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Philosophy

Given Time I. Counterfeit Money

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504315, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
182 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Is giving possible? Is it possible to give without immediately entering into a circle of exchange that turns the gift into a debt to be returned? This question leads Jacques Derrida to make out an irresolvable paradox at what seems the most fundament...

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Philosophy

Of Spirit Heidegger and the Question

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504148, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
148 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes". These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism – of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particul...

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Philosophy

Spurs Nietzsche's Styles / Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226503165, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
172 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, de...

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Philosophy

Truth in Painting

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226504629, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
402 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 51 halftones

The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and...

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Philosophy

Work of Mourning

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226502496, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher – if not the only famous philosopher". He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes fr...

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Jewish Studies

Law

Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court From Brandeis to Kagan

Dalin David G.

ISBN: HB: 9781611682380, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court" examines the lives, legal careers, and legacies of the eight Jews who have served or who currently serve as justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur Gold...

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Music

Guitar Makers The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America

Dudley Kathryn Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226478678, ISBN: HB: 9780226095387, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 3 line drawings

It whispers, it sings, it rocks, and it howls. It expresses the voice of the folk – the open road, freedom, protest and rebellion, youth and love. It is the acoustic guitar. And over the last five decades it has become a quintessential American icon....

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History

Science in the Archives Pasts, Presents, Futures

Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226432366, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 table

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by g...

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Political Science

Asia

Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism

Dirlik Arif

ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...

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Literary Criticism

Counternarrative Possibilities Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns

Dorson James

ISBN: PB: 9783593505541, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2017
360 pp., 21.4x14 cm

"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...

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