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What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation
ISBN: HB: 9780226581569, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand t...
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What a Philosopher Is Becoming Nietzsche
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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£41,50
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Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry
ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...
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What Is a Complex System?
ISBN: PB: 9780300251104, Yale University Press, September 2020
184 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
What is a complex system? Although "complexity science" is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction...
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£25,00
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Why Do Things Have Names?
ISBN: HB: 9783035802757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2020
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Why is a horse called a horse and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Why did Plato go from being called Aristocles, after his grandfather, to being called Plato, which means muscleman? Where do any names come from? In this delightful book, readers young...
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What is Anarchism? Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman
ISBN: PB: 9783035802269, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2020
256 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
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Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...
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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling The Function of Avowal in Justice
ISBN: PB: 9780226708904, ISBN: HB: 9780226257709, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures – which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of...
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Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226675985, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Who Owns Religion?" focuses on a period – the late 1980s through the 1990s – when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves honoring through their work. While controversies inv...
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Why Liberalism Failed
ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...
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