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Nietzsche's Enlightenment The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

Franco Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226709062, ISBN: HB: 9780226259819, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 23x15 cm

While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche's earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsi...

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Ecology

Philosophy

Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity

Testot Laurent

ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...

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Philosophy

Opening of the American Mind Ten Years of The Point

ISBN: PB: 9780226738710, ISBN: HB: 9780226735801, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for though...

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Philosophy

Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human

Berkowitz Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...

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Philosophy

Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...

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Philosophy

Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....

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Philosophy

Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

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Europe

Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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Philosophy

Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence

Brinton Aspen

ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...

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Philosophy

Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

Pearce Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...

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