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Leuven University Press was established in 1971 under the auspices of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Today the press has over a thousand books in print, in fields including archaeology, art, music, religion, philosophy, history, medieval studies, anthropology, psychology, politics, and culture. We publish approximately forty new titles a year by authors from all over the world. About half of our books are in English and/or combined European languages (French, German, Italian); the remaining volumes are in Dutch. All titles are submitted to peer review in order to assess and maintain international academic standards.
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Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalised religion is becoming increasingly marginalised. Some scholars, however, speak of a repositioning of the Christian churches in post-modern Europe, citing new forms of religious life and community. This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World War II. The authors offer a comparative exploration of the... Read more
Epilogue by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
The first volume in the new series Jean-François Lyotard—Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists is dedicated to the Dutch Abstract Expressionist painter, sculptor, and poet Karel Appel (1921–2006). Originally published in German, the book’s original French text, written in 1992 as the result of a correspondence with Karel Appel, is here published for the first time. In his text about Appel, Lyotard reflects on the nature and function of color as... Read more
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch’s biography of... Read more
