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Philosophy

History

Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation

Horton Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...

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Philosophy

Critique of Freedom The Central Problem of Modernity

Hoffe Otfried

ISBN: HB: 9780226465906, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Hoffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Hoffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and eq...

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Philosophy

Ethics of Oneness Emerson, Whitman, and the "Bhagavad Gita"

Engels Jeremy David

ISBN: PB: 9780226746029, ISBN: HB: 9780226745978, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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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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Philosophy

Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization

Sharp Hasana

ISBN: PB: 9780226792484, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza'...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France

Johnson Paul Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...

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Philosophy

What a Philosopher Is Becoming Nietzsche

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780226760438, ISBN: HB: 9780226488110, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche – classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner's cultural renewal – become the philosopher of Will to Power and t...

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Philosophy

Modern Philosophies of the Will

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035803075, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, December 2020
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the lenses of Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, this edited volume traces the development of the relation between the will and the law as self-given. Modern Philosophies of the Will explores a variety of topics including: the ontological turn i...

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Philosophy

The French List

Doing

Nancy Jean-Luc

ISBN: HB: 9780857427847, Seagull Books, December 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Doing", Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons...

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