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Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"

Major Rafael

ISBN: PB: 9780226924212, ISBN: HB: 9780226924205, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm

Leo Strauss's "What Is Political Philosophy?" addresses almost every major theme in his life's work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Yet precisely because the book is so foundational, if we want to understand Stra...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Strauss Leo

ISBN: HB: 9780226922782, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoz...

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Philosophy

Love A History

May Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300187748, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Love – unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting – is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Si...

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Philosophy

Little Histories

Little History of Philosophy

Warburton Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780300187793, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss An Intellectual Biography

Tanguay Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300172102, Yale University Press, April 2011
272 pp., 20.1x13 cm

Since political theorist Leo Strauss' death in 1973, American interpreters have heatedly debated his intellectual legacy. Daniel Tanguay recovers Strauss from the atmosphere of partisan debate that has dominated American journalistic, political, and...

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Philosophy

Law in the Laboratory A Guide to the Ethics of Federally Funded Science Research

Charrow Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101651, ISBN: HB: 9780226101644, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line illus.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together fund more than $40 billon of research annually in the United States and around the globe. These large public expenditures come with strings, including a complex set of law...

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Logic and Pragmatism Selected Essays by Giovanni Vailati

Arrighi Claudia, Cantu Paola de Zan Mauro, Suppes Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9781575865904, ISBN: HB: 9781575865911, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
350 pp., 23x15 cm

Logic and Pragmatism features a number of the key writings of Giovanni Vailati (1863-1909), the Italian mathematician and philosopher renowned for his work in mechanics, geometry, logic, and epistemology. The selections in this book – many of which a...

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Philosophy

Late Derrida

Mitchell W. J. T., Davidson Arnold I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532578, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
200 pp., 23x15 cm

The rubric "The Late Derrida", with all puns and ambiguities cheerfully intended, points to the late work of Jacques Derrida, the vast outpouring of new writing by and about him in the period roughly from 1994 to 2004. In this period Derrida publishe...

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Philosophy

Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile The Making of a Political Philosopher

Sheppard Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9781584656005, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2007
188 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Born in rural Hesse, Germany, Leo Strauss (1899-1973) became an active Zionist and philosopher during the tumultuous and fractious Weimar Republic. As Eugene R. Sheppard demonstrates in this groundbreaking and engaging book, Strauss gravitated toward...

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Logic of the Cultural Sciences Five Studies

Cassirer Ernst

ISBN: PB: 9780300081152, Yale University Press, October 2000
190 pp., 21x14 cm

This new translation of "The Logic of the Cultural Sciences" (formerly entitled "The Logic of the Humanities") makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the...

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