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KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Sign or Symptom?

exceptional corporeal phenomena in religion and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries

2017 || Paperback || Tine Van Osselaer e.a. || Leuven University Press

Religion and science on paranormal events.

Described as 'the hand of God', as 'pathological' or even as 'a clever trick', exceptional corporeal phenomena such as miraculous cures, stigmata, and incorrupt corpses have triggered heated debates in the past. Depending on their definition as either 'supernatural', 'psycho-somatic' or 'fraudulent', different authorities have sought to explain these enigmatic occurrences by stimulating inquiries and claiming jurisdiction over them. As a consequence,...

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Plutarchea Hypomnemata A Perfect Medium?

oracular divination in the thought of plutarch

2017 || Hardcover || Elsa Giovanna Simonetti || Leuven University Press

An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought.

Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. The peculiar nature of Delphic divination as an (im)perfect intermediary between the material and the immaterial world is fathomed in a thorough study of Plutarch's Delphic dialogues. This in-depth philosophical-conceptual analysis will disclose an original interpretation o...

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Art History after Deleuze and Guattari

2017 || Paperback || Sjoerd van Tuinen e.a. || Leuven University Press

At the crossroads of philosophy, artistic practice, and art history.Though Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such as Riegl, Wölfflin, and Worringer and the great modernist art critics such as Rosenberg, Steinberg, Greenbe...

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Studies in Archaeological Sciences Minoan Earthquakes

breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity

2017 || Hardcover || Simon Jusseret e.a. || Leuven University Press

Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean.Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in ...

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Orpheus Institute Series The Dark Precursor

Deleuze and Artistic Research

2018 || Hardcover || Paulo de Assis e.a. || Leuven University Press

Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy in the field of artistic research.

Gilles Deleuze's intriguing concept of the dark precursor refers to intensive processes of energetic flows passing between fields of different potentials. Fleetingly used in Difference and Repetition, it remained underexplored in Deleuze's subsequent work. In this collection of essays numerous contributors offer perspectives on Deleuze's concept of the dark precursor as it affects artistic research, providing a wide-rangin...

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Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s

2017 || Paperback || Wendy Michallat || Leuven University Press

Pilote's unique position in a new and fast developing youth press market.

The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France's infant comic. Pilote's profile set it on a turbulent course subject to the vicissitudes and fickleness of fashion which situated i...

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The Human Recipe

Understanding your genes in today’s society

2017 || Paperback || Pascal Borry e.a. || Leuven University Press

A smart and witty guide to all you want to know about human genetics.

Human genetics is not the playground of science alone. Genetics concerns all of us, for we all have DNA, genes, genomes, and chromosomes. Our genes determine partly our appearance and our behaviour, our talents and our health risks.

The authors of 'The Human Recipe' use humour to explain what we understand about human genetics. With anecdotes and topical examples, they demonstrate how genetics affects our everyday lives. Wh...

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Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Series 1 Radulphus Brito. Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis

quaestiones super priora analytica aristotelis

2017 || Hardcover || Gordon A. Wilson || Leuven University Press

The history of logic and its development during the medieval period.

Radulphus Brito's Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major work written in the early 1300s which treated Aristotle's text devoted to the theory of the syllogism. Brito, perhaps one of the most influential medieval thinkers known as the Modistae, examines both categorical and hypothetical syllogisms. In his text, based on six known manuscripts which are complete or nearly complete, Brito was critical of many ...

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KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Universalism and liberation

2017 || Paperback || Jacopo Cellini || Leuven University Press

The changing attitude of Catholic culture towards modernity.After decades of a problematic, if not plainly hostile, approach to modernity by Catholic culture, the 1960s marked the beginning of a new era. As the Church employed a more positive approach to the world, voices in the Catholic milieu embraced a radical perspective, channeling the need for social justice for the poor and the oppressed. The alternative and complementary world views of 'universalism' and 'liberation' would drive the e...