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Philosophy

Urban Condition

Mongin Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9788024632933, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
300 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...

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Philosophy

Rabbit Between Us

Menza Victor

ISBN: HB: 9780857427977, Seagull Books, April 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence"? ...

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Philosophy

Decent Life Morality for the Rest of Us

May Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226786346, ISBN: HB: 9780226609744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you? In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair – and it's also easy to judge ourselv...

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Philosophy

What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226581569, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand t...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto

Morris Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities Volume 2

Mauro Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9781649590084, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
513 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 colour plates, 5 halftones, 42 figures

In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and pe...

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Europe

Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Why Do Things Have Names?

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783035802757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2020
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Why is a horse called a horse and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Why did Plato go from being called Aristocles, after his grandfather, to being called Plato, which means muscleman? Where do any names come from? In this delightful book, readers young...

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Philosophy

Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

McCormick Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...

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