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Philosophy

Coming to Mind The Soul and Its Body

Goodman Lenn E., Caramenico D. Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226061061, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

How should we speak of bodies and souls? In "Coming to Mind", Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain's rival but as its partner. What acts, they...

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Philosophy

Contesting Nietzsche

Acampora Christa Davis

ISBN: HB: 9780226923901, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, sh...

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Culture Studies

Philosophy

Culture of Disaster

Huet Marie-Helene

ISBN: HB: 9780226358215, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared resp...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226042381, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
674 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years, as his work has assumed a crucial place in current debates over the interactions of art, culture, and meaning. A "natura...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Communist Manifesto

Marx Karl, Engels Frederick, Isaac Jeffrey C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300123029, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

It is hard to imagine a book, essay or pamphlet outside of the Bible that has been more influential, and widely read, than Marx and Engels' "Communist Manifesto". Written in 1848, this small book has become one of the world's most influential politic...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Creating a Physical Biology The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology

Sloan Phillip R., Fogel Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226767833, ISBN: HB: 9780226767826, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 9 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbruck published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure", known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper". This seminal paper adva...

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Technology & Engineering

Computer Science & Internet

Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future

Pickering Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...

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Jewish Studies

Philosophy

Confronting Vulnerability The Body and the Divine in Rabbinic Ethics

Schofer Jonathan Wyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226740096, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

While imparting their ethical lessons, rabbinic texts often employ vivid images of death, aging, hunger, defecation, persecution, and drought. In "Confronting Vulnerability", Jonathan Wyn Schofer carefully examines these texts to find out why their c...

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Genetics

Philosophy

Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate

Evans John H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Carnival and Cannibal, Or The Play of Global Antagonism

Baudrillard Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781906497200, Seagull Books, May 2010
92 pp., 18.3x11.9 cm

In "Carnival and Cannibal", distinguished French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) reflects on many of his most significant ideas concerning the significance of language and the relationship between the technological and the social. In this,...

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