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    Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation (eBook, PDF)
    Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning institution designed "to cause guilt as well as cure guilt," seeing it in its proper place as a part of the social fabric of the Middle Ages. The author examines the institution of confession in practice as well as in theory, providing an analysis of a practical literature whose authors wanted to explain as clearly as they safely could what confessors and penitents had to believe, do, feel, say, and intend, if sacramental confession were to forgive sins. In so doing he recreates the mentality and experience that the Reformers attacked and the Counter-Reformers defended. Central to his thesis is the contention that Luther, Calvin, and the Fathers of Trent regarded religious institutions as the solution to certain social and psychological problems, and that an awareness of this attitude is important for an assessment of the significance of confession in late medieval and Reformation Europe.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    Leibniz's Metaphysics
    This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibniz's early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in his theory of substance and his subsequent de-emphasis of logical determinism, and finally to his doctrines of harmony and optimization. Specific attention is given to Leibniz's understanding of Descartes and his successors, Malebranche and Spinoza, and the English philosophers Newton, Cudworth, and Locke. Wilson analyzes Leibniz's complex response to the new mechanical philosophy, his discontent with the foundations on which it rested, and his return to the past to locate the resources for reconstructing it. She argues that the continuum-problem is the key to an understanding not only of Leibniz's monadology but also of his views on the substantiality of the self and the impossibility of external causal influence. A final chapter considers the problem of Leibniz-reception in the post-Kantian era, and the difficulty of coming to terms with a metaphysics that is not only philosophically "critical" but, at the same time, "compensatory." Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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    Kamikaze d'amour
    n dem Wuppertaler Verlag Edition 52 ist der der Kult-Band "Kamikaze D¿amor" des deutschen Comiczeichners Jamiri neu aufgelegt worden. Damit ist das Werk nach seinem ersten Erscheinen vor über zehn Jahren endlich wieder erhältlich. Anlässlich hierzu hat es sich Jamiri nicht nehmen lassen, den kompletten Band kritisch durchzugehen, so dass es sich nicht um einen Nachdruck der einstigen Version handelt, sondern um eine komplett überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage. Mit dieser Veröffentlichung setzt die Edition 52 seine Reihe von Jamiri-Bänden konsequent fort. Nachdem bereits 2009 der Band Arsenicum Album mit neuen Geschichten des Zeichners erschienen war, nimmt sich der Verlag nun auch die Backlist der Titel vor. Mit "Kamikaze D¿amor" (erstmals 1999 bei Eichborn erschienen) wird gleich zu Beginn ein frühes Meisterwerk herausgebracht. Wie der Titel schon andeutet hat Jamiri ein Konzeptalbum vorgelegt, in dem er sich mit der Beziehung zur seiner Frau Beate auseinandersetzt. Bewusst provokant und ironisch setzt er das Dreiergeflecht von Mann, Frau und Sex ins Bild. Seine bissigen Zwischentöne gehören mit zu dem Besten, was Deutschland an Satire zu bieten hat. Er legt Schwächen offen und lässt seine Beate stets das letzte Wort haben. Das Leben ist ganz nah dran an "Kamikaze d'Amour". Seit 2009 erscheinen die Werke von Jamiri in der Edition 52. Der in Essen lebende Zeichner wurde als Jan-Michael Richter 1966 in Hattingen-Blanckenstein geboren und zählt zu den bekanntesten Comiczeichnern aus Deutschland. Neben seiner Buchproduktionen ist er vor allem mit seinen Geschichten aus Spiegel-Online vertreten. Sein Stil basiert auf der zeichnerischen Überarbeitung von Fotos und gibt damit seinem Werk das unverwechselbare Aussehen.Die 4te Auflage vom dauervergriffenenen Titel "Kamikaze d'Amour" kommt endlich, und pünktlich zu Weihnachten. Diese heitere Lebensliebestragödie von Jamiri (ursprünglich 1999 bei Eichborn veröffentlicht, 2010 erweiterte Neuausgabe bei Edition 52) besitzt jetzt, 2017, eine Endgültigkeit, die sie vorher nicht hatte. Seine Frau verließ ihn nach praktisch 25 Jahren, im Oktober 2014. Seitdem ist er ein Wrack.Aber vielleicht war er das ja vorher schon.
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    The Matchmaker (eBook, ePUB)
    Berlin, 1989. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door. Nothing about her marriage is as it seems.Anne had been targeted by the Matchmaker - a high level East German counterintelligence officer - who runs a network of Stasi agents. These agents are his 'Romeos' who marry vulnerable women in West Berlin to provide them with cover as they report back to the Matchmaker. Anne has been married to a spy, and now he has disappeared, and is presumably dead.The CIA are desperate to find the Matchmaker because of his close ties to the KGB. They believe he can establish the truth about a high-ranking Soviet defector. They need Anne because she's the only person who has seen his face - from a photograph that her husband mistakenly left out in his office - and she is the CIA's best chance to identify him before the Matchmaker escapes to Moscow.Time is running out as the Berlin Wall falls and chaos engulfs East Germany. But what if Anne's husband is not dead? And what if Anne has her own motives for finding the Matchmaker to deliver a different type of justice?Praise for Paul Vidich'Vidich perfectly captures the era's paranoid mood' - The Times 'There is a casual elegance to Vidich's spy fiction (now numbering five books), a seeming effortlessness that belies his superior craftsmanship. Every plot point, character motivation and turn of phrase veers toward the understated, but they are never underwritten. The Matchmaker is an ideal entrance into Vidich's work, one that should compel new readers to plumb his backlist' - New York Times (Editors' Choice)'A terse and convincing thriller... This stand-alone work reaches a new level of moral complexity and brings into stark relief the often contradictory nature of spycraft' - Wall Street Journal'In the manner of Charles Cumming and recent le Carré, Vidich pits spies on the same side against one another in a kind of internal cold war' - Booklist
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    A Tale of Two Continents
    "People like myself, who truly feel at home in several countries, are not strictly at home anywhere," writes Abraham Pais, one of the world's leading theoretical physicists, near the beginning of this engrossing chronicle of his life on two continents. The author of an immensely popular biography of Einstein, Subtle Is the Lord, Pais writes engagingly for a general audience. His "tale" describes his period of hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland (he ended the war in a Gestapo prison) and his life in America, particularly at the newly organized Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then directed by the brilliant and controversial physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Pais tells fascinating stories about Oppenheimer, Einstein, Bohr, Sakharov, Dirac, Heisenberg, and von Neumann, as well as about nonscientists like Chaim Weizmann, George Kennan, Erwin Panofsky, and Pablo Casals. His enthusiasm about science and life in general pervades a book that is partly a memoir, partly a travel commentary, and partly a history of science. Pais's charming recollections of his years as a university student become somber with the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. He was presented with an unusual deadline for his graduate work: a German decree that July 14, 1941, would be the final date on which Dutch Jews could be granted a doctoral degree. Pais received the degree, only to be forced into hiding from the Nazis in 1943, practically next door to Anne Frank. After the war, he went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen to work with Niels Bohr. 1946 began his years at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he worked first as a Fellow and then as a Professor until his move to Rockefeller University in 1963. Combining his understanding of disparate social and political worlds, Pais comments just as insightfully on Oppenheimer's ordeals during the McCarthy era as he does on his own and his European colleagues' struggles during World War II. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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