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Philosophy

Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History

Gillespie Michael Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226293776, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and...

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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Autobiography

Cowley Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226267920, ISBN: HB: 9780226267890, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero – even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after Facebook post, about themselves. Literary theori...

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Anthropology

Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value

Lambek Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...

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Public Health

Philosophy

Politics of Pain Medicine A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry

Graham S. Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226264059, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line drawings, 2 tables

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new fiel...

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Philosophy

Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...

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Philosophy

Freedom Regained The Possibility of Free Will

Baggini Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226319896, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and is at the heart of numerous political, social, and personal concerns: Do we have free will? In this cogent and compelling book, Julian Baggini explores the concept of fre...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Death of Socrates

Mongin Jean Paul, Street Anna, Le Bras Yann, de Calan Ronan, Mary Donatien

ISBN: HB: 9783037345443, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2015
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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Children's Books

Philosophy

Ghost of Karl Marx

Mongin Jean Paul, Street Anna, Le Bras Yann, de Calan Ronan, Mary Donatien

ISBN: PB: 9783037345450, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, September 2015
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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Philosophy

Morality for Humans Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226324944, ISBN: HB: 9780226113401, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal autho...

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