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Harootunian Harry D.

ISBN: PB: 9780996635578, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
150 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm

The work of Karl Marx has been taken up by a huge range of American writers, from a wide variety of perspectives. As Harry Harootunian argues in this provocative pamphlet, however, there is an indelible American stamp to this scholarship that unites...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...

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Political Science

State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family

Reardon Laurence Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm

Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...

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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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Political Science

Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

Bernholz Lucy, Landemore Helene, Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...

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Prisms of the People Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America

Han Hahrie, McKenna Elizabeth, Oyakawa Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226743905, ISBN: HB: 9780226743875, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 7 tables

Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of...

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African American Political Thought A Collected History

Rogers Melvin L., Turner Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780226725918, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"African American Political Thought" offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, so...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Justice Is an Option A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

Meister Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226734484, ISBN: HB: 9780226702889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared,...

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Law

Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe

Parthasarathy Shobita

ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...

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Political Science

Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump

Miller Benjamin, Rubinovitz Ziv

ISBN: PB: 9780226735016, ISBN: HB: 9780226734965, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 tables

American foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strateg...

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