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World

Thinking About History

Maza Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer

Muller-Colard Marion

ISBN: HB: 9783035800074, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Diogenes the Dog-Man

Marchand Yan, Sorel Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9783037349335, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, fully illustrated in colour

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas

Morlot Frederic, Ramstein Anne-Margot

ISBN: HB: 9783037349359, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour thoughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Death Be Not Proud The Art of Holy Attention

Marno David

ISBN: HB: 9780226415970, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche thought that philosophy could learn a valuable lesson from prayer, which teaches us how to attend, wait, and be open for what might happen next".Death Be Not Proud" explores the precedent...

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Philosophy

Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability

May Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226439952, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
232 pp., 21.6x14 cm

It is perhaps our noblest cause, and certainly one of our oldest: to end suffering. Think of the Buddha, Chuang Tzu, or Marcus Aurelius: stoically composed figures impervious to the torments of the wider world, living their lives in complete serenity...

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Philosophy

On Knowing – The Social Sciences

McKeon Richard P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226340210, ISBN: HB: 9780226340180, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 line drawings, 34 tables

As a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophy – across the natural and social sciences and aesthetics – and s...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Between the Lines The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226479170, ISBN: HB: 9780226175096, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophical esotericism – the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines" – was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous "Encyclopedie of Diderot", for instance, not only discusses this pract...

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Philosophy

Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Scare The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War

McCumber John

ISBN: HB: 9780226396385, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber sh...

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