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Philosophy

Garver Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780226575568, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Spinoza's Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In "Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination", Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a gu...

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Seeming and Being in Plato's Rhetorical Theory

Reames Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780226567013, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in "The Sophist". In that dialogue Plato in...

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Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All

Samuelson Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226407081, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward". Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition – which leads to a question that has proved just as inescapable throughout the centuries: Why? Why do we...

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Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

Cohen Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780226511269, ISBN: HB: 9780226511122, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked...

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Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism

Boudry Maarten, Pigliucci Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9780226498140, ISBN: HB: 9780226498003, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits – about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of k...

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Seven Ways of Looking at Religion The Major Narratives

Schewel Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218473, Yale University Press, September 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clea...

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Spurs Nietzsche's Styles / Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226503165, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
172 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, de...

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Significant Life Human Meaning in a Silent Universe

May Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226421049, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer. But in "A Significant Life", philosopher Todd May of...

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Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Hecht Jennifer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300209365, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew the person and ev...

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