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Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression
(2021)
From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of frontier missions. This study examines ...
In Praise of Mortality
(2022)
This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability. Only by renouncing fantasies of omnipotence of a theological, philosophical ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Nineteenth-Century Borneo
(1955)
Indonesia
The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality
(2022)
What is money? What is capital? The Spectre of Capital tackles such fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level. It argues that the modern world is ruled by a ‘spectre’, the spectre of capital. This insight is ...