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Complete Tragedies, Volume 2 Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: HB: 9780226013602, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE-...

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Companion to John Dewey's "Democracy and Education"

Phillips D. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226408378, ISBN: HB: 9780226408231, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey's magnum opus, "Democracy and Education". Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and – dare we say it – a little dry. In this charming a...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Critical Essays

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424495, Seagull Books, February 2017
554 pp., 25x15 cm

"Critical Essays" ("Situations I") contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly inte...

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Philosophy

Consolations of Mortality Making Sense of Death

Stark Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300219258, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm

A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion For those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal li...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Culture and the Death of God

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

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Philosophy

Confronting Aristotle's Ethics Ancient and Modern Morality

Garver Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780226270197, ISBN: HB: 9780226283982, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good – improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well – cult...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Cur homo? A History of the Thesis of Man as a Replacement for Fallen Angels

Novotny Vojtech

ISBN: PB: 9788024625195, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2014
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Examining, outlining, elucidating, and supplementing the existing body of scholarship concerning the medieval theological supposition that man was created as a replacement for fallen angel...

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Philosophy

Courage to Be Third Edition

Tillich Paul, Cox Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300188790, Yale University Press, May 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, "The Courage to Be" has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Common Faith Second Edition

Dewey John, Alexander Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...

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