What kinship is - and is not

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Nancy G. Siraisi

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture. Cardano's medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror" - a clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between his medicine and his other pursuits. Cardano's philosophical eclecticism, beliefs about occult forces in nature, theories about dreams, and free transactions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine.

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Peter Occhiogrosso

Narrative histories of the six great religious traditions of East and West, along with brief sections on the scriptures, places of worship, and terminologies, as well as the numerous denominations, orders, and schools that make up world religion.

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Peter Nickl, Georgios Terizakis (Hg

Verlagsinfo: Die Seele - die tiefen Verstrickungen dieses Begriffs in metaphysische Traditionen haben ihn für lange Zeit in den Archiven der Philosophie verschwinden lassen und dem Vergessen übergeben. Wie können Philosophen heute aber über die Seele sprechen? Der Band stellt renommierte Autoren und Denker vor diese Herausforderung. Hinderk Emrich, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Robert Spaemann, Franco Volpi und andere zeigen, dass Philosophie heute lebendiges Denken zwischen Metapher und Wirklichkeit sein kann, das selbst vor der Seele keine Angst zu haben braucht

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Evelyn Torton Beck

Essays, poems, recorded conversations, stories, and prose are gathered to provide a consciousness-raising feeling of what it means to be Jewish and lesbian.