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Christianity

Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Authoritarianism Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

Brown Wendy, Gordon Peter E., Pensky Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226597270, ISBN: HB: 9780226597133, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to "traditional values", in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstrea...

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Philosophy

Other

Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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Philosophy

Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination

Garver Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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Philosophy

Human Condition Second Edition

Arendt Hannah

ISBN: PB: 9780226586601, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking origin...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

Lysaker John Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780226569567, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Becoming Political Spinoza's Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment

Skeaff Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226555478, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, "Becoming Politi...

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Philosophy

Anthropology

Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War

Geroulanos Stefanos, Meyers Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226556598, ISBN: HB: 9780226556451, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In "The Human B...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon

Henke Miriam, Lee Schnee Jordan

ISBN: HB: 9783035800968, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2018
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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