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Philosophy

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9780226039480, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss" takes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. Laurence Lampert focuses on exotericism: the use of artful rhe...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence

Strauss Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226030135, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero", or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue...

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Philosophy

Why X Matters

Why Niebuhr Matters

Lemert Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300192544, Yale University Press, July 2013
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of political lead...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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Philosophy

Michael Polanyi and His Generation Origins of the Social Construction of Science

Nye Mary Jo

ISBN: PB: 9780226103174, ISBN: HB: 9780226610634, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 halftones, 2 line illus.

In "Michael Polanyi and His Generation", Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Politics without Vision Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226104294, ISBN: HB: 9780226777467, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational suppor...

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Philosophy

Neighbor Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface

Zizek Slavoj, Santner Eric L., Reinhard Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226045207, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 line illus.

In "Civilization and Its Discontents", Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself".Let us adopt a naive...

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Philosophy

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Laugier Sandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226470542, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
160 pp., 23x15 cm

Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers – but until now her...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Demands of the Day On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry

Rabinow Paul, Stavrianakis Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226036915, ISBN: HB: 9780226036885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
144 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables

"Demands of the Day" asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "d...

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Philosophy

The French List

Silent Crossing

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9780857420770, Seagull Books, June 2013
264 pp., 25x15 cm

A prolific essayist, novelist, translator, philosopher, and a critic of rare elegance, Pascal Quignard returns anew to the major questions of existence in "The Silent Crossing", a haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to t...

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