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Philosophy

Confronting Vulnerability The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics

Schofer Jonathan Wyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226740096, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability", Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their c...

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Philosophy

Politics and the Order of Love An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship

Gregory Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226307527, ISBN: HB: 9780226307510, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Augustine – for all of his influence on Western culture and politics – was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-libe...

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Philosophy

Practices of the Self

Larmore Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226468877, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the nature of the fundamental relation we have to ourselves that makes each of us a self? To answer this question, Charles Larmore develops a systematic theory of the self, challenging the widespread view that the self's defining relation to...

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Philosophy

Medieval Philosophy Redefined

Deely John

ISBN: HB: 9781589662162, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
450 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

With "Medieval Philosophy Redefined" John Deely provides an in-depth, original history of medieval philosophy, tracing a common thread that coherently unifies and defines what he calls "the Latin Age" – which reaches unbroken from the fifth-century w...

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Philosophy

After Life

Thacker Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226793726, ISBN: HB: 9780226793719, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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Computer Science & Internet

Philosophy

Science in the Age of Computer Simulation

Winsberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226902043, ISBN: HB: 9780226902029, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Computer simulation was first pioneered as a scientific tool in meteorology and nuclear physics in the period following World War II, but it has grown rapidly to become indispensible in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics...

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Philosophy

Law in the Laboratory A Guide to the Ethics of Federally Funded Science Research

Charrow Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101651, ISBN: HB: 9780226101644, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billon of research annually in the United States and around the globe. These large public expenditures come with strings, including a complex set of law...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Philosophy

Toward a Rhetoric of Insult

Conley Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226114781, ISBN: HB: 9780226114774, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
176 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 10 halftones

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. And yet, this most human of human behaviors has rarely been the subject of organized and comprehensive...

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