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Brill Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de
Book SynopsisThis book contains 15 essays by philosophers, theologians and historians from the Netherlands, France, Italy, England and the United States on Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the French Protestant who found refuge in Rotterdam just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). From the early 1680s onward, Bayle published a series of seminal works, culminating in his Dictionaire historique et critique (1697), that is generally regarded to have served as the "arsenal" of the Enlightenment. Over the last few decades, Bayle has been rediscovered as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment, but experts have found it extremely difficult to come to any agreement concerning his ultimate position, most notably concerning the relationship between faith and philosophy. In this volume both Bayle's philosophy and his theological views are assessed as well as his impact on the Enlightenment and beyond. Contributors include: Hubert Bost, Hans Bots, Wiep van Bunge, Justin Champion, Jonathan Israel, Eric Jorink, Lenie van Lieshout, Antony McKenna, Gianni Paganini, Marie-Hélène Quéval, Todd Ryan, Adam Sutcliffe, Rob van der Schoor, Theo Verbeek, and Jan de Vet.Trade Review"The book gives readers a scrupulously reliable and often insightful introduction to Bayle’s life and thought." J.B. Shank, H-France Review, vol. 11 (2011) 194, pp. 1-14.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. La vie culturelle à Rotterdam du temps de Bayle, Lenie van Lieshout 2. Dutch Cartesians in Bayle’s Dictionary, Theo Verbeek 3. Bayle and Occasionalism: The Argument from Continuous Creation, Todd Ryan 4. Comets in Context. Some Thoughts on Bayle’s Pensées diverses, Eric Jorink 5. Pierre Bayle et les catholiques, Hans Bots 6. Pierre Bayle, un “protestant compliqué”, Hubert Bost 7. Bayle et les théologies philosophiques de son temps, Gianni Paganini 8. Bayle and Judaism, Adam Sutcliffe 9. Bayle’s Double Image during the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel 10. L’édition allemande du Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1741-1744) par Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie-Hélène Quéval 11. Bayle in the English Enlightenment, Justin Champion 12. The Presence of Bayle in the Dutch Republic, Wiep van Bunge 13. Bayle in Two Periodicals of the Late Eighteenth Century: His Presence in L’année littéraire and Journal encyclopédique, Jan de Vet 14. Pierre Bayle and Some of the Figures in His Dictionnaire as seen by De Gids and a Number of Nineteenth-Century Dutch Freethinker and Freemason Periodicals, Rob van der Schoor 15. Pierre Bayle in the Twentieth Century, Antony McKenna Index
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Oxford University Press Henry of Harclay
Book SynopsisThis is the first complete edition of the later work of the medieval philosopher and theologian Henry of Harclay. In colloboration with Raymond Edwards, an English translation is printed on facing pages, making this work available to a much wider audience. The twenty-nine Quaestiones Ordinariae cover a range of topics in metaphysics, theology, physical science, philosophical anthropology and ethics, which were among the most important of those debated in the early fourteenth century. The articles provide a window to this era, as Harclay discusses many of the main questions of his day: whether and why we choose what is evil, how God can know the future and we can still be free, what a virtue is, whether the human soul survives death, whether all things are made up of atoms. This edition enables us to evaluate Harclay, not only in relation to other notable thinkers of his time (such as John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham) but to appreciate the inner coherence of his own thought. An exTrade Reviewimpeccably edited by Mark Henninger and elegantly translated by Raymond Edwards and the editor, reveal for the first time to a wide readership the preoccupations of a brilliant group of thinkers. Non-specialist readers will find much of interest by dipping into them; they do not demand to be read in any particular order. The editor and translator are to be congratulated on an achievement of more moment than they perhaps originally expected. * Jeremy Catto, The English Historical Review *Mark G. Henninger's two-volume critical edition of Henry of Harclay's Ordinary Questions is a major contribution to the field of medieval studies. * Severin V. Kitanov. The Journal of Speculum. *
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Oxford University Press Making History
Book Synopsis''History is past politics, politics is present history.'' Thus observed Edward Augustus Freeman, 19th-century historian and public intellectual. He was an idiosyncratic and imaginative thinker who saw past and present as interwoven and had a way of collapsing barriers of time - a gift for making the reader feel part of history, rather than merely its student. Freeman''s interests ranged widely beyond history, however, and this volume provides a biographical as well as intellectual survey of his activities. Thus chapters intersect with historical episodes such as Tractarianism, Liberal Anglicanism and the Gothic Revival, cutting across the divides that traditionally separate architectural, political, church and imperial history. New influences and nemeses emerge from this consideration of the 1830s to 1850s, providing context and added depth to the familiar view of the mature Freeman: to his historical writing as well as to the personal feuds (e.g. with Froude) for which he was equallyTrade Review[an] entertaining and illuminating volume of essays * Michael Hall, The Victorian *Table of ContentsI INTRODUCTION; II FAITH IN HISTORY; III TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME; IV THE FABRIC OF HISTORY; V RACE AND EMPIRE; VI THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY; VII CONCLUSION
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The University of Chicago Press Dreamland of Humanists
Book SynopsisCalled by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. This title clarifies the social, political, and economic pressures faced by German-Jewish scholars on the periphery of Germany's intellectual world.Trade Review"Dreamland of Humanists is a deeply researched, well-structured, and elegantly written work of history that brings to life the city of Hamburg, a place which, thanks to its unique Hanseatic economic and political traditions, served as a welcome home for the Warburg Library and the three German Jewish intellectuals most closely associated with its name. Emily J. Levine should be commended." (Peter E. Gordon, author of Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos)"
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The University of Chicago Press Darwin Deleted
Book SynopsisThe ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. In this title, the author asks: What if Charles Darwin had not returned from the voyage of the Beagle and thus did not write On the Origin of Species?Trade Review"Using his unrivaled knowledge of Charles Darwin and the revolution associated with his name, Peter J. Bowler digs deeply and profoundly into the ideas and events that Darwin's On the Origin of Species started by asking what would have happened had Darwin died young and the Origin never been written. Would science have gone on much the same; would social ideas associated with Darwin make no appearance? Bowler raises and discusses these and related questions in a work that is fun and informative. Whether or not he is right or wrong in his judgments, he makes you rethink yours. Buy the book and challenge Bowler's counterfactual history." -Michael Ruse, author of Darwinism and Its Discontents"
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The University of Chicago Press Lifes Splendid Drama Evolutionary Biology the
Book SynopsisPeter J. Bowler seeks to recover some of the lost history of life on earth in this work, giving an account of evolutionary morphology and its relationships with palaeontology and biogeography.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Table of Geological Periods and Eras 1: The First Evolutionary Biology A New Biology A Revolution in Science? Transforming Traditions The Professional Framework 2: The Tree of Life Relationships Redefined Form and Function Convergence and Parallelism Ontogeny and Phylogeny The Base of the Tree 3: Are the Arthropoda a Natural Group? The Problem of Arthropod Origins The Genealogy of the Crustacea Peripatus and the Origin of the Tracheata Limulus an Arachnid The Debate Widens The Fossil Record 4: Vertebrate Origins The Ascidian Theory The Annelid Theory The Arthropod Theories Nemertines and the Actinozoa Balanoglossus and the Echinoderms The Environmental Trigger Later Developments 5: From Fish to Amphibian The Origin of Fish The Fin Problem The Origin of the Amphibians From Water to Land 6: The Origin of Birds and Mammals From Reptile to Bird Taking to the Air Monotremes, Marsupials, and Mammals The Mammal-like Reptiles 7: Patterns in the Past Putting Things Together Adaptive Radiation Laws and Trends Rise and Fall Mass Extinctions 8: The Geography of Life Zoological Provinces Lost Worlds Northern Origins Southern Continents 9: The Metaphors of Evolutions Trees and Ladders The Biology of Imperialism? Phylogeny and Modern Darwinism Biographical Appendix Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Readings in Western The
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The University of Chicago Press Another Freedom
Book SynopsisFrom political debates about global free markets to local free lunches, the word 'freedom' is in danger of becoming a distorted cliche. This book explores the history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece, suggesting that our attempts to imagine freedom should occupy the space of not only 'what is' but also 'what if'.Trade Review"In this new and incredibly ambitious account of the anatomy of freedom, Svetlana Boym works through the specifics of historical, aesthetic, and cultural narratives, moving effortlessly from large movements to human relationships and back again. Another Freedom is an engaging and imaginative philosophical experiment, at once intellectually gripping and moving, intensely relevant to the contemporary condition, and a major work of dazzling scholarship." -Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, University of London"
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University of Chicago Press On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity
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The University of Chicago Press Quantum Mechanics Historical Contingency and the
Book SynopsisIn examining the role that timing can play in the establishment of theory and explanation, this book argues that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was accepted not because it was better than David Bohm's (who supplied an alternative explanation), but because it appeared first.
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The University of Chicago Press Biographies of Scientific Objects
Book SynopsisLooks at how whole domains of phenomena come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study. With examples from the natural and social sciences, ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries, this book explores the ways in which scientific objects are both real and historical.
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The University of Chicago Press Discipline and Experience The Mathematical Way in
Book SynopsisThis study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed.
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The University of Chicago Press The Empire of Civilization The Evolution of an
Book SynopsisThe term "civilization" comes with considerable baggage, setting up a dichotomy wherein people, cultures, and histories are "civilized" - or not. This book examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries.Trade Review"This is a hugely ambitious undertaking. Bowden's rich book deserves a wide readership." (Millennium: Journal of International Studies) "The most comprehensive engagement to date with the emergence, history, development, and complexity of the term 'civilization.'... Bowden's book is a must for anyone genuinely curious about the life (not only the history) of ideas." (Political Studies Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Essays on Individualism Modern Ideology in
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The University of Chicago Press The Enlightenment A Genealogy
Book SynopsisWhat was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic.Trade Review"In this crisply written and remarkably wide-ranging and learned book, Dan Edelstein encourages us to rethink our conventional understanding of the Enlightenment and its origins. Teeming with intellectual vitality, this short book returns to readers a bounty of insight and creative thought." - J. B. Shank, author of The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment"
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The University of Chicago Press The Enlightenment A Genealogy
Book SynopsisWhat was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic.Trade Review"In this crisply written and remarkably wide-ranging and learned book, Dan Edelstein encourages us to rethink our conventional understanding of the Enlightenment and its origins. Teeming with intellectual vitality, this short book returns to readers a bounty of insight and creative thought." - J. B. Shank, author of The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment"
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The University of Chicago Press Egyptian Oedipus
Book SynopsisAthanasius Kircher, S J was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. This book presents an interpretation of Kircher's hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Oriental languages.Trade Review"Extraordinary: Kircher, the figure of fun, emerges from Stolzenberg's impressive analysis as a serious scholar." (Anthony Grafton, London Review of Books) "Thoroughly researched and informative." (Times Literary Supplement)
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The University of Chicago Press Descartes Metaphysical Physics
Book SynopsisA book-length treatment of Descartes' natural philosophy. Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion--the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests.
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The University of Chicago Press Descartes Metaphysical Physics Science and Its
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The University of Chicago Press Going for Jazz Musical Practices American
Book SynopsisJazz is one of the most influential American art forms of our time. It shapes our ideas about musical virtuosity, human action, and new forms of social expression. In this text, Nicholas Gebhardt shows how the study of jazz can offer profound insights into American historical consciousness.
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The University of Chicago Press Going for Jazz Musical Practices and American
Book SynopsisJazz is one of the most influential American art forms of our time. It shapes our ideas about musical virtuosity, human action, and new forms of social expression. In this text, Nicholas Gebhardt shows how the study of jazz can offer profound insights into American historical consciousness.
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The University of Chicago Press Machiavelli to Marx Modern Western Political
Book SynopsisAccording to conventional periodization, a profound break in the continuity of Western political theory occurred around 1500 and marked the beginning of modern political thought. In Machiavelli to Marx Dante Germino examines the scholars of this period whose works he feels have made significant new approaches to the critical understanding of our world and, consequently, to the problems of our time. Beginning with Machiavelli, the author covers major political philosophers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Burke and gives lucid, perceptive accounts of what they thought and taught about politics. He discusses utilitarianism, liberalism, scientism, and messianic nationalism through the writings of such influential thinkers as Bentham, Spencer, Saint-Simon, and Fichte and concludes with three of the foremost political philosophers of the nineteenth centuryFourier, Proudhon, and Marx.
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The University of Chicago Press British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisEnlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. This title reveals how a sense of the national climate emerged in the 18th century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population.Trade Review"[An] absorbing new study of attitudes to the weather in the age of Enlightenment.... Gives us such a lucid picture of its subject, backed by abundant documentation and argued in a manner both stylish and vigorous." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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The University of Chicago Press Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
Book SynopsisEnlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. This title reveals how a sense of the national climate emerged in the 18th century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population.Trade Review"[An] absorbing new study of attitudes to the weather in the age of Enlightenment.... Gives us such a lucid picture of its subject, backed by abundant documentation and argued in a manner both stylish and vigorous." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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The University of Chicago Press Basel in the Age of Burckhardt A Study in
Book SynopsisThis work tells the story of 19th century Basel, this seemingly anachronistic hybrid of commercialism and classical republicanism, and of four thinkers who retreated there: Jacob Burckhardt, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Franz Overbeck and Nietzsche. It gives an analytical biography of these figures.Trade Review"Remarkable and exceptionally readable... There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page." - Jonathan Steinberg, Times Literary Supplement; "Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship." - John R. Hinde, American Historical Review
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The University of Chicago Press The Descent of Political Theory
Book SynopsisReveals the origins and development of political theory as it is presently understood. Tracing the evolution of the field from the 19th century to the present, the author shows how controversies current in modern political theory are actually the unresolved legacy of a forgotten past.
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The University of Chicago Press The Humanities and the Dream of America
Book SynopsisArgues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' This title explores a number of linked problems: the role, at once inspiring and disturbing, played by modern philology in the discipline's formation; and, the reasons behind the humanities' perpetual state of crisis.
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The University of Chicago Press Kuhns Structure of Scientific Revolutions at
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The University of Chicago Press Making TheoryConstructing Art On the Authority of
Book SynopsisThis text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed the development and uses of art theory. It looks at the work of major figures in the avant-garde movement, such as John Cage, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Andy Warhol.
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The University of Chicago Press Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology of
Book SynopsisWe tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as
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The University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn "Restless nation" James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the 'fresh-start' philosophy, explored in this work.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
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The University of Chicago Press Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from
Book SynopsisSince the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet.Trade Review"Adrian Johns's learned and witty book Piracy is... a compelling cultural history of the paired ideas of piracy and property from the seventeenth century to the present.... The best history takes readers from a familiar present to a strange past, and delivers them back to a present that can be seen in new ways. Piracy is that sort of history." (Nature) "Piracy shows us how the very notion of intellectual property - and its sharp division into the fields of patent and copyright - was created in response to specific pressures and so could be modified dramatically or even abolished." (Times Higher Education) "Invaluable.... Johns concludes in this challenging, richly detailed, and provocative book, that the choices we make about how to balance property, creativity and privacy will define 'the contours of creative life' for the twenty-first century." (Washington Post) "Johns's research stands as an important reminder that today's intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution." (Publishers Weekly)"
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The University of Chicago Press Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from
Book SynopsisSince the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet.Trade Review"Adrian Johns's learned and witty book Piracy is... a compelling cultural history of the paired ideas of piracy and property from the seventeenth century to the present.... The best history takes readers from a familiar present to a strange past, and delivers them back to a present that can be seen in new ways. Piracy is that sort of history." (Nature) "Piracy shows us how the very notion of intellectual property - and its sharp division into the fields of patent and copyright - was created in response to specific pressures and so could be modified dramatically or even abolished." (Times Higher Education) "Invaluable.... Johns concludes in this challenging, richly detailed, and provocative book, that the choices we make about how to balance property, creativity and privacy will define 'the contours of creative life' for the twenty-first century." (Washington Post) "Johns's research stands as an important reminder that today's intellectual property crises are not unprecedented, and offers a survey of potential approaches to a solution." (Publishers Weekly)"
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The University of Chicago Press Colonial Madness Psychiatry in French North
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century French writers and travelers imagined Muslim colonies in North Africa to be realms of violence, sexuality, and primitive madness. This book traces genealogy and development of this idea from beginnings of colonial expansion onwards, revealing ways in which psychiatry has been a weapon in arsenal of colonial racism.Trade Review"Keller's command of the relevant historiographies is impeccable. To produce Colonial Madness, the author had to read deeply in the literatures of modern France, modern medicine, psychiatry, colonial science, African medical history, the history and ethnography of the Maghreb, and postcolonial theory. Many less accomplished authors might have mastered one or two of these, but Keller has learned them all to an extent that is really formidable, and the payoff is substantial." - Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University"
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The University of Chicago Press Jewish Origins of the Psychoanalytic Movement
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The University of Chicago Press The Essential Tension Selected Studies in
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The University of Chicago Press Visions of the Sociological Tradition
Book SynopsisIn this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol An Anthology
Book SynopsisWe tend to think that the Buddha has always been seen as the compassionate sage admired around the world today, but until the nineteenth century, Europeans often regarded him as a nefarious figure, an idol worshipped by the pagans of the Orient. Donald S. Lopez Jr. offers here a rich sourcebook of European fantasies about the Buddha drawn from the works of dozens of authors over fifteen hundred years, including Clement of Alexandria, Marco Polo, St. Francis Xavier, Voltaire, and Sir William Jones. Featuring writings by soldiers, adventurers, merchants, missionaries, theologians, and colonial officers, this volume contains a wide range of portraits of the Buddha. The descriptions are rarely flattering, as all manner of reports some accurate, some inaccurate, and some garbled came to circulate among European savants and eccentrics, many of whom were famous in their day but are long forgotten in ours. Taken together, these accounts present a fascinating picture, not only of the Buddha as
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The University of Chicago Press Paradigms and Barriers How Habits of Mind Govern
Book SynopsisIn Paradigms and Barriers Howard Margolis offers an innovative interpretation of Thomas S. Kuhn's landmark idea of paradigm shifts, applying insights from cognitive psychology to the history and philosophy of science. Building upon the arguments in his acclaimed Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition, Margolis suggests that the breaking down of particular habits of mindof critical barriersis key to understanding the processes through which one model or concept is supplanted by another. Margolis focuses on those revolutionary paradigm shifts such as the switch from a Ptolemaic to a Copernican worldviewwhere challenges to entrenched habits of mind are marked by incomprehension or indifference to a new paradigm. Margolis argues that the critical problem for a revolutionary shift in thinking lies in the robustness of the habits of mind that reject the new ideas, relative to the habits of mind that accept the new ideas. Margolis applies his theory to famous cases in the history of science, offering detailed explanations for the transition from Ptolemaic to cosmological astronomy, the emergence of probability, the overthrow of phlogiston, and the emergence of the central role of experiment in the seventeenth century. He in turn uses these historical examples to address larger issues, especially the nature of belief formation and contemporary debates about the nature of science and the evolution of scientific ideas. Howard Margolis is a professor in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality and Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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The University of Chicago Press Exotic No More Second Edition Anthropology for
Book SynopsisThough Tocqueville is the main subject, this book also examines Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Hegel and Nietzsche. It offers an interpretation of Tocqueville as a moral historian, concerned less with history as an objective record than as a disclosure of the trajectory of the human spirit.
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The University of Chicago Press Max Weber and German Politics 18901920
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The University of Chicago Press Class War What Americans Really Think about
Book SynopsisThis work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates upon the formal means by which Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays called into question the absolutist assertions of the Elizabethan state.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments To The Reader Prologue Texts and Histories Pt. 1: Drama, Theatre, Society, and the State: Form and Pressure I: The Reformation of Playing II: A Theatre of Changes III: Anatomies of Playing IV: The Theatre, the City, and the Crown V: From the Stage to the State VI: The Power of Personation VII: The Cross-Purposes of Playing Pt. 2: The Shaping Fantasies of A Midsummer Night's Dream VIII: The Discord of This Concord IX: Stories of the Night X: The Imperial Votaress XI: Bottom's Dream Epilogue: A Kingdom of Shadows Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Christian Tradition
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The University of Chicago Press Intellectual Life in America A History
Book SynopsisThis historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate. Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical, and highly provocative, and it provides what is all too often missing in the study of intellectualsa sense of historical orientation.
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The University of Chicago Press Making a Social Body British Cultural Formation
Book SynopsisDrawing on both literature and social reform texts, the author analyzes the organization of knowledge during the Victorian period and explores its role in the emergence of the idea of the social body. Readings of Disraeli, Gaskell and Dickens are included in the discussion.
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of the Modern University
Book SynopsisA study of moral education in American universities that examines the consequences of the 19th-century debates over the purpose and pursuit of higher education, and the modernization efforts of the academic reformers of that era.
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The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories
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