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Socratic Way of Life Xenophon's "Memorabilia"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226754260, ISBN: HB: 9780226516899, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Socratic Way of Life" is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citi...

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Philosophy

Idealization and the Aims of Science

Potochnik Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780226759449, ISBN: HB: 9780226507057, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function – if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. "Idealization and the Aims of S...

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Philosophy

Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226759272, ISBN: HB: 9780226452623, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide r...

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Philosophy

Living in Problematicity

Patocka Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024645100, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
84 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writ...

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Philosophy

Critique The Stakes of Form

Khatib Sami

ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...

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Philosophy

Critique and the Digital

Horl Erich, Pinkrah Nelly Y., Warnsholdt Lotte

ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...

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Philosophy

Value, Conflict, and Order Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Hall Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780226718316, ISBN: HB: 9780226718286, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, dr...

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Philosophy

Georg Simmel Essays on Art and Aesthetics

Simmel Georg

ISBN: PB: 9780226621098, ISBN: HB: 9780226620930, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influentia...

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Philosophy

Life Death

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226699516, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...

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Philosophy

Why Do Things Have Names?

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783035802757, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2020
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Why is a horse called a horse and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Why did Plato go from being called Aristocles, after his grandfather, to being called Plato, which means muscleman? Where do any names come from? In this delightful book, readers young...

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