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Philosophy

Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

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Philosophy

Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry

Marshall David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226722214, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuse...

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Philosophy

What Is a Complex System?

Ladyman James, Wiesner Karoline

ISBN: PB: 9780300251104, Yale University Press, September 2020
184 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

What is a complex system? Although "complexity science" is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Lions' Den Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780300251845, ISBN: HB: 9780300222982, Yale University Press, September 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab...

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Philosophy

Confronting Totalitarian Minds Jan Patocka on Politics and Dissidence

Brinton Aspen

ISBN: PB: 9788024645377, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Jan Patocka was a Czech philosopher who not only lived through the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but he shaped his intellectual contributions in response to that...

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Philosophy

Pragmatism's Evolution Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

Pearce Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780226719917, ISBN: HB: 9780226719887, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and ev...

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Philosophy

Socratic Way of Life Xenophon's "Memorabilia"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226754260, ISBN: HB: 9780226516899, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"The Socratic Way of Life" is the first English-language book-length study of the philosopher Xenophon's masterwork. In it, Thomas L. Pangle shows that Xenophon depicts more authentically than does Plato the true teachings and way of life of the citi...

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Philosophy

Idealization and the Aims of Science

Potochnik Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780226759449, ISBN: HB: 9780226507057, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 6 tables

Science is the study of our world, as it is in its messy reality. Nonetheless, science requires idealization to function – if we are to attempt to understand the world, we have to find ways to reduce its complexity. "Idealization and the Aims of S...

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Philosophy

Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226759272, ISBN: HB: 9780226452623, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation's impact across a wide r...

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Philosophy

Living in Problematicity

Patocka Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024645100, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
84 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Spanning his entire career, this selection of texts by influential philosopher Jan Patocka illustrates his thoughts on the appropriate manner of being and engagement in the world. The writ...

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