art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...
PB:
£20,00
QTY:
HB:
£76,00
QTY:
Vindicatio Aristotelis Two Works in the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780866986311, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, April 2021
992 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 line drawing
The Greek philosopher George of Trebizond started the Plato-Aristotle Controversy of the Renaissance with two works published in Rome in the late 1450s. The first was his Protectio Aristotelis Problematum (The Protection of Aristotle's Problemata), w...
HB:
£152,00
QTY:
Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment
ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...
PB:
£18,00
QTY:
HB:
£76,00
QTY:
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...
PB:
£32,00
QTY:
Rabbit Between Us
ISBN: HB: 9780857427977, Seagull Books, April 2021
172 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence"?  ...
HB:
£18,99
QTY:
Decent Life Morality for the Rest of Us
ISBN: PB: 9780226786346, ISBN: HB: 9780226609744, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
You're probably never going to be a saint. Even so, let's face it: you could be a better person. We all could. But what does that mean for you?   In a world full of suffering and deprivation, it's easy to despair – and it's also easy to judge ourselv...
PB:
£15,00
QTY:
HB:
£19,00
QTY:
Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature
ISBN: HB: 9780226769950, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 6 line drawings
Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one plac...
HB:
£18,00
QTY:
How Socrates Became Socrates A Study of Plato's "Phaedo," "Parmenides," and "Symposium"
ISBN: HB: 9780226746333, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Plato's stride...
HB:
£36,00
QTY:
Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...
HB:
£16,00
QTY:
Liberalism of Care Community, Philosophy, and Ethics
ISBN: PB: 9780226745350, ISBN: HB: 9780226745213, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Attention to care in modern society has fallen out of view as an ethos of personal responsibility, free markets, and individualism has taken hold. The Liberalism of Care argues that contemporary liberalism is suffering from a crisis of care, manifest...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
HB:
£84,00
QTY: