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Ethics of Interrogation

Skerker Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226761626, ISBN: HB: 9780226761619, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm

The act of interrogation, and debate over its use, pervade our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media,...

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Philosophy

Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938

Bruzina Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300182965, Yale University Press, November 2011
658 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina shows that Fink was actuall...

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Philosophy

Exploring Happiness From Aristotle to Brain Science

Bok Sissela

ISBN: PB: 9780300178104, Yale University Press, July 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness – from...

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Philosophy

Edmund Husserl's Freiburg Years, 1916-1938

Mohanty J. N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300152210, Yale University Press, June 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In his award-winning book "The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development", J. N. Mohanty charted Husserl's philosophical development from the young man's earliest studies – informed by his work as a mathematician – to the publication of...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Erotic Attunement Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals

Traina Cristina L. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226811383, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
376 pp., 22x15 cm

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children – in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young childr...

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Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Philosophy

Ethical Compass Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century

Wiesel Elie

ISBN: PB: 9780300169157, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 21.1x14 cm

In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over "the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world". Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel...

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Philosophy

Embodiment of Reason Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

Meld Shell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226752174, ISBN: HB: 9780226752150, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
492 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...

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Philosophy

Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Cohen Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112756, ISBN: HB: 9780226112749, University of Chicago Press, December 1994
364 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 1 table

"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of trans...

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