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Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...
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Critique of Freedom The Central Problem of Modernity
ISBN: HB: 9780226465906, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Hoffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Hoffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and eq...
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Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226748573, ISBN: HB: 9780226748436, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 figures
One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over – and upending – nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ub...
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Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones
Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...
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Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
ISBN: HB: 9780226717951, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 26 halftones
While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be made. Traditionally, vanitas still life paintings are considered to raise ontological issues while landscapes...
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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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Ethics of Oneness Emerson, Whitman, and the "Bhagavad Gita"
ISBN: PB: 9780226746029, ISBN: HB: 9780226745978, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We live in an era defined by a sense of separation, even in the midst of networked connectivity. As cultural climates sour and divisive political structures spread, we are left wondering about our ties to each other. Consequently, there is no better...
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Prisms of the People Power and Organizing in Twenty-First Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226743905, ISBN: HB: 9780226743875, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 7 tables
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this moment of societal upheaval. Unfortunately much of...
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Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...
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Feeling of History Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
ISBN: PB: 9780226746951, ISBN: HB: 9780226746814, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftones
Today it seems the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, are hardening. Daily editorials compare the contemporary arrival of Muslim refugees with the "Muslim conquest of 711", warn...
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