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Aristotle Democracy and Political Science

Winthrop Delba

ISBN: HB: 9780226553542, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, democracy is seen as the best or even the only legitimate form of government – hardly in need of defense. Delba Winthrop punctures this complacency and takes up the challenge of justifying democracy through Aristotle's political science. In Ar...

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Philosophy

David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society

Hume David, Coventry Angela, Valls Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300207149, Yale University Press, November 2018
408 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars explo...

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Philosophy

Irrevocable A Philosophy of Mortality

Lingis Alphonso

ISBN: PB: 9780226556932, ISBN: HB: 9780226556765, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones

In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology...

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Philosophy

Care and Cure An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine

Stegenga Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780226595030, ISBN: HB: 9780226590813, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables

The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and "Care and Cure" is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferenc...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Sovereignty and the Sacred Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion

Yelle Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226585598, ISBN: HB: 9780226585451, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Sovereignty and the Sacred" challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Authoritarianism Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

Brown Wendy, Gordon Peter E., Pensky Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226597270, ISBN: HB: 9780226597133, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to "traditional values", in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstrea...

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Philosophy

Modernity and its Discontents Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240238, ISBN: HB: 9780300198393, Yale University Press, October 2018
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the sel...

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Philosophy

Other

Abiding Grace Time, Modernity, Death

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569086, ISBN: HB: 9780226568928, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 21 line drawings, 2 tables

Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post-age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his earliest philosophical themes and inquires, ultimately asking: What comes after...

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Philosophy

Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination

Garver Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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