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Total number of records: 350

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Books and printed items283
Archives67

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Brotherton Collection64
English Literature48
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman27
Herbert Read Collection21
Quaker Collection7
Ripon Cathedral7
Leeds Russian Archive4
Medieval Manuscripts2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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ethics350
conduct of life42
islamic law33
virtue22
characters and characteristics20
philosophy18
political science17
charity-schools16
marriage15
science15

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France7
Great Britain6
Italy5
Denmark3
Europe3
Grande-Bretagne3
Milan3
Netherlands3
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Finland2

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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of (1671-1713)21
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)13
Cicero, Marcus Tullius11
Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)11
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)10
Fittler, James (1758-1835)10
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)9
Dymond, Jonathan (1796-1828)9
Paley, William (1743-1805)9
Ferri, Giovanni Conte DI San Constant (1755-1830)8

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Archive Collection

Arabic, Middle Eastern and Asian Manuscripts

500-2000

The Department of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies has deposited its collection of Middle Eastern and Asian manuscripts in Special Collections. There are over 370 manuscripts in primarily in...

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Print items of Janina and Zygmunt Bauman

c.1950-2017

Books and journals from the library of Zygmunt Bauman and Janina Bauman. Mainly containing items featuring their own work (books, articles by Zygmunt Bauman or Janina Bauman).

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Manuscripts in Arabic languages

802-1852

This series mainly contains works in Arabic languages. The works which have been catalogued so far are mainly on the subject of Islamic Law.

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Various : c.1972-1999

c.1972-c.1995

Mainly typescript papers by Zygmunt Bauman likely written during his period of teaching at the University of Leeds. Titles include: "The individual dismembered"; "The party in the system management ...

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Conference, Tampere, Feb, 1998

May 1997- Feb 1998

Programme and correspondence concerning arrangements for Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture " Postmodern Time and Morality" on 6th February at the "Light and Dark- Counsellors for Uncertain Times ...

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Seminar Series, Apr, 2000, Bristol.

Jan-Apr 2000

Correspondence concerning arrangements for Zygmunt Bauman's seminar on 5 April 2000, as part of a seminar series on "Postmodern Ethics and Globalisation". (Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Uni...

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Conference May, 2000, Paris

Oct 1999- May 2000

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "The Identity" on 7 May 2000 at the conference: "Mission 2000 in France: University of all knowledge". (The Univer...

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Lectures May, 1995, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Nov 1994 -May 1995

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of two lectures at the University of Amsterdam. The first lecture titled "How to make a stranger" on 12 May 1995 as part of the "Bonger Lecture" se...

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Lecture series Mar 1995, The Research Council of Norway, Oslo.

May 1994- March 1995

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's participation in the delivery of a course at the The Research Council of Norway in Oslo titled: "'The Other' in Ethical Discourse" from 20-24 M...

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Conference, May, 1995, London Guildhall University, London.

Jul 1994 - May 1995

Correspondence and programme concerning Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of a lecture titled "Emmanuel Levinas' and Knud Logstrup strategy for moral life" on 18 May 1995 at the "Emmanuel Levinas" for the Ins...

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Feb, 1997, Copenhagen

Nov 1996- Feb 1997

Correspondence concerning Janina and Zygmunt Bauman's delivery of lectures at the "Ethics, Sociology and Modernity" conference. Janina Bauman delivered a lecture titled "Elusive identities" on 17 Febr...

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Jun 2002, Hamburg

Mar 2001 - Jun 2002

Correspondence concerning Zygmunt Bauman's visit and public lecture at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences) in Hamburg in June 2002. Zygmunt Bauman also submitted an article to the inst...

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