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Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
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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£22,00
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£76,00
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Critique of Freedom The Central Problem of Modernity
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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£32,00
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Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
ISBN: PB: 9780300255348, ISBN: HB: 9780300208535, Yale University Press, November 2020
1176 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine". For those who do, but demand a God th...
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£25,00
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Collective Memory and the Historical Past
ISBN: PB: 9780226758466, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel...
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£29,00
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Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...
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£28,00
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...
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£16,00
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Critique The Stakes of Form
ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...
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£24,00
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Critique and the Digital
ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...
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£24,00
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Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk
ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables
From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Courting the Abyss Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780226717784, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...
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£20,00
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