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Philosophy

Philosophy of Dreams

Turcke Christoph, Gillespie Susan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300188400, Yale University Press, November 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Why has mankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Turcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrut...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Politics without Vision Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

Strong Tracy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226104294, ISBN: HB: 9780226777467, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational suppor...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181807, Yale University Press, November 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardle...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Hammill Graham, Reinhard Lupton Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226314983, ISBN: HB: 9780226314976, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones

Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sa...

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Philosophy

Plato's Philosophers The Coherence of the Dialogues

Zuckert Catherine H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226007748, ISBN: HB: 9780226993355, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
896 pp., 23x15 cm

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial "Plato's Phi...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Philosophy

Philosophy of Improvisation

Peters Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226662794, ISBN: HB: 9780226662787, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm

Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of cliches. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, "The Philosophy of Improvisation" ranges across the arts – from musi...

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Philosophy

Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen

Plotkin Sidney, Tilman Rick

ISBN: PB: 9780300159998, Yale University Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thorstein Veblen is best known for his authorship of "The Theory of the Leisure Class" and "The Theory of Business Enterprise", which made him a celebrated figure in the fields of economics and sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. In this...

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Philosophy

Paradoxical Life Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice

Wagner Andreas

ISBN: PB: 9780300171525, Yale University Press, July 2011
272 pp., 25x15 cm

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct...

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