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Allure of Matter Materiality Across Chinese Art
ISBN: PB: 9780935573640, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 110 colour plates
Building on the Art and Materiality Symposium held on the occasion of the Smart Museum's exhibition The Allure of Matter, this publication considers the important but often overlooked role materials have played in the history of Chinese art and inclu...
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Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...
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Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism A Philosophical Manifesto
ISBN: PB: 9781551647425, ISBN: HB: 9781551647449, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical so...
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Allies and Rivals German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University
ISBN: HB: 9780226341811, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center o...
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American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226756059, ISBN: HB: 9780226769769, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
504 pp., 25x22 cm, 28 halftones, 14 tables
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this...
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£56,00
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Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France
ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...
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£84,00
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African American Political Thought A Collected History
ISBN: PB: 9780226725918, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"African American Political Thought" offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, so...
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Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
ISBN: PB: 9780226723471, ISBN: HB: 9780226723334, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables
Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undo...
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£76,00
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Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226754574, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which b...
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£34,00
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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City
ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...
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