essays on Plato's Menexenus / Harold Parker and Jan Maximilian Robitzsch.

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The art of poetry / Paul Valéry ; translated by Denise Folliot ; with an introduction by T.S. Eliot. by Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945

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Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Volume 5 : the Transcendentalist Years, 1840-41. by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT""; ""3. AN ORATION ON AMERICAN LITERATURE""; ""4. THE PEOPLEâ€?…”
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Signs of light : French and British theories of linguistic communication, 1648-1789 / Matthew Lauzon. by Lauzon, Matthew, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Bestial banter -- Homo risus : making light of animal language -- Warming savage hearts and heating eloquent tongues -- From savage orators to savage languages -- French levity -- English energy -- Coda : French levity and English energy in the revolutionary wake.…”
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Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity / Vivasvan Soni. by Soni, Vivasvan, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Solon's cryptic injunction : "Call no man happy until dead" -- A mourning happiness : the Athenian funeral oration -- Difficult happiness : the case of tragedy -- Aristotle's hermeneutic of happiness : the first forgetting -- The trial narrative in Richardson's Pamela : suspending the hermeneutic of happiness -- Effects of the trial narrative on the concept of happiness -- Marriage plot -- The tragedies of sentimentalism -- Kantian ethics and the discourses of modernity -- Happiness in revolution : erasing the political concept of happiness.…”
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Rethinking the Gods : Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period. by Van Nuffelen, Peter

Table of Contents: “…AELIUS ARISTIDES AND THE 'ARCHIMAGE' OF THE GREAT KINGCHAPTER 7 Dio Chrysostom: Virtue and structure in the kingship orations; THE THIRD KINGSHIP ORATION; FIRST KINGSHIP ORATION; CHAPTER 8 Plutarch: A benevolent hierarchy of gods and men; METAPHYSICAL AND POLITICAL ORDER; DEMONS: TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP INTERPRETATIONS; SUPERSTITION: GOD IS NOT A TYRANT; THE PERSIAN GREAT KING AND ANTI-STOIC POLEMIC; PART III Polemic and prejudice: challenging the discourse; CHAPTER 9 Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire; EPICUREAN ATHEISM.…”
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Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson, 7 : Life by Communion Years, 1843-1844. by Brownson, Orestes A.

Table of Contents: “…title page; copyright page; table of contents; acknowledgements; dedication; introduction; chapter 1 The Mission of Jesus; chapter 2 The Community System; chapter 3 Democracy and Liberty; chapter 4 Entering into Life; chapter 5 The Sacrifice of Our Lord Mediatorial; chapter 6 Remarks on Universal History; chapter 7 Popular Government; chapter 8 The Present State of Society; chapter 9 An Oration on the Scholar's Mission; chapter 10 Origin and Ground of Government; chapter 11 Introduction (to Brownson's Quarterly Review); chapter 12 Social Reform; Index of Biblical References.…”
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The political thought of Frederick Douglass : in pursuit of American liberty / Nicholas Buccola. by Buccola, Nicholas

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Socrates dissatisfied : an analysis of Plato's Crito / Roslyn Weiss. by Weiss, Roslyn

Table of Contents: “…Socrates' Moral PrinciplesSocrates' Argument against Escape -- Socrates as Crito's Friend -- 5 Especially an Orator -- Protecting Crito -- The Laws as Rhetoricians -- The Citizen's Agreement -- 6 Whatever We Bid -- The City as Parent and Master -- The Argument from Agreement -- Escape Will Benefit No One -- 7 The Corybantic Cure -- The Corybantic Metaphor -- Why Crito Would Speak in Vain -- The Way the God Is Leading -- 8 A Fool Satisfied -- Engaging Crito -- Benefiting Crito -- Protecting the Reader -- 9 Restoring the Radical Socrates…”
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Early Works of Orestes A. Brownson, Volume 3 : the Transcendentalist Years, 1836-38. by Carey, Patrick W.

Table of Contents: “…MR. HALLETâ€?S [sic] ORATION1""; ""5. NATURE1""; ""6. COUSINâ€?S PHILOSOPHY 1""; ""7. …”
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Phenomenology of Life. Meeting the Challenges of the Present-Day World edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. by Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa

Table of Contents: “…Eine Problemskizze -- Twentieth century Italian Painting Against The Nihilist Drift Of European Thought -- On Guises, Concepts And Related Topics -- Curriculum And Aims Of The Primary School Science -- The Orator Does Not Think Before, Nor Even While Speaking: His Speech Is His Thought -- Education Amidst A Cultural Crisis: A Theoretical Comparison Of An Emerging Contemplative Pedagogy With An Ending Of Cognitive Priorities In Current Education. …”
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Reflections on life, death, and the constitution / George Anastaplo. by Anastaplo, George, 1925-2014

Table of Contents: “…On Understanding the Others -- Life and Not-Life in Thucydides' Funeral Oration -- Death and Resurrection in Euripides' Bacchae -- Resurrection and Death in Everyman -- John Milton and the Limits of the Garden of Eden -- Human Mortality and the Declaration of Independence -- Time and the Constitution -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Modern Project -- Public Health and Private Consciences -- The Flag Salute Cases (1940, 1943) -- Conscientious Objectors and Military Conscription -- Obliteration Bombing, Civilian Casualties, and the Laws of War -- Do All Somehow Aim at the Good? …”
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Valuing the past in the Greco-Roman world : proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII / edited by James Ker, Christoph Pieper.

Table of Contents: “…Gillespie -- Si te nostra tulissent saecula : comparison with the past as a means of glorifying the present in Domitianic Panegyric / Lisa Cordes -- The value of the past challenged : myth and ancient history in the Attic orators / Jonas Grethlein -- PART 5. THE ARCHAIC PAST IN LITERARY HISTORY -- Archaizing and classicism in the literary historical thinking of Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Lawrence Kim -- The Attic muse and the Asian harlot : classicizing allegories in Dionysius and Longinus / Casper C. de Jonge -- From Lesbos she took her honeycomb : Sappho and the "female tradition" in Hellenistic poetry / Mieke de Vos -- Ennius and the revaluation of traditional historiography in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura / Jason S. …”
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Biography, historiography, and modes of philosophizing : the tradition of collective biography in early modern Europe / edited by Patrick Baker.

Table of Contents: “…Bio-bibliography and cultural history (I) : the history of a cultural movement -- Collective biography as historiography : the De viris illustribus of Bartolomeo Facio / Patrick Baker -- Bartolomeo Facio: De viris illustribus, "De poetis" et "De oratoribus"/On famous men, "Poets" and "Orators" / Patrick Baker -- Part 4. Bio-bibliography and cultural history (II) : nationalism and apologetics -- Perception of the Middle Ages and self-perception in German humanism : Johannes Trithemius and the Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam ... exornantium / Johannes Helmrath -- Johannes Trithemius: Cathalogus illustrium virorum Germaniam suis ingeniis et lucubrationibus omnifariam exornantium (excerpts)/Catalogue of the illustrious men who have adorned Germany in every way with their talents and tireless studies (excerpts) / Johannes Helmrath -- Part 5. …”
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I Am Because We Are : Readings in Africana Philosophy. by Hord, Fred Lee

Table of Contents: “…The General Character of Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyOn How we Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project; Reasoning in Black: Africana Philosophy under the Weight of Misguided Reason; North America; Introduction; Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852; The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa; Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race; The Atlanta Exposition Address; Does Race Antipathy Serve Any Good Purpose?…”
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Intolerance, polemics, and debate in antiquity : politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation / edited by George van Kooten, Jacques van Ruiten.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Difference, Opposition, and the Roots of Intolerance in Ancient Philosophical PolemicChapter 10 John's Counter-Symposium: "The Continuation of Dialogue" in Christianity-A Contrapuntal Reading of John's Gospel and Plato's Symposium; Chapter 11 Valentinian Protology and the Philosophical Debate regarding the First Principles; Chapter 12 Celsus's Jew and Jewish Anti-Christian Counter-Narrative: Evidence of an Important Form of Polemic in Jewish-Christian Disputation; Chapter 13 The Emperor Julian, Against the Cynic Heraclius (Oration 7): A Polemic about Myths…”
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What about Darwin? : all species of opinion from scientists, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discussed the naturalist who changed the world / Thomas F. Glick. by Glick, Thomas F.

Table of Contents: “…Huxley -- I -- Index of Prohibited Books (The Vatican) -- American freethinker and orator / Robert G. Ingersoll -- J -- English Jewish folklorist and anthropologist / Joseph Jacobs -- American novelist / Henry James -- American psychologist / William James -- English nature writer / Richard Jefferies -- English economist / William Stanley Jevons -- American novelist / Sarah Orne Jewett.…”
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The winds of freedom : addressing challenges to the university / Gerhard Casper. by Casper, Gerhard

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