Books in the A Critical Inquiry Book (CHUP) series

Collecting the best of the author's work that was published in the "Critical Inquiry" journal between 1980 and 2002, this title provides an introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.

Based on the Comics: Philosophy and Practice conference held at the University of Chicago in 2012, this title includes essays from prominent scholars on topics such as media archaeology, theories of the image, popular forms, the history of aesthetics, and transmedia dynamics in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and early twenty-first-century contexts.

While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity - categories that define the saint. This collection examines how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma.

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; and what has been described as bourgcois longing.

A collection of essays and rejoinders about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments.

A collection of 20 essays which discusses topics such as: gypsies in the Western imagination; the mobilization of the West in Chinese television; the lesbian identity and the woman's gaze in fashion photography; and the regulation of Black women's bodies in early 20th-century urban areas.