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Philosophy

Morlot Frederic, Ramstein Anne-Margot

ISBN: HB: 9783037349359, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour thoughout

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

Law

Artistic License The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation

Hudson Hick Darren

ISBN: PB: 9780226460246, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The art scene today is one of appropriation – of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists. From the musical mash-ups of Girl Talk to the pop-culture borrowings of Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, it's clear that the artistic landscap...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Aftermath of War

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm

"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...

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Philosophy

About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980

Foucault Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780226188546, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship be...

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Philosophy

Articulating the World Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

Rouse Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226293844, ISBN: HB: 9780226293677, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A l...

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Philosophy

History of Art

After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226325583, ISBN: HB: 9780226079493, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 colour plates, 36 halftones

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility – the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influen...

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Philosophy

Animots: Post Animality in French Thought Yale French Studies, Number 127

Senior Matthew, Clark David L., Freccero Carla

ISBN: PB: 9780300206654, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest volume of "Yale French Studies" addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the U.K., and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosoph...

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Philosophy

Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic New Essays on Bertrand Russell's "The Problems of Philosophy"

Wishon Donovan, Linsky Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9781575868462, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, August 2015
281 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century".Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic" brings together ten new essays on Russell'...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Philosophy

Art and Truth after Plato

Rockmore Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226272634, ISBN: HB: 9780226040028, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
328 pp., 23x15 cm

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long...

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