Spring Trade Paperbacks: Philosophy
-- Publishers Weekly, 1/21/2008
Harvard Univ. Press/Belknap
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (May, $18.95) by Walter Benjamin gathers his thoughts on the media and the visual arts.
MIT Press
The Odd One In: On Comedy (Mar., $19.95) by Alenka Zupancic considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the logic involved in the practice of comedy.
Northwestern Univ. Press
The History of Philosophy: A Reader's Guide (June, $21.95) by Donald Phillip Verene addresses the reasons for studying canonical philosophical texts.
Templeton Foundation Press
The Big Questions in Science and Religion (May, $16.95) by Keith Ward explores the often contentious relationship between religious views and new scientific knowledge.
Univ. of Minnesota Press
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (Apr., $24.95) by François Cusset, trans. by Jeff Fort, examines why America provided such fertile ground for French theory.
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