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History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Negative Certainties

Marion Jean-Luc, Lewis Stephen E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226505619, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Negative Certainties", renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he loo...

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Philosophy

Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2

Dorfman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...

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Philosophy

Animots: Post Animality in French Thought Yale French Studies, Number 127

Senior Matthew, Clark David L., Freccero Carla

ISBN: PB: 9780300206654, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest volume of "Yale French Studies" addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the U.K., and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosoph...

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Philosophy

Interanimations Receiving Modern German Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226259659, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philoso...

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Philosophy

Rhetoric of Plato's 'Republic' Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion

Kastely James L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226278629, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Plato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato's most important wor...

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Philosophy

Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic New Essays on Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy"

Wishon Donovan, Linsky Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781575868462, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
281 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century".Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic" brings together ten new essays on Russell'...

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Philosophy

View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Simmel Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780226273303, ISBN: HB: 9780226757834, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

Published in 1918, "The View of Life" is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed "the brightest man in Europe" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics,...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Beyond Speculation Art and Aesthetics without Myths

Schaeffer Jean-Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780857420428, Seagull Books, August 2015
436 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

In his well-known work of art criticism "Art of the Modern Age", Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and aesthetics from the Jena Romantics, to Nietzsche, He...

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Philosophy

What Fanon Said A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought

Gordon Levis R.

ISBN: PB: 9781849045506, Hurst Publishers, August 2015
216 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiat...

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