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Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"
ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...
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£24,00
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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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Filmed Thought Cinema as Reflective Form
ISBN: PB: 9780226672007, ISBN: HB: 9780226671956, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates, 30 halftones
With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin,...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...
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£12,00
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Cartographic Humanism The Making of Early Modern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780226641188, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What is "Europe", and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries....
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£34,00
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In Quest of History On Czech Statehood and Identity
ISBN: PB: 9788024642673, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In honor of the 2018 centennial of Czech independence, philosopher of law Jiri Priban and award-winning Czech journalist Karel Hvizdala took the opportunity to examine key moments in Czech...
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£15,00
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American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226406619, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaho...
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£21,00
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Inward Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self
ISBN: PB: 9780226361871, ISBN: HB: 9780226639383, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
Western society has never been more interested in interiority. Indeed, it seems more and more people are deliberately looking inward – toward the mind, the body, or both. Michal Pagis's "Inward" focuses on one increasingly popular channel for the int...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Lenore Tawney Mirror of the Universe
ISBN: HB: 9780226664835, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
304 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 200 colour plates
Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on display in art museums around the world. But this art form only began to transcend its origins as a humble craft in the late nineteenth and early twentie...
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£34,00
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Quality of the Archaeological Record
ISBN: PB: 9780226630960, ISBN: HB: 9780226630823, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 line drawings, 8 tables
Paleobiology struggled for decades to influence our understanding of evolution and the history of life because it was stymied by a focus on microevolution and an incredibly patchy fossil record. But in the 1970s, the field took a radical turn, as pal...
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£79,00
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