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Philosophy

No Exit Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization

Di-Capua Yoav

ISBN: PB: 9780226503509, ISBN: HB: 9780226499741, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades – from the end of World War II until the late 1960s – existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsi...

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Philosophy

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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Islam

Philosophy

Critique of Religious Discourse

Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid, Kersten Carool, Wright Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...

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Philosophy

Last Works Lessons in Leaving

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300224399, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive...

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Philosophy

Decoding Chomsky Science and Revolutionary Politics

Knight Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300228762, ISBN: HB: 9780300221466, Yale University Press, February 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Everyday Mysticism A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert

Glucklich Ariel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212099, Yale University Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and enlightening work, world renowned religion scholar Ariel Glucklich recounts his experiences at Neot Smadar, an ecological and spiritual oasis that has been thriving in the arid Southern Israeli desert for a quarter century. An...

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Philosophy

Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism

Boudry Maarten, Pigliucci Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9780226498140, ISBN: HB: 9780226498003, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits – about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of k...

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Education

Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

What Philosophy Wants from Images

Rodowick D. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...

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Philosophy

Gestation of German Biology Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling

Zammito John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520797, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural...

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