Louis A. Ruprecht Books
Afterwords
This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of t...
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Afterwords
This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of t...
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Symposia
By Louis A. Jr. Ruprecht, Louis A. Ruprecht
"Socrates was wise, because he knew that he did not know anything; this has long been the prevailing wisdom of the Socratic-Platonic tradition. In Plato's Middle Period - spanning dialogues such as...
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Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision
By Louis A. Jr. Ruprecht, Louis A. Ruprecht
"That one of the dominant prose genres of our era is the jeremiad indicates how widespread is the sense of contempt and disdain for the modern age. We are told in screed after screed that the conte...
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Winckelmann and the Vatican s first profane museum
"Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives, Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of J.J. Winckelmann, the so-called father of Art History. Tracing both...
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