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Philosophy

Another Freedom The Alternative History of an Idea

Boym Svetlana

ISBN: PB: 9780226069746, ISBN: HB: 9780226069739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line illus.

The word "freedom" is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece through the present day, suggesting that...

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Philosophy

Intuition in Medicine A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning

Braude Hillel D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226071664, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Intuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human. In this bold and timely book, Hillel D. Braude marshals his dual training as a physician and philosopher to examine the plac...

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History

Philosophy

Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

Kuhn Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226458120, ISBN: HB: 9780226458113, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its i...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Philosophy

Europe

Holocaust as Culture A Conversation with Imre Kertesz

Kertesz Imre

ISBN: PB: 9780857425805, ISBN: HB: 9780857420220, Seagull Books, May 2012
112 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is...

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Philosophy

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

ISBN: PB: 9780226026756, ISBN: HB: 9780226026749, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Nicomachean Ethics", along with its sequel the Politics, is Aristotle's most widely read and influential work. Ideas central to ethics – that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Improvisation

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226662794, ISBN: HB: 9780226662787, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts – from musi...

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Philosophy

Uncivil Unions The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

Daub Adrian

ISBN: HB: 9780226136936, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm

"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard".Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership... or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Boredom A Lively History

Toohey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300181845, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...

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Philosophy

Behind Closed Doors IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226770871, ISBN: HB: 9780226770864, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 13 halftones, 1 line illus.

Although the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. The story of how IRBs work today is a story about their past as well as...

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