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Jewish Studies

Cultural Disjunctions Post-Traditional Jewish Identities

Mendes-Flohr Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226784861, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

The identity of contemporary Jews is multifaceted, no longer necessarily defined by an observance of the Torah and God's commandments. Indeed, the Jews of modernity are no longer exclusively Jewish. They are affiliated with a host of complementary an...

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Jewish Studies

Hermann Cohen Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy

Moyn Samuel, Schine Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9781684580439, ISBN: HB: 9781684580422, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2021
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times – if not the single most significant. But his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings – most o...

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Judaism

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism

Momigliano Arnaldo

ISBN: PB: 9780226794921, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-87) was one of the most distinguished twentieth-century scholars of the classics and of ancient and modern history. Throughout his career, but especially in the final twenty years of his life, he wrote essays on a variety of...

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Music

Mozart and the Mediation of Childhood

Mueller Adeline

ISBN: HB: 9780226629667, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones, 9 line drawings

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young compose...

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Anthropology

Crooked Cats Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene

Mathur Nayanika

ISBN: PB: 9780226771922, ISBN: HB: 9780226771892, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

How do humans live near big cats – tigers, leopards, and lions – that may or may not be predatory? Though they are popularly known as "man eaters", this new book by anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reframes them as cats that have gone off the straight...

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Literary Criticism

Climate and the Making of Worlds Toward a Geohistorical Poetics

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226776286, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

In this book, Tobias Menely develops a materialist ecocriticism, tracking the imprint of the planetary across a long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings which continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-m...

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Philosophy

Urban Condition

Mongin Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9788024632933, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2021
300 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The first installment in Karolinum's new Vaclav Havel Series – which aims to continue the philosophical discourse of that thinker, playwright, dissident, and president – this book asks whe...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment

Marion Jean-Luc

ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...

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Travel

Cold Latitudes

McGuire Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9781602234376, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2021
110 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Cold Latitudes is a memoir in essay form based on years of working in the Alaska Arctic and Antarctica. The author was privileged to see first-hand worlds that few will ever know, while participating in cutting-edge research at high latitudes. From s...

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General

Seeing Silicon Valley Life inside a Fraying America

Meehan Mary Beth, Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226786483, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 67 colour plates

Acclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Val...

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