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Philosophy

Maimonides and Spinoza Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature

Parens Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226645742, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
240 pp., 25x15 cm

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza – as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization – among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Improvisation

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226662794, ISBN: HB: 9780226662787, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts – from musi...

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Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen

Plotkin Sidney, Tilman Rick

ISBN: PB: 9780300159998, Yale University Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thorstein Veblen is best known for his authorship of "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "The Theory of Business Enterprise", which made him a celebrated figure in the fields of economics and sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. In this...

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Technology & Engineering

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future

Pickering Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226669762, ISBN: HB: 9780226669755, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
152 pp., 23x15 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. His highly unusual style and insistence on what remains hidden or unsaid in his writing make pinning him to a particular position tricky. Nonetheless, certain rea...

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Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Philosophy

Companion to Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics"

Polt Richard, Fried Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300085242, Yale University Press, March 2001
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Martin Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics", first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its ori...

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Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Ladder Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226660608, University of Chicago Press, March 1999
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenst...

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Composing the Soul Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology

Parkes Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226646879, ISBN: HB: 9780226646862, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
496 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table

Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888), "That a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings – this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader... Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simpl...

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Nietzsche and Asian Thought

Parkes Graham

ISBN: PB: 9780226646855, ISBN: HB: 9780226646831, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
261 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from important thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. Bringing together thirteen interna...

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