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Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Hecht Jennifer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300209365, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew the person and ev...

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Law

Happiness and the Law

Bronsteen John, Buccafusco Christopher, Masur Jonathan S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226075495, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 4 tables

Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each another. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people's quality of life. To do this, i...

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Philosophy

Other Renaissance Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger

Rubini Rocco

ISBN: HB: 9780226186139, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In "The Other Renaissance", Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since:...

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Philosophy

Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape

Oles Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...

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Passions

Leopardi Giacomo, Parks Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300186338, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm

The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary – a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, li...

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Christianity

Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Bentley Hart David

ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm

Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...

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Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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Philosophy

Bad Conscience

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780226009537, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Vladimir Jankelevitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In "The Bad Conscience" – published in 1933 and subsequently revised and expanded – Jankelevitch lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grapp...

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Philosophy

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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Political Science

Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226213651, ISBN: HB: 9780226016030, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm

With "Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics'", Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the "Politics" originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristot...

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