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Philosophy

Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity

Derrida Jacques

ISBN: HB: 9780226677460, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
168 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...

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Philosophy

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling The Function of Avowal in Justice

Foucault Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780226708904, ISBN: HB: 9780226257709, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures – which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of...

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Philosophy

Chattering Mind A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

McCormick Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226677774, ISBN: HB: 9780226677637, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass", the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatte...

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Political Science

Politics for Everybody Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

O'Gorman Ned

ISBN: PB: 9780226683157, ISBN: HB: 9780226665023, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O'Gorman argues just the opposite: "Politics for Everybody" con...

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Philosophy

Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart

Schurmann Reiner

ISBN: PB: 9783035801484, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2020
144 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm

In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing...

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Philosophy

Courting the Abyss Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition

Durham Peters John

ISBN: PB: 9780226717784, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...

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Philosophy

Challenge of Nietzsche How to Approach His Thought

Fortier Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780226679396, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely read authors in the world, from the time of his death to the present – as well as one of the most controversial. He has been celebrated as a theorist of individual creativity and self-care but also condem...

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Philosophy

Information and Mind The Philosophy of Fred Dretske

Skokowski Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781684000692, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2020
155 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Information and Mind explores questions of consciousness that Fred Dretske addressed in his philosophical career. Ranging from one of the earliest problems Dretske analyzed – the nature of seeing an object – to epistemological issues that he began wo...

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Philosophy

Against Fairness

Asma Stephen T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226702124, ISBN: HB: 9780226029863, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 23 line illus.

From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than "You're being unfair!" Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics – Lady Justice – wea...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect

Brenkman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures

In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

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