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Islam

Philosophy

Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid, Kersten Carool, Wright Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...

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Education

Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Arendt Hannah, Scholem Gershom

ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...

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Philosophy

Islam

Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"

Al-Ghazali

ISBN: PB: 9780226526478, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his "Incoherence of the Philosophers", "Moderation in Belief" is his most profound work of philosop...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Evolution of Imagination

Asma Stephen T.

ISBN: HB: 9780226225166, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases – all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the w...

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Philosophy

Political Science

We Reviving Social Hope

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226334660, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society's profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for st...

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Performing Arts

Philosophy

50 Drawings to Murder Magic

Artaud Antonin

ISBN: PB: 9780857423504, Seagull Books, September 2016
96 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 50 halftones

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, "50 Drawings to Murder Magi...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros

Armengaud Francoise

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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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226345673, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic wor...

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Philosophy

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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