University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
by Martin Ott
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from...
Meditations on First Philosophy/ Meditationes de prima philosophia
A Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
This bilingual edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is aimed both specifically at serious students and professors of philosophy, and generally at anyone motivated by a strong philosophical interest.
by Paul Martínez Pompa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range...
Experiencing Dominion
Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled,...
Summa Contra Gentiles, 2
Book Two: Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1976
Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God's freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man.
Cattle Lords and Clansmen
The Social Structure of Early Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1994
In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods, Patterson produces a unique approach to the study...
Four Cardinal Virtues, The
Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1990
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.
Explorations in Metaphysics
Being-God-Person
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1992
The overall spirit that permeates this volume is Clarke's firm conviction that the philosophical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas is an inexhaustibly rich and profound resource, and his purpose is to share this conviction with contemporary philosophers. In so doing Clarke both reflects and triggers significant new directions in contemporary Thomistic thought.
Aquinas on Being and Essence
A Translation and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 1988
In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On Being and Essence. He foregrounds the meaning of the important distinction between first and second intentions, the differing uses of the term “matter,” and the Thomistic conception of metaphysics.
by David Campos
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos’s winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son’s efforts—only partially successful—to fulfill his father’s expectations and—perhaps even more difficult—understand...
by Frithjof Bergmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1977
With extraordinary elegance and philosophic power, Frithjof Bergmann presents a genuine rethinking of freedom. By changing the focus from outside to inside the person, Bergmann shows how freedom can be a reality in self-growth, parenting, education, and in shaping a society that stimulates rather than stunts the self.
Statecraft and Stagecraft
American Political Life in the Age of Personality, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 1995
In this second edition of Statecraft and Stagecraft Robert Schmuhl brings up to date his provocative exploration of the involvement of the media in our public life by including a new chapter on the Persian Gulf War.
Action (1893)
Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1984
Action was once a prominent theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time Maurice Blondel came to focus on it for his own philosophical reflection, it had all but disappeared...
Opening the Qur'an
Introducing Islam's Holy Book
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Opening the Qur'an can be a bewildering experience to non-Muslim, English-speaking readers. Those who expect historical narratives, stories, or essays on morals are perplexed once they pass the beautiful first Surah, often shocked and then bogged down by Surah 2, and even offended by Surah 3’s strictures...