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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

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

Actual and the Rational Hegel and Objective Spirit

Kervegan Jean-Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226023809, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that "the real is rational and the rational is real". In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-Francois Kervegan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that c...

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Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

Autobiography or "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" A Critical Edition

Gandhi M. K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300234077, Yale University Press, May 2018
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still voice" that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, M. K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography. Drafted during a period of intensive fasting and "in-dwelling" a...

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Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

Arendt and America

King Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565538, ISBN: HB: 9780226311494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as "The Human Condition", "The Origins of Tot...

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Philosophy

Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226538945, ISBN: HB: 9780226538808, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world – and any sc...

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Philosophy

Ascent of Affect Genealogy and Critique

Leys Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226488561, ISBN: HB: 9780226488424, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus...

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Philosophy

Islam

Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"

Al-Ghazali

ISBN: PB: 9780226526478, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his "Incoherence of the Philosophers", "Moderation in Belief" is his most profound work of philosop...

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Philosophy

Archive Fever A Freudian Impression

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502359, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
128 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In "Archive Fever", Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology – fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationshi...

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Computer Science & Internet

Culture Studies

Android Dreams The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Walsh Toby

ISBN: HB: 9781849048712, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google...

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