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Biography & Memoires

World of Juliette Kinzie Chicago before the Fire

Durkin Keating Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780226664521, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked...

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Literary Criticism

Europe

Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia

Machovec Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...

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Contemporary Art

Zofia Kulik Methodology, My Love

Jakubowska Agata

ISBN: HB: 9788364177590, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, January 2020
360 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 60 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! Zofia Kulik's rich artistic career has a dual nature. Between 1970 and 1987, she worked alongside Przemyslaw Kwiek as a member of the duo KwieKulik, after which she began to develop a successful individual career. While Kwie...

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Linguistics

Bantu Applicative Constructions

Pacchiarotti Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781684000593, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
0 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This book addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages and proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, especially relevant to Bantu, a large family of lan...

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Linguistics

Revisiting the Essential Indexical

Perry John

ISBN: PB: 9781684000524, ISBN: HB: 9781684000616, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2020
146 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical". He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions ab...

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Philosophy

Hegel's Realm of Shadows Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic"

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703411, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, "The Science of Logic". This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists ca...

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History

Osiris, Volume 34 Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science

Rees Amanda, Rhys Morus Iwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226680415, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of "Osiris" focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling –...

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Literary Criticism

Thinking with Shakespeare Essays on Politics and Life

Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226710198, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions – bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life – animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Road to September 1939 Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Reinharz Jehuda, Shavit Yaacov

ISBN: PB: 9781684580071, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2020
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, let...

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Philosophy

Philosophy en noir

Petricek Miroslav

ISBN: PB: 9788024638539, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to u...

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