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Journal IV, 1979-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780226204147, University of Chicago Press, December 1989
175 pp., 23x15 cm
"Journal IV" is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar – his works are being transl...
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£31,00
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Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939
ISBN: PB: 9780226904269, University of Chicago Press, October 1989
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with som...
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£21,00
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Animals in Four Worlds Sculptures from India
ISBN: HB: 9780226767260, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
210 pp., 29x22.3 cm, 179 halftones
Animals play a special role in Indian culture. In opposition to deities, they help to frame the human community. Indian philosophy assumes the basic unity of animals and humans and in everyday life animals symbolize various ideas and sentiments. In t...
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£58,00
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Design Discourse History, Theory, Criticism
ISBN: PB: 9780226505145, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
302 pp., 25.2x17.7 cm, 71 halftones, 30 line drawings
Although design infuses every object in the material world and gives form to immaterial processes as well, it is only recently that design itself has become the focus of intellectual debate. In "Design Discourse", Victor Margolin gathers together a b...
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£24,00
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Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780226025957, University of Chicago Press, September 1989
182 pp., 23x15 cm
Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled "The Life of the Mind". Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, "Thinking and Willing". Of the third, "Judging", only the title page, with e...
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£15,00
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Craft of Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780226048697, University of Chicago Press, August 1989
170 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm
Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating li...
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£19,50
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Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism A Commentary on The Spirit of the Laws
ISBN: PB: 9780226645452, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This first comprehensive commentary on "The Spirit of the Laws" uncovers and explicates the plan of Montesquieu's famous but baffling treatise. Pangle brings to light Montesquieu's rethinking of the philosophical groundwork of liberalism, showing how...
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£32,50
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Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World, 1940-1985
ISBN: PB: 9780226117904, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
204 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones
With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana Crane documents the transformation of the New York art world between 1940 and 1985, both in the artistic styles that emerged during this p...
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£21,00
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Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780226893587, University of Chicago Press, July 1989
343 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 125 halftones
Paul Klee – one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century – was associated with all of the major movements of the first half of the century: expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and abstraction. In this economic and political history, O. K. We...
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£69,00
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William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches
ISBN: PB: 9780912006369, ISBN: HB: 9780912006345, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 1989
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm
This book offers a unique glimpse of Alaska and its creatures, rendered on paper by a man who loved and respected them. William D. Berry was nationally known as a wildlife artist, but to many Alaskans, he was also a kind of state treasure and certain...
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£19,00
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£26,50
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