prolegomenon

For the elaborate title or prolegomenon to this version see pp.

Even the written prolegomenon added to the published version is a biting satire.

A prolegomenon to nonlinear empiricism in the human behavioral sciences.

The miscellanies really stand to the novels in the relation of a sort of prolegomenon.

The Variorum was substantially the same text as the 1729 edition, but it now had a lengthy prolegomenon.

He is best known for his Muqaddimah (Prolegomenon in Greek).

Prolegomenon (usually plural prolegomena) is a discussion or essay to introduce a larger work, e.g., a book.

For the first time in his life, Professor Planish had insomnia, which to him had been merely a silly word, like prolegomenon.

And the "Reference Guide" that appears as a prolegomenon to the work will remain a useful tool for students at many levels of fear and trembling.

Prolegomena do nauki o państwie (Prolegomenon to Political Science; 1930)

"Prolegomenon to George Barker", X, vol.

His 1951 Charles Walgreen lectures, published as The New Science of Politics, is generally seen as a prolegomenon to this, and remains his best known work.

The eighth prolegomenon to Walton's Polyglot Bible is largely a rĂ chauffĂ (reworking) of the "Tiberias".

The first part of his book is an extended essay in counter-theory, intended as a prolegomenon to the second part, which offers a study of Shakespeare in terms of moral and psychological realism.

This place is famous to have sheltered Ibn Khaldun for four years, between 1375 and 1379, and in this place where he began composing his Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomenon in Greek).

Interpreting Artworks: Prolegomenon to a Cross-Cultural Philosophy in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Studies Hermeneutic, in Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics (Turin, Italy, Trauben, 2001).

Blau is also known for his contributions towards sociological theory, the aim of his book, "Exchange and Power in Social life" (1964) was "(to analyze) the processes that govern the associations among men as a prolegomenon of a theory of social structure."

Todd Gitlin, the author of "Inside Prime Time," has edited a volume that, even though it is shrill and paranoid in places, should be regarded as a prolegomenon to any further television criticism - an important step into the post-wasteland era of writing about the tube.

The book's epilogue builds on what anthropologists have learned in the past half century by observing Muslims; following the textual critique this is offered as a prolegomenon to future anthropological study within Islamic contexts and more effective sharing of ethnographic analysis with scholars outside the discipline.

He articulated his discussion most notably in his satire A Tale of a Tub, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704 with the famous prolegomenon The Battle of the Books, long after the initial salvoes were over in France.

Hypercritica was a kind of prolegomenon to Bolton's most ambitious project, never completed: an updated history of Britain based on archives and other original sources, free of both the cant of medieval historians and the clumsiness of Tudor chroniclers such as Stow.

Al-Kindi's view was, however, a common misconception regarding Greek philosophy amongst Muslim intellectuals at the time, and it was for this reason that Avicenna remarked that he did not understand Aristotle's Metaphysics properly until he had read a prolegomenon written by al-Farabi.

The famous but apocryphal story of how Tisias tried to cheat his teacher is passed down in the introductions to various late rhetorical treatises (e.g. R4 in H. Rabe, Prolegomenon Sylloge, Rhetores Graeci, XIV, Teubner, Leipzig 1931).

By comparison, other approaches come from Nietzsche and Buddhism: Prolegomenon to Comparative Study (1981) by Freny Mistry and Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities (1997) by Robert G. Morrison.

Piece after piece could be considered as a prolegomenon to "Death in Venice" - first published in 1913 - in which Thomas Mann told of an aging writer who was so heavily in thrall to young male beauty that he would rather risk dying of the plague than lose sight of the loved one.