Ethics and moral philosophy Books
Columbia University Press Friends and Other Strangers
Book SynopsisRichard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimensions of memory; and religion and democratic life.Trade ReviewThe work of one of the leading religious ethicists of his generation, Friends and Other Strangers could revolutionize the field of religious ethics. Richard B. Miller calls for a revitalized field of inquiry that will adopt new methodological strategies while masterfully crossing disciplinary boundaries and demonstrating what first-rate work in ethics should look like. -- Paul Lauritzen, author of The Ethics of Interrogation: Professional Responsibility in an Age of TerrorFriends and Other Strangers is a beautifully written and important book by a prominent scholar in the field of religious ethics. There is little existing work that does this sort of careful theoretical and acutely interdisciplinary thinking in a way that is both illuminating to specialists and accessible to undergraduates. -- Elizabeth Bucar, author of Creative Conformity: The Feminist Politics of U.S. Catholic and Iranian Shi'i WomenFriends and Other Strangers makes a powerful and important case for a turn to culture and ordinary life in religious ethics. Exploring the implications of this turn, Richard B. Miller demonstrates that sophisticated grappling with concrete issues such as the treatment of children, friendship, the politics of memory, or just war cannot do without engaging underlying issues in moral anthropology. Based on impressively wide reading in ethnography, philosophy, and religious ethics, Miller's new book provides a timely and accessible contribution to a vibrant field. -- Thomas A. Lewis, author of Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion—and Vice VersaRecommended. * CHOICE *An important book for theological ethics and public theology as well as religious ethics. * Theological Studies *Deserves a wide reading within the discipline it lovingly seeks to reshape. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Friends and Other StrangersPart I: Religion, Ethics, and the Human Sciences1. What Is Religious Ethics?2. On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics3. Moral Authority and Moral Criticism in an Age of Ethnocentric AnxietyPart II: Selves and Others4. The Ethics of Empathy5. Indignation, Empathy, and Solidarity6. On Duties and Debts to Children7. Evil, Friendship, and Iconic Realism in Augustine's ConfessionsPart III: Communities and Institutions8. Just War, Civic Virtue, and Democratic Social Criticism: Augustinian Reflections9. The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory10. Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic AuthorityEpilogue: Signposts of the Past and for the FutureNotesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Experience of Injustice
Book SynopsisIn The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. Inspired by Axel Honneth, Renault argues that a radicalized version of Honneth’s ethics of recognition can provide a systematic alternative to the liberal-democratic projects of such thinkers as Rawls and Habermas.Trade ReviewFor everyone who rightly assumes that social critique has to start from a diagnosis of what is in society experienced as an injustice or as a form of disrespect, this book is both a rich compendium and a theoretical guideline. Emmanuel Renault has done a magnificent job in outlining the empirical and philosophical contours of a critical theory based on a theory of recognition. -- Axel Honneth, author of Freedom's Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic LifeTaking its theoretical problems and political orientation from contemporary experiences of injustice—the social and psychic sufferings of the dispossessed and deprived, the excluded and marginalized, the stigmatized, the invisible, the devalued—Renault's book proposes a major reconception of the theory of justice. Renault incisively organizes critical social theory, sociology, and psychoanalysis around a theory of the denial of recognition in its manifold forms, boldly calling for political philosophy to take sides and become a spokesperson against injustice. -- Christopher F. Zurn, author of Axel HonnethThe Experience of Injustice is a major intervention into the field of critical political and social theory, pushing theories of justice and recognition to be more social, political, and activist. It will be heralded as a leading contribution to the field. -- James Ingram, author of Radical CosmopoliticsRenault’s book should be welcomed by political philosophers working on theories of justice, identity politics, social movements, the limits of liberalism, and critical theory more generally...for philosophers working on the politics of recognition, the book is essential reading. -- Gabriel Gottlieb, Xavier University * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsTranslator’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: Political Philosophy and the Clinic of InjusticePart I: Injustice and the Denial of Recognition1. Social Movements and Critique of Politics2. The Aporias of Social Justice3. The Institutions of InjusticePart II: The Politics of Identity and Politics in Identity4. Identity as the Experience of Injustice5. A Defense of Identity PoliticsPart III: Social Suffering6. Social Critique as a Voice for Suffering7. Recognition and Psychic SufferingConclusion: Critique as a Voice Against InjusticeNotesIndex
£46.50
Columbia University Press The Incorporeal
Book SynopsisA new resolution of the mind-body problem that reconciles materialism and idealism.Trade ReviewThe Incorporeal might seem to be a departure for Elizabeth Grosz, whose work has provided one of the most profound and sustained theorizations of matter, embodiment and sexual difference. Rather than a refusal of corporeal feminism, this book is a powerful exploration of corporeality and its possibilities. A remarkable and groundbreaking work, The Incorporeal intensifies Grosz's already complex and nuanced account of bodies and difference: incorporeality is not to be equated with mind, ideality or the disembodied. It is, rather, part of the volatility that Grosz has always discerned in bodies, human and nonhuman. -- Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University In this new book, Elizabeth Grosz continues her investigations of role of the body in thinking in art and science, as in politics and philosophy. Through a fresh engagement with the work of Deleuze and the thinkers he admired, she extracts a vital new ethics, itself part of a philosophy of nature beyond the limits of 'the new materialism'. A stimulating and rigorous journey towards a new philosophy for our times. -- John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze Connections In this rich and deeply rewarding book, Elizabeth Grosz traces the hidden genealogy-centered on but not reducible to Gilles Deleuze-of a philosophy that makes room for both body and mind, without reductionism, but also without mysticism. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University Philosophy, and in its wake cultural theory, has long made periodic pendulum swings between two poles, the materialist and the idealist. What is needed is a move through the middle: an incorporeal materialism, or a materialist idealism. This is the important and timely project Elizabeth Grosz undertakes in this book, with the help of judiciously chosen philosophical guides, from the Stoics to Simondon. -- Brian Massumi, University of Montreal This is a bold, brilliant, and fascinating study of an alternative philosophical tradition. The treatments of Simondon and Ruyer are especially welcome, and a new and highly challenging conception of materialism is offered. -- Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Stoics, Materialism, and the Incorporeal 2. Spinoza, Substance, and Attributes 3. Nietzsche and Amor Fati 4. Deleuze and the Plane of Immanence 5. Simondon and the Preindividual 6. Ruyer and an Embryogenesis of the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Incorporeal
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Incorporeal might seem to be a departure for Elizabeth Grosz, whose work has provided one of the most profound and sustained theorizations of matter, embodiment and sexual difference. Rather than a refusal of corporeal feminism, this book is a powerful exploration of corporeality and its possibilities. A remarkable and groundbreaking work, The Incorporeal intensifies Grosz's already complex and nuanced account of bodies and difference: incorporeality is not to be equated with mind, ideality or the disembodied. It is, rather, part of the volatility that Grosz has always discerned in bodies, human and nonhuman. -- Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State UniversityIn this new book, Elizabeth Grosz continues her investigations of role of the body in thinking in art and science, as in politics and philosophy. Through a fresh engagement with the work of Deleuze and the thinkers he admired, she extracts a vital new ethics, itself part of a philosophy of nature beyond the limits of 'the new materialism'. A stimulating and rigorous journey towards a new philosophy for our times. -- John Rajchman, author of The Deleuze ConnectionsIn this rich and deeply rewarding book, Elizabeth Grosz traces the hidden genealogy—centered on but not reducible to Gilles Deleuze—of a philosophy that makes room for both body and mind, without reductionism, but also without mysticism. -- Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State UniversityPhilosophy, and in its wake cultural theory, has long made periodic pendulum swings between two poles, the materialist and the idealist. What is needed is a move through the middle: an incorporeal materialism, or a materialist idealism. This is the important and timely project Elizabeth Grosz undertakes in this book, with the help of judiciously chosen philosophical guides, from the Stoics to Simondon. -- Brian Massumi, University of MontrealThis is a bold, brilliant, and fascinating study of an alternative philosophical tradition. The treatments of Simondon and Ruyer are especially welcome, and a new and highly challenging conception of materialism is offered. -- Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of WarwickTheoretically deft, rigorous, lucid, and generous, The Incorporeal is revelatory in animating the variegated metaphysical intimacies of terms whose interplay casts (ongoing) dualist tradition as, if not minoritarian, then as stubbornly in denial or too-stubbornly wedded to the term whose insular privilege it elects to uphold. -- Helen Thompson * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Stoics, Materialism, and the Incorporeal2. Spinoza, Substance, and Attributes3. Nietzsche and Amor Fati4. Deleuze and the Plane of Immanence5. Simondon and the Preindividual6. Ruyer and an Embryogenesis of the WorldConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
Columbia University Press Conspiring with the Enemy
Book SynopsisIn Conspiring with the Enemy, Yvonne Chiu offers a new understanding of why and how enemies work together to constrain violence in warfare. Chiu argues that what she calls an ethic of cooperation is found in modern warfare to such an extent that it is often taken for granted.Trade ReviewYvonne Chiu has written an original and important book. Conspiring with the Enemy's argument is strong throughout; the writing is clear and often elegant, and the historical references, illustrations, and examples make the book engaging as well as educational. Who ever heard of such a thing as cooperation between enemies in war? Henceforth no one will ask that question. -- Michael Walzer, author of Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical IllustrationsWar is the fiercest form of human competition, yet it often involves cooperation among adversaries, even as they try to slaughter one other. Drawing on an impressive survey of military history—ancient and modern, Eastern and Western—Yvonne Chiu distinguishes among numerous forms of cooperation in war and even identifies an “ethic of cooperation” of which she finds manifestations throughout the history of warfare. Many of the instances she recounts are moving and inspiring, and the book as a whole offers grounds for optimism about the future of warfare. -- Jeff McMahan, University of OxfordChiu shows that the ethic of cooperation in warfare is a major normative feature of war-fighting, today as well as in the distant past. Other writers on just war theory sometimes drop hints of this, but the great accomplishment of this book is to bring the ethic of cooperation out of the shadows and reveal it as something absolutely central to warfare ethics. Chiu’s scholarship is impressively wide-ranging, and she has a tremendous eye for the telling anecdote, historical episode, and quotation. -- David Luban, Georgetown UniversityConspiring with the Enemy is oriented around the question of cooperation in war and whether it is possible to have a degree of ethics in war. The author assembles her writing in a compelling and clear way. -- Sarah Kreps, author of Taxing Wars: The American Way of War and Finance and the Decline of DemocracyChiu’s book has much to commend it to the reader....This volume is a very helpful addition to the literature of ethics and war. * Journal of Military Ethics *A book full of insight and provocation. * Foreign Affairs *Chiu's book provides an insightful and original argument supported by robust historical illustrations. Particularly valuable is that it restructures and shines new light on topics we might have thought we had already examined and understood while providing a decidedly new framework for re-examining them. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Buttressed by impressive scholarship, this readable study is highly recommended. * Choice *This compelling and wide-ranging account....should change the way we think about the morality—and practice—of war. * International Affairs *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Horrors of War and the Nature of Cooperation2. Cooperation for a Fair Fight3. Cooperation to Minimize Damage to Particular Classes of People4. Cooperation to End War Quickly5. The Limits of Ethics of Cooperation in Warfare6. Cooperative Ethics, Just War Theory, and the Structure of Modern Warfare7. Abdication of Judgment, Noncooperative Fights, and the Meaning of WarNotesReferencesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Genuine Pretending
Book SynopsisThis book presents an innovative reading of Daoist philosophy that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Moeller and D’Ambrosio show how the Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of “genuine pretending”: the paradoxical skill of enacting social roles without submitting to them or letting them define one’s identity.Trade Review[The book's] scholarship is first rate and the contribution original and timely. The authors offer genuinely illuminating and original readings of many of the widely discussed parts of the Zhuangzi. -- Barry Allen, McMaster University A highly insightful new reading of the Zhuangzi that is exceptionally sensitive to both philosophical and textual subtleties, highlighting the key theme of genuine pretending-the adoption of multiple roles while maintaining a form of radical flexibility that prevents full identification, thereby allowing all roles to be at once fulfilled and transcended. -- Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago Divinity SchoolTable of ContentsForeword by Chen GuyingPrefaceIntroduction: A Joker in the Fold1. Sincerity, Authenticity, and Ancient Chinese Philosophy2. The Confucian Regime of Sincerity3. Philosophical Humor and Incongruity in the Zhuangzi4. Smooth Operators: The Arts of Genuine PretendingConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press Gendered Morality
Book SynopsisIn Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.Trade ReviewWell-suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Gendered Morality makes a monumental intervention to debates in philosophy, feminist studies, and Islamic studies. -- Joud Alkorani, University of Toronto * Religious Studies Review *I recommend this book to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics working in the broad field of Islam and Gender, Gender and Religion and more specifically feminist approaches (philosophy) of religion or Islam. * Reading Religion *This book has much to offer a diverse set of readers. -- Justine Howe * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi’s first book, is a substantial contribution to the study of Islamic ethics, law, and philosophy. -- Benjamin P. Beames * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *Zahra Ayubi’s Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society represents a major feminist intervention in the field of Islamic ethics (akhlāq). -- Samuel Kigar Religion Department, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA * Journal of Islamic Ethics 4 *In revealing the deep-rooted gendered and hierarchical cosmology prevailing in the classical Islamic world view, the author provides a realistic pathway to her goal of establishing a feminist philosophy of Islamic ethics...Recommended. * Choice *In Gendered Morality, Ayubi explores Muslim masculinity as imagined by influential medieval scholars. Her turn to ethics—understood not as a vague catch-all phrase for right living but as a rigorous and exacting genre within Muslim thought—represents a significant contribution to scholarship. She also offers a constructive feminist account of what might be retrievable for Muslim philosophical ethics. This is an essential and innovative book. -- Kecia Ali, Boston UniversityTurning the lens of gender analysis to the study of Islamic ethics, Zahra Ayubi interrogates the most formidable texts of the Persianate philosophical tradition. The result is a persuasive demonstration of feminist scholarship and a welcome contribution to Islamic studies. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillIn this brilliant and wonderfully creative book, Zahra Ayubi combines a sophisticated analysis of Islamic ethics with a strikingly original feminist critique. Her work is a major achievement in the fields of medieval Islamic philosophy as well as feminist theory. Indeed, this is one of the most important and innovative works in the field of feminism and religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeZahra Ayubi presents compelling evidence to show how medieval Islamic scholars created a philosophical system of ethics that is inherently gendered. The insights she provides as to how truth and virtue were cast in masculine, paternal terms and how those terms shaped beliefs about human agency and happiness are profound. Her concluding vision of a 'feminist philosophy' based on justice promises to render Gendered Morality a tour de force in the field. -- Kathryn Kueny, author of Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and PracticeTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Epistemology and Gender Analytics of Islamic Ethics2. Gendered Metaphysics, Perfection, and Power of the (Hu)man’s Soul3. Ethics of Marriage and the Domestic Economy4. Homosocial Masculinity and Societal EthicsConclusion: Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of IslamGlossary of Persian and Arabic TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Gendered Morality
Book SynopsisIn Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender equality that are unlocked by feminist engagement with the Islamic ethical tradition.Trade ReviewWell-suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, Gendered Morality makes a monumental intervention to debates in philosophy, feminist studies, and Islamic studies. -- Joud Alkorani, University of Toronto * Religious Studies Review *I recommend this book to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics working in the broad field of Islam and Gender, Gender and Religion and more specifically feminist approaches (philosophy) of religion or Islam. * Reading Religion *This book has much to offer a diverse set of readers. -- Justine Howe * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi’s first book, is a substantial contribution to the study of Islamic ethics, law, and philosophy. -- Benjamin P. Beames * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *Zahra Ayubi’s Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society represents a major feminist intervention in the field of Islamic ethics (akhlāq). -- Samuel Kigar Religion Department, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, USA * Journal of Islamic Ethics 4 *In revealing the deep-rooted gendered and hierarchical cosmology prevailing in the classical Islamic world view, the author provides a realistic pathway to her goal of establishing a feminist philosophy of Islamic ethics...Recommended. * Choice *In Gendered Morality, Ayubi explores Muslim masculinity as imagined by influential medieval scholars. Her turn to ethics—understood not as a vague catch-all phrase for right living but as a rigorous and exacting genre within Muslim thought—represents a significant contribution to scholarship. She also offers a constructive feminist account of what might be retrievable for Muslim philosophical ethics. This is an essential and innovative book. -- Kecia Ali, Boston UniversityTurning the lens of gender analysis to the study of Islamic ethics, Zahra Ayubi interrogates the most formidable texts of the Persianate philosophical tradition. The result is a persuasive demonstration of feminist scholarship and a welcome contribution to Islamic studies. -- Carl W. Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillIn this brilliant and wonderfully creative book, Zahra Ayubi combines a sophisticated analysis of Islamic ethics with a strikingly original feminist critique. Her work is a major achievement in the fields of medieval Islamic philosophy as well as feminist theory. Indeed, this is one of the most important and innovative works in the field of feminism and religion. -- Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth CollegeZahra Ayubi presents compelling evidence to show how medieval Islamic scholars created a philosophical system of ethics that is inherently gendered. The insights she provides as to how truth and virtue were cast in masculine, paternal terms and how those terms shaped beliefs about human agency and happiness are profound. Her concluding vision of a 'feminist philosophy' based on justice promises to render Gendered Morality a tour de force in the field. -- Kathryn Kueny, author of Conceiving Identities: Maternity in Medieval Muslim Discourse and PracticeTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Epistemology and Gender Analytics of Islamic Ethics2. Gendered Metaphysics, Perfection, and Power of the (Hu)man’s Soul3. Ethics of Marriage and the Domestic Economy4. Homosocial Masculinity and Societal EthicsConclusion: Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of IslamGlossary of Persian and Arabic TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
£28.50
University of Illinois Press HullHouse Maps and Papers
Book SynopsisJane Addams’s early attempt to empower the people with informationTrade Review"This edition . . . is welcome for its thoughtful extended introduction by Rima Lunin Schultz . . . and for the eight full color maps showing wage and ethnicity data accompanying what has been described as the first social survey in the United States."--H-SHGAPE "This book is a towering statement by early sociologists, especially women, and on outstanding example of the application of knowledge in the community."--Indiana Magazine of History
£42.30
University of Illinois Press John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of
Book SynopsisInspiring new techniques for engaging students with democratic idealsTrade Review"Fishman and McCarthy each bring unique tools to their classroom inquiries, and the results are wonderfully readable and illuminating. Their work and humanity point the way for educators to act against civic decline and for civic renewal." --Ira Shor, professor of composition and rhetoric, City University of New York Graduate School"The study is a superb inquiry: a model for how philosophy should consider the 'problems of men' and how teaching and research should be conducted. Highly recommended."--Choice "Those who have enjoyed Fishman and McCarthy's earlier collaborations that stir fine philosophy, serious classroom practice, and careful empirical study into a savory stew will find their latest offering to their taste. I also recommend this most recent work to those who have not yet had the pleasure."--Teachers College Record “Reads like a conversation with someone who not only knows Dewey's thinking well but also is not afraid to experiment with these ideas.”--Education and Culture
£27.90
University of Illinois Press The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics"At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists."--J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature"Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic."--Sir David Madden, Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press Sport Play and Ethical Reflection
Book SynopsisTackles two big questions about sport: "What is it?" and "Why does it attract so many people?" This work argues that sports participation is best described as a form of human play, and the attraction for participants and viewers alike derives from both its aesthetic richness and narrative structure.Trade ReviewA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006."Feezell's Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection offers an insightful treatment of central issues in the philosophy of sport. It is a significant addition to the critical literature that does much to correct the overemphasis on sport for the sake of external commercial rewards, entertainment, and winning at any cost. This book is both at intellectually serious--sure to be widely discussed among scholars--while remaining accessible, clear, and easy to follow.” -- Robert Simon, Professor of Philosophy, Hamilton College"Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection develops an interesting and thought-provoking 'ironic' view of sport as 'absurd.’ This is a clear and illuminating work from a philosopher and an athlete who knows his subjects."-- Sigmund Loland, professor at the Norwegian University for Sport and Physical Education
£16.14
University of Illinois Press The Ethical Case against Animal Experiments
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics"At a time when the necessity for animal experimentation has been called more and more into doubt, the Linzeys show how deep-seated research paradigms, institutional inertia, and money from the biomedical industry can persuade an esteemed university like Oxford to press on with practices that to any dispassionate observer must seem barbaric. Their analysis is backed up by an impressive set of essays by philosophers, lawyers, and scientists."--J. M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate for Literature"Essential reading. A comprehensive ethical analysis of animal experiments. Bound to become a classic."--Sir David Madden, Senior Member, St Antony's College, Oxford"This well-referenced A4-sized volume performs the valuable service of throwing open the doors of a hidden world and exposing the multiple ethical compromises that perpetuate it." --Studies in Christian Ethics
£21.59
Indiana University Press Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn
Book SynopsisDiscusses the common ground between the physical sciences and philosophyTrade ReviewThis book is clear, but that does not mean it is not complex. Nevertheless, the struggle is rewarding; I highly recommend it. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface: Postmodern PhilosophyAcknowledgements1. Nature Calls: Scientific Worldviews and the Sokal Hoax2. The Natural Contract and the Archimedean World View3. Semi-Free: Thermodynamics, Probability and the New Worldview4. Burning Man: The Influence of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Science of Flow5. Philosophy's Extra-scientific Messages6. Love's Ontology: Ethics Beyond the Limits of Classical ScienceNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.05
Indiana University Press Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism
Book SynopsisDelves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subjectTrade Review[I]n addition to its excellent readings of many texts and its helpful contextualizing of Levinas's project, Katz's book is a very good one indeed and one to be highly recommended. * AJS REVIEW *The great achievement of Claire Katz's new book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism, is to explain the meaning of Levinas's ethics in a way that makes it relevant for everyday life without either simplifying it or resorting to the paraphrase that is so often the pitfall of Levinas scholarship. . . . Katz's book succeeds in transmitting a deep sense of how Levinas's philosophy is important and relevant in a world in crisis. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Limits of the Humanities2. Solitary Men3. The Crisis of Humanism4. Before Phenomenology5. The Promise of Jewish Education 6. Teaching, Fecundity, Responsibility7. Humanism FoundNotesBibliographyIndex
£19.79
Indiana University Press Plato on the Limits of Human Life Studies in
Book SynopsisShows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutionsTrade Review[This is] a book that is an ambitious, well-researched and provocative scholarly reflection on soul in the Platonic corpus. * Polis *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Phaedo1 Socratic Prothumia2 The Body-like Soul 3 Psychic GeographyPart II. Republic4 City and Soul5 Psychic Fragmentation6 Philosophy in the City7 Politics and ImmortalityPart III. Laws8 Psychology for Legislators9 Psychology for the Legislated10 Psychic ExcessNotesWorks CitedIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane
Book SynopsisThat bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. This book uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world.Trade Review[T]his book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early Chinese philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *[This] book deserves to be read by students of Chinese philosophy . . . . 5.1 Jan. 2015 * Heythrop Journal *[This] is a genuine contribution to the field of Chinese philosophy. By engaging in a kind of 'rooted global philosophy,' Franklin Perkins addresses issues inherent to early Chinese texts in a way that renders them meaningful for contemporary philosophers. Perkins facilitates a cross-cultural dialogue between those in early China and those concerned with the problem of evil in European history. In doing this, Perkins not only demonstrates a grasp of the major primary texts and the relevant secondary literature, but he also demonstrates a breadth of knowledge that extends into conemporary Chinese thought, as well as into recently unearthed Chinese manuscripts and countless figures in the Western philosophical tradition. * Frontiers of Philosophy in China *It is clear that the discussions in Heaven and Earth will have a major impact on scholarship in the field. While ostensibly about good and evil, its investigations traverse a range of areas including Chinese intellectual history, philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of action, and political philosophy. * Dao: Journal of Comparative Philosophy *The problem of evil . . . is a stimulating and challenging philosophical issue from which one can develop an inspiring comparative analysis that can benefit both Western and Chinese philosophy. This is exactly what Perkins does in this book. * Philosophy East and West *[T]his is an outstanding book that no one who is seriously interested in classical Chinese thought can afford to ignore. * Journal of Chinese Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Abbreviated Citations Introduction: Philosophy in a Cross-Cultural Context 1. Formations of the Problem of Evil 2. The Efficacy of Human Action and the Mohist Opposition to Fate 3. Efficacy and Following Nature in the Dàodéjīng 4. Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mèngzĭ 5. Beyond the Human in the Zhuāngĭ 6. Xúnzĭ and the Fragility of the Human Conclusion NotesBibliography Index
£62.90
Indiana University Press Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane
Book SynopsisThat bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. This book provides readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse.Trade Review[T]his book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of early Chinese philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *[This] book deserves to be read by students of Chinese philosophy . . . . 5.1 Jan. 2015 * Heythrop Journal *[This] is a genuine contribution to the field of Chinese philosophy. By engaging in a kind of 'rooted global philosophy,' Franklin Perkins addresses issues inherent to early Chinese texts in a way that renders them meaningful for contemporary philosophers. Perkins facilitates a cross-cultural dialogue between those in early China and those concerned with the problem of evil in European history. In doing this, Perkins not only demonstrates a grasp of the major primary texts and the relevant secondary literature, but he also demonstrates a breadth of knowledge that extends into conemporary Chinese thought, as well as into recently unearthed Chinese manuscripts and countless figures in the Western philosophical tradition. * Frontiers of Philosophy in China *It is clear that the discussions in Heaven and Earth will have a major impact on scholarship in the field. While ostensibly about good and evil, its investigations traverse a range of areas including Chinese intellectual history, philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of action, and political philosophy. * Dao: Journal of Comparative Philosophy *The problem of evil . . . is a stimulating and challenging philosophical issue from which one can develop an inspiring comparative analysis that can benefit both Western and Chinese philosophy. This is exactly what Perkins does in this book. * Philosophy East and West *[T]his is an outstanding book that no one who is seriously interested in classical Chinese thought can afford to ignore. * Journal of Chinese Philosophy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Abbreviated Citations Introduction: Philosophy in a Cross-Cultural Context 1. Formations of the Problem of Evil 2. The Efficacy of Human Action and the Mohist Opposition to Fate 3. Efficacy and Following Nature in the Dàodéjīng 4. Reproaching Heaven and Serving Heaven in the Mèngzĭ 5. Beyond the Human in the Zhuāngĭ 6. Xúnzĭ and the Fragility of the Human Conclusion NotesBibliography Index
£25.19
Indiana University Press Material Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisOffers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, this volume focuses on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world.Trade ReviewWith its wide array of topics and theoretical influences, Material Ecocriticism is a helpful starting point for those wondering how new materialist thinking can inform ecocriticism; it would also serve as a pertinent addition to graduate seminars. * Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment *Table of ContentsForeword: Storied MatterJeffrey Jerome CohenIntroduction: Stories Come to MatterSerenella Iovino and Serpil OppermannPart I. Material Ecocriticism: Theories and Relations1. From Ecological Postmodernism to Material Ecocriticism: Creative Materiality and Narrative Agency Serpil Oppermann 2. On the Limits of Agency: Notes on the Material Turn from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective Hannes Bergthaller3. Creative Matter and Creative Mind: Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity Hubert Zapf4. Natural Play, Natural Metaphor and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic RealismWendy Wheeler5. The Ecology of Color: Goethe's Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism Heather Sullivan Part II. Narratives of Matter6. Bodies of Naples: Stories, Matter, and the Landscapes of Porosity Serenella Iovino7. When It Rains Lowell Duckert 8. Painful Material Realities, Avoidance, EcophobiaSimon C. Estok9. Semiotization of Matter: A Hybrid Zone between Biosemiotics and Material Ecocriticism Timo Maran Part III. Politics of Matter10. Pro/Polis: Three Forays into the Political Lives of BeesCatriona Sandilands11. Excremental Ecocriticism and the Global Sanitation Crisis Dana Phillips12. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at SeaStacy Alaimo13. Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure Eli ClarePart IV. Poetics of Matter14. Corporeal Fieldwork and Risky Art: Peter Goin and the Making of Nuclear Landscapes Cheryll Glotfelty15. Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and WhitmanJane Bennett16. Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves Joni Adamson 17. The Liminal Space between Things: Epiphany and the Physical Timothy Morton Coda: Open ClosureA Diptych on Material Spirituality18. Spirits that Matter: Pathways towards a Rematerialization of Religion and Spirituality Kate Rigby 19. Mindful New Materialisms: Buddhist Roots for Material Ecocriticism's FlourishingGreta Gaard Afterword: The Commonwealth of BreathDavid AbramWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Ethics and the Problem of Evil
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Modest Proposal? Caveat Emptor! Moral Theory and Problems of EvilMarilyn Adams2. Kant, Job, and the Problem of EvilJohn Hare3. Good Persons, Good Aims, and the Problem of EvilLinda Zagzebski4. Does God Cooperate with Evil?Laura Garcia5. The Problem of Evil: Excessive Unnecessary SufferingBruce Russell6. Beyond the Impasse: Contemporary Moral Theory and the Crisis of Skeptical TheismStephen J Wykstra7. Perfection, Evil, and MoralityStephen MaitzenConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors of this compilation offer a phenomenological analysis that engages not only with previous works on feminist phenomenology, but also with works that have been challenged before by the feminist tradition, and with works that belong to other frameworks and disciplines. Anyone working on feminist theory, in general, will be greatly benefitted by exploring these works, and discussing their contributions. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsA Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. FieldingI. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses & Poses, BetwixtHypatia & Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch / Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata StawarskaIII. The Ontological Future 8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning 10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine DaigleIV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman 14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy FulferV. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia StollerIndex
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Indiana University Press Feminist Phenomenology Futures
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors of this compilation offer a phenomenological analysis that engages not only with previous works on feminist phenomenology, but also with works that have been challenged before by the feminist tradition, and with works that belong to other frameworks and disciplines. Anyone working on feminist theory, in general, will be greatly benefitted by exploring these works, and discussing their contributions. * Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsA Feminist Phenomenology Manifesto / Helen A. FieldingIntroduction / Dorothea E. Olkowski and Helen A. FieldingI. The Future is Now1. Using Our Intuition: Creating the Future Phenomenological Plane of Thought / Dorothea E. Olkowski2. Just Throw Like a Bleeding Philosopher: Menstrual Pauses & Poses, BetwixtHypatia & Bhubaneswari, Half-Visible, Almost Illegible / Kyoo Lee3. Transformative Lines of Flight: From Deleuze to Masoch / Lyat Friedman4. Crafting Contingency / Rachel McCann II. Negotiating Futures5. Open Future, Regaining Possibility / Helen A. Fielding6. Of Women and Slaves / Debra Bergoffen7. Unhappy Speech, and Hearing Well: Contributions of Feminist Speech ActTheory to Feminist Phenomenology / Beata StawarskaIII. The Ontological Future 8. Adventures in the Hyperdialectic / Eva-Maria Simms9. The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding / Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning 10. Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity / Christine DaigleIV. Our Future Body Images11. The 'Normal Abnormalities' of Disability and Aging: Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir / Gail Weiss12. The Trans-human Paradigm and the Meaning of Life / Christina Schües13. The Second Person Perspective in Narrative Phenomenology / Annemie Halsema and Jenny Slatman 14. Hannah Arendt and Pregnancy in the Public Sphere / Katy FulferV. Present and Future Selves15. Is Direct Perception Arrogant Perception?: Toward a Critical, Playful Intercorporeity / April N. Flakne16. Leadership-in-the-World through an Arendtian Lens / Rita Gardiner17. Identity-in-Difference to Avoid Indifference / Emily S. Lee18. What is Feminist Phenomenology? Looking Backwards and Into the Future / Silvia StollerIndex
£31.50
Indiana University Press Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is straightforward and trustworthy. It does not engage in obscurantism or speak overmuch Levinasese; it does not misrepresent Levinas's ideas; and it engages with secondary sources extensively and generously. * Reading Religion *Cynthia D. Coe's book is a thoughtful, well-researched, and accessible contribution to the English-language scholarship on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Deformalizing Time2. The Traumatic Impact of Deformalized Time3. The Method of An-Archeology4. Between Theodicy and Despair5. The Sobering Up of Oedipus6. Anxieties of Incarnation7. Rethinking Death on the Basis of Time8. Animals and CreaturesConclusion: Inheriting the Thought of DiachronyBibliographyIndex
£63.00
Indiana University Press Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is straightforward and trustworthy. It does not engage in obscurantism or speak overmuch Levinasese; it does not misrepresent Levinas's ideas; and it engages with secondary sources extensively and generously. * Reading Religion *Cynthia D. Coe's book is a thoughtful, well-researched, and accessible contribution to the English-language scholarship on Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Deformalizing Time2. The Traumatic Impact of Deformalized Time3. The Method of An-Archeology4. Between Theodicy and Despair5. The Sobering Up of Oedipus6. Anxieties of Incarnation7. Rethinking Death on the Basis of Time8. Animals and CreaturesConclusion: Inheriting the Thought of DiachronyBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Chorology
Book SynopsisThis excellent work... deserves the serious consideration of all who are interested in contemporary philosophy as well as those who concern themselves with ancient philosophy, especially Plato. Review of MetaphysicsIn Chorology, John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discoursesin the history of philosophy. Plato's discourse on the chorathe chorologyforms the pivotal moment in the Timaeus. The implications of the chorology are momentous and communicate with many of the most decisive issues in contemporary philosophical discussions.Table of ContentsPrologue1. Remembrance of the City Reception The Eidetic City The Archaic City2. Production of the Cosmos Prelude Animating the cosmic body The Starry Heaven Gods and Mortals3. The Chora Another Beginning Images of the Chora Chorology4. Traces of the Chora From Traces to Primary Bodies Epichorology The Political Frame5. Reinscriptions Forgery Reductions Appropriation
£45.00
Indiana University Press Chorology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue1. Remembrance of the City Reception The Eidetic City The Archaic City2. Production of the Cosmos Prelude Animating the cosmic body The Starry Heaven Gods and Mortals3. The Chora Another Beginning Images of the Chora Chorology4. Traces of the Chora From Traces to Primary Bodies Epichorology The Political Frame5. Reinscriptions Forgery Reductions Appropriation
£15.19
Indiana University Press Gendering Modern Jewish Thought
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jewish philosophers may have made advances over their counterparts in western philosophy, but there is still much work to be done to undo the way these Jewish philosophers inscribe—or reinscribe—particular gender roles or gendered types."—Claire Elise Katz, Texas A&M University, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism"Brotherhood" has simply been accepted as shorthand for human equality or solidarity without regard for the significance of the specifically gendered language and the links between that language and the exclusion of difference. Andrea Dara Cooper shows how the fraternal model does damage to women in real terms and is linked to their subjugation."—Mara Benjamin, Mount Holyoke College, author of The Obligated Self"Reading for gender in modern Jewish thought, Andrea Dara Cooper changes the terms of the discourse. She boldly and systematically demonstrates how a feminist critical approach to classical works like Rosenzweig and Levinas can reanimate old and familiar texts. Kinship is her way in. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought confirms the feminist turn in the field of Jewish Philosophy and Thought. This is the book I wish I had had when I began my graduate studies. I can only imagine how its powerful argument and interdisciplinary approach will inspire a new and more diverse generation of Jewish thinkers."—Laura Levitt, Temple University, author of The Objects that Remain"Brotherhood may sound like a nice metaphor in Jewish thought, but it's an exclusionary one. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought shows how, even as they thought in terms of universalism, Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas both wrote out of their own masculinity and envisioned Judaism as a primarily male enterprise. Andrea Dara Cooper writes feminist analysis at its best: incisive critique followed by constructive new alternatives."—Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism"Andrea Dara Cooper's Gendering Modern Jewish Thought is a long-awaited intervention into the field. Incisively, Cooper gracefully first exposes and then unweaves the patterns of argument in the texts of Modern Jewish Thought to expose the gendered assumptions built into the canon."—Susan Shapiro, University of Massachusetts AmherstTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gendered Genealogies1. Lovers and Brothers2. Eros, Bodies, and Beyond3. Filial and Fraternal Friends4. Scandalous Siblings5. Sacrificial Mothers, Sacrificial SistersEpilogue: Beyond the Fraternal FamilyBibliographyIndex
£24.29
Indiana University Press Gendering Modern Jewish Thought
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jewish philosophers may have made advances over their counterparts in western philosophy, but there is still much work to be done to undo the way these Jewish philosophers inscribe—or reinscribe—particular gender roles or gendered types."—Claire Elise Katz, Texas A&M University, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism"Brotherhood" has simply been accepted as shorthand for human equality or solidarity without regard for the significance of the specifically gendered language and the links between that language and the exclusion of difference. Andrea Dara Cooper shows how the fraternal model does damage to women in real terms and is linked to their subjugation."—Mara Benjamin, Mount Holyoke College, author of The Obligated Self"Reading for gender in modern Jewish thought, Andrea Dara Cooper changes the terms of the discourse. She boldly and systematically demonstrates how a feminist critical approach to classical works like Rosenzweig and Levinas can reanimate old and familiar texts. Kinship is her way in. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought confirms the feminist turn in the field of Jewish Philosophy and Thought. This is the book I wish I had had when I began my graduate studies. I can only imagine how its powerful argument and interdisciplinary approach will inspire a new and more diverse generation of Jewish thinkers."—Laura Levitt, Temple University, author of The Objects that Remain"Brotherhood may sound like a nice metaphor in Jewish thought, but it's an exclusionary one. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought shows how, even as they thought in terms of universalism, Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas both wrote out of their own masculinity and envisioned Judaism as a primarily male enterprise. Andrea Dara Cooper writes feminist analysis at its best: incisive critique followed by constructive new alternatives."—Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism"Andrea Dara Cooper's Gendering Modern Jewish Thought is a long-awaited intervention into the field. Incisively, Cooper gracefully first exposes and then unweaves the patterns of argument in the texts of Modern Jewish Thought to expose the gendered assumptions built into the canon."—Susan Shapiro, University of Massachusetts AmherstTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gendered Genealogies1. Lovers and Brothers2. Eros, Bodies, and Beyond3. Filial and Fraternal Friends4. Scandalous Siblings5. Sacrificial Mothers, Sacrificial SistersEpilogue: Beyond the Fraternal FamilyBibliographyIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press The Tragic Absolute
Book SynopsisShows that German idealist and romantic theories of literature and aesthetic judgment are closer to the heart of metaphysics and ethics than previously thought. This title explores the contributions of Schelling, Holderlin, and others to the aesthetics of tragedy, and charts the fate of the speculative philosophy in terms of the tragic.Trade Review"This is vintage Krell--he is as always, a reader in the best sense of the word... " Dennis J. Schmidt "Krell is a strong and often eloquent writer ... I regard this to be one of his most important works..." Jason M. WirthTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsKey to Works CitedIntroduction1. The Oldest Program toward a System in German Idealism The Philological Dispute Das älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus: Text and Translation Commentary The Tragic Absolute?2. Three Ends of the Absolute Absolute Inhibition: Schelling Absolute Separation: Hölderlin Absolute Density: Novalis A Note on Absolute and Relative Death3. At the Stroke of One A Peripheral Reading of Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom Excursus on Sehnsucht: Languor, the Languid, and Languishment The Peripheral Reading (continued) An Indifferent Reading of Schelling's Treatise on Human Freedom4. God's Trauma The Earliest Notes toward Schelling's The Ages of the World The Genealogy of Time, and the Golden Age Trauma, Repression, and the Absolute Past An Excursion to Samothrace5. God's Footstool From the 1811 Draft of Die Weltalter, with Variants from the 1810Stuttgarter Privatvorlesungen and the 18271828 System der Weltalter From the Sketches toward the Second Proposed Volume ofDie Weltalter, "The Present" The Olympian Zeus of Pausanias's Guide to Greece The Forlorn Foot of Divinity6. Brazen Wheels Freedom to Burn: Schelling's Tenth Letter Absolute Mythology: The 18021803 Philosophy of Art The Klang of Music, the Fine Arts, and Tragedy Ironclad Necessity7. Voices of Empedocles "Dame Philosophy Is a Tyrant" Essence or Accidents? Nefas or Destiny? Formal Aspects of the Three Drafts of Hölderlin's Mourning-Play Rhea's Disappearance and the Rise of the Doppelgänger8. Hölderlin's "Translations" of Sophocles The Labors of Translation The Reviews Absolute Intensity and the Task of the Translator Translating "Theatrality"9. A Small Number of Houses in the Tragic Universe At the Center of Aristotle's Thought: The Poetics Divine Betrayal: Hölderlin's "Notes on Oedipus" In the Figure of Death: Hölderlin's "Notes on Antigone" 10. Hölderlin's Tragic Heroines Three Commentaries: Kommerell, Reinhardt, Loraux Jocasta's Shadow, Antigone's "Ath, Niobe's Tears, Danaë's Gold Return to Jocasta11. Antigone's Clout Lacan on the Essence of Tragedy Lacan on the Tragic Dimension of Psychoanalytic Experience Antigone between Two Deaths, Two Births12. Nietzschean Reminiscences Not a Single New Goddess? "Against the Oncoming Night" Kavqarsi~ and "Ekstasi~ in Absolute Music, Absolute Rhythm The Tragic AbsoluteAppendix: Plot Summaries of The Death of EmpedoclesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Explorations in Metaphysics
Book SynopsisProvides a compilation of the thought and work of W. Norris Clarke, S.J., a philosopher inspired by the Thomistic tradition, who in 45 years of teaching and writing has delved into many of the central problems of perennial philosophy and made a significant contribution to the ongoing history of American Thomism.Trade Review"Explorations in Metaphysics is both a reflection of W. Norris Clarke's long career of probing and questioning and the product of an intellect focused on some of the most profound and difficult problems facing the contemporary metaphysician. Although Clarke's textual knowledge of Aquinas is unsurpassed, he is no exegete; rather he is a dynamic interpreter drawing upon a master as he engages some of the best minds of his own generation. Whatever the topic . . . one can count on uncommon learning and analysis." —Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America“This collection of ten essays from the philosophical journeys of Fr. Norris Clarke, S.J., . . . covers the familiar metaphysical territory of being, God, and person, but each time the traveler insists on looking at the same subjects with fresh eyes. He is anxious to identify within those timeless truths emphasized by Thomistic metaphysics what it is that needs special emphasis to be correctly understood in light of present day philosophical terminology and the current matrix of philosophical concerns.” —American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly“This . . . is a welcome resource to 'Thomistically inspired' metaphysicians. Revised in part to include [Clarke's] latest insights and published with an illuminating autobiographical introduction to his philosophical thought, these essays have lost nothing of their original vigor, clarity, and relevance. . . . [Clarke] offers an insightful, challenging, and eminently readable book, one that should awaken its readers to 'the seminal riches in St. Thomas' metaphysical thought' and help them continue [his] own work of 'creative completion.’ ” —Theological Studies“. . . this volume offers contemporary Catholic philosophy at its best. . . . These essays succeed admirable in . . . showing us how rediscovering the riches of its own tradition can enable Catholic philosophy to engage the contemporary intellectual world and address the critical issues of our day.” —First Things
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University of Notre Dame Press Back to the Rough Ground
Book SynopsisBack to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy, medicine, management, and law. Through reflection on key modern thinkers who have revived cardinal insights of Aristotle, and a sustained engagement with the Philosopher himself, it presents a radical challenge to the scientistic assumptions that have dominated how these professional domains have been conceived, practiced, and institutionalized.Trade Review"[Dunne] makes clear both the contemporary relevance of the Aristotelian conception of practical judgment and the way in which, implicitly and explicitly, it has already played a part in the twentieth-century debates in a way that no one else has done. His detailed exposition of Aristotle is not only admirable . . . but exceptionally well-designed." —Alasdair MacIntyre“Joseph Dunne's achievement in this truly remarkable work is of the highest significance for educational philosophy . . . [Back to the Rough Ground] should be compulsory reading for all those who profess a serious interest in the conceptual complexities . . . of professional knowledge. [Dunne's] arguments are consistently intelligent, clear, and persuasive . . . the overall quality of his writing is simply outstanding.” —Journal of Philosophy of Education“A remarkable exercise in the hermeneutics of reading carried out in a truly Gadamerian spirit. . . . The richness and brilliance of Dunne's twofold reading, which moves back and forth between Aristotle, Gadamer, and Habermas, . . . does indeed succeed in forcefully reviving . . . a usable modern phronetic tradition.” —Quarterly Journal of Speech“An impressively masterful and engaging volume, which will more than repay careful reading and rereading. Its depth of analysis, richness of content, and subtlety of argument offer invaluable resources not only for understanding Aristotle's practical philosophy but also for appreciating why robust accounts of practical reason, though scarce in modernity, are nonetheless indispensable. . . . [A] model of how phronesis [practical wisdom] might be exhibited in our own day." —Modern Theology“[A] very powerful, scholarly, and philosophically acute attempt to rehabilitate an understanding of practical reason. . . . Dunne's absorbing and illuminating book is a necessary acquisition for anyone who is interested in practical philosophy.” —International Journal of Philosophical Studies"...a first-rate piece of work...wide ranging in its scope, yet finely attentive to detail. It covers...a large number of contemporary thinkers, and yet shows scholarly and philosophical finesse in reading Aristotle and recovering the contemporary significance of his views of techne and phronesis." —The Review of Metaphysics
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University of Notre Dame Press A Community of Character
Book SynopsisLeading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what kind of community the church must be to rightly tell the stories of God.Trade Review“Hauerwas’s narrative ethical enterprise engages the reader with its scholarly creativity, practical wisdom, and profound conviction.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion“In this, the best of his books to date, Stanley Hauerwas takes up again the task of presenting an ethical framework for Christian morality. . . . Significant and intellectually exciting . . . every teacher of Christian ethics should be familiar with this landmark.” —Horizons“[A] fascinating account of how the concept of story relates to the heart of Christian faith. . . . Read Hauerwas for creative seminal thinking.” —Southwestern Journal of Theology“This collection of essays contains a coherent, constructive argument contending that Christian social ethics is the church’s witness to a world that neither knows nor lives the ethic of Jesus . . . these essays deserve serious consideration.” —Interpretation“[A]n intelligent and thoughtful book.” —The Tablet"Hauerwas's latest collection of essays represents a significant, if controversial, contribution to Christian ethics.... One cannot work through this volume without being provoked, challenged and finally enlightened." —America
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University of Notre Dame Press Can Virtue Be Taught 14 Boston University Studies
Book SynopsisContains 11 essays from the fields of theology, philosophy and anthropology, which address the question: can virtue be taught? The essays illuminate the current dilemma over the problematic role of moral education in a pluralistic society.Trade Review"Can Virtue Be Taught? deserves a place not only in libraries and on the 'to be read' shelf of scholars of ethics and virtue, but also could serve well as a classroom text in a variety of education, philosophy, theology, anthropology, and ethical settings. It's a meaty, but accessible volume." —The Catholic World
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University of Notre Dame Press Christians among the Virtues
Book SynopsisChristians among the Virtues investigates the distinctiveness of virtues as illuminated by Christian practice, using a discussion of Aristotle's ethics together with the work of significant contemporary scholars such as Alasdair MacIntyre and Martha Nussbaum. Hauerwas and Pinches converse with, learn from, and also critically engage powerful and explicitly non-Christian accounts of virtues, and then form a specifically Christian account of certain key virtues, including obedience, hope, courage, and patience. This book will deepen the current public debate about virtue by showing how different traditions and practices yield distinctive understandings of the virtues, and by articulating the particularity of virtues informed by Christian practice.Hauerwas and Pinches begin with a discussion of Aristotle's account of happiness, virtue, and friendship, and explore how the temporal character of life threatens the possibility of being virtuous. The authors then contrast thTrade Review“[T]his is perhaps Hauerwas’s most successful exposition of the assertion that, in the Church, everything is political, but politics is not everything. Friendship is the heart of the book, but, in contrast to Nussbaum, Hauerwas and Pinches display friendship as a profoundly political practice. This is a book for those who sense the sadness of life yet have been offered a particular friendship.” —Studies in Christian Ethics“We need more books lie this: Pugnacious and articulate, it knows its own positions and is not afraid to state them. It likes a good fight; indeed the book is structured as a series of disputatious conversations. And it picks its fights well: Each interlocutor merits the attention it receives.” —Anglican Theological Review". . . this is an important book from which both philosophers and theologians should engage in a conversation. The nearly 40 pages of footnotes are a veritable gold mine. This book should be read and discussed by philosophers and theologians working through the issues of virtue ethics and religious thought. It should serve as a means of continuing this important conversation." —International Philosophical Quarterly“A valuable contribution, recommended for a wide range of scholars, teachers, and students of Christian theology and ethics.” —Ethics“An excellent introduction to Aristotle’s ethics for any interested reader ... there is much in the book to interest moral philosophers as well as theologians.” —Philosophy in Review“Consistently provocative and rich with insight, Christians Among the Virtues deserves a wide audience. Philosophers as well as theologians will find much in it to stimulate their thinking and challenge their convictions.” —First Things“An important contribution to an analysis of the place of the virtues in Christian ethics . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice“This is a must read for those interested in Hauerwas’ work and/or in the Christian appropriation of Aristotelian virtue ethics.” —Theological Studies
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University of Notre Dame Press Controlling Our Destinies
Book SynopsisThis work considers the complex, far reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project - an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the human genetic structure by the year 2005 - offering the elimination of genetic abnormalities and diseases.Trade Review“The Human Genome Project seeks to pinpoint the genetic basis of virtually any human trait, but it also offers ethical and theological issues which will change human perspective and meaning. Contributors discuss the project’s background, issues, and impact with an eye to revealing the many underlying social changes which will occur as a result of the project.” —Bookwatch“Anyone who is interested in human genetic research will find that this book offers a relevant and interesting analysis of the full range of ethical, philosophical and theological implications of such work. ...[T]he contents of this book are of great importance....” —Addiction Biology“Sloan is absolutely correct in helping his readers see implications well beyond the ethics of medical genetics.… These scientific, historical and philosophical contributions make this volume an invaluable and unique contribution to the growing literature that is exploring the moral and ethical implications of the Human Genome Project....” —National Catholic Bioethics Center“... an innovative contribution to the conversation about human genetics....This is a tremendous book: a unique addition to the scholarly discussion and suited to upper division and graduate biology and humanities courses that seek interdisciplinary inquiry into the implications of human genetic knowledge.” —Religious Studies Review“A fruitful text, the reader is bound to find several essays that meet his or her needs and interests.” —Metapsychology
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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Coire Sois The Cauldron of Knowledge A Companion to Early Irish Saga
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University of Notre Dame Press Doctrine of Double Effect The Philosophers Debate
Book SynopsisThis anthology of philosophical essays provides an introduction to the Doctrine of Double Effect. A number of important philosophers and intellectual perspectives are represented in what constitutes a debate over the doctrine and the various concerns it raises.Trade Review“The Doctrine of Double Effect provides a rich range of examples of the doctrine’s continued appeal among contemporary Anglo-American analytic moral philosophers . . . the book is an important and significant collection of essays on the principle of double effect and is appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate classes in moral theory, as well as graduate classes either in moral theory or on issues of warfare and biomedical ethics.” —The Thomist“This is philosophical ethics at a very high level in very spirited exchange.... Intellectually rigorous and intense.”—First Things“This volume is the first and the only devoted to the topic...This fine volume serves as an excellent resource for the fascinating debate concerning double effect. For this service, Woodward deserves the gratitude of the philosophical community.” —Philosophical Quarterly“The book provides an excellent introduction to the contemporary understanding of the PDE and will be helpful to teachers, students, clinicians, and bioethicists seeking an exposure to the diversity of contemporary theoretical opinion on the principle.”—The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
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University of Notre Dame Press Being in the World
Book SynopsisBeing in the World contains seven hundred and fifty of the most salient quotations found in the English translations of fifty-four works by Jacques Maritain organized into thematic chapters.Trade Review"Fr. Mario O. D'Souza's careful selection from the works of Jacques Maritain provides the reader with an invaluable sampling of Maritain's extensive philosophical work. In it, we find examples of Maritain's almost lyrical gift of expression as well as of his trenchant wit. More than a scholarly contribution, the volume also ably serves as an introduction and entrance into Maritain's corpus." —William Sweet, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada"Father D'Souza's wide-ranging collection of Maritain insights and reflections is most welcome. It is an extraordinarily useful and organized review of his mind at its best. I thought, as I read through these reminders of Maritain's genius, that I should like to have a class in which we did nothing for a semester or two but read carefully through the 'range of reason' that Maritain provides for us. We know of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas and what such genius can see. We have in this collection a reminder of what this tradition could do and of what it did do when a man like Maritain worked his way through, in his own way, all that is. This contemplative 'working' is the true work of a genuine philosopher. This book is both needed and, yes, unexpected. Indeed, it is a delight in that proper sense of a 'delight of the mind.'" —James V. Schall, S. J., emeritus, Georgetown University"Being in the World: A Quotable Maritain Reader makes an original contribution to the field of Maritain studies and to philosophy generally. Maritain is a thinker of great insight and a writer with a fine style. It is very useful to lay out these quotes containing many of his insights and showing his methods and lines of argument. The volume will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to scholars and readers from other fields such as politics, the arts, religion, and education." —John Hittinger, University of St. Thomas“Being in the World is a collection of some seven hundred and fifty quotations selected and thematically arranged with the primary purpose of re-introducing a modern audience to Jacques Maritain . . . . Mario O. D’Souza expertly chose quotations that speak to or resonate with issues relevant to twenty-first century philosophical inquiry . . . . D’Souza provides an excellent overview to Maritain in the forward of the book plus a bibliography of Maritain sources and a useful index of concepts and names. Being in the World is recommended for all academic libraries.” —Catholic Library World“The editors of this collection of the writings of Jacques Maritain, one of the outstanding philosopher/theologians of the mid-20th century, provide a readable and ‘quotable’ resource for contemporary students, scholars, and theologians. D’Souza re-read 55 of Jacques Maritain’s works, took over 1,700 pages of notes, and organized them into a quotable corpus of 40 topics from ‘Aristotle’ to ‘Wisdom.’ The result is what well may be a classic study.” —The Catholic Journalist
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press The Ethical Demand
Book SynopsisThis text presents an alternative understanding of interpersonal life, not only from utilitarianism and Kantianism, but also with Kierkegaard's Christian existentialism and forms of subjectivism. For Logstrup there is no Christian or secular morality, only human morality.Trade Review“Løgstrup's The Ethical Demand is a challenging and valuable addition to the growing ethical literature meeting the desperate needs of our own time. The book is a particularly valuable addition because of its attempt to meet the difficulties implicit in the Kantian and Kierkegaardian moral traditions which have been so influential in Europe in the past one hundred years." —The Canadian Catholic Review“[T]his book presents an interesting new way of looking at ethics, and its account of the various ways we rationalize our failures to live up to the demand had me examining how far I fell short. It would prove interesting to compare it to accounts of ‘particularist’ ethics, and of the ethics of care.” —Comptes rendus philosophiques (Philosophy in Review)“This is highly original and rewarding, if difficult, treatise on moral philosophy. Løgstrup, in the same general tradition as Kant whom he criticizes severely, gives a philosophical account of the commandment to love the neighbor as the basis of ethics. Løgstrup's version of the moral imperative, or ‘ethical demand,’ is ontological: it is the silent, radical, one-sided, impossible, unarticulated, and anonymous demand that ‘we take care of the life which trust has placed into our hands.’ . . . A revised and expanded version, with a helpful introduction, of a 1971 edition, this edition includes both the final chapter, a polemic against Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, and an article attacking teleology and deontology. The critique of Kierkegaard is particularly incisive. . . .” —Religious Studies Review“. . . The volume is a useful introduction to the work of a very insightful heart and mind. Indeed, The Ethical Demand is one of those rare books that can inspire readers to moral virtue. . . . English readers are in the considerable debt of Fink, MacIntyre, Hauerwas, and Notre Dame Press for making Løgstrup's magisterial work again available in translation. It is an exercise in attention, a schooling of empathy, that deserves to be much more widely read and responded to.” —Modern Theology“This collection of essays by the late Danish philosopher and theologian Løgstrup presents his theory of using phenomenology in understanding our ethical decisions. According to Løgstrup, phenomenology not only provides an understanding of human existence but also of ethics, through examination of phenomena of ethical concepts. . . . Løgstrup combines detailed writing with an excellent critique of competing ethical theories to explain his own ethical theory, which stresses the moral experience over ethical principals. These essays will be valuable to scholars and students in philosophy and ethics.” —Library Journal
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University of Notre Dame Press Faith and Rationality
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This compilation of perceptive and in-depth essays . . . examines the epistemological topic of the rationality of Christian belief. These particular essays take a problematic approach in their criticism of contemporary analytic objections of theistic belief, and in the process make a contribution to general epistemology.” —Faith & Reason“This is an important book by members of what can be loosely called the school of contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion. It is worthy of study by everyone concerned with the epistemology of religion.” —The Journal of Religion“The essays are exceptionally well written, clear, and stimulating. They explicate what it means to be rational in general and to hold a rational belief in particular. For those interested in the vexing but crucial issues of how reason relates to faith, this is a probative and illuminating study.” —Theological Studies“. . . an important new approach to the philosophy of religion. . . . The contributors are sophisticated and able.” —The Journal of Philosophy“This volume, which represents the best philosophical theology being done today, is a fascinating step in a largely unrecognized dialogue between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.” —New Oxford Review"Faith and Rationality is an impressive and original contribution to the epistemology of religious belief and to general epistemology. [T]hese essays revolve around several common themes: first and perhaps foremost, there is the rejection of classical foundationalism ... a second and closely related theme concerns the evidentialist challenge to religious belief ... and thirdly, we find a position Plantinga and Wolterstorff dub Calvinist epistemology or Reformed epistemology." —NousTable of ContentsReason and belief in God / Alvin Plantinga -- The stranger / George I. Mavrod -- Christian experience and Christian belief / William P. Alston -- Can beli in God be rational if it has no foundations? / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Turn / George I. Mavrodes -- Jerusalem and Athens revisited / George I. Mavrodes The collapse of American evangelical academia / George Marsden -- Faith, reason, and the Resurrection / D. Holwerda.
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University of Notre Dame Press Friendship and the Moral Life
Book SynopsisFriendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rather, the book exhibits how without friendship, our lives are morally not worth living. The book begins with a consideration of why a new model of the moral life is needed. Wadell then examines the ethics of Aristotle, who viewed the moral life as based on a specific understanding of the purpose of being human, with friendship being an important factor in enabling people to acquire virtues necessary for achieving this purpose. Through the thought of Augustine, Aelred of Reivaulx, and Karl Barth, the question is raised whether friendship is at odds with Christian love or whether their relation depends on one''s narrative account of friendship. Thomas Aquinas'' understanding of charity as friendship with God is examined to clarify this relationship.By locating friendship within the story of God''s redemption through Christ, WadTrade Review"Wadell has made a convincing case for the necessity of rediscovering Aristotelian and Christian moral principles, particularly those concerning friendship. He demonstrates, with the seasoning of deep personal insight, that seeing friendship with God as the end of the moral life, and friendship with others as indispensable to achieving that goal, is crucial for achieving a full understanding of the moral life." —Review of Metaphysics"Wadell writes with a fascinating style and a sensitive interaction with family and community. His book catches the Bible's expectations of a chosen people, sustained by an unconditional loyalty and strong ties of blood, in order to love God with one's whole heart." —The Bible Today"This book offers both a substantive discussion of friendship in the Christian life and an approach to method in Christian ethics. A clear and helpful addition to the literature on friendship and deserves attention." —Religious Studies Review“. . . recommended to the general reader. [Wadell] takes as a model for the moral life the common and universal experience of friendship and introduces his project in an engaging, personal, and anecdotal style.” —America“In the central inspiration of his book, in his conviction that friendship is central to the naturally and supernaturally moral life, Wadell is simply right.” —Review of Politics“. . . warm and engaging . . . useful to those interested in virtue theory and the philosophy of love.” —Ethics
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University of Notre Dame Press Fulfillment in Christ
Book SynopsisA radical rethinking of fundamental moral theology in the light of Vatican II and in response to the current turmoil in that field. The presentation consistently upholds Catholic moral teaching, but is creative in its theology of the relationships between grace and works and liturgy and daily life.Trade Review“. . . a bumper crop in basic goods moral theology. . . .” —Homiletic & Pastoral Review“In brief, this volume is an exceptionally creative, original, dynamic study of the Christian moral life.” —Fellowship of Catholic Scholars“This volume provides an excellent introduction to moral theology and . . . is highly recommended.” —America“. . . the book deals in very clear, readable style with what moral theology is and why it is needed.” —The Baltimore Catholic Review“Fulfillment in Christ sets for itself a truly ambitious goal: to consider all the principles of Christian moral living in a concise and readable text. The book is plain-stated and patient in dealing with even the most difficult intellectual challenges, and it speaks clearly to the practical needs of Christians.” —Faith and Culture
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press On Being Free
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bergmann has written an eminently readable, wise, and provocative book. It is . . . scholarly without being narrowly 'academic'; it attacks a host of popular myths and penetrates the fog that surrounds many a learned discussion about human freedom; and it ventures to make practical suggestions about how society can increase the possibilities of freedom among its members. . . . It provokes much thought . . . and lets . . . fresh air into the musty chambers of perennial problems." —Modern Age"On Being Free . . . is an important and highly insightful book for philosophers and for philosophy teachers. . . . Bergmann has the capacity to present complex issues without simplification in a manner that creates interest and concern on the part of the student. He makes some of the traditional philosophic issues come to life through his original and perceptive slant on the problems. . . . Most importantly, Bergmann's style, approach, and content exhibit how to teach philosophy. This is a damn good book." —Teaching Philosophy"This is in many ways an admirable book, both a pleasure and stimulus to read. It is about important topics; it not only claims to display crucial relationship between philosophical and practical issues, but something much more rare—it actually enters into details of both philosophical and practical matters in a way which shows the essential and not merely the exemplificatory continuity of the two; and it does all this in a language wholly accessible to the proverbial layman. . . . This is without doubt both a very clear and very stimulating book. It leaves one eager to engage in its arguments and to take them further." —Nous"Bergmann's accomplishment is substantial. His is the most important philosophical examination of freedom since Isaiah Berlin's celebrated essay of a generation ago." —Social Science Quarterly
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Suffering Presence
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hauerwas's overriding concern in this text is with the contribution theological ethics can make to moral dilemmas in medicine....The text is a most provocative collection of essays and will become standard reading for all medical ethicists who take the theological voice seriously." —Ethics
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University of Notre Dame Press Truthfulness and Tragedy
Book SynopsisIn Truthfulness and Tragedy Stanley Hauerwas provides an account of moral existence and ethical rationality that shows how Christian convictions operate, or should operate, to form and direct lives. In attempting to conceptualize the basis of Christian ethics in a manner that will render Christian convictions morally intelligible, the author casts fresh light on traditional theoretical issues and articulates the distinctive Christian response to contemporary concerns such as suicide, medical ethics, and child care. The first section of the book deals with methodological issues: the meaning and nature of practical reason, obligation claims, natural law, and self deception, and the affinity of story and ethics. It focuses on the relation of truthfulness and tragedy and the need for a storya set of religious convictions or grammar of theologythat does justice to the tragic character of human existence. The second section addresses substantive issues: suicide, euthanasia, and tTrade Review"These essays, which focus upon particular issues such as population control, euthanasia, the relations of the Church to politics, and the care of the [mentally challenged], all show clearly how attention to Christian convictions in the narrative context which shapes our lives is necessary to bring to light the features of those issues which are crucial for the formation of our moral judgments and practices." —Theological Studies“The distinctive aspect of the approach taken in Truthfulness and Tragedy is the use of ‘story’ to provide canons of rationality for ethics. . . . The truthfulness of our theological and ethical convictions is best determined by how they relate to and resolve the dilemmas of our existence.” —Christian Century“ . . . A book that should be welcomed by all who care about the moral life. . . . This gleaning of Hauerwas’s thought to date gives added support to his reputation as one of the most consistently provocative ethicists working today.” —*Worldview *"The essays include discussions of the nature and methodology of Christian ethics as well as discussions of more particular issues such as suicide, population control, and care for the retarded." —Horizons
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University of Notre Dame Press Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability,' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what counts as a rational way to settle intellectual differences. Reading between the lines, one can see that he has in mind nationalities as well as thinkers, and literary criticism as well as academic philosophy. More explicitly, he labels and discusses three significantly different standpoints: the encyclopedic, the genealogical and the traditional. . . . [T]he chapters on the development of Christian philosophy between Augustine and Duns Scotus are very interesting indeed. . . . [T]hese chapters surely show that he must be the past, present, future and all-time philosophical historians' historian of philosophy. —The New York Times Book Review"This book deepens and defends MacIntyre's claim that genuinely rational enquiry requires membership in a particular type of moral community. He offers the most persuasive recent restatement of the Thomist position on the relation of metaphysics to morality." —Richard Rorty"Highly recommended." —Library Journal
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Whose Justice Which Rationality
Book SynopsisPresents a persuasive argument of there not being rationality that is not the rationality of some tradition. MacIntyre examines the problems presented by the existence of rival traditions of inquiry in the cases of four major philosophers: Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume.Trade Review"Alasdair MacIntyre has done it again. . . . [He] delivers on his promise in After Virtue to develop an account of rationality and justice that is tradition specific. It is a long and complex book, but will repay any reader's labors. In this book MacIntyre tells the story of four traditions: the Aristotelian, the Augustinian, the Scottish, and the rise of the liberal tradition. His narrative shows the interaction of these in a manner that illumines our current intellectual and moral context. . . ." —Commonweal"It is a step in the right direction, not of returning to some Catholic version of fundamentalist bibliotary, but of reading a Christian theologian and philosopher whose immense wisdom repays careful study by Christians and non-Christians alike." —New Oxford Review“Whose Justice? Which Rationality? is a work of signal importance ... [it] is usually convincing, always provocative, and has wide-reaching implications for the way we think about our historical moment." —Commentary“MacIntyre’s rich historical exposition displays all the erudition and philosophical subtlety that his readers have come to expect from his work. . . . [T]here is much to admire in MacIntyre’s unflinching indictment of liberal modernity.” —The New Criterion“[MacIntyre’s] diagnosis of what ails recent moral philosophy is brilliant.” —Wilson Quarterly“MacIntyre is widely informed and his story of developments in the traditions that he identifies is learned, interesting, and notably well-written.” —London Review of Books
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University of Notre Dame Press Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography
Book SynopsisTracing the shifts within Nietzsche’s understanding of the human condition, Alejandro offers an original interpretation of his philosophy, arguing that it was a philosophy of reconciliation.Trade Review"I am confident that this book will be considered essential reading for any scholar doing serious research into Nietzsche's thought and its implications. . . . The author carefully traces the shifts and turns and occasionally the contradictions and dead-ends in the development of Nietzsche's major themes. I have never read an account of Nietzsche's thought as fully and convincingly supported by textual reference as this book. Others will disagree with the author's readings of Nietzsche, that is the nature of scholarship, but I cannot see how they could be ignored." —Edward Portis, Texas A & M University"This is a major work on Nietzsche. Roberto Alejandro offers us a reading of Nietzsche's herculean efforts that Nietzsche scholars and scholars who write about modernity and postmodernity will be unable to ignore. This wide ranging and deep book addresses major issues in cultural history, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, and the vast literature on modernity and secularization. I expect this to be a book that generates debate and discussion for years to come." —Robert Hollinger, Iowa State University"Roberto Alejandro delivers a rich, lively account of Nietzsche's quest for meaning. By focusing on the theme of historiobiography, Alejandro illuminates Nietzsche's bold attempt to place himself at the center of a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of Western civilization. A thoughtful, well-crafted book, written very much in the spirit of Nietzsche himself." —Daniel Conway, Texas A & M University“Alejandro may have put his finger on the secret to Nietzsche’s appeal by emphasizing the redemptive motif in Nietzsche’s writings. Nietzsche saw humans as ‘religious animals’—unique among living creatures in demanding meaning for their lives. And he presents himself as a redeemer (ecce homo) who offers meaning. . . . The three major metaphors of Nietzsche’s story are the will to power, the overman, and eternal recurrence. Taken together they enable Nietzsche ‘to relate the real story of Christianity’ and make him, as Erich Heller has pointed out, one of the most radical religious writers of the 19th century.” —Choice"In Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography, Roberto Alejandro challenges this tradition and attempts to redefine the meaning of Nietzsche's entire corpus, offering an interpretation that integrates man and work, and highlights parallel tensions in both. His book offers a fresh and thoughtful reconsideration of Nietzsche's lifelong project. . . . Ultimately, this book records a unified vision of Nietzsche's work that is stimulating, fresh, and valuable." —Dialogue“Alejandro’s critical reflections cut to the core of Nietzsche’s arguments for constructing a healthy culture, and his prescriptions for becoming an authentic thinker.” —Foucault Studies
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