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History of Art

Judgment of Paris

Damisch Hubert

ISBN: PB: 9780226135120, ISBN: HB: 9780226135106, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
396 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, 116 halftones

Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas o...

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Birds

Ecology

Neotropical Birds Ecology and Conservation

Stotz Douglas F., Fitzpatrick John W., Parker III Theodore A., Moskovits Debra K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226776309, ISBN: HB: 9780226776293, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
502 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 46 halftones, 51 line drawings, 64 tables

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pag...

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Philosophy

Embodiment of Reason Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

Meld Shell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226752174, ISBN: HB: 9780226752150, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
492 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant'...

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Philosophy

Short Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Ewing A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226227788, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
286 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This concise volume is at once an excellent introduction to Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" and an original analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the "Critique" chap...

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History of Art

Making Theory/Constructing Art On the Authority of the Avant-Garde

Herwitz Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226328928, ISBN: HB: 9780226328911, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
370 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 30 halftones

Artists and critics regularly enlist theory in the creation and assessment of artworks, but few have scrutinized the art theories themselves. Here, Daniel examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions, and institutions that hav...

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Philosophy

Commentary on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason

White Beck Lewis

ISBN: PB: 9780226040752, University of Chicago Press, May 1996
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This land...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity

Smith Gregory Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226763408, University of Chicago Press, February 1996
376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Among the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to define postmodernism. In this work, Gregory Smith offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the turn to pos...

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History of Art

Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532325, University of Chicago Press, September 1995
462 pp., 23x15 cm, 79 halftones

What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in...

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Sport

Training the Body for China Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic

Brownell Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780226076478, University of Chicago Press, August 1995
401 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 tables, 23 halftones, glossary of Chinese terms

Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University". Now an anthropologist, Br...

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Philosophy

Truth and Existence

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226735238, University of Chicago Press, June 1995
143 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"Truth and Existence", written in response to Martin Heidegger's "Essence of Truth", is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging t...

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