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Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Philosophy

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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Philosophy

Women Studies

Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings

Suchon Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226779218, ISBN: HB: 9780226779201, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's wri...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism

Baudrillard Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781906497200, Seagull Books, May 2010
92 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm

In "Carnival and Cannibal", distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) reflects on many of his most significant ideas concerning the significance of language and the relationship between the technological and the social. In this,...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164237, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To disce...

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Philosophy

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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Philosophy

Political Science

Alfarabi and the Foundation of Islamic Political Philosophy

Mahdi Muhsin S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501871, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
288 pp., 23x15 cm

In this work, Muhsin Mahdi – widely regarded as the preeminent scholar of Islamic political thought – distills more than four decades of research to offer an authoritative analysis of the work of Alfarabi, the founder of Islamic political philosophy....

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Philosophy

Philosopher's Quarrel Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding

Zaretsky Robert, Scott John T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164282, Yale University Press, February 2010
264 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Dav...

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Philosophy

History and the Enlightenment

Trevor-Roper Hugh

ISBN: HB: 9780300139341, Yale University Press, February 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his career – many hitherto i...

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Philosophy

Realism for the 21st Century A John Deely Reader

Deely John

ISBN: PB: 9781589661486, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, February 2010
465 pp., 23x15 cm

"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely – a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a prag...

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