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Philosophy

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783037345955, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Living Nature

Kratochvil Zdenek

ISBN: PB: 9788024631318, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Philosophy of Living Nature" focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots of tod...

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Philosophy

Heidegger's Confessions The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond

Coyne Ryan

ISBN: PB: 9780226419077, ISBN: HB: 9780226209302, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In "Heidegger's Confessions", Ryan Coyne isol...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Philosophy

Significant Life Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

May Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226421049, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in "A Significant Life", philosopher Todd May of...

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Nietzsche's Journey to Sorrento Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit

D'Iorio Paolo

ISBN: HB: 9780226164564, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

"When for the first time I saw the evening rise with its red and gray softened in the Naples sky", Nietzsche wrote, "it was like a shiver, as though pitying myself for starting my life by being old, and the tears came to me and the feeling of having...

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Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Rhinoceros

Armengaud Francoise

ISBN: HB: 9783037345474, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, colour throughout illus.

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...

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Philosophy

Hardship and Happiness

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226748337, ISBN: HB: 9780226748320, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
352 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE – 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of...

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Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Foundations of Natural Morality On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law

Seagrave S. Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780226380674, ISBN: HB: 9780226123431, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between t...

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