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Regimens of the Mind Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780226116396, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Regimens of the Mind", Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, p...
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£51,00
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Moralizing Technology Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things
ISBN: PB: 9780226852935, ISBN: HB: 9780226852911, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.
Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply n...
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£70,50
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Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture A Philosophical Analysis
ISBN: HB: 9780226014838, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.
The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In "Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture", Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a mo...
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£37,00
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Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I
ISBN: PB: 9780226144290, ISBN: HB: 9780226144283, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures".With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1", the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited...
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£36,00
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Saints Faith without Borders
ISBN: PB: 9780226519920, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
432 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones, 6 colour illus.
While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity – categories that define the saint. In this collection, Francoise Meltzer and Jas...
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£26,50
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What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
ISBN: PB: 9780226765945, ISBN: HB: 9780226765914, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
544 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.
What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious b...
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£27,00
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£39,00
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Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred
ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...
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Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future
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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£28,00
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£61,00
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Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy
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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£21,00
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Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...
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£56,00
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