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Book SynopsisPersonal Identity brings together the most important readings on personal identity theory. * Brings together 13 of the most important readings on personal identity theory. * Includes a detailed introductory historical essay, tracing the origins of personal identity theory.Trade Review‘This volume gathers together important essays from two generations of debate concerning the problem of personal identity. Does identity matter as much as survival? Is survival based on psychological continuity or on the animal body? Does the self last through a lifetime, or for much shorter periods of time? Should ethical issues about personhood constrain our metaphysical conceptions of the person? The editors provide a historical framework that places all of these questions in clear perspective.’ Shaun Gallagher, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York ‘A balanced and stimulating anthology, capped by a valuable historical survey of the issues. It's a natural for either primary or secondary class readings.’ Stephen Braude, University of Maryland Baltimore County ‘This volume is a balanced collection of important contemporary essays on personal identity. The editors’ detailed historical overview provides a useful context for the essays. Overall, the book will be an excellent text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses, as well as a convenient resource for professional philosophers.’ Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts-AmherstTable of ContentsContributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Personal Identity & What Matters in Survival: A Historical Overview: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland at College Park) and John Barresi (Dalhousie University). 1. The Self and the Future: Bernard Williams (All Souls, Oxford University). 2. Personal Identity through Time: Robert Nozick (Harvard University). 3. Why Our Identity is Not What Matters: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford University). 4. Survival and Identity and Postscripts: David Lewis (Princeton University). 5. Personal Identity and the Unity of Agency: A Kantian Response to Parfit: Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University). 6. Fission and the Focus of One's Life: Peter Unger (New York University). 7. Surviving Matters: Ernest Sosa (Brown University). 8. Fission Rejuvenation: Raymond Martin (University of Maryland, College Park). 9. Empathic Access: The Missing Ingredient in Personal Identity: Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago). 10. Human Concerns Without Superlative Selves: Mark Johnston (Princeton University). 11. The Unimportance of Identity: Derek Parfit (All Souls, Oxford University). 12. An Argument for Animalism: Eric Olson (Churchill College, Cambridge University). 13. The Self: Galen Strawson (Jesus College, Oxford University). Books on Personal Identity since 1970. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new political imagination found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault. Chowers characterizes it as one of “entrapment,” whereby modern identity is constituted by participation in and internalization of the regulatory norms of the institutions that originated in the modern imagination.Trade ReviewThis is an erudite and original study of the great entrapment and proto-entrapment theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries, namely, Kant, Mary Shelley, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Benjamin, Kafka and Foucault. As Chowers convincingly shows, these theorists argue that moderns have come to be subject to and subjectified by historical processes that govern their conduct. Nevetheless, they go on to argue that moderns are able to overcome this state of 'immaturity' and become 'mature' in two diametrically opposed ways: either to overcome this subjection and become sovereign and autonomous over these processes (in proto-entrapment theories); or to acknowledge and learn to live within these processes as an ineliminable condition of being-in-the-world (in entrapment theories). The interpretation of individual authors and the story as a whole are presented with an exemplary depth of scholarship and insight, and the cumulative effect is to throw a critical and foreboding light on the present. -- James Tully, University of VictoriaThis book identifies the theme of "social entrapment" in three important 20th century social theorists: Weber, Freud, and Foucault. It ably shows how the theme emerged from the problems of the Enlightenment and attempts by Marx and Nietzsche to solve them. It also points out some of the dead ends to which it has led its expositors. An impressive combination of research and argument. -- Bernard Yack, Brandeis UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Modernity: Hyper-Order and Doubleness Modernity and the Imposition of Hyper-Order Civilization as a Self-Made Other: Doubleness in Kant and Frankenstein Conclusion 2. Proto-Entrapment Theories Overcoming Doubleness From Proto-Entrapment to Entrapment Theories 3. Max Weber: Between Homo-Hermeneut and the Lebende Maschine Weber's Anthropology Weber's Concept of "Personality" The Disciplined Self and the Rights-Protected Space The Fragility of Meaning Conclusion 4. Freud and the Castration of the Modern Freud's Theory of Instincts and the Origins of Discontent Modernity and das Unheimliche Narrating the Modern's Subjection: Freud's Theory of the Oedipal Complex 5. Michel Foucault: From the Prison-House of Language to the Silence of the Panopticon Historicizing the Psychoanalytic Subject, Dispersing the Personality: Foucault's Critique of Freud and Weber Entrapment and Language Entrapment and Power Conclusion Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAppiah explores how new empirical moral psychology relates to the age-old project of philosophical ethics, urging that the relation between empirical research and morality, now so often antagonistic, should be seen in terms of dialogue, not contest. He thereby shows how experimental philosophy is actually as old as philosophy itself.Trade ReviewThis dazzlingly written book argues for reconnecting moral philosophy with the sciences, both natural and social--and demonstrates that the reconnection, while in a sense overdue, reconnects philosophy with its ancient interest in empirical issues. Appiah's important argument promises to transform more than one field. It is not only wise and subtle; it is also inspiring. -- Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago and author of Worst-Case ScenariosExperiments in Ethics is wonderful: concise but not breezy, clear but not simplistic, wide-ranging but focused, filled with wit and learning. It is an accessible, lively, and balanced introduction to empirical moral psychology that I recommend happily to philosophers and non-philosophers. -- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong,Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies at Dartmouth CollegeBrilliant...I wish every philosopher wrote like Appiah. Experiments in Ethics is clear and accessible (and often very funny), and Appiah is generous when it comes to discussing the work of those he disagrees with. But this book has teeth, particularly when Appiah looks hard at the emphasis on moral dilemmas. -- Paul Bloom * New York Times Book Review *The main theme of [Appiah's] beautifully written book...is that ethicists should take account of empirical data about people's moral intuitions. Indeed, he takes that to be the mainstream current of the history of philosophy from Aristotle onwards, regretting the recent hiving off of the discipline from empirical investigation. Appiah packs a chewy heft of scholarly nuance away in the footnotes, and the text sparkles with jokes. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *Concisely written and clearly argued...Humans have a tendency to pass the moral buck by blaming ethical failings on everything from supernatural forces to genetics. Appiah's proposals return the wellspring of human ethics to its proper place: human beings themselves...This is a stimulating and highly enjoyable book. With Appiah as our guide, readers can look forward to a fascinating journey toward the rediscovery of the ancient goal of a life of decency and virtue. -- Lorenzo DiTommaso * Montreal Gazette *Concise yet erudite and engagingly written...Because he sees the quest for scientific knowledge as very much part of the philosophical tradition, Mr. Appiah warns not only against "baseless fears" of the damage that experiments in ethics will do to ethics, but also against "exaggerated hopes" that the rediscovery of such an approach will answer all our puzzles about ethics. -- Peter Singer * New York Sun *What can experimentation in the human and natural sciences contribute to moral philosophy? Appiah's answer in this concise and balanced book is effectively "something but not everything." Reconnecting the empirical with moral theory may, he argues, have productive consequences for both areas of thought. * London Review of Books *In writing this inspiring book, Appiah has done a good thing. -- Sacha Molitorisz * Sydney Morning Herald *Sensible, informed and highly readable...Illuminating and important. The book is a model for how to do empirically informed moral philosophy. -- Anthony Skelton * Globe and Mail *Experiments in Ethics is erudite, concise and engagingly written. Appiah assesses that experimental science is relevant to the enterprise of normative ethics, and that the relation between the two, although complex, need not be antagonistic. -- Nick Bostrom * Nature *Appiah has produced an elegant and well-written volume at the intersection of psychology and moral philosophy. Appiah presents a reasonable case that philosophy traditionally has been informed by scientific inquiry, and should continue to welcome it; but at the same time he is clear that the questions of moral philosophy are not themselves scientific questions. -- S. Satris * Choice *This engaging book surveys influential recent attempts to bring empirical studies to bear specifically on moral philosophy, in a style that is accessible to non-specialists yet philosophically nuanced. Professor Appiah is sympathetic to the idea that moral philosophy has a good deal to learn from experimental work, but skeptical of the suggestion that this approach constitutes a radical departure from the philosophical tradition. He begins with a fascinating and erudite characterization of philosophy as a discipline that only "calved off" from psychology around the beginning of the twentieth century. Until then, experimental works and empirical investigation ("natural philosophy") were interwoven with metaphysical theorizing and deductive argumentation, and psychology was only just becoming a distinct academic discipline in its own right. Trying to distinguish metaphysical from psychological elements in the work of such canonical figures of European philosophy as Plato and Aristotle, René Descartes, John Locke, David Hume and J. S. Mill, Appiah claims, is like "trying to peel a raspberry." -- Justin D'Arms * Times Literary Supplement *One of our most imaginative writers on topics like culture, values, and individual identity...[Appiah] is a philosopher but one not bound by any disciplinary straitjacket; he succeeds in what he does by inviting his readers to stand back with him from the preoccupations of any particular style of theorizing...The lightness of his style...together with his determination to make analytic moral philosophy the topic rather than the method of his study, has given us a wry and engaging account of the challenge that psychology poses to ethics. -- Jeremy Waldron * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Introduction: The Waterless Moat 2. The Case against Character 3. The Case against Intuition 4. The Varieties of Moral Experience 5. The Ends of Ethics Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book Synopsis“What does it mean to be lonely?” Dumm asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. This book challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way.Trade ReviewLoneliness as a Way of Life is a book about coming to believe in this world, a world in which loneliness is inevitable and connections are still possible. It is also a risky book, because of the way Dumm weaves the personal into the literary and both into politics. The risk is well run: Dumm's is an untimely piece, essential for the time in which we live. -- William E. ConnollyAvoiding cynicism and sentimentality alike, Thomas Dumm's penetrating and painfully personal meditations on the modern condition of loneliness may show us more about ourselves than we can easily bear. Through subtle and provocative readings of Shakespeare, Melville, Arendt, and other thinkers, Dumm finds terms for acknowledging and inhabiting his own loneliness, and perhaps ours as well. His calm yet insistently disarming voice claims and challenges us, even when we resist it. -- Robert Gooding-Williams, author of Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and PoliticsThomas Dumm is a wise guide and learned counselor for the great Socratic question: How to live? We are deeply enriched owing to his wisdom and compassion. -- Cornel West[Dumm] uses the works of past writers and philosophers such as Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Foucault, along with personal reflections on his feelings after the death of his wife, to explain the multifaceted nature of loneliness. Dumm concludes that loneliness isn't something that we overcome, but it is part of our psychological, political, and social lives. We all share these common areas of loneliness, and only through reflecting on them can we gain a better understanding of how to live with our loneliness. -- Scott Duimstra * Library Journal *Loneliness as a Way of Life doesn't try to be cut-and-dried. It is quizzical, often deeply skeptical, about our intentions as a species. It recognizes that society--and sociability--are messy affairs that bring mixed blessings. Especially in his last, rousing chapter on Emerson, freedom, and responsibility, Mr. Dumm offers a way out of the morass he has described. He makes no false claims that we can vanquish loneliness or fix our thinking in a fresh groove. Instead, he proposes the tempered idea that friendship and group accountability can--indeed, must--live together with our existential solitude. -- Christopher Lane * New York Sun *The greatest writers may have shown how language itself is inadequate to the experience of loneliness. But we have written our experience of loneliness deeply into the language. That too, though, goes to underscore the point that Mr. Dumm's honest book makes: While the "lonely self will always be with us," we can at least come together in search of imaginative ways of expressing that loneliness. We can "write and read to tell each other how we are to be lonely together." -- Andrew Stark * Wall Street Journal *[A] meditative and intensely personal volume. -- Sarah Barmak * Toronto Star *An intriguing volume...This modern world may be the "way of loneliness," but readers should not shy away from the state. In fact, Dumm asserts that loneliness is the impetus that gives us autonomy, the ability to make decisions on our own terms. Although the feeling may be painful, it is only through loneliness that we become true individuals able to make rational decisions and able to interact with others as rational beings. And, in an odd twist, it is this true sense of self-awareness that leads us to seek the community of others. -- Orli Low * Los Angeles Times *For Dumm, loneliness is really about loss. He argues that we have to be willing to reflect on the tragic dimensions of human existence, including the inevitability of our own deaths, to face and ameliorate our loneliness...Only through earnest reflection and a willingness to examine how we live our lives can the ache of loneliness be transformed into its less painful companion: solitude. -- Katharine Mieszkowski * Salon *This is a fascinating book. Dumm articulates the intuition that many of the ways in which we understand our communal existence within a polity, ranging from the distinction between the public and the private spheres to the weakness of our interpersonal attachments, stem from the loneliness that is manifested within the modern world. Believing that loneliness is resistant to the traditional philosophical approach of describing the phenomenon at hand, then analyzing and critiquing it, Dumm draws on several important artistic works (from King Lear, to Moby-Dick, to the film Paris, Texas) to explore this issue and to illuminate his intuitions concerning it. Just as this volume is not a traditional philosophical treatise, it is not a traditional volume of literary criticism, for Dumm is deeply and personally involved with the subject of loneliness, and he reaches into his own experiences of it to explore it more fully. -- J. S. Taylor * Choice *Table of Contents* Preface * Prologue: Cordelia's Calculus * I. Being * II. Having * III. Loving * IV. Grieving * Epilogue: Writing * Notes * Index

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Book SynopsisStrevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. The result is an account of explanation that has especially significant consequences for the higher-level sciences: biology, psychology, economics, and other social sciences.Trade ReviewDepth is an excellent book--the best treatment of explanation in the philosophical literature. Strevens draws on a wealth of scientific and philosophical knowledge to craft a theory that is true to the facts about how scientific explanation actually works, while avoiding the traps that have snared previous attempts at providing a systematic theory. -- Brian Weatherson, Cornell UniversityStrevens proposes a substantial revision and upgrading of traditional causal approaches to explanation in the sciences. Focusing on what he calls "causal difference-making," the non-causal relation "entanglement," and requiring progressive abstraction toward deeper explanatory models employing lower-level causal laws, Strevens outlines a theory of explanation that will no doubt attract a significant amount of interest--especially among those interested in the structure of the biological and social sciences (for which it has interesting consequences)...Although the concepts are not easy ones, and even though the arguments are directed at professionals, undergraduates will be able to read this book with profit. The very brief final chapter on the aesthetics of explanation raises thought-provoking questions that readily invite response from students, other philosophers, or possibly Strevens himself. In short, this is a valuable book for any program that includes the philosophy of science. -- C. D. Kay * Choice *This volume will prove indispensable for philosophers working in the field of explanation...Strevens's book provides an excellent survey of recent argumentation on causal explanation with a rigorous defense of his own brand of explanation. -- Jeremy S. Kirby * Quarterly Review of Biology *[An] impressive book...Depth provides many intellectually stimulating and highly original thoughts on a number of critical and venerable philosophical topics. Any philosopher of science today will surely find it to be a rewarding read. -- Stephan Hartmann and Jonah N. Schupbach * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of Contents* List of Figures* and Table** * Preface * Part I. The Causal Approach to Explanation *1. Approaches to Explanation *1.1 Causal Explanation and Explanatory Relevance *1.2 Preliminaries *1.3 Accounts of the Explanatory Relation *1.4 The Causal Element in Explanation *1.5 The Pursuit of Explanation *2. Causal and Explanatory Relevance *2.1 The Minimal Causal Account of Event Explanation *2.2 The Problem of Relevance *2.3 The Probabilistic Solution *2.4 The Counterfactual Solution *2.5 The Manipulationist Solution * Part II. The Kairetic Account of Explanation *3. The Kairetic Account of Difference-Making *3.1 Overview of the Kairetic Account *3.2 Causal Models *3.3 States of Affairs *3.4 The Eliminative Procedure *3.5 Abstraction and Optimizing *3.6 Cohesion *3.7 The Optimizing Procedure *3.8 Rival Accounts of Difference-Making Reconsidered *4. The Kairetic Account of Explanation *4.1 Standalone Explanation *4.2 Difference-Making and Transitivity in Compound Explanations *4.3 Comparing Standalone Explanations *4.4 Laplacean Blindness *5. Extending the Kairetic Account *5.1 Quantifying Explanatory Relevance *5.2 Trading Off Accuracy for Generality *5.3 The Explanatory Framework *5.4 Black Boxes, Functional Properties, and Multiple Realizability *5.5 Aggregative Explanation *5.6 Contrastive Explanation *5.7 Beyond Causal Explanation *6. Event Explanation and Causal Claims *6.1 Background Conditions versus Causes *6.2 Preemption *6.3 Nonevents as Difference-Makers *6.4 Nonevents as Explananda *6.5 Transitivity *6.6 Three Kinds of Causation * Part III. Explanation of Laws and Regularities *7. Regularity Explanation *7.1 Approaches to Regularity Explanation *7.2 Explaining Laws with Mechanisms *7.3 Basing Generalizations *7.4 Property Laws *7.5 Other Laws *7.6 The Metaphysics of High and Low *8. Abstraction in Regularity Explanation *8.1 Problems of Abstraction in Regularity Explanation *8.2 Explaining Boyle's Law *8.3 A Theory of Idealization *8.4 Mathematically Driven Explanation * Part IV. Probabilistic Explanation *9. Approaches to Probabilistic Explanation *9.1 Explanatory Questions *9.2 Varieties of Probabilistic Explanation: Examples *9.3 Varieties of Probabilistic Explanation: Commentary *9.4 Accounts of Probabilistic Explanation *9.5 Elitism versus Egalitarianism *9.6 Probability and Determinism *9.7 Formal Elements of the Kairetic Approach *10. Kairetic Explanation of Frequencies *10.1 Probabilistic Explanation in Deterministic Systems *10.2 Explanation with Complex Probability *10.3 Explanation with Quasiprobability *10.4 Elitism versus Egalitarianism the Kairetic Way *10.5 Regularity Explanation and Probabilistic Metaphysics *11. Kairetic Explanation of Single Outcomes *11.1 Single Outcome Explanation *11.2 Robustness *11.3 Nonexplanatory Probability-Raisers *11.4 Nonexplanatory Critical Events *11.5 Elitism and Egalitarianism Revisited * Part V. Valediction *12. Looking Outward *12.1 Biology: Probabilistic Explanation *12.2 Psychology: Content and Explanation *12.3 Economics: Abstraction *12.4 Explanatory Autonomy *13. Looking Inward * Notes * References * Index ** Figures *2.1 The counterfactual and manipulationist tests for difference-making contrasted *3.1 A compound causal model for a window's breaking *4.1 A compound standalone explanation *4.2 Intensification: inserting an intermediate setup *4.3 The structure of a hybrid causal model *6.1 A single event as both a backup cause and an actual cause *7.1 A bridge diagram for interlevel explanation *9.1 Examples of probabilistic causal models *10.1 An evolution function for a simple wheel of fortune *10.2 A probability density function over initial conditions *10.3 The frequency produced by a microconstant evolution function is equal to the strike ratio, provided that the initial-condition density is macroperiodic *10.4 A nonmacroperiodic initial-condition density over a microconstant evolution function may produce a frequency that differs from the strike ratio *10.5 An evolution function with imperfect microconstancy *11.1 A probabilistic model for a bombing death expanded to show all probabilistic outcomes *11.2 An alternative expanded probabilistic model for a bomb-related death *11.3 A typical microconstant explanation of a long-run frequency expanded to show the probabilistic derivation's route through the macroperiodicity of the actual initial-condition distribution *** Table *9.1 Positions in the elitism/egalitarianism debate

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Book SynopsisWilliam Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality. This book clarifies the fundamental issues, and presents analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill.Trade Review"'Whither liberalism?' The question is so shopworn that one is inclined to feel grateful to anyone for asking instead: 'Whence?' Knowing where we came from may not tell us where we are going, but it at least points us in the right direction. Peter Berkowitz has now done us this timely service with Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism."--Bret Louis Stephens, Wall Street Journal "In elegantly written studies of Hobbes, Kant, Locke, and Mill, Berkowitz finds that the fathers of modern liberalism, not unsurprisingly, believed that the virtues are necessary even in a liberal regime."--First ThingsTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Ch. 1Hobbes: Politics and the Virtues of a Lesser Order35Ch. 2Locke: Private Virtue and the Public Good74Ch. 3Kant: Virtue within the Limits of Reason Alone106Ch. 4Mill: Liberty, Virtue, and the Discipline of Individuality134Conclusion170Notes193Index229

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Book SynopsisExplores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. This book features cross-chapter dialogue and a conclusion that draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented including Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism.Trade Review"[This] collection of essays is very rich in ideas and in implications. It explores a vital set of questions and ethical concepts. The book leaves me wanting more such volumes that explore the boundaries of justice from varied ethical perspectives."--Dana W. Wilbanks, Journal of the American Academy of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction by David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi 3 Chapter One: Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical by Richard B. Miller 15 Chapter Two: The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries by Nigel Biggar 38 Chapter Three: Toward a Liberal Theory of National Boundaries by Loren Lomasky 55 Chapter Four: Hard Borders, Compensation, and Classical Liberalism by Hillel Steiner 79 Chapter Five: Territorial Boundaries and Confucianism by Joseph Chan 89 Chapter Six: Boundaries of the Body and Body Politic in Early Confucian Thought by Michael Nylan 112 Chapter Seven: International Law, Boundaries, and Imagination by Robert McCorquodale 136 Chapter Eight: Territorial Sovereignty: Command, Title, and the Expanding Claims of the Commons by Raul C. Pangalangan 164 Chapter Nine: Islamic Perspectives on Territorial Boundaries and Autonomy by M. Raquibuz Zaman 183 Chapter Ten: Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View by Sulayman Nyang 203 Chapter Eleven: Land and People: One Jewish Perspective by David Novak 213 Chapter Twelve: Contested Boundaries: Judaic Visions of a Shared World by Noam J. Zohar 237 Chapter Thirteen: Territorial Boundaries: A Liberal Egalitarian Perspective by Will Kymlicka 249 Chapter Fourteen: Group Boundaries, Individual Barriers by Russell Hardin 276 Chapter Fifteen: Boundaries, Ownership, and Autonomy: A Natural Law Perspective by Joseph Boyle 296 Chapter Sixteen: In Defense of Reasonable Lines: Natural Law from a Natural Rights Perspective by Jeremy Rabkin 317 Chapter Seventeen: The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments by Daniel Philpott 335 Index 361

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inside Philanthropy's Philanthropy Critic of 2018""One of the LSE Marshall Institute's Books of 2019""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Just Giving breaks ground in its outright challenge of philanthropy’s fit with democracy. Reich is at his best when demonstrating the ways in which philanthropy fails to fulfil its egalitarian promise."---Ian Anstee, Voluntary Sector Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""How to Do Things with Emotions is a welcome corrective to Anglophone philosophy’s tendency to frame Western presumptions as universal. And it presents an appealingly sensible moral program."---Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker"Illuminating and engaging"---Sara Protasi, Times Literary Supplement"[An] insightful book. . . . Flanagan recommends and provides careful attention to [other cultural practices around anger and shame] in the hope that they will open up possibilities for developing new ways of expressing emotional behaviors." * Choice Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant and penetrating conception of the nature of political philosophy."---Lewis Ross, Journal of Moral Philosophy"A terrific achievement that will be of lasting benefit.—Thom Brooks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"

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Book SynopsisA penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. A penetrating analysis of the life and doctrines of the Spanish-born Arab theologian. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*List of Plates, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 1*Ch. I. Divine Passion and Compassion, pg. 105*Ch. II. Sophiology and Devotio Sympathetica, pg. 136*Prologue, pg. 179*III. The Creation as Theophany, pg. 184*Ch. IV. Theophanic Imagination and Creativity of the Heart, pg. 216*Ch. V. Man's Prayer and God's Prayer, pg. 246*Ch. VI. The "Form of God", pg. 272*Epilogue, pg. 283*Notes and Appendices, pg. 285*List of Works Cited, pg. 391*Index, pg. 399

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Book SynopsisJohn Stuart Mill''s The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women''s struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigorous intellectual analyses of women''s subordination. One of the lasting legacies of Mill''s The Subjection of Women is its careful argument for the need for justice at both the public and the private levels, which requires changes at the domestic level that are as radical in the 21st century as they were in the 19th. The essays collected in this critical edition represent a variety of interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author''s position, intended to assist readers encountering the material for the first timeTrade ReviewThis very useful collection brings together the best recent writing on Mill's controversial essay, highlighting the diversity of interpretations of Mill's feminism. It will be an indispensable volume for Mill scholars as well as those interested in the history of feminism. -- Deborah Boyle, assistant professor of philosophy, College of CharlestonSpanning twenty years, the essays in this volume are presented as moments in an ongoing dialogue. One essay makes a compelling case for a particular line of interpretation and then the next stands this reading on its head. The result is a rich dialogue and debate, a compelling and highly readable book, sure to be of interest to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates alike. -- Jean Keller, College of St. Benedict * APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy *I believe this to be the best volume published so far to assist a reading of Mill's The Subjection of Women. Altogether, it is a useful contribution to the literature on Mill and a helpful guide to readers of his work. -- Henry R. West, professor of philosophy at Macalester College and author of An Introduction to Mill's Utilitarian EthicsTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 John Stuart Mill's Liberal Feminism Chapter 4 John Stuart Mill, Radical Feminist Chapter 5 Mill and The Subjection of Women Chapter 6 The Corrupting Influence of Power Chapter 7 John Stuart Mill's Feminism: The Subjection of Women and the Improvement of Mankind Chapter 8 Mill on Women and Human Development Chapter 9 Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women Chapter 10 The Marriage of True Minds: The Ideal of Marriage in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill Chapter 11 John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage

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Book Synopsis1. Habermas is one of the worlda s leading social and political thinkers. 2. The first book to bring together Habermasa s key writings on religion. 3. Includes an original interview with Habermas, as well as an introduction written especially for the volume.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: The German Idealism of the Jewish Philosophers. Chapter 2: On the Difficulty of Saying No. Chapter 3: Transcendence from Within, Transcendence in this World. Chapter 4: To Seek to Salvage an Unconditional Meaning Without God is a Futile Undertaking: Reflections on a Remark of Max Horkheimer. Chapter 5: Communicative Freedom and Negative Theology: Questions for Michael Theunissen. Chapter 6 Israel or Athens: Where does Anamnestic Reason Belong? Johannes Baptist Metz on Unity amidst Multicultural Plurality. Chapter 7: Tracing the Other of History in History: Gershom Scholem's Sabbati Sevi. Chapter 8: A Conversation About God and the World: Interview with Eduardo Mendieta. Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review�I never recommended a book about Spinoza until now. Steinberg and Viljanen�s Spinoza neatly presents this grand thinker�s �abominable� and �monstrous� metaphysical philosophy, cleanly tying it to his ethics and political theory. Excellent for professionals and amateurs alike.� Steven Barbone, San Diego State University �In its comprehensiveness, Steinberg and Viljanen�s book rivals the great encyclopaedic studies of the nineteenth century, while drawing upon the latest historical discoveries and interpretative work. It is a comprehensive and readable introduction to the best current knowledge of Spinoza.� Alexander Douglas,University of St Andrews

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Book SynopsisThis new book of popular philosophy is a major bestseller in Germany, where it sold over 40,000 copies in the first few weeks after publication Gabriel argues that the world does not exist because what is, in fact, includes not simply so-called facts, but also views of those facts, dreams, projects, works of art and perspectives.Trade Review"A majestic thought experiment."—Slavoj Zizek"It is a rare gift to be able to philosophize from the first principles in a way that is neither patronizingly derivative nor technically arcane and in a manner that is accessible to the general reader. But Gabriel possesses that gift in bucketloads." —Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research"Imagine a philosopher. This philosopher has the verve and pop-culture curiosity of Slavoj Zizek; Graham Priest's comfort with unresolved ambiguity; the transparent prose of John Gray; and Martin Heidegger's nose for the faint scent of being. Your imagined thinker is Markus Gabriel, and his book is Why the World Does Not Exist." —Sydney Morning Herald"This delightful book, translated by Gregory Moss, upholds Wittgenstein's remark that 'whatever can be said at all can be said clearly'." —The Guardian"Gabriel has written a gripping thriller, which is of course what all good philosophy should be." —Die Literarische Welt"Markus Gabriel shows with great verve how to tackle fundamental philosophical questions, without being overly academic or dumbing down his subject matter." —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"With great wit and intellectual provocation, Markus Gabriel explores the perennial questions of humanity." —Der Spiegel"Why the World Does Not Exist, is confirmation… that modern works of German philosophy can be both profound and successful."—Foreign PolicyTable of ContentsThinking Philosophy Anew 1 Appearance and Being 2 New Realism 5 The Plurality of Worlds 8 Less than Nothing 11 I What is this Actually: the World? 16 You and the Universe 21 Materialism 28 “The World is Everything that is the Case” 32 Constructivism 38 Philosophers and Physicists 44 II What is Existence? 50 The Super-Object 53 Monism, Dualism, Pluralism 56 Absolute and Relative Differences 61 Fields of Sense 65 III Why the World Does Not Exist 73 The Super-Thought 78 Nihilism and Non-Existence 81 The External and the Internal World 91 IV The Worldview of Natural Science 99 Naturalism 106 Monism 111 The Book of the World 115 Subjective Truths 126 Holzwege 131 Science and Art 137 V The Meaning of Religion 146 Fetishism 154 The Infinite 162 Religion and the Search for Meaning 168 The Function of God 178 VI The Meaning of Art 184 Ambivalences 186 On Sense and Reference 190 The Demon of Analogy 194 Reflexivity 197 Diversity 204 VII Closing Credits: Television 209 A Show about Nothing 212 The Senses . . . 215 . . . and the Meaning of Life 220 Notes 222 Glossary 231 Index of Names 237

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Book SynopsisIn this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses span the centuries, from ancient civilizations to contemporary Hollywood. With great verve and insight he considers the key issues that have faced thinkers from Aristotle to Adorno, looking at art in its relation to ethics, metaphysics, society, politics, anthropology and the subject. Sloterdijk explores a variety of topics, from the Greco-Roman invention of postcards to the rise of the capitalist art market, from the black boxes and white cubes of modernism to the growth of museums and memorial culture. In doing so, he extends his characteristic method of defamiliarization to transform the way we look at works of art and artistic movements. His bold and original approach leads us awaTrade Review"The Aesthetic Imperative crystalizes and intensifies the already formidable force of Sloterdijk's corpus. By working through the history of philosophy we discover that the bourgeois subject's capacity to discern the beautiful is at once an art of self-formation and a beautiful form of the self. This is not one more book on the relation between art and politics: it redefines the polity as a singular account of a beauty beyond art, and redefines the aesthetic by way of a subjectivity that is on its way to being political." Claire Colebrook, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsContents I. WORLD OF SOUND La musique retrouvée 3 Remembrance of Beautiful Politics 15 Where Are We When We Hear Music? 27 II. IN THE LIGHT Clearing and Illumination. Notes on the Metaphysics, Mysticism and Politics of Light 49 Illumination in the Black Box: On the History of Opacity 61 III. DESIGN The Right Tool for Power: Observations on Design as the Modernization of Competence 83 On the Charisma of Symbols 97 For a Philosophy of Play 100 IV. CITY AND ARCHITECTURE The City and its Negation: An Outline of Negative Political Theory 113 Architects Do Nothing But ‘Inside Theory’: Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Sabine Kraft and Nikolaus Kuhnert 141 For a Participatory Architecture - Notes on the Art of Daniel Libeskind with reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Valéry 174 V. CONDITIO HUMANA Essay on the Life of the Artist: Heretics *Wastrels* Falls/Cases* Inhabitants 185 Confessions of a Loser 192 Minima Cosmetica - An Essay on Self-Aggrandizement 197 VI. MUSEUM The Museum: School of Disconcertment 221 World Museum and World’s Fair 231 VII. ART SYSTEM ‘I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself’ 249 Art is folding into itself 253 Emissaries of Violence - On the Metaphysics of Action Cinema 265 Good-For-Nothing Returns Home or The End of an Alibi - and A Theory of the End of Art 280 Afterword by Peter Weibel: Sloterdijk and the Question of Aesthetics 304Notes 320 Publication Sources 334

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length study of hospitality in the writings of Jacques Derrida

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Book SynopsisMootz offers an antidote to the fragmentation of contemporary legal theory with a collection of essays arguing that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. This is not a modern insight that wipes away centuries of dogmatic confusion; rather, Mootz draws on insights as old as the Western tradition itself. However, the essays are not antiquarian or merely descriptive, because hermeneutical and rhetorical philosophy have undergone important changes over the millennia. To return to hermeneutics and rhetoric as touchstones for law is to embrace dynamic traditions that provide the resources for theorists who seek to foster persuasion and understanding as an antidote to the emerging global order and the trend toward bureaucratization in accordance with expert administration, violent suppression, or both.Table of ContentsPart 1 Legal Hermeneutics and Theory; Chapter 1 The New Legal Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 The Ontological Basis of Legal Hermeneutics: A Proposed Model of Inquiry Based on the Work of Gadamer, Habermas, and Ricoeur; Chapter 3 A Future Foretold: Neo-Aristotelian Praise of Postmodern Legal Theory; Part 2 Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric; Chapter 4 Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory; Chapter 5 Law in Flux: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Legal Argumentation, and the Natural Law Tradition; Part 3 Critical Hermeneutics and Legal Rhetoric; Chapter 6 Nietzschean Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics; Chapter 7 Responding to Nietzsche: The Constructive Power of Destruktion;

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Book SynopsisInaugural Study.- Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason: The Primogenital Generative Matrix.- Overture the Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration.- Leonardo's Sala delle Asse and Sullivan's Organic Architecture.- Creative Timber: Poets and Trees.- The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed.- Section I The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy.- The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism.- On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life.- Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory.- Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview.- On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems.- Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations.- Section II Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay.- The Construction of the Concept The Omnividual.- The Mathematical Horizon of the Future.- The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism.- Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger'sTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. The Theme: The Origins of Life/the Primogenital Religion of Sense. Overture. The Tree of Life in Aesthetic Inspiration. Leonardo's Sala Delle Asse and Sullivan's Organic Architecture; P. Trutty-Goohill. Inaugural Study. Origins of Life and the New Critique of Reason; A.-T. Tymieniecka. Creative Timber: Poets and Trees; N. Goldfarb. The Tree of the Credo: Symbolism of the Tree in Medieval Images of the Christian Creed; S.B. Simor. Section I: The Dialogue Between Life Sciences and Philosophy. The Origin of Life: Individuation and Evolutionism; V.S. Rai. On the Metaphysical Foundations of Life; B. Ogrodnik. Creative Emergence and Complexity Theory; A.J. Antonites. Contemporary Life Sciences and the Scientific Worldview; S. Spassov. On Some Problems Concerning Observation of Biological Systems; P. Lenartowicz, J. Koszteyn. Life-Space and Life-World: Merleau-Ponty on Situations; R. Zembahs. Section II: Primal Origin, Individuation, Interplay. The Construction of the Concept `The Omnividual'; B. Tjellander. The Mathematical Horizon of the Future; G. Graff, K. Dzediziul. The Individualism of Twentieth-Century Phenomenology and Existentialism; H. Szabala. Is Phenomenology as a Science Possible? Reading Heidegger's Viewpoint; W. Pawliszyn. Self-Interpretation of Time as a Rule of Individuation in Scheler's, Dilthey's and Heidegger's Concepts of Man; J. Brejdak. Section III: The Transitions of Sense: Body, Organism, Conscious Life. The Body and the Self-Identification of conscious Life, the Science of Man Between Physiology and Psychology in Maine de Biran; C. Canullo. The Reciprocity of Human Organism and Circumstance: An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Actions and Experiences of an Human Organism in its Environment; W.K. Rogers. Die Sprache des Traumes und der Traum der Sprache: Beitrag zur Phänomenologie der Träume in den kritischen Lebenssituationen; E. Syristova. The Connection Between Phenomenological Culture and the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry; B. Callieri. The Dyadics of Complementarity: Towards a New Vision of Reality; E.V. Altekar. Giving Form to Life: Processes of Functionalization and of Work in Max Scheler; D. Verducci. The Consciousness &endash; Corporeality Problem; S.V. Komarov. Death as a Limit of Phenomenology, the Notion of Death from Husserl to Derrida; J. Kauppinen. A Possible Reason for the `Fatal Vision' of the Famous American Surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald; J. Grzeszczuk. Reflexion and the Universal Structures of Consciousness; A. Kuzmin. Appendix: Program of the Gdansk Congress.

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Book SynopsisForeground Following the Logos through the Labyrinth of Life.- One From The Elusive Primeval Logos to the Open-Ended Great Plan of Life.- One The Primeval Logos.- Two Life and Non-Life.- Three Life in Its Specifics.- Tying Point One The Manifestation of Life Through the Nature-Life Complex and Its Radius.- Nature -Life.- Two Embodiment And the Transformation of Sense.- One The Embodiment of the Logoic Lifedynamics and The Phases of the Conversion of Sense.- Two The Gathering of the Dynamic Logoic Threads.- Three The Embodiment of the Logos in the Second Phase: Transformation of Sense.- Four Voluminosity Crystalizing the Vital Dimension of Beingness.- Five The Differentiation of the Logos in Constitutive and Intelligible Expression.- Tying Point Two Anticipating the Manifestation of the Logos of Life.- One Metaphysics of Manifestation Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, and Culture.- Two Spontaneity, Constructive Dynamism, and Ciphering in the Human Condition.- Three MaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. In praise of philosophy. Introduction. Foreground. Following the logos through the labyrinth of life. Part One: From the elusive primeval logos to the open-ended great plan of life. 1. The primeval logos. 2. Life and non-life. 3. Life in its specifics. Tying point one. The manifestation of life through the nature-life complex and its radius. Nature-life. Part two: Embodiment and the transformation of sense. 1. The embodiment of the logoic life dynamics and the phases of the conversion of sense. 2. The gathering of the dynamic logoic threads. 3. The embodiment of the logos in the second phase: transformation of sense. 4. Voluminosity crystalizing the vital dimension of beingness. 5. The differentiation of the logos in constitutive and intelligible expression. Tying point two. Anticipating the manifestation of the logos of life. 1. Metaphysics of manifestation. Logos in the Individualization of Life, Sociability, Culture. 2. Spontaneity, constructive dynamism, and ciphering in the human condition. Part III: Manifestation and differentiation. 1. The surging manifestation of life. 2. The strategies of differentiation and harmony in the self-individualizing life process. 3. Ontopoietic diversity and the unity of apperception. Tying point three. The great plan of life anticipating the triadic logos. 1. The esoteric logos. 2. The great plan of life, the esoteric passion of the mind. Part IV: The emergence of the triadic logos: the turning point. 1. The manifestation of the intellection in the universe in the triadic logos: the turning point. 2. Knowledge and cognition in the self-individualizing progress of life. 3. The creative rise of the human spirit. Tying point four. The logos of subliminal passions - their crucial role in human self-interpretation in existence. 1. The passion for place as the thread leading out of the labyrinth of life. 2. Spacing/Scanning as the foundational function of individualization within the territory of life. 3. The release of subliminal yearnings. Part V: The promethean direction of the logos of life in quest of accomplishment. 1.The human self in the communal fabric. 2. From Husserl's formulation of the soul-body problem to the differentiation of faculties. 3. Telos and destiny. Tying point five. Introducing the measure: Chronos and Kairos. Introduction. Life's timing itself vs. the human esoteric passion for accomplishment. 1. Chronos and Kairos: ordering on the one side and radiating on the other. 2. Chronos and Kairos seen in their ontopoietic roles. Part VI: The strategies of impetus/equipoise in communal sharing-in-life. 1. The fulguration of the logos in the `overt' strategies of the existential interaction. The Communal Significance of Life. 2. The dialectic junction in the logoic strategies: moral law vs. commitment. 3. The creative forge of the logos within the human condition. The Twilight of Consciousness, the Human Virtues. 4. Moral and civic virtue as the bedrock of the manifest game of life, the cornerstone of dynamic social equipoise. Tying point six. The golden measure: toward a new enlightenment. The meta-ontopoietic closure. Notes. Index of names.

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Book SynopsisContains five lectures concerning the discussion of the relation of science and the humanities, focusing on the work of thinkers such as James B. Conant and C.P. Snow.

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Book SynopsisWhy is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire.Trade Review“Ann Stoler has given us an ingenious and compelling reading of the apparent absence of race and colonialism in Foucault’s account of modern power. She shows how colonial history remains embedded in the very conceptual categories that order modern bourgeois society in the West. Written with verve, erudition, and a sense of engagement.” --Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta"Race and the Education of Desire is a tour de force. Stoler has engaged in a productive dialogue with Foucault’s seminal text, and interwoven that dialogue with an illuminating analysis of the concepts and policies of imperial racism. This book should have a major impact on scholarly discussions of modern imperialism and racism."—Talal Asad, Johns Hopkins University"Ann Stoler combines impressive historical and ethnographic scholarship with moral fervor to turn Foucault’s definition of critique as the ‘art of reflective insolence’ back on his own work. A controversial tour de force!"—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley"Stoler does something here that’s incredibly rare: the delineation of a topic that now, in retrospect, appears so obvious and so right that one wonders why it had never been broached systematically before. Students of Foucault, race, empire and its aftermath, gender and sexuality will be quoting from it for years."—Andrew Parker, Amherst College"This is an important book, probably the only reading of Foucault that seriously tracks and takes up his probing, restless and recursive leads. Instead of reducing him to an icon of one or more ideas to be either uncritically embraced or irresponsibly discarded, as others have done, Stoler engages Foucault’s dynamic, nervous, and passionate moves towards focusing the interdependence of ideas and forces."—Doris Sommer, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the moral and metaphysical philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch, his reflections on the conditions for forgiveness, especially in light of the Shoah, and the temporality of forgiveness in its relation to creation, history, and memory.Trade Review"Looney gives a general introduction to Jankelevitch's thought, then goes on to provide an in-depth study of Jankelevitch's book Forgiveness by comparing and contrasting it with thinkers such as Max Scheler, Nietzsche, Levinas, Derrida, Aristotle, and other prominent writers in moral thought." -- -Andrew Kelley Bradley University "It is a scandal that we have had to wait so long for the first monograph in English on Jankekevitch, but this book is more than a fitting tribute to a major thinker. By focusing on Jankelevitch's controversial but difficult theory of forgiveness Aaron T. Looney had made a genuine philosophical contribution in his own right." -- -Robert Bernasconi Penn State University "Aaron Looney carefully lays out the hyperbolic logic of pure forgiveness demanded by Jankelevitch. He shows us that the two most important books by Jankelevitch both differ dramatically from each other and yet can be read as being in continuity. Looney presents a rich tapestry in which he considers such influences on Jankelevitch as Bergson, Nietzsche, and Scheler. He also examines the relationship between Jankelevitch and such thinkers as Arendt and Derrida (showing Derrida to be much closer to Jankelevitch than one might think). The result is a moving work in which we are reminded just how central forgiveness is to human existence." -- -Bruce Ellis Benson Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: In the Margins 1 1. First Philosophy 2. Apophatic Approaches 3. The Temporality of Human Existence and Action 4. Translating Resentment 5. The Inexcusable and the Unforgivable 6. Love and Justice 7. Repentance: Concerning Unconditionality 8. What Remains Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

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Book SynopsisPaul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio then goes on to argue that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, and one which seems to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy.Trade Review"'one of the most original thinkers of our time'. Liberation; 'Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism'. New Statesman"Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface by James Der Derian; Desert Screen; I Foreword; II August 1990: Desert Shield; III January 1991: Desert Storm; IV June 1991: Desert Screen; V Virilio Looks Back and Sees the Future: Interview by James Der Derian (2000); Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisPresents important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy. The author shows how Nietzsche began a new way of thinking which breaks with the dialectic as a method and escapes the confines of philosophy itself.Trade Review"'Deleuze's book offers an extremely rich and systematic reading of Nietzsche... To read Nietzsche and Philosophy is to experience the earnestness of Nietzsche's challenge to Western Philosophy.' -- Times Higher Education Supplement"Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation; Translator's Note; Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works; 1. The Tragic; 2. Active and Reactive; 3. Critique; 4. From Ressentiment to the Bad Conscience; 5. The Overman: Against the Dialectic; Conclusion; Notes.

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Book SynopsisToleranceâthough seen to be necessary on a world divided by deep differencesâoften strikes us as grudgingly given and resentfully received. Conceived more widely, however, tolerance can be seen to occupy the difficult, and contested, terrain between merely putting up with and accepting others.Trade ReviewOberdiek has written a highly intelligible, well researched, and closely argued book. His wide-ranging, sophisticated discussion of the philosophical history of tolerance provides a liberal argument for tolerance with a notable depth of scholarship. * CHOICE *Offers a welcomingly clear, tightly written, cerebrally entertaining analysis of a notion Western liberals typically favor, but rarely probe. * The Philadelphia Inquirer *A stimulating read. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *Oberdiek's account is a welcome addition to the growing literature on toleration, and his discussion of substantive or comprehensive liberalism is fresh and insightful. * Metaphilosophy *We learn much from this book's thorough survey, detailed history, and thoughtful discussion of an important and timely topic. * The Philosophical Review *The concept of tolerance is central to a range of pressing issues in value theory and cultural studies. When setting out his distinctive and original liberal treatment of it, Oberdiek articulates philosophical challenges with which anyone in the human studies will need to grapple. Any subsequent study of the concept of tolerance will have to come to terms with Oberdiek's careful and insightful analysis. This is required reading for both professionals and students. -- Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr CollegeTable of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Tolerance: An Impossible Virtue? Chapter 3 Puzzles and Paradoxes of Tolerance Chapter 4 Shades of Tolerance Chapter 5 The Circumstances of Tolerance Chapter 6 The Intolerable Chapter 7 Thomas Aquinas and John Locke on Toleration Chapter 8 Regimes on Toleration Chapter 9 A Liberal Argument for Tolerance Chapter 10 Objections ans Replies Chapter 11 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTranslated by Bencivenga from the original Italian of his philosophical best-seller, this dialogue provides a comprehensive statement on the role of freedom in the realms of morality, psychology, metaphysics, and aesthetics. Bencivenga lets his four characters embrace a wide range of topics in their eclectic discussion, including considerations of quantum physics and deconstruction, the Gothic novel and detective stories, the structure of desire and the mathematics of infinity, penetrating comments on Freud, Raymond Chandler, and Wertverlufe, and a reasonable explanation of why Kants first Critique is longer than both the second and the third. What results is less a systematic account than a composite picture for the student of philosophy to piece together.

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Book SynopsisBeginning with the origins of Western philosophy, the profound creation of the Hellenic genius, Reale presents an appreciation of the Naturalists, the Sophists, Socrates, and the Minor Socratics.Special attention is paid to the Eleatics because their problems decisively mark Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy.Interpretation of the Sophists benefits from the recent reevaluation of their thought. Socrates himself would be inconceivable without the Sophists since he is one of them.Socrates is given major prominence. Plato, Aristotle, and all of Hellenistic philosophy are deeply impregnated with his words and spirit.The teachings of the Minor Socratics are interpreted as one-sided reductions of the pluralistic values of Socratic thought and as anticipations of some issues that explode later in the Hellenistic Age.There are two appendices. The first concerns Orphism and contains a series of documents indispensable for the comprehension of some aspects of pre-Socratic and Platonic thought. The second explains the key to understanding the message of the Greeks-the message of theorein.

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Book Synopsis"Dialogue on Personal Identity & Immortality".Trade ReviewPerry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination. --David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College

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