University Of Chicago Press: 2654 books
The Mystic Fable, Volume Two
The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series. It quickly became influential across a wide range of disciplines and helped to make the tools of poststructuralist thought available to religious studies...
The Blood of the Lamb
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. It follows the life of Don Wanderhop from his childhood in an immigrant Calvinist family living in Chicago in the 1950s through the loss of a brother, his faith, his wife, and finally his daughter-a...
Occupy
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead and perform their own resonant...
Wittgenstein's Ladder
Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
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 Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really...
Intimate Matters
A History of Sexuality in America, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
As the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans from colonial times to the present. Now, twenty-five years after its first publication, this groundbreaking classic is back in a crucial and updated...
The Nixon Memo
Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
An absorbing example of political journalism, The Nixon Memo is a case study of Richard Nixon's relentless quest for political rehabilitation. At issue is the key role of this former president of the United States (best known for his involvement in the famous "watergate" scandal) in the...
Midnight Basketball
Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders—home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls—is where it first came to national prominence. And it’s also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the audacious notion that organizing young men...
The Book of Eggs
A Life-Size Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World's Bird Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
From the brilliantly green and glossy eggs of the Elegant Crested Tinamou—said to be among the most beautiful in the world—to the small brown eggs of the house sparrow that makes its nest in a lamppost and the uniformly brown or white chickens’ eggs found by the dozen in any corner grocery,...
Secret Body
Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Over the course of his twenty-five-year career, Jeffrey J. Kripal’s study of religion has had two major areas of focus: the erotic expression of mystical experience and the rise of the paranormal in American culture. This book brings these two halves together in surprising ways through a blend of...
by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Baseball Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (1914–86) was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. Bill Veeck’s Crosstown Classic, drawn from his uproarious autobiography (cowritten with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn), is an unforgettable...
Tim and Tom
An American Comedy in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
As the heady promise of the 1960s sagged under the weight of widespread violence, rioting, and racial unrest, two young men--one black and one white--took to stages across the nation to help Americans confront their racial divide: by laughing at it.
Tim and Tom tells the story of that pioneering...
Class Warfare
Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western...
Our Once and Future Planet
Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that’s not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it’s hard not to focus on the negative
But that paints an unbalanced—and...