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Philosophy

Kronman Anthony T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300255348, ISBN: HB: 9780300208535, Yale University Press, November 2020
1176 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine". For those who do, but demand a God th...

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Philosophy

Collective Memory and the Historical Past

Barash Jeffrey Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226758466, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Enlightenment The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period

Franco Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226709062, ISBN: HB: 9780226259819, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
280 pp., 23x15 cm

While much attention has been lavished on Friedrich Nietzsche's earlier and later works, those of his so-called middle period have been generally neglected, perhaps because of their aphoristic style or perhaps because they are perceived to be inconsi...

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Philosophy

Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity

Testot Laurent

ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...

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Philosophy

On Order St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3

Foley Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238532, Yale University Press, October 2020
352 pp., 21x14 cm

The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the "Cassiciacum dialogues", these four works are of a...

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Philosophy

Soliloquies St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4

Foley Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238549, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 21x14 cm

The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a h...

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Philosophy

Opening of the American Mind Ten Years of The Point

ISBN: PB: 9780226738710, ISBN: HB: 9780226735801, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for though...

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Philosophy

Facets of the Human Condition Truthtelling and Being Human

Berkowitz Roger

ISBN: PB: 9781551647616, ISBN: HB: 9781551647630, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the leading thinker of politics and the humanities in the modern era and continues to draw widespread attention. No other scholar so enrages and engages citizens and scholars from all political persuasions, all the while...

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Philosophy

Reading Marx On Transcendental Materialism

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035802016, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories...

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Philosophy

Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre

Catalano Joseph S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....

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