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Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues
ISBN: PB: 9780226007748, ISBN: HB: 9780226993355, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
896 pp., 23x15 cm
Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Phi...
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Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp
ISBN: PB: 9780226922386, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 halftones
Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that c...
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Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
ISBN: PB: 9780226333199, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
152 pp., 17.8x15 cm, 8 halftones
"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty – and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismisse...
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American Nietzsche A History of an Icon and His Ideas
ISBN: PB: 9780226006765, ISBN: HB: 9780226705811, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm, 21 halftones
If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morali...
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Culture of Disaster
ISBN: HB: 9780226358215, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared resp...
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Soul of the Greeks An Inquiry
ISBN: PB: 9780226004495, ISBN: HB: 9780226137964, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm
The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal,...
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Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
ISBN: PB: 9780226042381, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
674 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "natura...
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Maimonides and Spinoza Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
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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Walter Benjamin An Introduction to His Work and Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226772226, ISBN: HB: 9780226772219, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm
Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intri...
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Ethics of Interrogation
ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm
The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...
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