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Theory and Reality An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

Godfrey-Smith Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226618654, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is "really" like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour o...

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To Flourish or Destruct A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

Smith Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226759920, ISBN: HB: 9780226231952, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

In his 2010 book "What Is a Person?", Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dime...

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Two Thumbs Up How Critics Aid Appreciation

Ross Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780226064284, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for cri...

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Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...

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Tragedy

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: HB: 9780300252217, Yale University Press, August 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm

In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture – from literature and politics to philosophy and theater. Eagleton covers a vast array of thinkers and practitioners, including Niet...

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That One Should Disdain Hardships The Teachings of a Roman Stoic

Rufus Musonius, Lutz Cora E., Reydams-Schils Gretchen

ISBN: HB: 9780300226034, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 17.7x12 cm

The Stoic philosopher Musonius Rufus was one of the most influential teachers of his era, imperial Rome, and his message still resonates with startling clarity today. Alongside Stoics like Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, he emphasized ethics...

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Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury

Bernstein J. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226708874, ISBN: HB: 9780226266329, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations – torture – J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructio...

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Thoughts and Things

Bersani Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226705170, ISBN: HB: 9780226206059, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
136 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Leo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields – including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays t...

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Thinking in the Past Tense Eight Conversations

Bevilacqua Alexander, Clark Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9780226601205, ISBN: HB: 9780226601175, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If the vibrancy on display in "Thinking in the Past Tense" is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims wit...

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Tomorrow the Manifold Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035800999, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2019
256 pp., 20.9x13.3 cm

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault's highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and dif...

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