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Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....

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With the World at Heart Studies in the Secular Today

Carlson Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226617534, ISBN: HB: 9780226617367, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-centu...

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Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

Cohen Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226511269, ISBN: HB: 9780226511122, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked...

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Plotinus Myth, Metaphor, and Philosophical Practice

Clark Stephen R. L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565057, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Plotinus, the Roman philosopher (c. 204-270 CE) who is widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, was also the creator of numerous myths, images, and metaphors. They have influenced both secular philosophers and Christian and Muslim theologians,...

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Biography & Memoires

Young Descartes Nobility, Rumor, and War

Cook Harold J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226462967, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rene Descartes is best known as the man who coined the phrase "I think, therefore I am". But though he is remembered most as a thinker, Descartes, the man, was no disembodied mind, theorizing at great remove from the worldly affairs and concerns of h...

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Heidegger's Confessions The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond

Coyne Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226419077, ISBN: HB: 9780226209302, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In "Heidegger's Confessions", Ryan Coyne isol...

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Biopower Foucault and Beyond

Cisney Vernon W., Morar Nicolae

ISBN: PB: 9780226226620, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In "The History of Sexuality: An Introduction", Foucault famously employed the ter...

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Philosophy of Autobiography

Cowley Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226267920, ISBN: HB: 9780226267890, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero – even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theori...

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Foundations and Methods from Mathematics to Neuroscience Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes

Crangle Colleen E., Garcia de la Sienra Adolfo, Longino Helen E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575867458, ISBN: HB: 9781575867441, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2015
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

During his long and continuing scholarly career, Patrick Suppes has contributed significantly both to the sciences and to scientific philosophies. In this volume, an international group of Suppes's colleagues, collaborators, and students seeks to bui...

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Warburg Years (1919-1933) Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology

Cassirer Ernst

ISBN: HB: 9780300108194, Yale University Press, December 2013
384 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence – the fact that our...

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