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Image Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226782287, ISBN: HB: 9780226782140, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The thr...
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£76,00
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Idealization and the Aims of Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226759449, ISBN: HB: 9780226507057, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables
Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function – if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. "Idealization and the Aims of S...
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Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226759272, ISBN: HB: 9780226452623, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide r...
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Idea of Hegel's "Science of Logic"
ISBN: PB: 9780226717647, ISBN: HB: 9780226065885, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Hegel considered "Science of Logic" essential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime. Here philosopher Stanley Rosen rescues the "Science of Logic" from obscurity,...
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Information and Mind The Philosophy of Fred Dretske
ISBN: PB: 9781684000692, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2020
155 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Information and Mind explores questions of consciousness that Fred Dretske addressed in his philosophical career. Ranging from one of the earliest problems Dretske analyzed – the nature of seeing an object – to epistemological issues that he began wo...
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Irrevocable A Philosophy of Mortality
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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£68,00
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Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9780226527598, ISBN: HB: 9780226425313, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imaginatio...
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£34,00
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£47,00
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In Praise of Forgetting Historical Memory and its Ironies
ISBN: PB: 9780300227109, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 21x14 cm
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly abs...
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I in Team Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780226470139, ISBN: HB: 9780226469935, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 tables
There is one sound that will always be loudest in sports. It isn't the squeak of sneakers or the crunch of helmets; it isn't the grunts or even the stadium music. It's the deafening roar of sports fans. For those few among us on the outside, sports f...
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£72,00
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Ideas in History Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas 8:2
ISBN: PB: 9788763543262, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2015
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Ideas in History" is the result of collaborative efforts between nearly a dozen universities and colleges to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in Nordic countries and internationally. It en...
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