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Philosophy

Law

Ethics of Interrogation

Skerker Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm

The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...

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Philosophy

Behind Closed Doors IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226770871, ISBN: HB: 9780226770864, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 13 halftones, 1 line illus.

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Human Rights In Camera

Sliwinski Sharon

ISBN: PB: 9780226762760, ISBN: HB: 9780226762753, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Philosophy

What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226765945, ISBN: HB: 9780226765914, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
544 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.

What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious b...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Stupefaction A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms

Sutherland Keston

ISBN: HB: 9781906497972, Seagull Books, August 2011
262 pp., 18x11 cm

From Shakespeare to Beckett, the contradictory figure of the fool who possesses unexpected wisdom has been a popular and effective literary trope and rhetorical figure for centuries. Philosophy needs idiots too, argues Keson Sutherland in "Stupefacti...

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Current Affairs

America

Prison and the American Imagination

Smith Caleb

ISBN: PB: 9780300171495, Yale University Press, May 2011
258 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particular...

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Philosophy

Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art

Sallis John

ISBN: PB: 9780226734187, ISBN: HB: 9780226734224, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
204 pp., 22.6x15 cm

"Transfigurements" develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while a...

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Philosophy

Royal Remains The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty

Santner Eric L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226735368, ISBN: HB: 9780226735351, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

"The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign – and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In "The Royal Remains", Eric L. Santner a...

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Philosophy

"Hobbes's Critique of Religion" and Related Writings

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226776828, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
184 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Leo Strauss's "The Political Philosophy of Hobbes" deservedly ranks among his most widely acclaimed works. In it Strauss argues that the basis for Hobbes's natural and political science is his interest in "self-knowledge of man as he really is". The...

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