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Two Thumbs Up How Critics Aid Appreciation
ISBN: HB: 9780226064284, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for cri...
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That One Should Disdain Hardships The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
ISBN: HB: 9780300226034, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 17.7x12 cm
The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his era, imperial Rome, and his message still resonates with startling clarity today. Alongside Stoics like Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, he emphasized ethics...
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Idea of Hegel's "Science of Logic"
ISBN: PB: 9780226717647, ISBN: HB: 9780226065885, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Although Hegel considered "Science of Logic" essential to his philosophy, it has received scant commentary compared with the other three books he published in his lifetime. Here philosopher Stanley Rosen rescues the "Science of Logic" from obscurity,...
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How We Cooperate A Theory of Kantian Optimization
ISBN: PB: 9780300233339, Yale University Press, June 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Game theory assumes that people are self-interested and works from this premise to explain competitive behavior. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for coope...
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Kierkegaard and the Mermaid
ISBN: HB: 9783035801415, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2019
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willi...
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Seeming and Being in Plato's Rhetorical Theory
ISBN: HB: 9780226567013, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table
The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in "The Sophist". In that dialogue Plato in...
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£34,00
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Marx's Dream From Capitalism to Communism
ISBN: HB: 9780226554525, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx is read almost solely through the lens of Marxism, his works examined for how they fit into the doctrine that was developed from them after his death. With "Marx's Dream", Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed a...
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£34,00
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What Philosophy Wants from Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...
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In Praise of Forgetting Historical Memory and its Ironies
ISBN: PB: 9780300227109, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 21x14 cm
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly abs...
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German Idealism as Constructivism
ISBN: HB: 9780226349909, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"German Idealism as Constructivism" is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore – it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of con...
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