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The University of Chicago Press The American Philosopher
Book SynopsisExplores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, leading philosophers discuss the rise of post-analytic philosophy in America and its relations to European thought and to the American pragmatist tradition.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Elevations The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig
Book SynopsisA series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas. The author describes how they articulated a responsible humanism and a new enlightenment which placed moral obligation to the other above all other human concerns.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I
Book SynopsisFocuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.Trade Review"What Derrida accomplishes in this, his final seminar, is remarkable because it goes to the very heart of his lifelong project of deconstructing the logocentric bias of Western thinking." (Choice) "What this first volume... provides beyond its treatment of the fascinatingly intricate literary and philosophical motifs of bestiality and sovereignty is a vivid attestation to the experience of Derrida as a teacher - the quality of his attention, the tone and rhythm of his voice, his means of sparking his students' capacities to read and think." (Times Literary Supplement)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Death Penalty Volume I
Book SynopsisWhile much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Shaky Game
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of the text, Arthur Fine looks at Einstein's philosophy of science and develops his own views on realism. A new afterword discusses the reaction to Fine's own theory.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press WrongDoing TruthTelling The Function of Avowal in
Book SynopsisThree years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain. These lectures provide the missing link between Foucault's early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. This book presents these lectures.Trade Review"Bringing together themes from two of Foucault's most important works-Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality-this book demonstrates a rethinking of the theoretical underpinnings of the former on the basis of his work on avowal in the latter. An excellent introduction lays out very clearly the background to these texts including insights into Foucault's prisoners' rights activism as well as some of his key differences with Sartre." -Kevin Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara "A stunning set of lectures given by Foucault that focus on the history of 'avowing' one's acts and the truth of who one is. Foucault seeks to understand at what point it became important not only to confess to a crime, but to avow one's act in public. For Foucault, avowal of one's criminality before an established authority becomes a way of reestablishing that authority, and resisting avowal becomes tantamount to civil disobedience. The political implications of his analysis become especially clear in the interviews included here. This is wonderful and arresting read." -Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "The publication of Foucault's Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, beautifully and rigorously established and commented upon by Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, is an important event in the contemporary blossoming of Foucault studies. In no way is it redundant with the lectures at the College de France, whose series is now practically complete. With this amazingly rich inquiry, focusing on the mythical, religious, and judiciary dimensions of 'avowal,' we are offered a unique possibility to understand how Foucault's genealogy articulated the order of discourse and the power of institutions." -Etienne Balibar, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, author of Politics and the Other Scene "Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is one of Foucault's most stirring inquiries into what he has named 'the hermeneutics of oneself.' These lectures stage the concept of avowal in performances as varied as Greek tragedy, criminal justice, and confessional practices; and they provide us with some of Foucault's most illuminating observations on the intimate and agonistic relations between sites of enunciation, orders of truth, and investments of power. The subject of avowal is never free of the ethical exigency and the discursive contingency of 'chang[ing] itself, transform[ing] itself, displac[ing] itself, and becom[ing] to some extent other than itself,' and Foucault's genius lies in providing us with critical and genealogical reflections on the worldly practices of avowal. Bernard Harcourt and Fabienne Brion's essential afterword provides both a frame and a ballast to the book. This is a considerable addition to the English archive of the work of Michel Foucault." -Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
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The University of Chicago Press Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate
Book SynopsisPhilosopher Susan Haack deploys her analytic skills on some highly charged cultural and social debates, such as relativism, multiculturalism, feminism, affirmative action, pragmatisms old and new, science , literature, the future of the academy and of philosophy itself.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press The Figural Jew
Book SynopsisReveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. This title provides a consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.Trade Review"In The Figural Jew, Sarah Hammerschlag deftly brings together intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical argument in a wonderfully insightful and engaging account of the role the figure of the Jew plays within twentieth-century French philosophy. She also makes a vital philosophical contribution to contemporary debates about ethics, alterity, and politics." - Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher
Book SynopsisAlain L Locke, in his famous 1925 anthology The New Negro, declared that 'the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem'. This biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, narrates the untold story of Locke's profound impact on twentieth-century America's cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"The current neglect of Alain Locke should not make us skeptical of the claim made by [Harris and Molesworth], who call him 'the most influential African American intellectual born between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.' They are right." - New Republic "This is the definitive biography of the towering cultural critic and pioneering Afro-American philosopher Alain Locke. The intellectual subtlety and meticulous work of Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth forever puts Locke on our academic radar screen!" - Cornel West "A superb, eye-opening biography.... Why has it taken so long for a definitive biography of Locke to appear, when works on comparable black intellectuals abound? It's a backstory that sheds light on a practical truth: Fascinating subjects for biographies can be the most difficult to take on." - Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Alain L. Locke The Biography of a Philosopher
Book SynopsisAlain L Locke, in his famous 1925 anthology The New Negro, declared that 'the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem'. This biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, narrates the untold story of Locke's profound impact on twentieth-century America's cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"The current neglect of Alain Locke should not make us skeptical of the claim made by [Harris and Molesworth], who call him 'the most influential African American intellectual born between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.' They are right." - New Republic "This is the definitive biography of the towering cultural critic and pioneering Afro-American philosopher Alain Locke. The intellectual subtlety and meticulous work of Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth forever puts Locke on our academic radar screen!" - Cornel West "A superb, eye-opening biography.... Why has it taken so long for a definitive biography of Locke to appear, when works on comparable black intellectuals abound? It's a backstory that sheds light on a practical truth: Fascinating subjects for biographies can be the most difficult to take on." - Carlin Romano, "Philadelphia Inquirer"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Modernity on Endless Trial
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press No Exit Arab Existentialism JeanPaul Sartre and
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the major role played by Sartre as both figure and philosopher in the development of political thought in post-colonial Arab countries.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen
Book SynopsisTed Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers and aestheticiansbut not by most people. Whether writing about the rules of baseball, of driving, or of Kant's Third Critique; about Hitchcock, ceramics, or jokes, Cohen proved that if you study the world with a bemused but honest attentiveness, you can find something to philosophize about more or less anywhere. This collection, edited and introduced by philosopher Daniel Herwitz, brings together some of Cohen's best work to capture the unique style that made Cohen one of the most beloved philosophers of his generation. Among the perceptive, engaging, and laugh-out-loud funny reflections on movies, sports, art, language, and life included here are Cohen's classic papers on metaphor and his Pushcart Priz
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Sharing Responsibility
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author departs from the traditional Western view that moral responsibility is limited to the consequences of overt individual action. He argues that individuals share responsibility for various harms perpetrated by their communities.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Moral Meaning of Nature Nietzsches Darwinian
Book SynopsisWhat, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlierand unjustly neglecteddiscussion of Darwin in late nineteenth-century Germany. 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. They also each proposed alternative ways of making sense of Niet
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Cultural Graphology Writing after Derrida
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The University of Chicago Press The Attack of the Blob Hannah Arendts Concept of
Book SynopsisRaising questions about what freedom means today, this study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas. It criticizes Arendt's flawed concept but insists on the urgent reality of the problem that concept was intended to address, thus continuing her enterprise.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press A Different Order of Difficulty Literature after
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Zumhagen-Yekplé’s innovative study connects a great theme of modernist literary works, that of difficulty, with Wittgenstein’s understanding of philosophy and the kinds of difficulty that it presents. A Different Order of Difficulty is enormously illuminating in the connections it makes between philosophical and literary questions—questions that are central in literary modernism and in Wittgenstein’s thought.” -- Cora Diamond, University of Virginia“A Different Order of Difficulty takes the very best in Wittgenstein and applies it expertly, astutely, and with impressive clarity to Woolf, Joyce, Kafka, and Coetzee. The results are both illuminating and inspiring. Instead of being mere vehicles for the transmission of ideas, modernist fictions become events, experiences, instruments of personal transformation; their opacity sets us challenges which can only be met if we change our fundamental attitude to ourselves and to the world. This is an important book, one which will, I hope, shape thinking on modernist fiction—and on Wittgenstein—for years to come.” -- Joshua Landy, Stanford University“What struck me as particularly wonderful about Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé’s new book, A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein, was how seriously it takes those promises [of intellectual expansion and the aesthetic enrichment of a daily life] and how earnestly it analyzes the contributions of literature and philosophy to what I want, without irony, to call a practical education. There are not, in fact, many books I know of that put the question of humanistic study’s usefulness quite so boldly or quite so baldly. . . . What Zumhagen-Yekplé is after here is not just an interrogation of how literature can be relevant or 'useful' but, more radically, what the idea of relevance or usefulness can be in the first place. This is why I frame her book in terms of practical education: she is helping us see that what is concretely useful about studying literature is how it expands that very category and shows us ways of finding meaning, wonder, and even transformation in what otherwise looks like opacity, mundanity, and, most broadly, difficulty.” -- John Lurz * Los Angeles Review of Books *“A Different Order of Difficulty makes an important and original contribution to modernist studies by engaging with the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly his Tractatus Logico-Philosphicus. . . . Perhaps fittingly, given her title—drawn from the Ithaca chapter of Joyce's Ulysses (1922)—Zumhagen-Yekplé's interdisciplinary approach demands a lot from readers. Yet, as in many of the modernist touchstones she analyzes, the challenges presented by her book are more than justified by the insights at which it arrives: A Different Order of Difficulty is powerfully argued, thoroughly researched, and at times deeply moving. . . . Zumhagen-Yekplé writes that 'difficult texts . . . are designed to train us by cultivating our mental and affective capacities.' A Different Order of Difficulty is itself a valuable addition to this project.” -- Greg Chase * Modernism/modernity *“Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé’s thought-provoking A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein joins a burgeoning body of scholarship on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s relationship to modernism. A study at the boundary of literary studies and philosophy, it explores both the literary qualities of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the philosophical implications of modernist literature. . . . A Different Order of Difficulty provides a compelling and superbly argued account of the synergies between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and modernist literature, showing that the difficulty of modernism requires an imaginative engagement with literature and philosophy deeply connected with ethical transformation.” -- Michael McGillen * German Studies Review *“One of the most valuable (and thrilling) aspects of Zumhagen-Yekplé’s work is the straightforward way she grants that literary texts have implications. Her analysis of fiction is not attentive to what the texts are about, but to what they may do.” -- Johanna Winant * Comparative Literature *“Zumhagen-Yekplé discusses Wittgenstein and the ways in which he can shed new light on literary criticism as well as affinities between Wittgenstein’s writing and the writing of modernist writers. The philosophical issues are not treated separately but are considered as being interrelated in that they are concerns shared by all of the authors discussed. . . . Zumhagen-Yekplé’s book helps to show us that difficult literature and difficult philosophy can provide us with understanding, bring about shifts in our perspective, and help us to live more fully.” -- Robert Vinten * Philosophical Investigations *“There are forms of difficulty that are also clarity. I learned a lot from Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé’s A Different Order of Difficulty on this topic. She says that certain things are difficult in the sense that they’re inviting you to work through something, or to be changed by something, or to go through a process. That kind of difficulty could actually be accompanied by clarity. Here she draws on Cora Diamond. For Diamond it’s reality, not prose, that’s difficult in the first place. You might need to subject yourself to a difficult reality—try to understand it or live with it, that is—and if the prose that results from your working-through is difficult, this isn’t an affectation; it’s a consequence of the subject matter.” -- Emily OgdenTable of ContentsIntroduction Difficulty, Ethical Teaching, and the Yearning for Transformation in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Modernist Literature 1 Wittgenstein’s Puzzle: The Transformative Ethics of the Tractatus 2 The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein 3 Woolf, Diamond, and the Difficulty of Reality 4 Wittgenstein, Joyce, and the Vanishing Problem of Life 5 A New Life Is a New Life: Teaching, Transformation, and Tautology in Coetzee’s Childhood of Jesus Acknowledgments Notes Index
£84.00
University of Chicago Press A Different Order of Difficulty Literature after
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The University of Chicago Press Paul Ricoeur His Life and His Work
Book SynopsisOne of the major intellectual figures of the 20th century, Paul Ricoeur has influenced a generation of thinkers. This philosophically informed biography provides an accessible look at both the philosophy of this thinker and the pivotal experiences that influenced his development.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Pragmatisms Evolution Organism and Environment in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Offers a detailed study of what exactly that connection looked like, adding both breadth and depth through an impressive collection of sources . . . . Pragmatism’s Evolution is about the role of evolution, as a theory, in American pragmatism, as well as the early evolution of pragmatism itself. 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 *"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 *"[An] important book." * Acta Biotheoretica *"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 *"[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 *"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 *"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 *"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. . . . Pragmatism's Evolution should 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 *"Trevor Pearce’s Pragmatism’s Evolution 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 *“When compared with affirmative-genealogical accounts on the history of pragmatism, an exemplary strength of contextualizing comes to light in Pragmatism’s Evolution: genealogical accounts target a specific variant 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 *"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 *“Pearce provides an important and exhaustive set of facts for future researchers in multiple fields.” * American Journal of Theology and Philosophy *“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 *“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. . . . Pragmatism’s Evolution 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 *“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 *“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"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 ResearchTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Abbreviations of Manuscript Sources Abbreviations of Scholarly Editions Note to the Reader Introduction Chapter 1: The Metaphysical Club and the Origin of Species Chapter 2: Products of the Environment: Spencer’s Challenge Spencerian Evolution Spencerian Psychology Spencerian Sociology Chapter 3: Evolution at School: Educating a New Generation Evolution in College Evolution in Graduate School Teaching Evolution Chapter 4: “Hegelianism Needs to Be Darwinized”: Evolution and Idealism Hegel and Evolution The Organism-Environment Dialectic Evolutionary Strivings Chapter 5: Weismannism Comes to America: The Factors of Evolution The Reception of Weismann Peirce and Neo-Lamarckism Dewey and the Spencer-Weismann Debate Chapter 6: Pragmatist Ethics: Evolution, Experiment, and Social Progress Fieldwork in Ethics Organism and Environment in Social Reform Social Science and Social Evolution Eugenics and Civilization Chapter 7: Pragmatist Logic: Evolution, Experiment, and Inquiry The “Natural History” Approach Evolutionary Experimentalism Conclusion Acknowledgments Index
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The University of Chicago Press Cartesian Poetics The Art of Thinking Thinking
Book SynopsisTrade Review“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. . . Cartesian Poetics is a coup all its own. It ought to change the way we read Descartes.” -- Ross Wilson * Los Angeles Review of Books *"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." -- Timothy M. Harrison * Critical Inquiry *“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 *"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. . . . Cartesian Poetics offers a compelling new way of understanding an author whose claims—and style—remain provocative today." -- Emma Claussen * H-France Review *“Cartesian Poetics 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 *“Cartesian Poetics 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 *"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.' Cartesian Poetics sits neatly alongside other reevaluations of Cartesian philosophy that take seriously his work on the passions and virtue." * Cleveland Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Resultless Enterprises Chapter One: Common-Sense Envy Chapter Two: Lyric Disposition Chapter Three: Bitter Satisfactions Chapter Four: After Thoughts Epilogue: “A Painful Feeling of Strangeness” Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Cartesian Poetics
Book SynopsisWhat 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. HelpinTrade Review“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. . . Cartesian Poetics is a coup all its own. It ought to change the way we read Descartes.” -- Ross Wilson * Los Angeles Review of Books *"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." -- Timothy M. Harrison * Critical Inquiry *“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 *"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. . . . Cartesian Poetics offers a compelling new way of understanding an author whose claims—and style—remain provocative today." -- Emma Claussen * H-France Review *“Cartesian Poetics 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 *“Cartesian Poetics 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 *"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.' Cartesian Poetics sits neatly alongside other reevaluations of Cartesian philosophy that take seriously his work on the passions and virtue." * Cleveland Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Resultless Enterprises Chapter One: Common-Sense Envy Chapter Two: Lyric Disposition Chapter Three: Bitter Satisfactions Chapter Four: After Thoughts Epilogue: “A Painful Feeling of Strangeness” Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Deconstruction and Philosophy The Texts of
Book SynopsisThis volume represents the first sustained effort to relate Derrida's work to the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Heidegger. Bringing together twelve essays by twelve leading Derridean philosophers and an important paper by Derrida previously unpublished in English, the collection retrieves the significance of deconstruction for philosophy.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with
Book SynopsisPublished in 1918, this title is the author's final work. Composed in the years before his death, it was, according to Simmel, his 'testament', a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety.Trade Review"Simmel is the only social theorist one can read anymore." - Max Horkheimer"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Reading Leo Strauss Politics Philosophy Judaism
Book SynopsisShows that Leo Strauss' defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right. It assesses Strauss's attempt to direct teaching of political science away from examination of mass behavior and interest-group politics and toward study of philosophical principles on which politics are based.Trade Review"By returning to the source and examining what Strauss actually wrote, Mr. Smith lets the breeze of reason into the feverish sickroom of ideology. He portrays a Strauss who cherished democracy as the best bulwark against tyranny, and who valued intellectual honesty above all. By the time Mr. Smith is done, nothing is left of the Strauss caricature except the ignorance and malice that fathered it." - Adam Kirsch, New York Sun "Steven B. Smith's admirably lucid, meticulously argued book persuasively sets the record straight on Strauss's political views and on what his writing is really about." - Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review "[Smith's] balance between sympathy and critical distance, lamentably rare in studies of Strauss, contributes to making this book our best introduction to the complex and challenging ideas of this divisive figure." - Damon Linker, New Republic"
£18.00
University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisSeven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. This title offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this perpetually relevant theorist.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press William James MD Philosopher Psychologist
Book SynopsisTrade Review“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 *“Fabulous . . . Changed everything that I thought I knew about Williams James.” * New Books Network *“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“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“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 UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: The Public Physician Diagnosing James A Philosophy of Everyday Life 1: Misery and Metaphysics A Dark Business The Problem of Evil Poisoned with Utilitarian Venom The Ethics of Self-Destruction Conscious Automata 2: Health and Hygiene The Laws of Health The Alcohol Question Habit Talks to Teachers Emotions and the Body 3: Religion and Regeneration The Science of Organic Life The Wonder-Mongers The Hidden Self A Wild World 4: Energy and Endurance Mortal Disease, Morality, and God The Divided Self Superhuman Life The Energies of Men 5: Politics and Pathology The Political James Defending the Degenerate Validating the Invalid The Voice of the Sick Therapeutic Campaigns Conclusion: Afterlife Fit to Live Moral Medicine Acknowledgments Notes Archival Sources Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Signature Derrida
Book SynopsisCollecting the best of the author's work that was published in the Critical Inquiry journal between 1980 and 2002, this title provides an introduction to the philosopher and the evolution of his thought.Trade Review"Along with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida... will be remembered as one of the three most important philosophers of the twentieth century. No thinker in the last one hundred years had a greater impact than he did on people in more fields and different disciplines." (New York Times) "Jacques Derrida revolutionised our understanding of words, texts, reading, and authorship.... Each publication is a singular demonstration of a patient response to the contours, rhythms, and turns of the subject being addressed." (Times (UK))"
£24.00
John Wiley & Sons Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity The Public
Book SynopsisJames Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.Trade Review“Exploring James Tully’s creative, ambitious, and influential work on public philosophy, this superb volume is an essential companion to the works of one of the most important contemporary political theorists. Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity is a thoroughly illuminating and enjoyable book.” Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and author of Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire"A significant and challenging contribution to political theory and philosophy. It is accessible to advanced undergraduates and will be of great interest to graduate students and scholars who study contemporary political thought. Highly recommended." Choice
£105.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity
Book SynopsisJames Tully is one of the most influential political philosophers at work today. Offering a wide-ranging critical discussion of his work by leading scholars from various fields of study, Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity provides a rich perspective on the full extent of Tully’s contribution.Trade Review“Exploring James Tully’s creative, ambitious, and influential work on public philosophy, this superb volume is an essential companion to the works of one of the most important contemporary political theorists. Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity is a thoroughly illuminating and enjoyable book.” Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge and author of Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire"A significant and challenging contribution to political theory and philosophy. It is accessible to advanced undergraduates and will be of great interest to graduate students and scholars who study contemporary political thought. Highly recommended." Choice
£33.30
McGill-Queen's University Press Being Vulnerable Contemporary Political Thought
Book SynopsisInterrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs.Trade Review“Arne De Boever has written a truly remarkable book. Being Vulnerable does nothing less than reconsider the entire tradition of thinking about sovereignty and propose a new way of approaching the topic. The skill, erudition, and sheer mastery of the material is exhilarating.” Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
£89.10
McGill-Queen's University Press Being Vulnerable Contemporary Political Thought
Book SynopsisInterrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs.Trade Review“Arne De Boever has written a truly remarkable book. Being Vulnerable does nothing less than reconsider the entire tradition of thinking about sovereignty and propose a new way of approaching the topic. The skill, erudition, and sheer mastery of the material is exhilarating.” Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
£22.79
Columbia University Press A Derrida Reader
Book SynopsisThis is the only available collection of Jacques Derrida's contributions to philosophy, presented with a comprehensive introduction. From Speech and Phenomena to the highly influential "Signature Event Context," each excerpt includes an overview and brief summary.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary, subtle and informative anthology...The work is presented scrupulously, generously, with consummate art and skill, and will stand as a benchmark for Derrida studies for some time to come. SubstanceTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Reading Between the Blinds Part One: Difference at the Origin 1. From Speech and Phenomena 2. From Of Grammatology 3. From "Difference" 4. "Signature Event Context" 5. From "Plato's Pharmacy" Part Two: Beside Philosophy-"Literature" 6. "Tympan" 7. From "The Double Session" 8. From "Psyche: Inventions of the Other" 9. "Che cos'e la poesia?" Part Three: More than One Language 10. From "Des Tours de Babel" 11. From "Living on: Border Lines" 12. "Letter to a Japanese Friend" 13. From "Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing" Part Four: Sexual Difference in Philosophy 14. From Glas 15. From Spurs: Nietsche's Styles 16. "Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference" 17. From "At this Very Moment in This Work Here I Am" 18. From Choreographies" Part Five: Tele-Types (Yes, Yes) 19. From "Le Facteur de la verite" 20. From "Envois" 21. From "To Speculate--on 'Freud'" 22. From "ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce" Bibliography of Works in Jacques Derrida Selected Works on Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index
£31.50
Columbia University Press Empiricism and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisAt last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.Trade ReviewDeleuze's treatment of the importance of the imagination in Hume's philosophy, together with the value of the associative mechanism, is highly commendable. AuslegungTable of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition Translator's Introduction: Deleuze, Emipiricism, and the Struggle for Subjectivity 1. The Problem of Knowledge and the Problem of Ethics 2. Cultural World and General Rules 3. The Power of Imagination in Ethics and Knowledge 4. God and the World 5. Empiricism and Subjectivity Principles of Human Nature Conclusion: Purposiveness
£22.50
Columbia University Press Notes to Literature
Book SynopsisAvailable in English for the first time, this is a collection of essays by social philosopher and critic, T.W. Adorno, on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. It includes Adorno's reflections on a variety of literary subjects.
£28.50
Columbia University Press The Politics of Being The Political Thought of
Book SynopsisThis study reconstructs the relationship between philosophy and politics in the way in which Heidegger's failure as a politician influenced the redevelopment of philosophy in the 1930s. The author also explains how Heidegger's failure influenced the content and direction of his later work.Trade ReviewFor readers still attempting not only to penetrate the enigmatic darkness into which one of our greatest philosophers withdrew but also to understand the politics of National Socialism and gain some insight into its cultural genealogy, [Richard Wolin's] The Politics of Being and The Heidegger Controversy will surely prove to be as illuminating as they are thought provoking and unsettling. I highly recommend them. -- David Michael Levin Political Theory An important and valuable contribution to the literature on Heidegger's political thought. -- Mitchell Aboulafia International Studies in Philosophy Wolin's important new book is the most definitive treatment in English of the political resonances of Heidegger's destruction of metaphysics. Choice
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Columbia History of TwentiethCentury French
Book SynopsisCovers and critiques the figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoanalysis, film, literary theory, cognitive and life sciences, literary criticism, philosophy, and economics. This book discusses developments in French thought on pacifism, fashion, and gastronomy.Trade ReviewBoth researchers and browsers will delight in this authoritative compendium of articles on France's intellectual century. Library Journal A must for students of French intellectual history. France Magazine Massive and steady... a patchwork of colorful characters, abstract figures, dense superimpositions. France Today A highly polished piece of original scholarship. Choice [A] superb overview of its subject. -- Carlin Romano Philadelphia Inquirer The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought is a well-designed and well-executed volume. American Reference Books Annual Creative in organization, innovative in choice of themes, and unsurpassed in quality... a volume without parallel. -- Andrew Sobanet French Forum A remarkably well-designed and well-executed volume. -- Delilah R. Caldwell American Reference Books AnnualTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Select Chronology Introduction Part I: Movements and Currents Part II: Themes Part III: Intellectuals Part IV: Dissemination Alphabetical List of Articles Index
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Columbia University Press Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish
Book SynopsisFollows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish.Trade ReviewThe book will have a special status within Derrida studies... The most striking thing in Cixous's writing is the sense that something very confidential is being disclosed. -- Devorah Baum Jewish Quarterly Her commentary, helps to illuminate some of the gnarled, complex recesses of Derrida's thought and as such will go far in clarifying his often punishing difficult writing. -- Saul Austerlitz Forward Catches precisely the destabilizing effect of Derrida's practice. -- Josh Cohen Times Literary Supplement Portrait of Jacques Derrida is a rarity, a singular and powerful addition to Cixous' own important oeuvre. Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory For anyone who is looking for a way of understanding Derrida but is intimidated by his writings, this is a good place to start. -- Oliver Leaman Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of ContentsThe Mark of the Prince Namesakes-No! No's by the Bucketful Of the Kleins and the Grosses The Dream of Naivete Remain/The Child That I Am Point of Honor/Point Donor Circumfictions of a Circumcision Objector The Orchard and the Fishery Second Skin
£64.00
Columbia University Press Things Beyond Resemblance
Book SynopsisTheodor W Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. This collection gathers together sixteen essays about the philosopher.Trade ReviewHere, under the optic of the artist, Adorno's philosophy once again begins to breathe... -- Rolf Tiedemann, director emeritus of the T.W. Adorno-Archiv, Frankfurt, and editor of T.W. Adorno's Collected Writings I urge anyone who entertains doubts about the emperor's attires to read Hullot-Kentor's brilliant and definitive deconstruction of Jameson in Things Beyond Resemblance. -- Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine Although each section was written independently and can stand on its own, an exhilarating effect is produced by situating them together-much in the same way that an individual painting is transformed when thoughtfully incorporated into an exhibit. -- Thomas Wheatland, Assumption College Things Beyond Resemblance is a book Adorno scholars will appreciate... [and] should prove to be a valuable resource. -- Thomas Wheatland H-GermanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Origin Is the Goal Back to Adorno Things Beyond Resemblance The Philosophy of Dissonance: Adorno and Schoenberg Critique of the Organic: Kierkegaard and the Construction of the Aesthetic Second Salvage: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music Title Essay: Baroque Allegory and "The Essay as Form" What Is Mechanical Reproduction? Adorno Without Quotation Popular Music and "The Aging of the New Music" The Impossibility of Music Apple Criticizes Tree of Knowledge: A Review of One Sentence Right Listening and a New Type of Human Being Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Recovery of the Public World Suggested Reading: Jameson on Adorno Introduction to T. W. Adorno's "The Idea of Natural-History" The Idea of Natural-History, Theodor W. Adorno Index
£999.99
Columbia University Press Whats the Use of Truth
Book SynopsisWhat is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the foundations of philosophical practice. This book presents the authors' radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality.Trade ReviewNecessary for serious philosophy collections. Booklist Poses and admirably responds to questions which have a direct bearing on my view of existence. The Voice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Patrick Savidan Translator's Note Main Statement, by Pascal Engel Main Statement, by Richard Rorty Discussion Appendix Notes Bibliography
£18.00
Columbia University Press Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn exhaustive and fascinating account... As a glimpse into a remarkable period in French intellectual history where politics, philosophy, and literary brilliance coalesced, it is captivating. Publishers Weekly Dosse makes Deleuze and Guattari mysterious again. -- Scott McLemee Bookforum Dosse has produced a magnificently well-researched double biography. -- Terry Eagleton Artforum This is a massively researched and rewarding book that will attract the attention of all students of Deleuze and Guattari. Choice A comprehensive and polyvocal biography on the lives and work of Deleuze and Guattari. -- Thomas Nail Foucault Studies An impressively comprehensive examination of the lives and times of Deleuze and Guattari... Richly filled with biographical and historical detail (and with amusing and often poignant anecdote), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives represents an inmmense scholarly achievement... Essential reading. European LegacyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Betwixt or Between Part I. Folds: Parallel Biographies 1. Felix Guattari: The Psychopolitical Itinerary, 1930-1964 2. La Borde: Between Myth and Reality 3. Daily Life at La Borde 4. Testing Critical Research Empirically 5. Gilles Deleuze: The Hero's Brother 6. The Art of the Portrait 7. Nietzsche, Bergson, Spinoza: A Trio for a Vitalist Philosophy 8. An Ontology of Difference 9. The Founding Rupture: May 1968 Part II. Unfolding: Intersecting Lives 10. "Psychoanalysm" Under Attack 11. Anti-Oedipus 12. Machine Against Structure 13. "Minor" Literature as Seen by Deleuze and Guattari 14. A Thousand Plateaus : A Geophilosophy of Politics 15. The CERFI at Work 16. The "Molecular Revolution": Italy, Germany, France 17. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical Friendship 18. An Alternative to Psychiatry? 19. Deleuze at Vincennes 20. The Year of Combat: 1977 Part III. Surplices: 1980-2007 21. Guattari Between Culture and Ecology 22. Deleuze Goes to the Movies 23. Guattari and Aesthetics: Consolation During the Winter Years 24. Deleuze Dialogues with Creation 25. An Artist Philosophy 26. Winning Over the West 27. Around the World 28. Two Deaths 29. Their Work at Work 30. Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Not Being God
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNot Being God is a pleasurable stroll through one corner of the Italian intellectual world. CommonwealTable of ContentsAnalogies 1. Incipit 2. Last Things 3. Closeness 4. The Untied Shoelace 5. Rorschach Test 6. Plateau Rosa 7. Being 8. Epochs 9. The Impossible Return 10. Debut 11. On the Banks of the Neckar 12. "Mad, utterly desperate study" 13. Vampires 14. Paradigms 15. Popular Novel 16. Oratory 17. Catholic Action 18. Beyond the Horizon 19. Working-class School 20. Demonic Possession 21. Ulcer and Mao 22. The Dream of a Thing 23. Take a King and Thrash Him 24. Porta Palazzo 25. From Heidegger to Marx 26. The Movement 27. State of Grace 28. The Bicycle Left Behind 29. Lukacs's Slippers 30. Forced Out 31. In America 32. The Two Boys 33. Death Threats 34. Revolutionary Moralism 35. Weak Thought 36. Roots 37. Terraces 38. A Safe Pair of Hands 39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought 40. The World 41. In History 42. In Human Conversation 43. Barbarians 44. Science's Positive Side 45. Obituaries 46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari 47. Obituaries Three: Eco 48. Under a Bad Sign 49. With the Younger Son 50. The Frankfurt School 51. The Rich Fiancee 52. The Little Old Lady in New York 53. Almost a Mayor 54. The End of Prehistory? 55. Joachim of Fiore 56. At a Certain Hour 57. Return to Christianity 58. Some Reality, Please 59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist 60. Evil, What a Pity 61. If I Weren't God 62. Compline 63. The Treasure Chest of Being 64. Flashes Envoi Acronyms
£63.00
Columbia University Press Not Being God
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNot Being God is a pleasurable stroll through one corner of the Italian intellectual world. CommonwealTable of ContentsAnalogies 1. Incipit 2. Last Things 3. Closeness 4. The Untied Shoelace 5. Rorschach Test 6. Plateau Rosa 7. Being 8. Epochs 9. The Impossible Return 10. Debut 11. On the Banks of the Neckar 12. "Mad, utterly desperate study" 13. Vampires 14. Paradigms 15. Popular Novel 16. Oratory 17. Catholic Action 18. Beyond the Horizon 19. Working-class School 20. Demonic Possession 21. Ulcer and Mao 22. The Dream of a Thing 23. Take a King and Thrash Him 24. Porta Palazzo 25. From Heidegger to Marx 26. The Movement 27. State of Grace 28. The Bicycle Left Behind 29. Lukacs's Slippers 30. Forced Out 31. In America 32. The Two Boys 33. Death Threats 34. Revolutionary Moralism 35. Weak Thought 36. Roots 37. Terraces 38. A Safe Pair of Hands 39. The Volunteer for Weak Thought 40. The World 41. In History 42. In Human Conversation 43. Barbarians 44. Science's Positive Side 45. Obituaries 46. Obituaries Two: Cacciari 47. Obituaries Three: Eco 48. Under a Bad Sign 49. With the Younger Son 50. The Frankfurt School 51. The Rich Fiancee 52. The Little Old Lady in New York 53. Almost a Mayor 54. The End of Prehistory? 55. Joachim of Fiore 56. At a Certain Hour 57. Return to Christianity 58. Some Reality, Please 59. If Stalin Had Been a Nihilist 60. Evil, What a Pity 61. If I Weren't God 62. Compline 63. The Treasure Chest of Being 64. Flashes Envoi Acronyms
£18.00
Columbia University Press Freedom and the Self Essays on the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.Trade ReviewCahn and Eckhert have here assembled a very fine collection of essays on philosophical themes in the work of the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, whose philosophical talents are only just being recognized. Philosophers interested in the topic of fatalism should take special note, as well as those interested in Wallace's work more generally. -- Patrick Todd, University of Edinburgh In the last decade, Wallace scholarship has often confined itself to narrow corridors, covering and re-covering excursions that have become increasingly familiar. This collection opens up a new wing of the critical mansion, not only building up our understanding of Wallace's important early engagement with Taylor but also pressing his investigations toward lively new dialogues with John McFarlane, David Lewis, Archilochus, Richard Rorty, and many others. -- Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow Philosophically rigorous... This collection of essays provides insight into the philosophical career of celebrated author Wallace and serves as a good introduction to the metaphysical problems surrounding determinism, time travel, and free will. Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal Recommended. Choice An impressive anthology of seminal scholarship. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert 1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism," by William Hasker 2. Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism, by Gila Sher 3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency, by M. Oreste Fiocco 4. Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J, by Maureen Eckert 5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog, by Daniel R. Kelly 6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life, by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The HabermasRawls Debate
Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications.Trade ReviewJust at the moment when the Habermas-Rawls debate seemed to evanesce from the sight of the intellectual public, this brilliant book proves this first impression to be false: Gordon Finlayson succeeds in demonstrating with stupendous lucidity and admirable acuteness how topical the questions are that the two philosophers had discussed in their exchange on how best to conceive of the democratic principle of social equality. My guess is that it will be impossible in the near future to tackle normative questions within political philosophy without consulting this book. -- Axel Honneth, Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia UniversityIn a series of reviews and comments that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, the debate between Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls represents one of those rare moments of dialogue between Continental and Anglo-American political thought. It marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern philosophy, not because it reached any definitive resolution, but chiefly because it served as the occasion for mutual criticism and raised challenging questions for both political liberalism and critical theory alike. With uncommon clarity and without the least hint of partisanship, James Gordon Finlayson has written a superb and illuminating exposition of this philosophical encounter. -- Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Philosophy, Harvard UniversityFinlayson provides an exhaustive, rigorous, and crystal-clear reconstruction and analysis of the Habermas-Rawls debate that highlights its philosophical stakes and ongoing relevance. A must read for anyone interested in the work of these two giants of contemporary moral and political philosophy. -- Amy Allen, Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State UniversityThis book is not only a careful reconstruction of the intellectual exchange between Habermas and Rawls, arguably the two most important figures of contemporary political philosophy. It is also a deep reflection on the philosophical foundations of liberal democracy in a postmetaphysical age. A champion of neither but a scrupulous scholar of both Habermas and Rawls, Finlayson provides an analysis of this important debate that is exhaustive and to my mind spot on. -- Simone Chambers, University of California, IrvineThis will certainly be the go-to resource on this debate for anyone studying social or political philosophy in the future. Finlayson is the world’s foremost expert on the Habermas-Rawls exchange. He is also, in my opinion, the best 'analytic' Habermas scholar in the world. After reading this book, I’m not sure if there is anything left to be said on the topic; it’s all here. -- Joseph Heath, University of TorontoThis book should quickly establish itself as the definitive account of the debate. It is lucid and penetrating, drilling deeply into both the inner workings of the theories that serve as the debate's backdrop, as well as the parries and thrusts of the exchange itself. * Political Theory *A well-informed and detailed account of the exchange between Habermas and Rawls about questions of political justice and legitimacy. -- Wilfried Hinsch, Universität zu Köln * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Finlayson’s deep engagement with this debate has much to offer...[an] excellent study. -- Kenneth Baynes, Syracuse University * Contemporary Political Theory *Finlayson has written a detailed and illuminating analysis of the debate between Habermas and Rawls...the book is essential reading for anyone interested in modern political philosophy. * Ethical Perspectives *Takes the views of each philosopher on a range of contested issues as an opportunity to explore the views of the other. * Review of Politics *The book makes an important contribution to the field by drawing on Rawls’s and Habermas’s criticisms of eachother’s theories to develop a clear, in-depth interpretation of both theories, using each to illuminate the other. -- J. Donald Moon * Cercles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Much Ado About NothingI. The Early Debate1. Two Nonrival Theories of Justice2. Habermas’s Early Criticisms of RawlsII. Habermas’s and Rawls’s Mature Political Theories3. Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms4. Rawls’s Political LiberalismIII. The Exchange5. Habermas’s “Reconciliation Through the Public Use of Reason”6. Rawls’s “Reply to Habermas”7. “‘Reasonable’ Versus ‘True’”: Habermas’s Reply to Rawls’s “Reply”IV. The Legacy of the Habermas–Rawls Debate8. Religion Within the Bounds of Public Reason AloneConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The HabermasRawls Debate
Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls debate in context and considers its wider implications.Trade ReviewJust at the moment when the Habermas-Rawls debate seemed to evanesce from the sight of the intellectual public, this brilliant book proves this first impression to be false: Gordon Finlayson succeeds in demonstrating with stupendous lucidity and admirable acuteness how topical the questions are that the two philosophers had discussed in their exchange on how best to conceive of the democratic principle of social equality. My guess is that it will be impossible in the near future to tackle normative questions within political philosophy without consulting this book. -- Axel Honneth, Jack C. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia UniversityIn a series of reviews and comments that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, the debate between Jürgen Habermas and John Rawls represents one of those rare moments of dialogue between Continental and Anglo-American political thought. It marks a pivotal chapter in the history of modern philosophy, not because it reached any definitive resolution, but chiefly because it served as the occasion for mutual criticism and raised challenging questions for both political liberalism and critical theory alike. With uncommon clarity and without the least hint of partisanship, James Gordon Finlayson has written a superb and illuminating exposition of this philosophical encounter. -- Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in Philosophy, Harvard UniversityFinlayson provides an exhaustive, rigorous, and crystal-clear reconstruction and analysis of the Habermas-Rawls debate that highlights its philosophical stakes and ongoing relevance. A must read for anyone interested in the work of these two giants of contemporary moral and political philosophy. -- Amy Allen, Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State UniversityThis book is not only a careful reconstruction of the intellectual exchange between Habermas and Rawls, arguably the two most important figures of contemporary political philosophy. It is also a deep reflection on the philosophical foundations of liberal democracy in a postmetaphysical age. A champion of neither but a scrupulous scholar of both Habermas and Rawls, Finlayson provides an analysis of this important debate that is exhaustive and to my mind spot on. -- Simone Chambers, University of California, IrvineThis will certainly be the go-to resource on this debate for anyone studying social or political philosophy in the future. Finlayson is the world’s foremost expert on the Habermas-Rawls exchange. He is also, in my opinion, the best 'analytic' Habermas scholar in the world. After reading this book, I’m not sure if there is anything left to be said on the topic; it’s all here. -- Joseph Heath, University of TorontoThis book should quickly establish itself as the definitive account of the debate. It is lucid and penetrating, drilling deeply into both the inner workings of the theories that serve as the debate's backdrop, as well as the parries and thrusts of the exchange itself. * Political Theory *A well-informed and detailed account of the exchange between Habermas and Rawls about questions of political justice and legitimacy. -- Wilfried Hinsch, Universität zu Köln * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Finlayson’s deep engagement with this debate has much to offer...[an] excellent study. -- Kenneth Baynes, Syracuse University * Contemporary Political Theory *Finlayson has written a detailed and illuminating analysis of the debate between Habermas and Rawls...the book is essential reading for anyone interested in modern political philosophy. * Ethical Perspectives *Takes the views of each philosopher on a range of contested issues as an opportunity to explore the views of the other. * Review of Politics *The book makes an important contribution to the field by drawing on Rawls’s and Habermas’s criticisms of eachother’s theories to develop a clear, in-depth interpretation of both theories, using each to illuminate the other. -- J. Donald Moon * Cercles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Much Ado About NothingI. The Early Debate1. Two Nonrival Theories of Justice2. Habermas’s Early Criticisms of RawlsII. Habermas’s and Rawls’s Mature Political Theories3. Habermas’s Between Facts and Norms4. Rawls’s Political LiberalismIII. The Exchange5. Habermas’s “Reconciliation Through the Public Use of Reason”6. Rawls’s “Reply to Habermas”7. “‘Reasonable’ Versus ‘True’”: Habermas’s Reply to Rawls’s “Reply”IV. The Legacy of the Habermas–Rawls Debate8. Religion Within the Bounds of Public Reason AloneConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Food Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the philosophical dimensions of food. David M. Kaplan shows how the different branches of philosophy contribute to a broader understanding of food and emphasizes how different narratives help us navigate the complex world of food.Trade ReviewPhilosophy can seem impenetrable and confusing. What I so much like about this book is its crystal clarity. . . Food metaphysics? Food epistemology? Food ethics? How terrific to have a book like this to explain how these terms play out in real life. -- Marion Nestle * Food Politics *Kaplan's excellent book integrates issues of food and eating with philosophy, enlivening the field and deepening the ways we should think and theorize about food. He blends insightful analysis with empirical studies, bringing together much of the literature on food into a seamless study that is original, thought-provoking, and readable. -- Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Things: In Touch with the PastDavid M. Kaplan has thought deeply about food, and Food Philosophy has countless interesting and instructive observations, theories, and insights about food and eating. It is full of gems that I want to draw on in my own work. -- Anne Barnhill, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Food EthicsThis is exactly the book I have been waiting for as a sociologist interested in philosophical questions opened up by food in our times. It is an inviting introduction to central questions of ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology for philosophers, social scientists, and humanists. -- Krishnendu Ray, author of The Ethnic RestaurateurA great resource for learning how many ways there are to engage with the concept of food within the discipline of philosophy. * Environmental Values *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Philosophy of Food?1. Food Metaphysics2. Food Epistemology3. Food Aesthetics4. Food Ethics5. Food Political Philosophy6. Food ExistentialismNotesBibliographyIndex
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