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Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...
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£16,00
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Planet of Viruses Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226782591, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
In 2020, an invisible germ – a virus – wholly upended our lives. We're most familiar with the viruses that give us colds or Covid-19. But viruses also cause a vast range of other diseases, including one disorder that makes people sprout branch-like g...
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£12,00
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Dialogical Imaginations Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
ISBN: PB: 9783037349397, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
736 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 85 halftones, 30 colour plates
We tend to think of imagination as private, originating from our innermost selves – and language as something that is created in communication. Turning this idea on its head, the contributors to "Dialogical Imaginations" start from the provocative pr...
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£49,00
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Strange Likeness Description and the Modernist Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226722528, ISBN: HB: 9780226722498, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Amber Waves The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop
ISBN: HB: 9780226553719, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
216 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 11 halftones
On our breakfast tables and in our bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. "Amber Waves" is a biography of a group of species that grew in sc...
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£20,00
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Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein
ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology Selected Papers
ISBN: HB: 9780226568133, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
672 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
Robert J. Zimmer is best known in mathematics for the highly influential conjectures and program that bear his name. "Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology: Selected Papers" brings together some of the most significant writings by Z...
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Accounting for Capitalism The World the Clerk Made
ISBN: HB: 9780226977973, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of thi...
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Gestation of German Biology Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling
ISBN: HB: 9780226520797, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The emergence of biology as a distinct science in the eighteenth century has long been a subject of scholarly controversy. Michel Foucault, on the one hand, argued that its appearance only after 1800 represented a fundamental rupture with the natural...
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£34,00
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Gershom Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
ISBN: PB: 9781512601138, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-born Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem (1897-1982), the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, delved into the historical analysis of kabbalistic literature from late antiquity to the twentieth century. His writings traverse Jewish historiography, Zi...
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