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Memoirs Hans Jonas
ISBN: PB: 9781684580460, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
When Hans Jonas died in 1993, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogen...
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£32,00
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Deconstruction An American Institution
ISBN: PB: 9780226536057, ISBN: HB: 9780226535869, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that h...
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£26,00
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£76,00
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Automatic Religion Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France
ISBN: PB: 9780226749723, ISBN: HB: 9780226749693, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers – free will and religion – are in some ways fundamentally opposed. While free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and the conscious weighing of alternatives...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Engineering Ethics Contemporary and Enduring Debates
ISBN: PB: 9780300209242, Yale University Press, July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...
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£18,00
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Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226538945, ISBN: HB: 9780226538808, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn't be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world – and any sc...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State
ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...
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£20,50
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£67,50
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How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780226491967, ISBN: HB: 9780226491820, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In "How Lifeworlds Work", J...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...
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£66,00
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Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...
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Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9780226429304, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote "The Prince", his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of "The Prin...
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