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Essays on Love & Knowledge
Marquette University Press 2007; US$ 30.00This volume is the third of Pierre Rousselot's Philosophical Works. It includes seven essays written between 1908 and 1914, one year before his death (two were published posthumously: "A Theory of Concepts by Functional Unity" and "Idealism and Thomism"). These essays offer a complement to Rousselot's views on epistemology,... more...
On the Constitution of the Human Being
Marquette University Press 2008; US$ 39.00A Treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis (D. 1323): The Doctor Perspicacissimus, On Second Intentions
Marquette University Press 2008; US$ 47.00As almost everyone knows, the notion of intentionality comes from the Middle Ages. What is less known is that Hervaeus Natalis, OP (d. 1323) was the first one explicitly to consider it as such. Even less known is the fact that he came to it not immediately from the Aristotelian De Anima, but rather from the division in Aristotle's Metaphysics between... more...
Duty of Delight
Marquette University Press 2008; US$ 42.00Day (1897-1980) began her diaries in 1934, shortly after co-founding the Catholic Worker movement, and kept them up until shortly before she died. Ellsberg, who has worked for the Catholic Workers and edited Day's writing, was invited to edit them as soon as they were unsealed, as per her wishes, in November 2005. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc.,... more...
Booklet of Comfort for the Sick & On the Christian Knight
Marquette University Press 2007; US$ 20.00Confronting death--as God's judgment on sin and as God's doorway to eternal life--and struggling as a "Christian Knight" against the devil, the world, and human desires: these two topics gave Johann Spangenberg, a close friend and devoted adherent of Martin Luther, the basis for one of the most popular pieces of devotional literature... more...
Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 32.00The fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of The Lord of the Rings, the enormously popular and influential masterpiece of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, is celebrated in these twenty papers presented at the Marquette University Tolkien conference of 21-23 October 2004. They are published in honor of the late Dr. Richard E. Blackwelder, who gave... more...
Commentary on Gabriel Marcels The Mystery of Being
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 25.00Over the past decade there has been renewed interest in the thought of the Christian existentialist Gabriel Marcel. An English translation of his autobiographical final work Awakenings as well as a collection of his essays on music have recently been published by Marquette University Press. Major philosophical works of his have been reprinted, the... more...
Exemplary Lives
Marquette University Press 2006; US$ 20.00Located on an island in the Rhine River in Switzerland, near Schaffhausen, Rheinau was the site of a Benedictine abbey with the original patrons St. Mary and St. Peter, and, at a later date, St. Catherine. Rheinau Abbey was founded around 780 AD, with monastic activities of varying degrees of intensity continuing there until 1862. The abbey?s scriptorium... more...
G-D, Rationality and Mysticism
Marquette University Press 2007; US$ 25.00This book is aimed at addressing two common misconceptions. The first is that belief in G-d is purely a matter of faith and cannot be supported by rational arguments. The second is that rationality is incompatible with mysticism. The first part of this book argues that it is more rational to believe in G-d than not. The second part argues that instead... more...









