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Philosophy

McKeon Richard P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226340210, ISBN: HB: 9780226340180, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 34 tables

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy – across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics – and s...

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Philosophy

One World Now The Ethics of Globalization

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300196054, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 21x14 cm

"One World Now" seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential...

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Political Science

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life Reflections on Rousseau's "Reveries" in Two Books

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226074030, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

"On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study...

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Philosophy

Objectivity and Diversity Another Logic of Scientific Research

Harding Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780226241364, ISBN: HB: 9780226241227, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be...

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On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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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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Philosophy

On Benefits

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226212227, ISBN: HB: 9780226748405, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of n...

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Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

One Hour in Paris A True Story of Rape and Recovery

Freedman Karyn L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226073705, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape".One Hour in Paris" takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspi...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence

Strauss Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226030135, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero", or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue...

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Philosophy

Once Out of Nature Augustine on Time and the Body

Nightingale Andrea

ISBN: HB: 9780226585758, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm

"Once Out of Nature" offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, an...

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