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Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason
ISBN: PB: 9780226040752, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This land...
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£26,00
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American Synagogue A Sanctuary Transformed
ISBN: PB: 9780874517095, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 1995
455 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When first published in 1987, The American Synagogue quickly established itself as the standard work on the subject. The strength of the book lies in its combination of broad overviews of denominational differentiation that took place and case studie...
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£32,00
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Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the French Painting World
ISBN: PB: 9780226894874, University of Chicago Press, March 1993
198 pp., 21.9x14.2 cm, 13 halftones
In the nineteenth century, the Academie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred years, yielded much of its power to the present system of art distribution, which is dependent upon crit...
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£19,50
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End of Expressionism Art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-1919
ISBN: HB: 9780226890593, University of Chicago Press, June 1990
346 pp., 23.7x16.2 cm, 72 halftones
Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Berlin 3. Dresden 4. Munich 5. The End of Expressionism Notes Select Bibliography Index
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£70,00
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Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939
ISBN: PB: 9780226904269, University of Chicago Press, October 1989
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with som...
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£21,00
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Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780226893587, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
343 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 halftones
Paul Klee – one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century – was associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. We...
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£69,00
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Notebooks, 1914-1916
ISBN: PB: 9780226904474, University of Chicago Press, January 1984
234 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-1916 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been ma...
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£23,50
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