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Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment 1690-1805

Ahnert Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300153804, Yale University Press, March 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this "enlightened" emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on argumen...

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Philosophy

Freedom Beyond Sovereignty Reconstructing Liberal Individualism

Krause Sharon R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226234694, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to be free? We invoke the word frequently, yet the freedom of countless Americans is compromised by social inequalities that systematically undercut what they are able to do and to become. If we are to remedy these failures of freed...

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Literary Criticism

Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics"

Watson Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226274119, ISBN: HB: 9780226875088, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
336 pp., 23x15 cm

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics – ancient, medieval, or modern – the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. In the "Poetics", Aristotle writes that he wi...

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Philosophy

Rhythm of Thought Art, Literature, and Music after Merleau-Ponty

Wiskus Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226274256, ISBN: HB: 9780226030920, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 20 line illus.

Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance – so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in "The Rhythm of Thought". Holding the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, the painting...

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Philosophy

Kierkegaard and Political Theory Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual

Avanessian Armen, Wennerscheid Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9788763541541, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, February 2015
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Soren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual – in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics – has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have...

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Philosophy

Art and Truth after Plato

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226272634, ISBN: HB: 9780226040028, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long...

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Philosophy

Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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