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Philosophy

Radical Sacrifice

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300251500, Yale University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm

The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter an...

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Philosophy

Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)

Winner Langdon

ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...

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Philosophy

Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226677460, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
168 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...

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Philosophy

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling The Function of Avowal in Justice

Foucault Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226708904, ISBN: HB: 9780226257709, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures – which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of...

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Philosophy

Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

McCormick Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...

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Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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Philosophy

Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035801484, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2020
144 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Book of Sleep

El Wardany Haytham

ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...

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Philosophy

Essential Works of Thomas More

More Thomas, Wegemer Gerard B., Smith Stephen W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300223378, Yale University Press, February 2020
1520 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 black&white illus.

In this book, Wegemer and Smith assemble More's most important English and Latin works for the first time in a single volume. This volume reveals the breadth of More's writing and includes a comprehensive selection of his works on theology, political...

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Philosophy

New Science

Vico Giambattista, Taylor Jason, Miner Robert C., Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191134, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm

"The New Science" is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all so...

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