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Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

Pierre Jemima

ISBN: PB: 9780226923031, ISBN: HB: 9780226923024, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

What is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africa's complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierre's groundbreaking "The Predicament of Blackness" is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Pure Element of Time

Be'er Haim

ISBN: PB: 9781611684315, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Published in 1998 as Havalim, "The Pure Element of Time" is a rich and evocative autobiographical novel about a writer's development. With his keen eye and opulent writing style, Haim Be'er turns the story of his childhood and maturity into a complex...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill Graham, Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226314983, ISBN: HB: 9780226314976, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sa...

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Philosophy

Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007748, ISBN: HB: 9780226993355, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
896 pp., 23x15 cm

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Phi...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life

Gross Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.

The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...

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Christianity

Judaism

Promise of Salvation A Theory of Religion

Riesebrodt Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226006932, ISBN: HB: 9780226713915, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
248 pp., 25x15 cm

Why has religion persisted across the course of human history? Secularists have predicted the end of faith for a long time, but religions continue to attract followers. Meanwhile, scholars of religion have expanded their field to such an extent that...

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Biography & Memoires

Playing in Time Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories

Rotella Carlo

ISBN: HB: 9780226729091, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23x15 cm

From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns – Carlo Rotella's "Playing in Time" delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have...

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Contemporary Art

Permission to Laugh Humor and Politics in Contemporary German Art

Williams Gregory H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226898957, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
248 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 76 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Permission to Laugh" explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Gregory H. Williams highlights six o...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Literary Criticism

Petrarch A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

Kirkham Victoria, Maggi Armando

ISBN: PB: 9780226437422, ISBN: HB: 9780226437415, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age".Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the C...

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