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Law

Happiness and the Law

Bronsteen John, Buccafusco Christopher, Masur Jonathan S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226075495, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 4 tables

Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each another. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people's quality of life. To do this, i...

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Philosophy

Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger

Rubini Rocco

ISBN: HB: 9780226186139, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In "The Other Renaissance", Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since:...

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General

Philosophy

Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Oles Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...

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Philosophy

Bad Conscience

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780226009537, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Vladimir Jankelevitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In "The Bad Conscience" – published in 1933 and subsequently revised and expanded – Jankelevitch lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grapp...

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General

Philosophy

Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm

With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...

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Philosophy

Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy On Original Forgetting

Velkley Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214948, ISBN: HB: 9780226852546, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness

Murat Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...

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Philosophy

Nation as Network Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

Bernal Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226144818, ISBN: HB: 9780226144788, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borde...

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