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Lions' Den Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
ISBN: PB: 9780300251845, ISBN: HB: 9780300222982, Yale University Press, September 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab...
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Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence
ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...
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Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...
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Socratic Way of Life Xenophon's "Memorabilia"
ISBN: PB: 9780226754260, ISBN: HB: 9780226516899, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Socratic Way of Life" is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citi...
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Idealization and the Aims of Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226759449, ISBN: HB: 9780226507057, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables
Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function – if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. "Idealization and the Aims of S...
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Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226759272, ISBN: HB: 9780226452623, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide r...
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Living in Problematicity
ISBN: PB: 9788024645100, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
84 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writ...
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£14,00
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Tragedy
ISBN: HB: 9780300252217, Yale University Press, August 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm
In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture – from literature and politics to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Niet...
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Critique The Stakes of Form
ISBN: PB: 9783035802405, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophic...
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Critique and the Digital
ISBN: PB: 9783035802429, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Erich Horl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of it. The contributors investigate and question not...
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