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Escher.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. 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We start with Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings staged one of the first confrontations with the Christian tradition using the resources of Darwinian thought. The lebensphilosophie, or life-philosophy, that arose from his engagement with evolutionary ideas drew responses from other influential thinkers, includingFranz Overbeck, Georg Simmel, and Heinrich Rickert. These critics all offered cogent challenges to Nietzsche's appropriation of the newly transforming biological sciences, his negotiation between science and religion, and his interpretation of the implications of Darwinian thought. 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Although Pearce’s intellectual historical analysis is intentionally held apart from social, cultural, or political considerations, it raises important questions for future projects that might draw on these connections.” * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"The merit of [Pearce's] book lies in the huge amount of historical information and precision he brings to a familiar story. . . . His contextualist approach provides even more substance by drawing attention to correspondence, courses, conversations, institutions and venues in addition to published books. . . . Pearce's book is rich in detail, well-delivered and well-written. It will be invaluable to both scholars of pragmatism and historians of science alike and certainly proves the usefulness of the history of science in increasing our understanding of pragmatist theses, whether in metaphysics or ethics, beyond a vague ritualistic reference to Darwin. . . . Pearce has done a superb job.\" * Metascience *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] important book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Acta Biotheoretica *\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously researched and convincingly argued. . . . Pearce's method is historical and contextualist in the capacious sense, carefully focusing on how context informs content, and eschewing simply reconstructing a particular thinker's arguments in favor of a more nuanced focus on the diverse way these pragmatist thinkers engaged with biology, including correspondence, lecture notes, minutes from formal and informal clubs, newspaper articles, journal publications, and professional debates. Using a cohort approach based on the year each cluster of thinkers he discusses graduated, Pearce shows how evolutionary ideas were debated and appropriated from one generation to the next. A significant and edifying work, this book will interest students and academics alike, particularly philosophers and historians of biology but also those who appreciate nonreductive applications of evolutionary ideas to philosophy. . . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Pearce] brings a historian's appreciation for, and training in handling, material and textual evidence, along with the philosophical analysis. . . . Pearce's work provides far greater detail than was previously possible. . . . A major contribution to pragmatism and its evolution.\" * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to our understanding of the history of pragmatism, the specific influences, developments, and consequences. . . . [It] should be on the reading list of anyone interested in the history of American philosophy.\" * The Quarterly Review of Biology *\u003cbr\u003e\"There is much to recommend Pearce's comprehensive and engaging study, which shall provide a valuable resource to all scholars and researchers working on late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American philosophy. . . . The attention which Pearce gives to the British idealists and to Spencer, in particular, is an especially welcome feature of his excellent monograph. . . . Amongst its many other virtues, then, Pearce's text represents a welcome contribution to efforts at extending the pragmatist canon beyond the familiar trio of Peirce, James, and Dewey—which is not to deny that these figures receive the attention they merit in any history of pragmatism. As such, Pearce's text deserves to be very warmly received amongst scholars of pragmatist philosophy.\" * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Pearce has done something remarkable and all too rare: written a book at the intersection of philosophy, science, and history that is equally excellent in all three respects. Scholarly, path-breaking, and not beholden to any received dogmas of pragmatist scholarship, Pearce goes where the historical evidence, his scientific knowledge, and keen philosophical sense take him. . . . Pearce not only provides an excellent way to unify the historical pragmatist tradition, but also to broaden it beyond the typical list of white male figures. . . . \u003ci\u003ePragmatism's Evolution \u003c\/i\u003eshould be read by everyone interested in pragmatism, the history and philosophy of biology, and\/or late 19th and early 20th century American intellectual and social history. It is an excellent book, in every respect, and pragmatist scholarship must surely adapt to its evolutionary progress—or die.\" * International Journal of Philosophical Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Trevor Pearce’s \u003ci\u003ePragmatism’s Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e proves that there are still new and interesting things to say about a philosophical movement and method often cited as distinctly ‘American’. . . . Pearce provides a detailed overview of pragmatism that takes a fresh look at some well-trodden ground. As such, it will surely engage ‘historians of philosophy . . . [and] historians and philosophers of biology’, no less those claiming an interest in pragmatism more generally.\" * Philosophy in Review *\u003cbr\u003e“When compared with affirmative-genealogical accounts on the history of pragmatism, an exemplary strength of contextualizing comes to light in \u003ci\u003ePragmatism’s Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e: genealogical accounts target a \u003ci\u003especific \u003c\/i\u003evariant of present pragmatism as the goal of historical narration—subordinating the depiction of past efforts to this goal. But the thoughts of the nineteenth century pragmatists do not have to serve the goal of justifying any specific branch of contemporary pragmatism, as Pearce’s study shows. The result of his investigation is a very differentiated and nuanced mapping of relations, whereby intellectual connections that need to be problematized are also revealed.” * European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\"This rich study should provide the starting point for future researchers interested in the connections between the early pragmatists and the biological sciences of their day. But it does much more: it places the key pragmatist thinkers within various intellectual contexts and reminds us of the importance of thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and August Weismann for understanding evolutionary theories at the end of the nineteenth century. Whereas most accounts of Pragmatism and evolution focus on Darwin, Pearce reminds us that evolutionary theory was very much a debate during this period, and the terms of the debate shaped Pragmatism in ways that Pearce’s book helps us to better understand.\" * Dewey Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Pearce provides an important and exhaustive set of facts for future researchers in multiple fields.” * American Journal of Theology and Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e“Pearce’s book is compelling and valuable for a number of reasons. First, the historical analysis is based on a fruitful connection of institutional setting and a variety of documents that provides a deep insight into the different stages of the story. Second, Pearce convincingly points out the importance of British and Continental European sources and the way these were originally elaborated by pragmatists. The different experiences abroad of key figures of American philosophy and the constant flow of texts—of Darwinian thinkers, of neo-Kantian philosophers and psychologists, of British idealists—provides a substantial background for the proper understanding of the rise and original character of American pragmatism. Pearce’s book presents fresh insights concerning this story. Finally, the book wants to investigate ‘a model of how biological ideas, suitably reframed, can ground a nonreductionist evolutionary account of mental and moral life’ and manages to establish a promising background for this future research.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas *\u003cbr\u003e“An impeccably researched and insightful exploration of the history of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism in the light of key developments in biology in the late 1800s and early 1900s. . . . \u003ci\u003ePragmatism’s Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e provides an original and illuminating introduction to the history of pragmatism and its major figures that is accessible to all levels of readership, from undergraduates to research scholars.” * Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science *\u003cbr\u003e“The most rigorous and revealing study ever produced of the multifaceted ways evolutionary-biological considerations were interwoven with the development of classic pragmatism.” * Journal of the History of Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e“Pearce’s book adds a welcome new dimension to discussion of the history of pragmatism. His treatment of the movement’s early years includes an expanded range of characters, some of them fascinating but neglected, others who are recognized as leading figures but not usually linked to pragmatist philosophy. Pearce also shows the influence on pragmatism of an unruly, speculative, and rich collection of ideas about biological evolution and historical change. The book is meticulously researched, very well written, and full of surprises.\" -- Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an important contribution to the history of philosophical discussion of biology. I do not know of any other book that covers the material so thoroughly. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of pragmatism and the influence of biology and evolution on pragmatic thinkers.\" -- Richard J. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables and Figures\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations of Manuscript Sources\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations of Scholarly Editions\u003cbr\u003e Note to the Reader\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Metaphysical Club and the \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Products of the Environment: Spencer’s Challenge Spencerian Evolution\u003cbr\u003e Spencerian Psychology\u003cbr\u003e Spencerian Sociology\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Evolution at School: Educating a New Generation Evolution in College\u003cbr\u003e Evolution in Graduate School\u003cbr\u003e Teaching Evolution\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: “Hegelianism Needs to Be Darwinized”: Evolution and Idealism Hegel and Evolution\u003cbr\u003e The Organism-Environment Dialectic\u003cbr\u003e Evolutionary Strivings\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Weismannism Comes to America: The Factors of Evolution The Reception of Weismann\u003cbr\u003e Peirce and Neo-Lamarckism\u003cbr\u003e Dewey and the Spencer-Weismann Debate\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Pragmatist Ethics: Evolution, Experiment, and Social Progress Fieldwork in Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Organism and Environment in Social Reform\u003cbr\u003e Social Science and Social Evolution\u003cbr\u003e Eugenics and Civilization\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Pragmatist Logic: Evolution, Experiment, and Inquiry The “Natural History” Approach\u003cbr\u003e Evolutionary Experimentalism\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e   Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732917072215,"sku":"9780226719917","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226719917.jpg?v=1719998940"},{"product_id":"cartesian-poetics-9780226723020","title":"Cartesian Poetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher's implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes's thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having slashed poetry's throat instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought's frustrations.    Gadberry's approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helpin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intricate, gripping new book. . . There is a strangeness—an uncanniness, even—to the Descartes emerging from Gadberry’s treatment. It is a reading that is at once convincing and utterly unexpected: Descartes as upside-down, inside-out love poet. . . \u003ci\u003eCartesian Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003ecoup \u003c\/i\u003eall its own. It ought to change the way we read Descartes.” -- Ross Wilson * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gadberry offers a dazzling reinterpretation of Descartes’s relation to poetry. Written in beautiful and witty prose, this book argues that Cartesian philosophy is underpinned, shaped, and, in important ways, determined by the pressures and forces of literary genre: poetry is a vital form of thinking that is in no way confined to literary texts.. . . . [An] excellent and evocative book.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Timothy M. Harrison * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e“Gadberry’s engaging book defends Descartes against the charge of being the evil genius of modernism. . . . What makes reading Gadberry’s book a rewarding experience is not, as one might expect, a literary deconstruction of Descartes’s text. . . It is rather the way in which, by bringing Descartes’s carefully coded feelings to light, it humanizes both the philosopher and the twists and turns of thinking as such.” -- Christopher Braider * French Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this brilliant book, Gadberry thinks about the poetic forms that shape Descartes’s thinking. Her close attention to form has perhaps led her to give similar consideration to the forms of academic writing, and the result is exemplary within that genre: the book is a pleasure to read. Throughout, Gadberry conducts a conversation with many of the thinkers and scholars who have thought with and against Descartes. . . . \u003ci\u003eCartesian Poetics \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a compelling new way of understanding an author whose claims—and style—remain provocative today.\" -- Emma Claussen * H-France Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCartesian Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, hard-nosed, gorgeously written, and compelling book. For a book on the aesthetics of thinking, it is suitably beautiful and intelligent. . . . Gadberry’s artful reconstruction and probing of Descartes’s sentences reveal the poetry flowing beneath and within his philosophy.” * Jonathan Kramnick, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCartesian Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly integrates historical sensitivity and speculative boldness. Tracing a ‘literary life of concepts’ through the riddle, the love lyric, the elegy, and the anagram, Gadberry gives us a new history of Descartes’s philosophical coming of age. Her nuanced close readings, which make dazzling use of wit as an engine of literary-critical investigation, awaken us to a conception of poetic form that lives in and between thoughts—that makes ‘thinking,’ in the largest sense, possible.” * Gerard Passannante, University of Maryland, College Park *\u003cbr\u003e\"Gadberry joins the chorus of recent scholars whose work rehabilitates Descartes from the role of 'the archvillain responsible for all of modernity’s worst impulses.' \u003ci\u003eCartesian Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e sits neatly alongside other reevaluations of Cartesian philosophy that take seriously his work on the passions and virtue.\" * Cleveland Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Resultless Enterprises\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Common-Sense Envy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Lyric Disposition\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Bitter Satisfactions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: After Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: “A Painful Feeling of Strangeness”\u003cbr\u003e   Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732917104983,"sku":"9780226723020","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226723020.jpg?v=1719998940"},{"product_id":"martin-heidegger-9780226772325","title":"Martin Heidegger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920676695,"sku":"9780226772325","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226772325.jpg?v=1719998954"},{"product_id":"william-james-md-9780226828985","title":"William James MD","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book to map William James's preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work.     William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known is how his interest in medicine influenced his life and work, driving his ambition to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, mind, and soul. William James, MD offers an account of the development and cultural significance of James's ideas and works, and establishes, for the first time, the relevance of medical themes to his major lines of thought.     James lived at a time when old assumptions about faith and the moral and religious possibilities for human worth and redemption were increasingly displaced by a concern with the medically normal and the perfectibility of the body. Woven into treatises that warned against humanity's decline, these ideas were part of the eugenics movement and reflected a growing social stigma at\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By examining the ‘sick’ William James, Sutton reveals an intriguing relation between pain and philosophical outlook in his work. Her analysis not only gives us new understanding of the ‘adorable genius’; it reminds us that philosophy itself often springs from lived experience, and enduring ideas can find their beginnings even in the most inhospitable human circumstances.” * Book Post *\u003cbr\u003e“Fabulous . . . Changed everything that I thought I knew about Williams James.” * New Books Network *\u003cbr\u003e“Sutton has not provided the world with yet another biography of philosopher and psychologist, William James. Instead, she has used her impressive research and analytical skills to provide important insights regarding the relationship between James’s many physical and psychological challenges and his intellectual output. Sutton argues that James’s experiences of infirmity have direct effects on his philosophical arguments, not as intellectual irritants but as substantive catalysts for leading to deep insights. This book shows just how thoroughly embodied James’s philosophy truly is, and as such, makes an important contribution to Jamesian scholarship.” -- D. Micah Hester, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences\u003cbr\u003e“Sutton’s study offers a brilliant new reading of James. Her original approach not only brings new dimensions to issues around illness, pain, health, and medicine—though Sutton performs this with precision—but offers a rare scholarly analysis of his letters, reviews, notebooks, and diaries to provide a fuller picture of his personal life and his intellectual engagements. It shows the vital quality of James’s holistic integration of life and thought and the lived quality of his intellectual concerns around sickness and health. With this work, Sutton shows us that the margins of the archive are as important to Jamesian scholarship as his main works. It is a rich study that roots James’s thinking in the reality of his embodied life and shows that, with a sensitivity to his language, we can see the voice of the physician in his psychology, philosophy, and analysis of religion.” -- Jeremy Carrette, University of Edinburgh\u003cbr\u003e“This book changes our perception of James as a philosopher and intellectual. The best extended piece of scholarship on James in a long time.” -- Sarin Marchetti, Sapienza University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Public Physician  Diagnosing James  A Philosophy of Everyday Life  1: Misery and Metaphysics\u003cbr\u003e A Dark Business\u003cbr\u003e The Problem of Evil\u003cbr\u003e Poisoned with Utilitarian Venom\u003cbr\u003e The Ethics of Self-Destruction\u003cbr\u003e Conscious Automata\u003cbr\u003e 2: Health and Hygiene\u003cbr\u003e The Laws of Health\u003cbr\u003e The Alcohol Question\u003cbr\u003e Habit\u003cbr\u003e Talks to Teachers\u003cbr\u003e Emotions and the Body\u003cbr\u003e 3: Religion and Regeneration\u003cbr\u003e The Science of Organic Life\u003cbr\u003e The Wonder-Mongers\u003cbr\u003e The Hidden Self\u003cbr\u003e A Wild World\u003cbr\u003e 4: Energy and Endurance\u003cbr\u003e Mortal Disease, Morality, and God\u003cbr\u003e The Divided Self\u003cbr\u003e Superhuman Life\u003cbr\u003e The Energies of Men\u003cbr\u003e 5: Politics and Pathology\u003cbr\u003e The Political James\u003cbr\u003e Defending the Degenerate\u003cbr\u003e Validating the Invalid\u003cbr\u003e The Voice of the Sick\u003cbr\u003e Therapeutic Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Afterlife\u003cbr\u003e Fit to Live\u003cbr\u003e Moral Medicine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Archival Sources\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932604247,"sku":"9780226828985","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828985.jpg?v=1719999004"},{"product_id":"society-must-be-defended-9780241435168","title":"Society Must Be Defended","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733113844055,"sku":"9780241435168","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241435168.jpg?v=1719999448"},{"product_id":"the-foucault-reader-9780241435144","title":"The Foucault Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Foucalt\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-84) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France. 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Sonenscher's edition of Sieyès's political writings is no exception. --Paul Cheney, University of Chicago, for \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Co, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737785086295,"sku":"9780872204300","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872204300.jpg?v=1723811457"},{"product_id":"interpreting-j-l-austin-9781107125902","title":"Interpreting J. L. Austin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, Savas L. Tsohatzidis brings together a team of leading experts to provide up-to-date perspectives on the work of J. L. Austin, a major figure in twentieth-century philosophy and an important contributor to theories of language, truth, perception, and knowledge. Focusing on aspects of Austin''s writings in these four areas, the volume''s ten original essays critically examine central elements of his philosophy, exploring their interrelationships, their historical context, their reception, and their implications for key issues of contemporary philosophical research. The volume deepens our understanding of Austin''s philosophy while illustrating its continuing significance, and will appeal to students and scholars of modern philosophy, particularly those interested in the philosophy of language and epistemology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Savas L. Tsohatzidis; 1. Exploring Austin's galaxy: searching for truth through the lens of ordinary language Marga Reimer; 2. Levels of linguistic acts and the semantics of saying and quoting Friederike Moltmann; 3. On the representation of form and function: imperative sentences Robert Fiengo; 4. 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