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Education

Philosophy

Education and Equality

Allen Danielle

ISBN: PB: 9780226566344, ISBN: HB: 9780226373102, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables

American education as we know it today – guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country – is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

What Philosophy Wants from Images

Rodowick D. N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...

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Philosophy

Gestation of German Biology Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling

Zammito John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226520797, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural...

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Philosophy

Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics

Makkreel Rudolf A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527765, ISBN: HB: 9780226249315, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book provides an innovative approach to meeting the challenges faced by philosophical hermeneutics in interpreting an ever-changing and multicultural world. Rudolf A. Makkreel proposes an orientational and reflective conception of interpretation...

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Philosophy

What the Foucault?

Sahlins Marshall

ISBN: PB: 9780996635547, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2018
94 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years since Sahlins first devised some after-dinner entert...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Patriarch and the Caliph An Eighth-Century Dialogue between Timothy I and al-Mahdi

Samir Khalil Samir

ISBN: HB: 9780842529891, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Patriarch and the Caliph" presents the famous "dialogue without resolution" between the third Abbasid Caliph, al-Mahdi, and the first Nestorian Patriarch, Timothy I, in Baghdad in 781 CE. The abundance of versions of this intellectually rich deb...

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Philosophy

What Philosophy Is For

Hampe Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226365282, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With "What Philosophy Is For", Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic criti...

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Medieval

Philosophy

Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages

Karnes Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226527598, ISBN: HB: 9780226425313, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23x15 cm

In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imaginatio...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226486635, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche's thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", taught in 1959...

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Philosophy

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: PB: 9780226565705, ISBN: HB: 9780226275857, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in "Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion" is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed...

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