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Philosophy

Apocalypse of Truth Heideggerian Meditations

Vioulac Jean

ISBN: HB: 9780226766737, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We inhabit a time of crisis – totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all repr...

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Philosophy

Art and Faith A Theology of Making

Fujimura Makoto, Wright N. T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300254143, Yale University Press, February 2021
184 pp., 19x14 cm

Written over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making". What he does in the studio, he asserts, is theological work as much as it...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto

Morris Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...

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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

Action versus Contemplation Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters

Summit Jennifer, Vermeule Blakey

ISBN: PB: 9780226706634, ISBN: HB: 9780226032238, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
256 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone", Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dal...

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Philosophy

Against Fairness

Asma Stephen T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226702124, ISBN: HB: 9780226029863, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 23 line illus.

From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than "You're being unfair!" Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics – Lady Justice – wea...

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Fiction

Philosophy

Answer from the Silence A Story from the Mountains

Frisch Max

ISBN: PB: 9780857427106, ISBN: HB: 9781906497927, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the empti...

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Philosophy

Arc of Love How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time

Ben-Ze'ev Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226633909, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding "yes". The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Be...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Aristotle Democracy and Political Science

Winthrop Delba

ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...

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