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Women Studies

Jewish Studies

Women and Water Menstruation in Jewish Life and Law

Wasserfall Rahel

ISBN: PB: 9780874519600, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 1999
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah – separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath...

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Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Ladder Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226660608, University of Chicago Press, March 1999
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenst...

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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

Biography & Memoires

Writings/Interviews

Serra Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226748801, University of Chicago Press, August 1994
286 pp., 22.9x15.6 cm, 32 halftones

One of the most important sculptors of this century, Richard Serra has been a spokesman on the nature and status of art in our day. Best known for site-specific works in steel, Serra has much to say about the relation of sculpture to place, whether u...

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Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939

Wittgenstein Ludwig

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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Contemporary Art

William D Berry 1954-1956 Field Sketches

Berry Elizabeth

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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