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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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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection

Angerer Marie-Luise, Bosel Bernd, Ott Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...

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The Italian List

Unspeakable Girl The Myth and Mystery of Kore

Agamben Giorgio, Ferrando Monica

ISBN: HB: 9780857420831, Seagull Books, December 2013
104 pp., 25x15 cm, 40 colour illus.

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well....

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Philosophy

Contesting Nietzsche

Acampora Christa Davis

ISBN: HB: 9780226923901, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, sh...

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Aristotle's "Politics" Second Edition

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226921846, ISBN: HB: 9780226921839, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps

One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edi...

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226026756, ISBN: HB: 9780226026749, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel the Politics, is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics – that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and...

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Political Science

Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis

Allhoff Fritz

ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...

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Metahistory of Clash of Civilisations Us and Them Beyond Orientalism

Adib-Moghaddam Arshin

ISBN: HB: 9781849040976, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations". Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has hab...

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Physics of The Healing A Parallel English-Arabic Text in Two Volumes

Avicenna

ISBN: HB: 9780842527477, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, May 2010
1168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Avicenna's "Physics" is the very first volume that he wrote when he began his monumental encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The Healing". Avicenna's reasons for beginning with Physics are numerous: it offers up the principles needed to understa...

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Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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