Search Results for Epicurean - Narrowed by: 1995-2007

Garlic and sapphires / Ruth Reichl.

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by Reichl, Ruth.
Call Number 926.4 REI
Publication Date 2005
Summary "Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's account of her experience undercover in her position as food critic for The New York Times. She throws back the curtain on the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world to reveal the comic absurdity, artifice and excellence there, giving us (along with some of her favorite recipes and reviews) her remarkable reflections on role playing and identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo [electronic resource] / Geert Roskam.

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by Roskam, Geert.
Call Number 880
Publication Date 2007
Summary Plutarch''s De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus'' famous ideal of an ''unnoticed life'' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch''s polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch''s anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical tradition. An examination of Epicurus'' own position is followed by a discussion of Plutarc.
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Self-interest before Adam Smith : a genealogy of economic science / Pierre Force.

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by Force, Pierre.
Call Number 330.15 22
Publication Date 2003
Summary A study of the history of the concept of self-interest before Adam Smith, in order to understand what it meant when Adam Smith used it as an axiom in The Wealth of Nations. The author shows that Smith's theory refutes the 'selfish hypothesis' yet integrates it at the same time.
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Horace and the gift economy of patronage / Phebe Lowell Bowditch.

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by Bowditch, Phebe Lowell, 1961-
Call Number 874.01 22
Publication Date 2001
Summary This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures.
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Stoics, Epicureans and sceptics [electronic resource] : an introduction to Hellenistic philosophy / R.W. Sharples.

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by Sharples, R. W.
Call Number 180 20
Publication Date 1996
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The resource guide for food writers / by Gary Allen.

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by Allen, Gary (Gary J.)
Call Number 808.066641 ALL
Publication Date 1999
Summary "The Resource Guide for Food Writers represents the first comprehensive listing of resources for food writers and culinary enthusiasts. A feast for all who love food, it is both a research tool for finding out facts about food and a guide to food writing. Author Gary Allen presents an impressive menu of relevant resources, ranging from specialty libraries and booksellers to periodicals, organizations, and web sites. Allen goes on to provide genuine guidance on how writers can utilize those resources for writing about food and getting published. This authoritative reference and handbook is essential for every epicurean who wants to learn more about food, from the food-service professional to the ambitious home gourmet."--BOOK JACKET.
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A flummery of food feasts for epicures / André Simon.

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by Simon, André L. (André Louis), 1877-1970.
Call Number 641.013 SIM
Publication Date 2005
Summary Pieces chosen by Simon from the writings of such well-known authors as Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Edward Lear, Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain and Guy de Maupassant, and also includes items by Jean Anthelme Brillant-Savarin and other famous epicureans concerned with particular aspects of gastronomy.
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Hellenistic and early modern philosophy / edited by Jon Miller, Brad Inwood.

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by Miller, Jon, 1970-
Call Number 190 22
Publication Date 2003
Summary Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment.
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Decadence and the making of modernism / David Weir.

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by Weir, David, 1947 April 20-
Call Number 809.91 20
Publication Date 1995
Summary The cultural phenomenon known as "decadence" has often been viewed as an ephemeral artistic vogue that fluorished briefly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This study makes the case for decadence as a literary movement in its own right, based on a set of aesthetic principles that formed a transitional link between romanticism and modernism. Understood in this developmental context, decadence represents the aesthetic substratum of a wide range of fin-de-siecle literary schools, including naturalism, realism, Parnassianism, aestheticism, and symbolism. As an impulse toward modernism, it prefigures the thematic, structural, and stylistic concerns of later literature. David Weir demonstrates his thesis by analyzing a number of French, English, Italian, and American novels, each associated with some specific decadent literary tendency. The book concludes by arguing that the decadent sensibility persists in popular culture and contemporary theory, with multiculturalism and postmodernism representing its most current manifestations.
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Music of the sirens / edited by Linda Phyllis Austern and Inna Naroditskaya.

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by Austern, Linda Phyllis, 1957-
Call Number 780.82 22
Publication Date 2006
Summary The siren is a remarkable creature that has inspired music and its representations from ancient Greece to present-day Africa and Latin America. This book brings together leading scholars and some talented newcomers in classics, music, media studies, literature, and cultural studies to consider the siren and her multifaceted relationships to music across human time and geography.
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