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Philosophy

American Philosopher Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn

Borradori Giovanna

ISBN: PB: 9780226066486, University of Chicago Press, March 1994
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar", this book explores the identity of the American phi...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Vocation of a Teacher Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065823, ISBN: HB: 9780226065816, University of Chicago Press, January 1991
372 pp., 23x15 cm

This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also v...

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History of Art

Social History of Modern Art, Volume 1 Art in an Age of Revolution, 1750-1800

Boime Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780226063348, University of Chicago Press, January 1990
550 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 283 halftones

In "A Social History of Modern Art", a sweeping multivolume social history of Western art from the French Revolution to World War I, Albert Boime moves beyond the concern with style and form that has traditionally characterized the study of art histo...

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Reference

Craft of Translation

Biguenet John, Schulte Rainer

ISBN: PB: 9780226048697, University of Chicago Press, August 1989
170 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating li...

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Contemporary Art

William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm

This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Death and Dissymmetry The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges

Bal Mieke

ISBN: PB: 9780226035550, ISBN: HB: 9780226035543, University of Chicago Press, January 1989
319 pp., 23x15 cm

Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, "Death and Dissymmetry" radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israeli...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric of Fiction

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065588, University of Chicago Press, February 1983
572 pp., 23x15 cm

The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictiona...

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Philosophy

Critical Understanding The Powers and Limits of Pluralism

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065557, University of Chicago Press, September 1982
422 pp., 23x15 cm

Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In "Critical Understanding", Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism – a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any on...

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Literary Criticism

Rhetoric of Irony

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065533, University of Chicago Press, August 1975
310 pp., 23x15 cm

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony", and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by ana...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065724, University of Chicago Press, October 1974
254 pp., 23x15 cm

When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that...

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