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Philosophy

Image Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination

Taylor Mark C., Rubenstein Mary-Jane, Carlson Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226782287, ISBN: HB: 9780226782140, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The thr...

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Seeing Silence

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226693521, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table

"To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life possible and the inescapability of death acceptable". So writes Mark C. Taylor in his latest book, a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age...

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Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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Last Works Lessons in Leaving

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300224399, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive...

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Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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History of Art

Picture in Question Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791296, University of Chicago Press, April 1999
151 pp., 21.6x14 cm

A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses s...

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Christianity

Judaism

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226791579, ISBN: HB: 9780226791562, University of Chicago Press, August 1998
430 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 table

A century that began with modernism sweeping across Europe is ending with a remarkable resurgence of religious beliefs and practices throughout the world. Wherever one looks today, from headlines about political turmoil in the Middle East to pop musi...

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