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Vindicatio Aristotelis Two Works in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780866986311, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
992 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 line drawing
The Greek philosopher George of Trebizond started the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance with two works published in Rome in the late 1450s. The first was his Protectio Aristotelis Problematum (The Protection of Aristotle's Problemata), w...
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Voices of Dissent An Essay
ISBN: HB: 9780857428622, Seagull Books, March 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported in...
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Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...
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Volume 1: Fragments The Existential Situation of Our Time
ISBN: HB: 9780226567297, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy's range and erudition, collecting essay...
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Volume 2: Filaments Theological Profiles
ISBN: HB: 9780226567327, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought...
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View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
ISBN: PB: 9780226273303, ISBN: HB: 9780226757834, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 23.1x15.2 cm
Published in 1918, "The View of Life" is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed "the brightest man in Europe" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics,...
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Vindication of the Rights of Woman
ISBN: PB: 9780300176476, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm
Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heart...
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Virtue Is Knowledge The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy
ISBN: HB: 9780226136547, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one vi...
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Views from the Other Shore Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin
ISBN: PB: 9780300194623, Yale University Press, October 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In this brilliant companion volume to her highly praised Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance, Aileen M. Kelly closely examines a humanist strand of Russian thought that has until now received little notice or understan...
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