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No New Kind of Duck Would I Know How to Say What I Do?
ISBN: PB: 9783037349465, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 19x13.3 cm, 90 colour plates
What do we learn by making art? What do we discover by discussing our art with other people? These are the questions at the heart of "No New Kind of Duck", which documents an exchange between Jan Verwoert and artists, critics, and other researchers a...
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£22,50
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Epidemic Subjects – Radical Ontology
ISBN: PB: 9783037345962, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
192 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm, 12 halftones
Modern philosophy continues to grapple with the idea of subjectivity – and, as the concept of subjectivity has consequently been repeatedly refined and redefined, the struggle has spread to the ways we conceive of sovereignty, collectivity, nationali...
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£22,50
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Moses Complex Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
ISBN: HB: 9783037346235, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
336 pp., 21.6x16.5 cm, 42 colour plates, 15 halftones
Moses has long been a source of modern fascination. For Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, Moses was a particularly fruitful subject for the study of memory and historiography. He also held great interest for the visual and performing arts. In the 192...
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£33,50
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Professor Kant's Incredible Day
ISBN: HB: 9783037345955, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros
ISBN: HB: 9783037345474, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, colour throughout illus.
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Mister Descartes and His Evil Genius
ISBN: HB: 9783037345467, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Plato & Co. introduces children – and curious grown-ups – to the lives and work of...
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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9783037345504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
160 pp., 18.4x11.9 cm
Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...
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£15,00
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Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones
Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...
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£49,00
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Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions
ISBN: PB: 9783037345986, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 halftones
Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cy...
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Hannah Arendt's Little Theater
ISBN: HB: 9783037345900, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Plato & Co. introduces children – and curious grown-ups – to the lives and work of...
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