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Death Penalty, Volume II

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226410821, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a...

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Philosophy

Given Time I. Counterfeit Money

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504315, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
182 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundament...

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Philosophy

Of Spirit Heidegger and the Question

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504148, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
148 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes". These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism – of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particul...

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Anthropology

Signs from Silence Ur of the First Sumerians

Charvat Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024631301, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2017
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934...

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Philosophy

Spurs Nietzsche's Styles / Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226503165, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
172 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, de...

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Philosophy

Truth in Painting

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504629, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
402 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 51 halftones

The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and...

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Philosophy

Work of Mourning

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502496, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher – if not the only famous philosopher". He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes fr...

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Fiction

Women Studies

India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

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Architecture

Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright A Complete Catalog (Updated Fourth Edition)

Allin Storrer William

ISBN: PB: 9780226435756, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
528 pp., 22.1x14.5 cm, 371 colour plates, 99 halftones, 32 line drawings

From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years a...

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Poetry

Unlikely Designs

Willingham Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780226472379, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, "Unlikely Designs" draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charle...

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