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Political Science

Hobbes's Kingdom of Light A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy

Stauffer Devin

ISBN: PB: 9780226760124, ISBN: HB: 9780226552903, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

Was Hobbes the first great architect of modern political philosophy? Highly critical of the classical tradition in philosophy, particularly Aristotle, Hobbes thought that he had established a new science of morality and politics. Devin Stauffer here...

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Philosophy

Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...

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Philosophy

To Flourish or Destruct A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226759920, ISBN: HB: 9780226231952, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

In his 2010 book "What Is a Person?", Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dime...

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Decorative Arts

Design

West 86th A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226336930, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 24x19 cm, 55 colour plates, 45 halftones

Published on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center, "West 86th" focuses on scholarship in material culture, design history, and the decorative arts. In this issue, Eric Anderson examines how Angerer's photographs of Hans Makart's studio were informed by...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

West 86th, Volume 23, Issue 2

Stirton Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226441276, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, "West 86th" reaffirms the Center's commitment to expanding the conversation regarding the content, meaning, and significance of objects".West 86th"...

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America

General

Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Philosophy

Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend

Safarik Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy

Smith Pangle Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780226688169, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfillment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", this book offers a novel int...

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Earth Sciences

Field Guide to Snow

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602234147, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
140 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates

People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible...

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Philosophy

Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization

Sharp Hasana

ISBN: PB: 9780226792484, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza'...

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