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Jewish Studies

Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem

Arendt Hannah, Scholem Gershom

ISBN: HB: 9780226924519, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was developed in dialogue, through more than two decades of...

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Philosophy

Letters on Ethics To Lucilius

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ISBN: PB: 9780226528434, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
528 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence".Letters on Ethics" includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy, discu...

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Philosophy

Anthropology

How Lifeworlds Work Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being

Jackson Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226491967, ISBN: HB: 9780226491820, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted. In "How Lifeworlds Work", J...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Deep Refrains Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable

Gallope Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226483696, ISBN: HB: 9780226483559, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 20 line drawings

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance? In "Deep Ref...

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Philosophy

Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226500256, ISBN: HB: 9780226500119, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory v...

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Philosophy

Ascent of Affect Genealogy and Critique

Leys Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780226488561, ISBN: HB: 9780226488424, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus...

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Philosophy

Media Studies

New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre

Shuster Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226503950, ISBN: HB: 9780226503813, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...

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Philosophy

Edge of Reason A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

Baggini Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780300228724, ISBN: HB: 9780300208238, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving – or even discussing – divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animal...

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Philosophy

On Faith and Science

Larson Edward J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300216172, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 21x14 cm

Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...

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Philosophy

Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond

Gere Cathy

ISBN: HB: 9780226501857, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plot...

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