Western philosophy from c 1800 Books

Book SynopsisThe author draws on lesser known archival materials, including Marx's notebooks on women and patriarchy and technology to offer a new interpretation of Marx's concept of alienation as this concept develops in his later works.Trade Review'In this excellent book Wendling advances this debate very substantially by setting Marx's discussion of alienation in the context of the 19th-century (and later) attitude to the development of machinery...in my opinion anyone who writes at any length about alienation in Marx must address her work seriously and in depth.' - Mark Cowling, Studies in Marxism 'This is a scholarly and well argued treatment of some fundamental and central issues of Marxist theory which will be of great interest to readers in a wide range of disciplines. It presents what will be, to most readers, original and thought- provoking ideas and arguments in a lively and stimulating way' - Sean Sayers, University of Kent, UK 'Professor Wendling's project is an important one, and it is developed very well, in very interesting ways, and it will attract anyone who is interested in Marx's philosophy, philosophy of technology, and/or the critique of capitalism. Wendling demonstrates very well the ambivalence toward the human being and the human subject in Marx's work, and indeed she fills out this problem in ways that are remarkable, fascinating, and provocative' - Bill Martin, DePaul University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Karl Marx's Concept of Alienation Machines and the Transformation of Work Machines in the Communist Future Machines in the Capitalist Reality Alienation Beyond Marx Notes References Index

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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

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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

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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.

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Book SynopsisEmmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. He is credited with having spurred a revitalized interest in ethics-based philosophy in Europe and America. This work is the culmination of Levinas' philosophy. It reveals the development of his thought over nearly forty years of committed inquiry.Trade ReviewAn excellent introduction to one of the most influential Continental philosophers... Exceptionally stimulating. Library Journal The most definitive, accessible, and cogently argued statement of his philosophy that Levinas ever published. What makes Entre Nous so remarkable is that it summarizes and clarifies the central arguments of his long career. ChoiceTable of ContentsIs Ontology Fundamental? The I and the Totality Levy-Bruhl and Contemporary Philosophy A Man-God? A New Rationality: On Gabriel Marcel Hermeneutics and the Beyond Philosophy and Awakening Useless Suffering Philosophy, Justice, and Love Nonintentional Consciousness From the One to the Other: Transcendence and Time The Rights of Man and Good Will Diachrony and Representation The Philosophical Determination of the Idea of Culture Uniqueness Totality and Infinity Dialogue on Thinking-of-the-Other "Dying for..." The Idea of the Infinite in Us The Other, Utopia, and Justice

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1932, this treatise attempts to demonstrate that Karl Marx was a systematic thinker who developed a sound set of philosophical principles. The author explains how Marx engaged Hegel and his disciples in order to develop the notion of the dialectic.Trade ReviewThe most valuable exposition of Marx and Engels which has yet to be written in English. The New Republic

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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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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

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisTrade 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

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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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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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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

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsFeminine Writing Liberating Women Writing and Politics Writing the Enigma Writing, Demons, and God Writing for the Theater Genesis of the Text Autobiography On Race On Painting, Music, and Poetic Memory Dialogue 1: With Michel Foucault Dialogue 2: With Jacques Derrida And the Future Bibliographies

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: "A Very Rare Thing", by Michael Grimshaw Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counter-revolution Letter to Armin Mohler Appendix: Four Passages from Letters of Carl Schmitt to Armin Mohler Letter to Carl Schmitt Extract from a Dispute About Carl Schmitt 1948-1978: Thirty Years of Refusal Editorial Note, by Peter Gente

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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisThese outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, these scholars help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations.Trade ReviewThis exciting and provocative collection of essays reflects on the exclusionary perils and emancipatory potentialities of the concept of 'people' and its myriad cognates: popular, peoples, populism, and so forth. With contributions from leading philosophers and social theorists from France, Tunisia, and the United States, What is a People? is a must-read for anyone interested in cutting-edge work in the tradition of French and Francophone critical theory. -- Amy Allen, Pennsylvania State University, author of The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory The central ambition of this powerful book is to leverage the term 'people' away from its conservative recuperations to maintain it in the lexical war chest of the politics of emancipation. All of the authors address, in this regard, the same central issue of the problematic status of this category, though their perspectives and approaches diverge significantly, ranging from linguistic and conceptual analysis to a concern with implicit racial and nationalist politics. The book as a whole therefore makes a significant contribution to the critical debate on the category of the people in all of its conceptual extensions: popular sovereignty, populism, popularity, and ambiguous expressions like 'we the people.' -- Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University, author of Radical History and the Politics of Art A critical arsenal with which to think the tensions embedded in popular politics Marx & PhilosophyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: This People Which Is Not One, by Bruno Bosteels 1. Twenty-Four Notes on the Uses of the Word "People", by Alain Badiou 2. You Said "Popular"?, by Pierre Bourdieu 3. "We, the People": Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly, by Judith Butler 4. To Render Sensible, by Georges Didi-Huberman 5. The People and the Third People, by Sadri Khiari 6. The Populism That Is Not to Be Found, by Jacques Ranciere Conclusion: Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties, by Kevin Olson Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA distinctive feature of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work after 1930 was his turn to a conception of philosophy as a form of social inquiry, John G. Gunnell argues, and Thomas Kuhn’s approach to the philosophy of science exemplified this conceptionTrade Review[The author's] vast knowledge and philosophical erudition come through loud and clear. Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn addresses several large issues in mainstream philosophy and the philosophy of science through a discussion of the philosophical thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Kuhn (with a substantive side glance to Paul Feyerabend). -- Dale Turner, Dartmouth University Social Inquiry After Wittgenstein and Kuhn is a highly learned and clearly written contribution to a variety of literatures, including political theory, philosophy of social science, and philosophy of science. Gunnell has a masterful command of his subject matter, and several of the chapters are a delight to read. He brilliantly shows how the challenge posed by both Wittgenstein and Kuhn has been deeply misunderstood by critics and admirers alike. -- Linda M. G. Zerilli, University of Chicago John G. Gunnell has had a long and distinguished career interrogating various claims to authority and certitude made by theorists, philosophers, and social scientists. The aim of this book is to reconsider the practice of social inquiry and its true and purported relations to reality through perspicuous re-presentations of the writings of Wittgenstein and Kuhn. What emerges is a distinctive and provocative philosophy of education that should become an essential part of the training of future political theorists and social scientists. It is a brilliant work of scholarship and philosophical creativity. -- Christopher C. Robinson, Clarkson University This book is a major milestone in the recuperation of the reputations of Wittgenstein, Kuhn and Winch. Far from being 'relativists' or abstract controversialists, Gunnell shows these three to be major figures in the 'philosophy of the sciences', figures who together can be seen as renewing our very conception of philosophy: by turning philosophy itself into what it always has been, but has always resisted being seen as: itself a form of social inquiry. Gunnell takes seriously, as few ever have before, Winch's crucial move of pointing up that social relations are "a species of internal relations". He thus brings alive a radically different conception of society from that which a widespread scientism purveys. Furthermore, Gunnell makes the Wittgensteinian point brilliantly that the social world is 'autonomous' in a way that the natural world is not: whereas natural science goes 'all the way down', for the natural world does not already have any preferred way of describing itself, social studies come up against the autonomy of the already pre-categorised social world at every turn. Gunnell's depiction of Kuhn is deft, and brings out helpfully aspects of the huge influence that Cavell had on Kuhn. This book deserves to be read by philosophers and 'social scientists' alike. -- Rupert Read, author of Wittgenstein Among the Sciences: Wittgensteinian Investigations into the "Scientific Method" Despite the special meanings of its subtitle, this book will not, in common parlance, 'leave everything as it is.' Thanks to his exacting attention to what they actually wrote and avoiding the polemical debates into which their work was subsequently drawn, John G. Gunnell vividly demonstrates the relevance of the insights of Wittgenstein and Kuhn to the conceptual, interpretive, and historical dimensions of social inquiry. Indeed, with characteristic clarity and historical acumen, Gunnell presents Wittgenstein's philosophy as the very basis for social inquiry and Kuhn's history of science as an exemplar of that social inquiry in action. If, with Wittgenstein, 'words are deeds,' then the words in this book are deeds exceedingly well done. -- James Farr, Northwestern University The author's scholarship is exceptional. His grasp of detail and the interrelations between the protagonists, Wittgenstein, Kuhn, Winch, Feyerabend, and others is extraordinary. His knowledge of the texts and of Wittgenstein especially is remarkable and detailed. Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Thomas Kuhn and the Shadow of Wittgenstein 2. Wittgenstein and Social Theory 3. Mind, Meaning, and Interpretation 4. Investigating the Investigations 5. Conventional Objects, Concepts, and the Practice of Interpretation 6. Interpreting Science: Kuhn as a Social Theorist 7. Wittgenstein on the Moon: Certainty, Truth, and Value References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhat is a distinctly political ethic, one responsive to the unique properties of action and power in setting the terms of collective life? What is a radical democratic ethic, one contoured to substantive equality and power sharing? In this original study, Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo probes every dimension of these timely questions. By turns exquisitely subtle and ardently polemical, Political Responsibility restores political theory's promise of worldly illumination. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Remarkably erudite and conceptually lucid, Political Responsibility scrutinizes the complex relationship that, from Machiavelli to Adorno, binds ethics with politics. Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo unveils the upshots of the 'ethical turn' that has shaped the humanities in the last decades: a depoliticized fetishism of human rights combined with the actual accommodation to the individualistic ethos of neoliberalism. His plea for a political responsibility rooted on commonality and oriented towards collective action is as convincing as it is refreshing. -- Enzo Traverso, Cornell University A sweeping work of integrative intellectual history, Political Responsibility is a major book in every sense-in the topic it takes on, in its range of reference, and above all in its ambition. It is certain to be a reference point for those debating the future of the field. -- James Ingram, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Historicizing the Ethical Turn 2. Responsibility in History 3. Autonomy, Ethics, Intrasubjectivity 4. Ethical Reductions 5. Adorno and the Dialectic of Responsibility 6. Political Ethic, Violence, and Defeat Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework.Trade ReviewAny film lover in or freshly out of school may just have their life changed with this little diddy. * CriterionCast *Philosophers on Film is an important collection, especially for students first breaking into film studies or scholars who desire quick reference to diverse groundbreaking texts. -- ANDREW KETTLER, University of South Carolina * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *The contemporary philosophers included in this anthology have been prominent in Anglophone discourse in the humanities over the last twenty years, yet their contributions to film theory have not been addressed in a systematic fashion. Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou offers a coherent framework for approaching this diverse group of philosophers, and the summaries of the arguments of the individual selections are informed, accurate, and accessible. This anthology promises to serve an important function in cinema studies. -- Ronald Bogue, University of GeorgiaAn essential collection that gathers the most important works, both classical and contemporary, on film and philosophy. It covers all of the field’s complex configurations from the continental tradition: philosophy of film, philosophy in film, as well as film as philosophy. No serious film philosopher will be able to leave home without it. -- John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University, LondonThis important and comprehensive collection offers a complex and carefully chosen series of texts that set out the difficult and urgent relations between film and philosophy, as well as between popular cultures and critical thinking over the last century. Christopher Kul-Want's introduction is a subtle and definitive guide through these crucial issues of modern culture that will enable the reader to find their own place among them. -- Adrian Rifkin, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer4. The Film and the New Psychology, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil, by Jean Baudrillard6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side, by Luce Irigaray7. Acinema, by Jean-François Lyotard8. Cinema I: The Movement-Image, by Gilles Deleuze9. Cinema II: The Time-Image, by Gilles Deleuze10. The Malady of Grief: Duras, by Julia Kristeva11. Notes on Gesture, by Giorgio Agamben12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large”, by Slavoj Žižek13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More, by Jean-Luc Nancy14. Contesting Tears, the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, by Stanley Cavell15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages, by Jacques Rancière16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation, by Alain Badiou17. Cinematic Time, by Bernard Stiegler18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1, by Kaja SilvermanSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPhilosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework.Trade ReviewAny film lover in or freshly out of school may just have their life changed with this little diddy. * CriterionCast *Philosophers on Film is an important collection, especially for students first breaking into film studies or scholars who desire quick reference to diverse groundbreaking texts. -- ANDREW KETTLER, University of South Carolina * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *The contemporary philosophers included in this anthology have been prominent in Anglophone discourse in the humanities over the last twenty years, yet their contributions to film theory have not been addressed in a systematic fashion. Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou offers a coherent framework for approaching this diverse group of philosophers, and the summaries of the arguments of the individual selections are informed, accurate, and accessible. This anthology promises to serve an important function in cinema studies. -- Ronald Bogue, University of GeorgiaAn essential collection that gathers the most important works, both classical and contemporary, on film and philosophy. It covers all of the field’s complex configurations from the continental tradition: philosophy of film, philosophy in film, as well as film as philosophy. No serious film philosopher will be able to leave home without it. -- John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University, LondonThis important and comprehensive collection offers a complex and carefully chosen series of texts that set out the difficult and urgent relations between film and philosophy, as well as between popular cultures and critical thinking over the last century. Christopher Kul-Want's introduction is a subtle and definitive guide through these crucial issues of modern culture that will enable the reader to find their own place among them. -- Adrian Rifkin, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer4. The Film and the New Psychology, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil, by Jean Baudrillard6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side, by Luce Irigaray7. Acinema, by Jean-François Lyotard8. Cinema I: The Movement-Image, by Gilles Deleuze9. Cinema II: The Time-Image, by Gilles Deleuze10. The Malady of Grief: Duras, by Julia Kristeva11. Notes on Gesture, by Giorgio Agamben12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large”, by Slavoj Žižek13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More, by Jean-Luc Nancy14. Contesting Tears, the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, by Stanley Cavell15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages, by Jacques Rancière16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation, by Alain Badiou17. Cinematic Time, by Bernard Stiegler18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1, by Kaja SilvermanSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAxel Honneth is known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced a theory of modern politics based on disagreement. In a rare dialogue, these philosophers explore the affinities and tensions between their perspectives to provoke new ideas for social and political change.Trade ReviewWhen two hard stones are rubbed against each other, it produces sparks and light: this is what happens with this encounter 'in the real' between two major 'critical' philosophers of our time, both committed to democratizing democracy but addressing its current limits from opposite angles. A synthesis is not possible, though a commuting is immensely fruitful in order to elaborate one's own choices. The conversation is perfectly staged and commented upon by the editors. This book will be a point of reference. -- Etienne Balibar, author of Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy What form should critical theory take today? This is the question at stake in this encounter between two influential social and political philosophers. The editors expertly situate this dialogue within the terrain of contemporary critical theory, producing a text that will spark new conversations in the field. -- David Owen, author of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality After repeated failed efforts over the preceding decades to manufacture a debate or force an encounter between the putative representatives of German critical theory and French post-structuralism, this book may be the first to succeed at staging a genuine engagement between two preeminent figures in contemporary critical thought. This mise en scene ultimately produces its own mesentente-since each author says 'equality' and 'recognition' yet there is never the same understanding-but perhaps that is the book's greatest strength: to bring this dis-agreement into animacy, to attempt the distorting translation of these untranslatable terms, and in the process to allow the reader to experience the power of Honneth and Ranciere's thought. -- Samuel A. Chambers, author of Bearing Society in Mind: Theories and Politics of the Social Formation This timely and important book brings together for the first time two of the leading practitioners of what can be termed 'critical theory,' the borderland where critical approaches to social and political theory, philosophy, and other fields as dispersed as history, aesthetics, and psychology meet. In so doing, Recognition or Disagreement will help to revive critical theory as a politically engaged and philosophically rigorous intellectual endeavor that extends across disciplines, approaches, and traditions, and to renew the long but disjointed dialogue between German and French approaches to the field. It is a major contribution. -- James Ingram, author of Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism In this fascinating and groundbreaking exchange, the eminent thinkers Axel Honneth and Jacques Ranciere discuss the differences between their respective paradigms of recognition and disagreement. Is social struggle driven by the desire for inclusion within established democratic forms or by a more radical impulse to challenge the legitimacy of the dominant order itself? Is the task of the theorist to reveal hidden forms of social suffering or to bear witness to the agency of the oppressed in the fight for equality? As well as clarifying their differences, the thinkers converge on the shared conviction that the experience of injustice must be of paramount concern for political theorizing rather than, as is more often the case nowadays, being regarded as a surprising deviation from the norm of justice. For anyone interested in the continuing encounter between French and German critical theory, this is an indispensable and thought-provoking read. -- Lois McNay, author of Bearing Society in Mind: Theories and Politics of the Social FormationTable of ContentsPart I. Setting the Stage 1. Jacques Ranciere and Axel Honneth: (Two?) Critical Approaches to the Political, by Katia Genel 2. Between Honneth and Ranciere: Problems and Potentials of a Contemporary Critical Theory of Society, by Jean-Philippe Deranty Part II. A Critical Encounter 3. Critical Questions: On the Theory of Recognition, by Jacques Ranciere 4. Remarks on the Philosophical Approach of Jacques Ranciere, by Axel Honneth 5. A Critical Discussion Part III. The Method of Critical Theory: Propositions 6. The Method of Equality: Politics and Poetics, by Jacques Ranciere 7. Of the Poverty of Our Liberty: The Greatness and Limits of Hegel's Doctrine of Ethical Life, by Axel Honneth Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisQuestioning our need to believe in the miraculous and the mythical.Trade ReviewThe Miracle Myth is an extremely impressive book. It is beautifully written, engaging yet philosophically sophisticated, and offers a novel perspective on the question of how to assess the reliability of accounts of miracles. Even those of us who remain convinced that the evidence for miracles is compelling will find plenty to think about in Shapiro's arguments. -- David A. Skeel, author of True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World The Miracle Myth is an exceptionally clear book on a controversial and interesting topic. -- Michael P. Lynch, author of The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data Shapiro does more than hammer some more nails in the coffin of miracles that David Hume fashioned. He marshals much of what we have learned about inference to the best explanation and Bayes's theorem in the 270 years since Hume's inquiry. Yet he does it with Hume's lightness of touch, a wealth of relevant examples of contemporary credulousness, and no equations. It is a book to enjoy and then pass on to friends given to wishful thinking. -- Alex Rosenberg, author of The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions Most people, at least in the United States, believe in miracles. But should they? In this easy to read and often witty book the philosopher Shapiro demonstrates that there is no scientific or logical justification for doing so. I suspect that The Miracle Myth will convert few true believers, but even they should benefit from reading it. -- Ronald L. Numbers, author of The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design Shapiro makes a clear argument, which allows us-believers or not-to examine critically our own positions. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Justified and Unjustified Belief 2. Miracles 3. Justifying Belief in Supernatural Causes 4. Justifying Belief in Improbable Events 5. Evidence for Miracles 6. Jesus's Resurrection 7. Should We Care That Beliefs in Miracles Are Unjustified? Appendix 1. What Is Supernatural? Appendix 2. Supernatural Causes Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisA historical-conceptual perspective on the concept of "the political"Trade ReviewElias Palti's book is one of the most original interpretations of the political (as opposed to politics) in many years. His conceptual history is a longue duree account of practices of representation of the divine, the sovereign, the people, war, and the search for a basic unity of the world. As we consider whether we have come to the end of this long quest, this book can be read as the story of our journey. -- Jeremy I. Adelman, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University A tour de force. Palti's concise conceptual history of 'the political' dethrones our most cherished ideas about what political modernity is and where it came from. -- Mark Thurner, Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London This is a key book that fills significant gaps in the scholarship of the long conceptual history of the political. -- Federico Finchelstein, The New School for Social Research Palti's book is the best expression of the need to reconsider theology in light of its historical link to the Baroque. -- Maria Pia Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico At a time when confidence in virtually all traditional modes of governance is rapidly eroding, the historical roots of our current dilemma have to be exposed before any prospect can exist of viable solutions. In this bold and ambitious survey of Western political theory and practice since the 17th century, which draws its lessons from European and Latin American history, as well as baroque and modern art, Elias Palti provides a ruthlessly incisive analysis of the sources of our unfolding crisis. An Archaeology of the Political exemplifies the power of conceptual history at its best not only to illuminate the past, but also perhaps light the way a better future. -- Martin E. Jay, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword, by Dick Howard Acknowledgments Introduction: A Conceptual History of the Political-the Archaeological Project 1. The Theological Genesis of the Political 2. The Tragic Scene: The Symbolic Nature of Power and the Problem of Expression 3. The Discourse of Emancipation and the Emergence of Democracy as a Problem: The Latin American Case 4. The Rebirth of the Tragic Scene and the Emergence of the Political as a Conceptual Problem Conclusion: The End of a Long Cycle-the Second Disenchantment of the World Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStefani Engelstein argues that the sibling paradigm shaped the modern subject, life sciences, human sciences, and collective identities such as race, religion, and gender. Integrating close readings with panoramic intellectual history, Sibling Action presents a compelling new understanding of systems of knowledge.Trade ReviewAs inviting, invigorating and stimulating an academic book as I have encountered. An astonishing read from the first page to the last. -- Adrian Daub, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sibling and ModernityPart I. Recuperating the Sibling1. Sibling LogicPart II. Fraternity and Revolution2. The Shadows of Fraternity3. Economizing Desire: The Sibling (in) LawPart III. Genealogical Sciences4. Living Languages: Comparative Philology and Evolution5. The East Comes Home: Race and ReligionEpilogue: Spawning DisciplinesNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThe role of subjectivity, defiance, agency, and affect theory in contemporary queer theoryTrade ReviewThe Ethics of Opting Out grapples with the debates about utopia and negativity that have engaged queer critics for over a decade. Rather than simply taking sides, Mari Ruti works through the theoretical underpinnings of these positions, providing clear explanations and useful correctives along the way. By joining Lacanian fidelity to desire with the impulse to repair, Ruti points the way toward a queer ethics that is antinormative without being antisocial. -- Heather Love, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania The Ethics of Opting Out makes an unprecedented and unparalleled intervention into the field of queer theory. Ruti brings her profound expertise in both Lacanian theory and Foucauldian thought to the project, and it enables her to write a book that transcends the division that has hitherto defined the field. This is required reading not only for queer theorists but for anyone concerned with the question of ethics today. -- Todd McGowan, associate professor of English, the University of Vermont This is an amazing book for its comprehensively critical and masterly treatment of the field of queer studies. Butler's relational anti-Lacanian ethics as well as Edelman's Lacanian anti-relationalism come in for equally vigorous criticism. Instead Ruti makes a pitch for a new Lacanian relational ethics of, if not love for, then at least living with the inhuman awkwardness of your neighbor. -- Henry Krips, Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair of Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate UniversityTable of ContentsAuthor's Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Queer Theory and the Ethics of Opting Out 2. From Butlerian Reiteration to Lacanian Defiance 3. Why There Is Always a Future in the Future 4. Beyond the Antisocial-Social Divide 5. The Uses and Misuses of Bad Feelings Conclusion: A Dialogue on Silence with Jordan Mulder References Index

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Book SynopsisThe role of subjectivity, defiance, agency, and affect theory in contemporary queer theoryTrade ReviewThe Ethics of Opting Out grapples with the debates about utopia and negativity that have engaged queer critics for over a decade. Rather than simply taking sides, Mari Ruti works through the theoretical underpinnings of these positions, providing clear explanations and useful correctives along the way. By joining Lacanian fidelity to desire with the impulse to repair, Ruti points the way toward a queer ethics that is antinormative without being antisocial. -- Heather Love, Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania The Ethics of Opting Out makes an unprecedented and unparalleled intervention into the field of queer theory. Ruti brings her profound expertise in both Lacanian theory and Foucauldian thought to the project, and it enables her to write a book that transcends the division that has hitherto defined the field. This is required reading not only for queer theorists but for anyone concerned with the question of ethics today. -- Todd McGowan, associate professor of English, the University of Vermont This is an amazing book for its comprehensively critical and masterly treatment of the field of queer studies. Butler's relational anti-Lacanian ethics as well as Edelman's Lacanian anti-relationalism come in for equally vigorous criticism. Instead Ruti makes a pitch for a new Lacanian relational ethics of, if not love for, then at least living with the inhuman awkwardness of your neighbor. -- Henry Krips, Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Chair of Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate UniversityTable of ContentsAuthor's Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Queer Theory and the Ethics of Opting Out 2. From Butlerian Reiteration to Lacanian Defiance 3. Why There Is Always a Future in the Future 4. Beyond the Antisocial-Social Divide 5. The Uses and Misuses of Bad Feelings Conclusion: A Dialogue on Silence with Jordan Mulder References Index

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Book SynopsisDistinguished scholars evaluate the contribution pragmatism can make to a viable naturalism, exploring what distinguishes pragmatic naturalism from other naturalisms. They examine pragmatism’s distinctive form of nonreductive naturalism and consider its merits for the study of religion, democratic theory, and as a general philosophical orientation.Trade ReviewThis book is a stellar collection of many of the most brilliant and influential philosophers engaged with pragmatism and naturalism. The revival of pragmatism—after its emergence forty years ago—continues in new and nuanced ways as manifest in this gem of a text! -- Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard UniversityThis collection of fresh and original papers dealing with pragmatism, naturalism, and religion is great tribute to Wayne Proudfoot, whose writings have inspired a generation of thinkers. Splendid essays deal with Peirce, James, and Dewey as well as with recent debates concerning democracy, the study and philosophy of religion, and the future of pragmatic naturalism. -- Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social ResearchThis collection shows that many contemporary pragmatist philosophers, like their predecessors Peirce, James, and Dewey, are committed to varieties of antirepresentationalist naturalism, which should be distinguished as clearly from reductive physicalism as it is from absolutisms both religious and rationalist. Bagger’s commentaries, like the essays themselves, are lucid, instructive, and provocative interventions in ongoing debates about the meaning and significance of pragmatism. -- James Kloppenberg, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard UniversityFor anyone interested in the nuances of pragmatic naturalism and the study of religion, this is a must-have collection. The reader learns something on every page. Matthew Bagger has done a magnificent job in gathering this fascinating array of thinkers on the subject. -- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton UniversityThe contributors to Pragmatism and Naturalism address several interwoven questions, ones of great contemporary interest, and address these questions in an erudite, thoughtful, and imaginative manner. In doing so, they clarify not only the meaning of pragmatism and naturalism (no small achievement apart from all else) but also illuminate the meaning of religion itself in light of what pragmatism and naturalism mean for us today. -- Vincent Colapietro, Pennsylvania State University and the Center for the Humanities at URIThe essays in Pragmatism and Naturalism are excellent examples of the genre by top-notch scholars that speak well to each other and, without question, significantly advance the cause of pragmatism in philosophy, in political theory, and in religious studies. Bagger’s essay on the elective affinity between pragmatism and religious naturalism is both conceptually clear and historically rich, and the essays by Proudfoot and Stout read as mature and polished position pieces by solidly established voices in their respective fields. -- Andrew Dole, Amherst CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatthew C. BaggerPart 1: The Classical Pragmatists and Naturalism1. Instinct and Inquiry: A Reconsideration of Peirce’s Mature Religious NaturalismMichael L. Raposa2. Religious Apologetic, Naturalism, and Inquiry in the Thought of William JamesMatthew C. Bagger3. Deweyan NaturalismPhilip KitcherPart 2: Pragmatism and the Study of Religion4. Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Genealogy in the Study of ReligionWayne Proudfoot5. Language, Method, and Pragmatism in the Study of ReligionScott DavisPart 3: Pragmatism and Democracy6. Reading Wayne Proudfoot’s Religious Experience: Naturalism and the Limits of Democratic DiscourseJonathon Kahn7. Public Reason and Dialectical PragmatismJeffrey StoutPart 4: Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion8. The Fate of Radical Empiricism and the Future of Pragmatic NaturalismNancy Frankenberry9. Nonconceptualism and Religious Experience: Kant, Schleiermacher, ProudfootTerry F. Godlove10. The Oracle and the Inner Teacher: Piecemeal NaturalismJames WetzelContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon.Trade ReviewThis is a powerful and paradigm-shifting aesthetics of society, by a great philosophical talent. -- Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and UsBarbara Carnevali's concept of 'social aesthetics' is tremendously powerful, and explains a lot of otherwise baffling phenomena. Carnevali makes me think that the rise of Orban and Trump and the Brexit movement is better understood as a matter of social 'taste' than in terms of ideology, or economics, or identity. -- Blake Gopnik, author of WarholOscar Wilde famously quipped that only shallow people do not judge by appearances. This elegant, profound, and erudite book explores the startling proposition that we may indeed be what we seem. The reader of this book will not fail to be convinced that 'appearances' are constitutive of society. -- Eva Illouz, author of The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative RelationsEvery sentence in this brilliant book is a unit of thought; it’s as epigrammatic as Nietzsche and as seamlessly developed as, say, Hume. And it helps that it’s new. Carnevali has restored aesthetics to its central role in philosophy. -- Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice: A Life of ReadingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsProloguePart I. Appearing: On the Aesthetic Foundations of Social Life1. Life as a Spectacle: Self-Display, Reflexivity, and Artifice2. Masks and Clothes: Medial Surfaces and the Dialectic of Appearing3. Aesthetic Mediation: A Theory of Representations4. Figures: Social Images5. Out of Control: The Alienated ImagePart II. Vanity and Lies: On the Hostility Toward Appearances6. “Vanity Fair”: The Frivolity of Worldliness7. Against the Mask: The Rise of Social Romanticism8. Against the Spectacle: The Crusade of Romantic Anticapitalism9. Against Aesthetic Values: Aestheticism, Aestheticization, and Staging10. Two Baptisms and a Divorce: Homo Economicus Versus Homo AestheticusPart III. Toward a Social Aesthetics: On the Sensible Logic of Society11. The Opening: Aesthetic Foundations of the Common World12. Aisthesis: Senses and Social Sensibility13. Social Taste and the Will to Please14. Aesthetic Labor and Social Design: The Value of Appearances15. Prestige and Other Magic SpellsConclusion: Social Immaterialism or the Philosophy of Andy WarholAfterwordAppendix: Illustrations Mentioned in the TextNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault's concept outside. She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.Trade ReviewIn this lucid, concise, and passionate book, Rey Chow theorizes the dire effects of entrepreneurial capitalism in our digital age while showing how a humanistic intellectual should confront the essential problems created and obscured by that capitalism. This recovery of Foucault is brilliant, timely, and liberating. -- Paul A. Bové, author of Love's ShadowIn A Face Drawn in Sand, Rey Chow not only offers a provocative and original reading of Foucault but also mobilizes this reading to analyze some of the most important oppositions in literary studies today: close reading versus distant reading, surface reading with its re-aestheticization of the text versus STEM-inspired social science approaches, identity versus racialization, among others. Rather than attempt simply to adjudicate these conflicts in the interests of compromise, Chow reconstructs their theoretical and historical conditions of possibility to determine how these oppositions came to be posed in their current form. In doing so, she allows us to rethink them and perhaps better articulate the problems they seek to address. This is a much-needed book. -- Warren Montag, coauthor of The Other Adam SmithIf, as Foucault said, we have yet to cut off the head of the king, Chow offers the sharpest blade yet: critique forged in immanence. With the equanimity of a saint and the tenacity of a battle-scarred scholar, she puts a point on Foucault’s productive hypothesis: to denounce power is not to say no to it. The result is a compelling series of interventions into the fields of study that matter most for humanistic inquiry today: critical race studies, sound studies, media studies, transnational and global studies. Chow’s gift is a vision of what these fields might be, beheaded. -- Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game MediaA Face Drawn in Sand cuts into the present with breathtaking clarity. Redeploying Foucault’s work in startling new ways, Chow engages everything from humanistic study in the neoliberal university to racism, sound theory, the digitized smart self, and sand painting. As brilliant as it is courageous, this book not only changes how we read Foucault. It teaches us how to think: how to press against the limits of our contemporary order. A tour de force! -- Lynne Huffer, author of Foucault's Strange ErosChow’s text accomplishes something rare these days: an original reading of Foucault that crackles with insight. * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsPart I. Humanistic Inquiry in the Era of the Moralist-EntrepreneurIntroduction: Rearticulating “Outside”Part II. Exercises in the Unthought1. Literary Study’s Biopolitics2. “There Is a ‘There Is’ of Light”; or, Foucault’s (In)visibilities3. Thinking “Race” with Foucault4. “Fragments at Once Random and Necessary”: The Énoncé Revisited, Alongside Acousmatic Listening5. From the Confessing Animal to the SmartselfCoda: Intimations from a Series of Faces Drawn in SandAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisReforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Taha’s philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.Trade ReviewReforming Modernity is the first work that examines an under-researched contemporary Arab philosopher and his unprecedented philosophical project from the Islamic tradition, a project that presents a staunch critique of both Arab-Islamic discourses of reform as well as a staunch critique of European-American (i.e. “Western”) modernity and its malaise since the Enlightenment. Reforming Modernity, written by an international scholar on an influential philosopher, is original, timely, and a needed contribution to the field. -- Mohammed Hashas, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIIIThe English-speaking world needs to discover the work of Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most important Muslim philosophers of our postcolonial time. Wael B. Hallaq proves himself as a profound, rigorous reader and interlocutor in Reforming Modernity, which brilliantly manifests the Moroccan thinker’s oeuvre. -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western TraditionThis is a fascinating book. Abdurrahman Taha is one of the Arab world’s best grounded and most daring thinkers, and Wael B. Hallaq’s book gives a comprehensive overview of his thought. Taha knows his Kant as well as his Ghazali, and his critique of modernity—both Western and Arab—is pitiless. He goes on to propose an Islamic modernity, Qur’ānic and ethical. Since Hallaq provides interpretation as well as exposition, this book is also part of Hallaq’s own ongoing (and equally fascinating) project of critique and reconstruction. -- Mark Sedgwick, author of Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth CenturyIn Reforming Modernity, Wael B. Hallaq proves to be an ideal guide through the dense logic and complex language of Abdurrahman Taha, perhaps the most original Muslim philosopher of ethics and modernity unknown in the English-speaking world. Taha posits nothing less than the self-sufficiency of Islamic moral philosophy, yet his is a project at once critical of and open to other philosophies rather than mired in the futile pursuit of an Islam purged of “foreign influence.” A critical and sympathetic reader, Hallaq scrutinizes the content of these arguments, the way they are made, and how they unfold. The effect is not only to make Taha’s thought accessible, but also to invite readers to dwell within its texture and richness. Few scholars aside from Hallaq have the depth and breadth of knowledge to accomplish such a feat; we are indebted to him. -- Roxanne L. Euben, University of PennsylvaniaReforming Modernity is another great success of Hallaq. Indeed, if Hallaq is indebted to Taha having given new blood to his philosophical project, Taha ought to be indebted to Hallaq having widened his readership by introducing him accurately to the English audience. * Journal of Islamic Ethics *Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsCitation Method and Abbreviated TitlesPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. “Rethinking the Islamic Tradition”: A Conceptual Framework 2. The Spirit of Modernity 3. Islamic Applications of Modernity’s Spirit4. Recasting Reason5. Religion, Secularism, Ethics: A Concept of Critique6. Sovereignty, Ethical Management, and TrusteeshipEpilogue: A New Concept of the HumanAppendix: Taha Responding Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.Trade ReviewAlain Badiou’s seminars are essential to understanding the evolution of his thought. This much-awaited collection of Badiou’s teachings enables the English-speaking world to experience the ‘true heart’ of his philosophy. -- Sigi Jöttkandt, author of First Love: A Phenomenology of the OneThe publication of Alain Badiou’s seminar The One is a major event for the philosopher of the event. When reading it, one has a sense of thinking alongside a great thinker as he formulates one of his central ideas—the distinction between the One and the count-as-one. Come to this seminar for Badiou’s most in-depth analysis of how the One functions and leave with the incredible bonus of magisterial interpretations of Descartes, Plato, and Kant. This is Badiou at his very best and at his most accessible. The perfect introduction to his foundational work Being and Event. -- Todd McGowan, author of Enjoyment Right & LeftBadiou’s seminar is a space of conceptual experimentation and system creation, bringing together rigorous critique of contemporary ideology with innovative returns to major figures from the history of philosophy. This book, which also provides incisive introductory material, demonstrates the power of Badiou’s method. His readings of Descartes, Plato, and Kant not only are genuinely inventive, they also attest to the creation of one of the most significant philosophical endeavors of our era, Badiou’s own. -- Frank Ruda, author of For Badiou: Idealism without IdealismIn this daring and challenging work, Badiou, one of the most fascinating and intellectually provocative thinkers of our time, provides a remarkable examination of the impasses of the metaphysics of the One in Descartes, Plato, and Kant. Badiou adapts their grappling with the equivalence of being and one to his own project of thinking the proper object of philosophy: the triad of events, truths, and subjects setting out from the idea that being is detached from the One. Knitting together mathematics and philosophy, Badiou makes a compelling demand for what he calls The Critique of Evental Reason. -- Jelica Šumič Riha, Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, SloveniaTable of ContentsEditors’ Introduction to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouAuthor’s General Preface to the English Edition of the Seminars of Alain BadiouIntroduction to Alain Badiou’s seminar The One (1983–1984) (Kenneth Reinhard)About the 1983–1984 SeminarSession 1Session 2Session 3Session 4Session 5Session 6Session 7Session 8Session 9Session 10Session 11Session 12Session 13Session 14Session 15Session 16NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment that shows that Foucault's work is as alive and contemporary as ever -- Didier Eribon

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