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Philosophy

Biopower Foucault and Beyond

Cisney Vernon W., Morar Nicolae

ISBN: PB: 9780226226620, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In "The History of Sexuality: An Introduction", Foucault famously employed the ter...

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Philosophy

Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...

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Contemporary Art

Philosophy

Beyond Speculation Art and Aesthetics without Myths

Schaeffer Jean-Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780857420428, Seagull Books, August 2015
436 pp., 21.5x12.7 cm

In his well-known work of art criticism "Art of the Modern Age", Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and aesthetics from the Jena Romantics, to Nietzsche, He...

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Philosophy

Bad Conscience

Jankelevitch Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780226009537, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Vladimir Jankelevitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In "The Bad Conscience" – published in 1933 and subsequently revised and expanded – Jankelevitch lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grapp...

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Philosophy

Before the Law Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame

Wolfe Cary

ISBN: PB: 9780226922416, ISBN: HB: 9780226922409, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
152 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in "Before the Law", Ca...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Boredom A Lively History

Toohey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300181845, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...

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Philosophy

Behind Closed Doors IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226770871, ISBN: HB: 9780226770864, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 13 halftones, 1 line illus.

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as...

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Philosophy

Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226144290, ISBN: HB: 9780226144283, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures".With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1", the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Back in the USSR

Kagarlitsky Boris

ISBN: HB: 9781906497279, Seagull Books, November 2009
88 pp., 19x11.9 cm

Though it has been nearly two decades since the fall of Communism in the former Soviet Union and the accompanying disintegration of the Soviet state, a strange aspect of the current cultural situation in Russia and in the other former republics of th...

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Military

Philosophy

Barbarisation of Warfare

Kassimeris George

ISBN: PB: 9781850657996, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
334 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Images from Baghdad's now notorious Abu Ghraib prison have come to define the ill-starred occupation of Iraq, but they also remind us of war's undiminished brutality and indiscriminate excess. Yet, what happened in Abu Ghraib t...

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