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Political Science

Difference and Democracy Exploring Potentials in Europe and Beyond

Raube Kolja, Sattler Annika

ISBN: PB: 9783593395029, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
380 pp., 22x14 cm, 5 halftones, 5 colour illus.

As Europe becomes increasingly diverse, understanding the effects of differences among citizens within European democracy crucial. The contributors to "Difference and Democracy" take a novel interdisciplinary approach to this important dimension of s...

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Literary Criticism

Political Science

Proust among the Nations From Dreyfus to the Middle East

Rose Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780226725789, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
256 pp., 22x14 cm, 4 halftones

Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time....

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Jewish Studies

Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel A Challenge to Collectivism

Rozin Orit

ISBN: PB: 9781611680812, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sharply argued volume, Orit Rozin reveals the flaws in the conventional account of Israeli society in the 1950s, which portrayed the Israeli public as committed to a collectivist ideology. In fact, major sectors of Israeli society espoused in...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Anthropology

Accompaniment Assembling the Contemporary

Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226701707, ISBN: HB: 9780226701691, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
248 pp., 22x14 cm

In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an ext...

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Literary Criticism

Kiss My Relics Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages

Rollo David

ISBN: HB: 9780226724614, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of t...

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Education

Law

Courts and Kids Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts

Rebell Michael A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706177, ISBN: HB: 9780226706191, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "...

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General

Interpretation and Social Knowledge On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences

Reed Isaac Ariail

ISBN: PB: 9780226706740, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
216 pp., 22x14 cm, 12 line illus.

For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. "Interpretation and...

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Jewish Studies

Judaism Despite Christianity The 1916 Wartime Correspondence Between Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig

Rosenstock-Huessy Eugen

ISBN: PB: 9780226728018, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm

Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Col...

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Political Science

Quality of Government Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective

Rothstein Bo

ISBN: PB: 9780226729572, ISBN: HB: 9780226729565, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 14 halftones, 2 line illus.

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government in...

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