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Philosophy

Composing the Soul Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology

Parkes Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226646879, ISBN: HB: 9780226646862, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
496 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888), "That a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings – this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader... Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simpl...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche and Asian Thought

Parkes Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226646855, ISBN: HB: 9780226646831, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
261 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from important thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. Bringing together thirteen interna...

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Philosophy

Postmodern Platos Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226993317, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
358 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrid...

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Nature

Ecology

Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America With Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa

Gentry Alwyn H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226289441, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
920 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 291 line drawings

To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only fiel...

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Philosophy

Business & Economics

Individualism and Economic Order

Hayek F. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226320939, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
280 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned e...

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History of Art

Judgment of Paris

Damisch Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones

Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...

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Birds

Ecology

Neotropical Birds Ecology and Conservation

Stotz Douglas F., Fitzpatrick John W., Parker III Theodore A., Moskovits Debra K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226776309, ISBN: HB: 9780226776293, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
502 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 46 halftones, 51 line drawings, 64 tables

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pag...

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Philosophy

Embodiment of Reason Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

Meld Shell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226752174, ISBN: HB: 9780226752150, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
492 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...

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Philosophy

Short Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Ewing A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226227788, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
286 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This concise volume is at once an excellent introduction to Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and an original analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the "Critique" chap...

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History of Art

Making Theory/Constructing Art On the Authority of the Avant-Garde

Herwitz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226328928, ISBN: HB: 9780226328911, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
370 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones

Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that hav...

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