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Image Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226782287, ISBN: HB: 9780226782140, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The thr...
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Voices of Dissent An Essay
ISBN: HB: 9780857428622, Seagull Books, March 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported in...
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Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...
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Seeing Silence
ISBN: HB: 9780226693521, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table
"To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the restlessness that makes creative life possible and the inescapability of death acceptable". So writes Mark C. Taylor in his latest book, a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age...
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Volume 1: Fragments The Existential Situation of Our Time
ISBN: HB: 9780226567297, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
David Tracy is widely considered one of the most important religious thinkers in North America, known for his pluralistic vision and disciplinary breadth. His first book in more than twenty years reflects Tracy's range and erudition, collecting essay...
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Volume 2: Filaments Theological Profiles
ISBN: HB: 9780226567327, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
In the second volume of his two-volume collection of essays from the 1980s to 2018, renowned Catholic theologian David Tracy gathers profiles of significant theologians, philosophers, and religious thinkers. These essays, he suggests, can be thought...
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Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables
Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...
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Last Works Lessons in Leaving
ISBN: HB: 9780300224399, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive...
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I in Team Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226470139, ISBN: HB: 9780226469935, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables
There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports f...
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Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy
ISBN: HB: 9780226303734, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In 2014, the first three volumes of Heidegger's "Black Notebooks" – the personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war years – were published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heidegg...
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