Author: Scott N. Brooks
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: shoot, men, black
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226076032
ISBN-13: 9780226076034

The myth of the natural black athlete is widespread, though it’s usually only talked about when a sports commentator or celebrity embarrasses himself by bringing it up in public. Those gaffes are swiftly decried as racist, but apart from their link to the long history of ugly racial stereotypes about black people—especially men—they are also harmful because they obscure very real, hard-fought accomplishments. As Black Men Can’t Shoot demonstrates, such successes on the basketball court don’t just happen because of natural gifts—instead, they grow out of the long, tough, and unpredi

Author: Seth Benardete
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: republic, plato, sailing, second, socrates
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1992-10-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226042448
ISBN-13: 9780226042442

In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato’s Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practiced by Plato and Socrates. "Cryptic allusions, startling paradoxes, new questions . . . all work to give brilliant new insights into the Platonic text."--Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Political Theory

Author: Alan Fogel
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: relationships, developing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226256596
ISBN-13: 9780226256597

This accessible book explains how individuals develop through their relationships with others. Alan Fogel demonstrates that human development is driven by a social dynamic process called co-regulation—the creative interaction of individuals to achieve a common goal. He focuses on communication—between adults, between parents and children, among non-human animals, and even among cells and genes—to create an original model of human development. Fogel explores the origins of communication, personal identity, and cultural participation and argues that from birth communication, self, and cult

Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: buddhism, modernity, perplexed, guide, science
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226493121
ISBN-13: 9780226493121

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions have ranged from modest claims about the efficacy of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself anticipated the theories of relativity, quantum physics and the big bang more than two millennia ago.In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of underst

Author: Rudolf Carnap
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: logic, midway, reprint, modal, semantics, necessity, study, meaning
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1988-02-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226093476
ISBN-13: 9780226093475

"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

Author: Masha Salazkina
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: modernity, series, cinema, mexico, sergei, eisenstein, excess
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226734145
ISBN-13: 9780226734149

During the 1920s and ’30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals—including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky—who were drawn to the heady tumult engendered by battling cultural ideologies in an emerging center for the avant-garde. Against the backdrop of this cosmopolitan milieu, In Excess reconstructs the years that the renowned Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein spent in the country to work on his controversial film ¡Que Viva Mexico!            Illuminating the inextricability of Eisenstein’s oeuvre from the global culture

Author: Zhang Zhen
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: cinema, modernity, series, shanghai, screen, history, silver, amorous
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0226982386
ISBN-13: 9780226982380

Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in 1937, all of this came to a screeching halt. Until recently, the political establishment has discouraged comprehensive studies of the cultural phenomenon of early Chinese film, and this momentous chapter in China’s history has remained largely unexamined. The first sustained historical study of the