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Hayek's Challenge An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek
ISBN: PB: 9780226091938, University of Chicago Press, December 2005
500 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as div...
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Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: HB: 9781905422012, Seagull Books, November 2005
128 pp., 20x14.6 cm
Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, biographer, was undoubtedly one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Above all, however, he was an embodiment of the engage intellectual, active in a variety of political causes, as well as an indi...
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Possibility of Language Internal Tensions in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
ISBN: PB: 9781575864389, University of Chicago Press, September 2005
345 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In this volume, Maria Cerezo examines Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" as a response to some of Frege's and Russel's logical problems. In analyzing the tractarian conditions for the possibility of language, she explains the two main th...
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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
ISBN: PB: 9780226007861, ISBN: HB: 9780226007854, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for "Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur". During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault tr...
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Camus and Sartre The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It
ISBN: PB: 9780226000244, ISBN: HB: 9780226027968, University of Chicago Press, May 2005
302 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides ra...
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Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason Volume Two: A Poststructuralist Mapping of History
ISBN: PB: 9780226254715, ISBN: HB: 9780226254708, University of Chicago Press, February 2005
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 figures
Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent th...
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State of Exception
ISBN: PB: 9780226009254, ISBN: HB: 9780226009247, University of Chicago Press, January 2005
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a militar...
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