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Model Cases On Canonical Research Objects and Sites
ISBN: PB: 9780226780832, ISBN: HB: 9780226780665, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables
We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, w...
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Navigating Normative Orders Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9783593512983, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Normative orders emerge and pollinate everywhere. Whether it be with Kant or among conservatives, posts on the internet, in environmental discourses, or in our raising of our children: Norms populate and spread. This book explains how norms are creat...
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Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
ISBN: PB: 9780300255348, ISBN: HB: 9780300208535, Yale University Press, November 2020
1176 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine". For those who do, but demand a God th...
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Critique The Stakes of Form
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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On Color
ISBN: PB: 9780300248463, Yale University Press, October 2019
272 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 47 colour illus.
Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a...
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Newton and the Club of Astronomers
ISBN: HB: 9783035801408, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2019
64 pp., 22x15.2 cm, Illustrated in colour throughout
We know Isaac Newton as a brilliant polymath, inventor of the calculus and the person who first began to suss out the fundamental laws of physics. But in this delightful account of his life and thought aimed at young readers, we learn oh, so much mor...
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Secret Body Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions
ISBN: PB: 9780226679082, ISBN: HB: 9780226126821, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour illus.
Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal's study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves...
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How We Became Our Data A Genealogy of the Informational Person
ISBN: PB: 9780226626581, ISBN: HB: 9780226626444, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones
We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who...
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How Should We Live? A Practical Approach to Everyday Morality
ISBN: PB: 9780226639079, ISBN: HB: 9780226155654, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What is your highest ideal? What code do you live by? We all know that these differ from person to person. Artists, scientists, social activists, farmers, executives, and athletes are guided by very different ideals. Nonetheless for hundreds of years...
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Human Predicaments And What to Do about Them
ISBN: PB: 9780226638911, ISBN: HB: 9780226359458, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In his latest book, esteemed philosopher John Kekes draws on anthropology, history, and literature in order to help us cope with the common predicaments that plague us as we try to take control of our lives. In each chapter he offers fascinating new...
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