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Lions

Blumenberg Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780857428264, ISBN: HB: 9780857424303, Seagull Books, March 2021
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. "Lions", translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great pre...

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Philosophy

Collective Memory and the Historical Past

Barash Jeffrey Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226758466, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel...

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Philosophy

Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human

Berkowitz Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...

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Philosophy

Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence

Brinton Aspen

ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury

Bernstein J. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226708874, ISBN: HB: 9780226266329, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations – torture – J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructio...

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Philosophy

Thoughts and Things

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226705170, ISBN: HB: 9780226206059, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
136 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields – including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays t...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

Brenkman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures

In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

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Philosophy

Arc of Love How Our Romantic Lives Change over Time

Ben-Ze'ev Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780226633909, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding "yes". The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Be...

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Philosophy

Thinking in the Past Tense Eight Conversations

Bevilacqua Alexander, Clark Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780226601205, ISBN: HB: 9780226601175, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If the vibrancy on display in "Thinking in the Past Tense" is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims wit...

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Philosophy

Sophistry and Political Philosophy Protagoras' Challenge to Socrates

Bartlett Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226639697, ISBN: HB: 9780226394282, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

One of the central challenges to contemporary political philosophy is the apparent impossibility of arriving at any commonly agreed upon "truths". As Nietzsche observed in his "Will to Power", the currents of relativism that have come to characterize...

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