UPDATED> New for November on the U of Chicago Press website

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From: "Dean Blobaum" <db@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:57:54 -0600
Subject: New for November on the U of Chicago Press website
 
Here's what's new on the University of Chicago Press website for November 2003:

THE  TERROR OF ART
Do killers, artists, and terrorists need one another? Is art and
literature's veneration of the destructive, alienated outsider?from Oedipus
to Travis Bickle?in some way responsible when violence is real? In _Crimes
of Art and Terror_ Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe explore the
disturbing adjacency of literary creativity to violence and even political
terror.  Read an interview with the authors:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/472051in.html

FRENCH UTOPIA
What would a French green utopia look like? Michael Bess examines the
history of environmentalism in France and imagines the road not taken in
_The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France,
1960-2000_.
Visit a French utopia: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044181.html

REMBRANDT'S JEWS:
In _Rembrandt's Jews_  Steven Nadler visits the artist's neighborhood in
the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, examines his portraits of Jewish sitters,
and reveals the remarkably tolerant setting the city provided for Sephardic
and Ashkenazic Jews in the 17th century. Our excerpt will take you to the
center of the old Jewish Quarter:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/567362.html

FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Historically, buildings in Chicago have defined modern urban architecture.
The best guide to that architecture is _Chicago's Famous Buildings_ by
Franz Schulze and Kevin Harrington, now in a fifth edition. Take a look at
three excerpts, all bookish in some way or another:
Chicago Cultural Center: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/740668.html
Harold Washington Library Center:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/740668hwlc.html
The University of Chicago:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/740668uc.html

*** IN THE NEWS: ***
Leszek Kolakowski, Professor Emeritus of Social Thought and of Philosophy
at the University of Chicago, is the winner of the first John W. Kluge
Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences
awarded by the Library of Congress.  We have been fortunate to publish five
books by Kolakowski including _The Presence of Myth_, _Metaphysical
Horror_, _Modernity on Endless Trial_, _God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark
on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism_, and _Tales from the
Kingdom of Lailonia and The Key to Heaven_.
For more news and links to the books see:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/News/inthenews.html

Thanks for reading.

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Dean Blobaum
The University of Chicago Press
1427 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637-2954
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