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What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confrontation

Meier Heinrich

ISBN: HB: 9780226581569, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand t...

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America

Philosophy

Deconstruction An American Institution

Jones-Katz Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...

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Philosophy

Secrecy Silence, Power, and Religion

Urban Hugh B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226746647, ISBN: HB: 9780226746500, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and...

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Philosophy

Luther. The Origin of Modern Self-Consciousness Lectures, Volume 12

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800166, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
224 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

If we are to understand the specifically modern function of self-consciousness, we must first look to the origins of the concept. Among the key thinkers who elaborated on self-consciousness was the German monk and theologian Martin Luther. Reiner Sch...

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Philosophy

To Flourish or Destruct A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226759920, ISBN: HB: 9780226231952, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

In his 2010 book "What Is a Person?", Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dime...

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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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Anthropology

Philosophy

Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto

Morris Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...

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Philosophy

Two Thumbs Up How Critics Aid Appreciation

Ross Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780226064284, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for cri...

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Philosophy

Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend

Safarik Josef

ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...

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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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