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Political Science

Authoritarianism Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

Brown Wendy, Gordon Peter E., Pensky Max

ISBN: PB: 9780226597270, ISBN: HB: 9780226597133, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
160 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, and xenophobia, along with paeans to "traditional values", in brazen bids for electoral support. How do we understand this move to the mainstrea...

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Philosophy

Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism

Boudry Maarten, Pigliucci Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9780226498140, ISBN: HB: 9780226498003, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits – about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of k...

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Philosophy

Edge of Reason A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

Baggini Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780300228724, ISBN: HB: 9780300208238, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving – or even discussing – divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animal...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Book: From the Rigveda to the New Atheism 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy

Bassham Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9781454918479, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2016
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality – and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field. Brief, enaging and beautifully illust...

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Philosophy

Freedom Regained The Possibility of Free Will

Baggini Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226319896, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of fre...

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Philosophy

Law

Happiness and the Law

Bronsteen John, Buccafusco Christopher, Masur Jonathan S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226075495, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 4 tables

Happiness and the law. At first glance, these two concepts seem to have little to do with each another. To some, they may even seem diametrically opposed. Yet one of the things the law strives for is to improve people's quality of life. To do this, i...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Bentley Hart David

ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm

Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...

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History

Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Philosophy

Nation as Network Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

Bernal Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226144818, ISBN: HB: 9780226144788, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is the internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? What happens to politics when international migration is coupled with digital media, making it easy for people to be politically active in a nation from outside its borde...

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Philosophy

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Berkeley George

ISBN: PB: 9780941736053, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, March 2013
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Deeply original, inspiring to some, abhorrent to others, George Berkeley's philosophy of immaterialism is still influential three hundred years after the publication of his most widely read book, "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous". Berkele...

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