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Music in German Philosophy An Introduction

Sorgner Stefan Lorenz, Furbeth Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780226768380, ISBN: HB: 9780226768373, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth,...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Confronting Vulnerability The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics

Schofer Jonathan Wyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226740096, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability", Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their c...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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Philosophy

Natural Reflections Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

Smith Barbara Herrnstein

ISBN: HB: 9780300140347, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One of these initiatives, which Smith c...

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Philosophy

Hope Now The 1980 Interviews

Sartre Jean-Paul, Levy Benny

ISBN: PB: 9780226476315, University of Chicago Press, August 2007
142 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In March of 1980, just a month before Sartre's death, Le Nouvel Observateur published a series of interviews, the last ever given, between the blind and debilitated philosopher and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Readers were scandalized and denounc...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile The Making of a Political Philosopher

Sheppard Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9781584656005, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2007
188 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Born in rural Hesse, Germany, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) became an active Zionist and philosopher during the tumultuous and fractious Weimar Republic. As Eugene R. Sheppard demonstrates in this groundbreaking and engaging book, Strauss gravitated toward...

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Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781905422012, Seagull Books, November 2005
128 pp., 20x14.6 cm

Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Above all, however, he was an embodiment of the engage intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an indi...

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Philosophy

Archaeologies of Vision Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying

Shapiro Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226750477, ISBN: HB: 9780226750460, University of Chicago Press, May 2003
458 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role that "the infinite relation" between seeing and saying (as Foucault put it) plays in their work. Gary S...

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Philosophy

Waiting for Foucault, Still

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780971757509, University of Chicago Press, August 2002
96 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First devised as after-dinner entertainment at a decennial meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists in Great Britain, and first published by Prickly Pear Press in 1993, this expanded edition of "Waiting for Foucault" represents some of th...

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