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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2018, Issue 46

Bilbao Ana, Meta Bauer Ute, Esche Charles, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381973, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Education

Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Wineburg Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780226357218, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become cliches: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but...

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Business & Economics

Fighting Financial Crises Learning from the Past

Gorton Gary B., Tallman Ellis W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479514, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

If you've got some money in the bank, chances are you've never seriously worried about not being able to withdraw it. But there was a time in the United States, an era that ended just over a hundred years ago, in which bank customers had to pay close...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought

Lysaker John Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780226569567, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...

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Contemporary Art

Neolithic Childhood Art in a False Present, c. 1930

Holert Tom

ISBN: HB: 9783035801064, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2018
400 pp., 26.7x17.1 cm, 400 colour plates

Resonating at the heart of "Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930" is the question whether art has present, past, and future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art was intended to render superfluous art's social and...

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Poetry

Coming Out of Nowhere Alaska Homestead Poems

Schandelmeier Linda

ISBN: PB: 9781602233607, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2018
90 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

"The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us – /became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, /we disappeared into trees – /they clothed usin delirious green. /... We knew the song/ of this place, made it up, / sang it –" Homeste...

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Contemporary Art

Out of Easy Reach

Glenn Allison M.

ISBN: PB: 9780985096069, University of Chicago Press, DePaul Art Museum, September 2018
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 colour plates, 3 maps

Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, the exhibition "Out of Easy Reach" presents the work of twenty-four US-based, female-identifying artists from the black and Lat...

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Literary Criticism

Paper Minds Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness

Kramnick Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226573151, ISBN: HB: 9780226573014, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that address problems of consciousness? In "Paper Minds", Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relation...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Becoming Political Spinoza's Vital Republicanism and the Democratic Power of Judgment

Skeaff Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226555478, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza's thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, "Becoming Politi...

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