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For the past 6 years, the France Chicago Center at the University of Chicago has collaborated with the Press to help bring seminal works of French
Highlighting the first decade of Chicago-based philosophical magazine The Point, The Opening of the American Mind brings together responses to some of the most significant
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In his new book, Samuel Fleischacker delves into the work of Adam Smith to draw out an understanding of empathy that respects both personal difference
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