University of Chicago Press Books: New booksThe latest scholarly and general books from the University of Chicago Press.Selling the Race- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Adam Green Black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and 50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. In fact, Adam Green argues, this vibrant period in Windy City life engendered a unique cultural and commercial consciousness, fostering ideas of racial identity that remain influential today.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=206210 Shining Path- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Lewis Taylor The jagged edges of South American societies attest to innumerable wars, relentless poverty, and a host of illicit activity that make the region a tumultuous brew of politics and military aggression. Peru in particular suffered one of the bloodiest civil wars in contemporary Latin American history during the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path, launched an assault to overthrow the national government. Lewis Taylor focuses here on an under-examined yet..http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=188817 Sprawl- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Robert Bruegmann As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=165885 When Buildings Speak- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Anthony Alofsin The canonical inventors of the International Style have long dominated studies of modern European architecture. But in When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin broadens this scope by exploring the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=172190 Altered States- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Jeremy Black Red states versus blue states. Metro versus retro. North or South, East or West. Pundits, politicians, and social scientists love to carve out categories in an attempt to make sense of political and social divisions that run through the American landscape. As the home of nearly 300 million people spread over approximately 3.7 million square miles of earth, the United States poses a monumental challenge to all who try to grapple with its rich and immensely complex physical and...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=211169 Dead Ends of Transition- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Michael Dauderstdt and Arne Schildberg After war, many countries, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, or Iraq, thetransition to a democratic market economy extremely difficult. This failure to thrive, Dead Ends of Transition demonstrates, is often the result of national reliance on foreign aid. Rentier states, the contributors to this study argue, have few incentives to respond to the needs of their societies. Taking a closer look at the policies of rentier economies, this book...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=212620 Ephrem the Syrian- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Sebastian P. Brock and George A. Kiraz Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of Syrian Christian churches. This new translation of twenty poems, the only edition of Ephrem that features a text in vocalized serto script with a facing translation, offers a broad and varied...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=225849 Erotic Phenomenon- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Jean-Luc Marion While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word philosophy means love of wisdom, but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. So where did the love go In The Erotic Phenomenon, Jean-Luc Marion asks this fundamental question of philosophy, while reviving inquiry into the concept of love...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=204630 Erotikon- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Shadi Bartsch and Thomas Bartscherer Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, classics, psychoanalysis, theology, and art history join poets and a novelist to offer fresh insights into a topic that is at once ancient and forever young. Restricted neither by historical period nor by genre, these contributions explore manifestations of eros...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=16474 European Review of Philosophy, 6- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Edited by Christine van Geen and Frdrique de Vignemont Can concepts represent subtleties in emotions, bodily sensations, and perceptions What is the nature of mental representations in nonlinguistic and prelinguistic creatures The European Review of Philosophy, Volume 6 tackles issues such as these by asking how far the analogy between conceptual and nonconceptual content can be carried. By bringing together contributions from both conceptualists and nonconceptualists, this volume sheds new...http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/rssresolve.cgi?id=231508 |