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Jewish Studies

Zionist Ideology

Shimoni Gideon

ISBN: PB: 9780874518337, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 1997
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Winner of the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize, Hebrew University. This superb and highly nuanced study traces the development and ramifications of the ideology of Zionism from its roots in Europe to its full flowering in the establishment of the State of Isra...

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Philosophy

Polonica

Modernity on Endless Trial

Kolakowski Leszek

ISBN: PB: 9780226450469, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
267 pp., 23x15 cm

Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English.

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History of Art

Largesse

Starobinski Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226771366, ISBN: HB: 9780226771359, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
220 pp., 30x21.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 50 halftones

In 1990 the Department of Graphic Arts at the Louvre made their holdings available to guest curators for a program called Parti Pris, or "Taking Sides". In this program, major cultural figures outside of the discipline of art history organized exhibi...

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Philosophy

Why We Are Not Nietzscheans

Ferry Luc, Renaut Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226244815, ISBN: HB: 9780226244808, University of Chicago Press, June 1997
242 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"To think with Nietzsche against Nietzsche". Thus the editors describe the strategy adopted in this volume to soften the destructive effects of Nietzsche's "philosophy with a hammer" on French philosophy since the 1960s. Frustrated by the infinite in...

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Contemporary Art

Transforming the Crown African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996

Sirmans M. Franklin, Beauchamp-Byrd Mora J.

ISBN: PB: 9780965408202, University of Chicago Press, March 1997
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 73 colour plates, 175 halftones

Transforming the Crown is the catalog for a landmark exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute in New York City. The exhibition chronicles the aesthetic production of artists of African and Asian descent in the...

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History of Art

Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

Koerner Joseph Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226449999, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
564 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 223 halftones

In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht D...

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Polonica

Literary Criticism

One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad

Galt Harpham Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226316963, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
226 pp., 21.5x14 cm

The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...

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History of Art

Likeness and Presence A History of the Image before the Era of Art

Belting Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780226042152, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
676 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 12 colour plates, 294 halftones

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...

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History of Art

Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion

Steinberg Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226771878, University of Chicago Press, January 1997
426 pp., 23.4x19.8 cm, 300 halftones

Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg...

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