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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling The Function of Avowal in Justice

Foucault Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226708904, ISBN: HB: 9780226257709, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures – which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of...

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Philosophy

Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

McCormick Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...

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Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035801484, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2020
144 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Book of Sleep

El Wardany Haytham

ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...

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Philosophy

Essential Works of Thomas More

More Thomas, Wegemer Gerard B., Smith Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300223378, Yale University Press, February 2020
1520 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 black&white illus.

In this book, Wegemer and Smith assemble More's most important English and Latin works for the first time in a single volume. This volume reveals the breadth of More's writing and includes a comprehensive selection of his works on theology, political...

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Philosophy

New Science

Vico Giambattista, Taylor Jason, Miner Robert C., Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191134, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm

"The New Science" is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all so...

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Philosophy

Courting the Abyss Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition

Durham Peters John

ISBN: PB: 9780226717784, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...

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Philosophy

Challenge of Nietzsche How to Approach His Thought

Fortier Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780226679396, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely read authors in the world, from the time of his death to the present – as well as one of the most controversial. He has been celebrated as a theorist of individual creativity and self-care but also condem...

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Information and Mind The Philosophy of Fred Dretske

Skokowski Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781684000692, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2020
155 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Information and Mind explores questions of consciousness that Fred Dretske addressed in his philosophical career. Ranging from one of the earliest problems Dretske analyzed – the nature of seeing an object – to epistemological issues that he began wo...

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