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Sea as Mirror Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
ISBN: PB: 9783035803686, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Sea as Mirror traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a...
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£28,00
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Spare the Rod Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools
ISBN: PB: 9780226785707, ISBN: HB: 9780226785677, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Spare the Rod, historian Campbell F. Scribner and philosopher Bryan R. Warner investigate the history and philosophy of America's punishment and discipline practices in schools. To delve into this controversial subject, they first ask questions of...
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£76,00
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Subversive Simone Weil A Life in Five Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9780226549330, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders", Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil tau...
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Secrecy Silence, Power, and Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226746647, ISBN: HB: 9780226746500, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and...
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Seven Letters to Melin From Letters to My Scientist Friend
ISBN: PB: 9788024643755, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2021
300 pp., 19x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Josef Safarik's "Seven Letters to Melin" is an exploration of man's alienation from nature – and from himself – in the modern technological age. Conceived as a series of letters to Melin,...
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Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9781649590084, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
513 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 colour plates, 5 halftones, 42 figures
In the humanities, the field of "social knowledge creation" has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and pe...
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£64,00
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Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
ISBN: PB: 9780226792484, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza'...
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£29,00
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Soliloquies St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
ISBN: HB: 9780300238549, Yale University Press, October 2020
408 pp., 21x14 cm
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a h...
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Saint and the Atheist Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: HB: 9780226719436, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs....
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Socratic Way of Life Xenophon's "Memorabilia"
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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