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Europe

What Nostalgia Was War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

Dodman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226492940, ISBN: HB: 9780226492803, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it coul...

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Philosophy

Poetic Justice Rereading Plato's "Republic"

Frank Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780226515779, ISBN: HB: 9780226515632, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs...

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Philosophy

Other

Powers of Distinction On Religion and Modernity

Levene Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226507538, ISBN: HB: 9780226507361, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this major new work, philosopher of religion Nancy Levene examines the elemental character of religion and modernity. Deep in their operating systems, she argues, are dualisms of opposition and identity that cannot be reconciled with the forms of...

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Philosophy

Creatively Undecided Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency

Fisch Menachem

ISBN: PB: 9780226514512, ISBN: HB: 9780226514482, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper are believed by many who study science to be the two key thinkers of the twentieth century. Each addressed the question of how scientific theories change, but they came to different conclusions. By turning our attention...

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Philosophy

Jewish Studies

Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Arendt Hannah, Scholem Gershom

ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...

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Philosophy

Letters on Ethics To Lucilius

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226528434, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
528 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence".Letters on Ethics" includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy, discu...

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Philosophy

Anthropology

How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226491967, ISBN: HB: 9780226491820, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In "How Lifeworlds Work", J...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Gallope Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...

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Philosophy

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...

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Philosophy

Ascent of Affect Genealogy and Critique

Leys Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226488561, ISBN: HB: 9780226488424, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus...

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