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A Hacker ManifestoMCKENZIE WARK

A double is haunting the world—the double ofabstraction, the virtual reality of information,programming or poetry, math or music,curves or colorings upon which thefortunes of states and armies, companiesand communities now depend. The boldaim of this book is to make manifest theorigins, purpose, and interests of theemerging class responsible for making thisnew world—for producing the newconcepts, new perceptions, and newsensations out of the stuff of raw data.A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines thefraught territory between the ever morestrident demands by drug and mediacompanies for protection of their patentsand copyrights and the pervasive popularculture of file sharing and pirating. Thisvexed ground, the realm of so-called “intellectual prop-erty,” gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, onethat pits the creators of information—the hacker class ofresearchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemistsand musicians, philosophers and programmers—against a possessing class who would monopolize whatthe hacker produces.

“Ours is once again an age of manifestos. Wark’s book chal-lenges the new regime of property relations with all theepigrammatic vitality, conceptual innovation, and revolution-ary enthusiasm of the great manifestos.”

—Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire

“A Hacker Manifesto is a highly original and provocative book.At a moment in history where we are starved of new politicalideas and directions, the clarity with which Wark identifies anew political class is persuasive, and his ability to articulatetheir interests is remarkable.”

—Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess

“McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto might also be called,without too much violence to its argument, The CommunistManifesto 2.0. In essence, it’s an attempt to update the coreof Marxist theory for that relatively novel set of historicalcircumstances known as the information age.”

—Julian Dibbell, author of Play Money: Diary of a Dubious Proposition

Q & A with McKenzie Wark

Q: So why hackers?A: Whenever you try to describe something new youhave to reach into the language and find an old word thatcan do a new job. I like “hacker” because it’s a good oldsturdy English word. There’s nothing Latinate about it.

What I want this word to do is todescribe a new kind of class interest.Hackers are people who create new ideas.Hackers innovate. But they don’t own themeans of realizing the value of what theycreate. So a hacker could be a computerprogrammer or a musician or a novelistor a bio-chemist. Q: Most people would think of hackers

as kids who break into computers.A: It used to mean people who createnew computer code, but it is interestinghow it’s a term that’s been trivialized anddemonized. I think that’s always the casewith new kinds of political force. Theword “democrat” used to be an insult.

I want to do the opposite with the term: make it broaderand more inclusive, not something narrow andmarginal. Hackers could be working in any field, notjust computing. Although it seems only appropriate toname a whole class over one of its leading new forms ofcreativity—the programmers.Q: So what from your own experience led you to this

book?A: Signing contracts with publishers! I’m not kidding. Irealized, as many people do, that you have very littlecontrol over the terms under which you sell the productof your own mind. The “intellectual property” laws,which pretend to protect the interests of the creator,really protect the interests of the owner. And since mostof us don’t own the means of production, we don’t stayowners for long.But I also had a positive experience, on listservers likenettime.org, where I met a whole community of peopletrying to put into practice a new, global gift economy ofknowledge. So that was the practice; A Hacker Manifestois the theory. I think a lot of people could recognizethemselves in this book. It tries to map the possibilitiesfor the free creation of knowledge that we have all expe-rienced, no matter how distorted it gets when it getsreduced to a commodity.

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SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 7

MORAL & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 12

PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE & SOCIETY 14

PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICS 15

PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORDS 18

WALTER BENJAMIN 20

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21

PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONALITY / LOGIC 23

POSTSTRUCTURALISM / ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 24

JEWISH MYSTICISM / GERMAN PHILOSOPHY 24

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 24

ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING 26

INDEX 27Cover art: PhotoDisc ®

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Finding aReplacement forthe SoulMind and Meaning inLiterature and PhilosophyBRETT BOURBON

Bourbon asserts that ourcomplex and variable rela-tion with language definesa domain of meaning andbeing that is misconstruedand missed in philosophy,in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding ofwhat we are and how things make sense. Accordingly,his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of litera-ture gives us the means to understand this relationship.

“This is an adventurous and unusual book. Bourbon movesback and forth between literary and philosophical contextswith ease, showing in multifarious ways how the one can,often in unexpected ways, illuminate the other. Throughoutthese wide-ranging explorations Bourbon uncovers a gooddeal about both the nature of literary meaning and our distinc-tive—if tellingly irreducible—relations to literary texts.”

—Garry L. Hagberg, author of Art as Language:Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory

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Mind TimeThe Temporal Factor inConsciousnessBENJAMIN LIBET

Our subjective inner life iswhat really matters to us ashuman beings—and yet we know relatively little abouthow it arises. Over a long and distinguished careerBenjamin Libet has conducted experiments that havehelped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brainproduces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libetgives his own account of these experiments and theirimportance for our understanding of consciousness.

“What makes Benjamin Libet different from all the otherswriting on [consciousness] ... is that he has actually spentthe past 40 years experimenting on the topic. His findingshave played a central role in others’ speculations. Now hehas put his life’s work into a single short book.”

—Steven Rose, New Scientist

“Benjamin Libet’s discoveries are of extraordinary inter-est. His is almost the only approach yet to yield any cred-ible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced bythe brain. Mind Time endeavors to clarify these startlingobservations for the general public, set them in properframework of neuroscientific knowledge, and probe theirphilosophical meaning. Libet’s work is unique, and speaksto questions asked by all humankind.”

—Robert W. Doty, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology andAnatomy, University of Rochester

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MindsightImage, Dream, MeaningCOLIN MCGINN

How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowersdraw honeybees. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Sartre, philosophers have talked and written aboutthis most elusive of topics—that is, until contemporary analytic philosophy of mind developed. The guiding thread of this book is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination.Clearly, seeing an object is similar in certain respects to forming a mental image of it, but it is also different. McGinnshows what the differences are, arguing that imagination is a sui generis mental faculty. He goes on to discuss thenature of dreaming and madness, contending that these are primarily imaginative phenomena. In the second halfof the book McGinn focuses on what he calls cognitive (as opposed to sensory) imagination, and investigates therole of imagination in logical reasoning, belief formation, the understanding of negation and possibility, and thecomprehension of meaning. His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctiveprinciples, and merits much more attention.

“This book contains the most innovative and important work that Colin McGinn has done in the course of his distinguished career.It has the potential to be an extraordinarily influential book, and to create, almost single-handedly, a new area of systematic studyin analytic philosophy of mind: the philosophy of the imagination. Work done in this new area could provide a foundation for workdone in many other areas, including the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of intentionality, the scientific understand-ing of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities.”

—Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina

“McGinn’s book is first rate, manifesting all the qualities of incisive argument, original thought and clear, direct, lively, pithy writing for which he is celebrated.”

—Malcolm Budd, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University College London2004 224 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £18.95 ISBN 0-674-01560-6

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The Ethics of MemoryAVISHAI MARGALIT

2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the YearAward Philosophy Category

Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2003—Nonfiction

Avishai Margalit’s work offers a philoso-phy for our time, when, in the wake ofoverwhelming atrocities, memory canseem more crippling than liberating, aforce more for revenge than for recon-ciliation. Morally powerful, deeplylearned, and elegantly written, TheEthics of Memory draws on the resourcesof millennia of Western philosophy and religion toprovide us with healing ideas that will engage all of uswho care about the nature of our relations to others.

“[A] thought-provoking book ... For Margalit ... the paradigm isJewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories ofhumiliation. Still, his sensitive meditations show how these twostrains of hurt might be overcome. In a marvelous chaptercalled ‘Forgiving and Forgetting,’ Margalit asks whether wehave a duty to forgive those who have wronged us. His answeris elegant ... Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker. Hisphilosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in allour complexity. And yet he is committed to making sense of usin ways that will make us better.”

—Jonathan Lear, New York Times Book Review2002; 2004 240 pp.Paper $14.95 / £9.95 ISBN 0-674-01378-6 Cloth $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00941-X

ConfusionA Study in the Theory of KnowledgeJOSEPH L. CAMP, JR.

“Imagine that you think you see your car in thelot at Dodger Stadium, but your key won’t work.You think to yourself, ‘I owe $500 on this car.’Then you see a stuffed Panda in the backseatand decide that it’s a different car. When youthought about ‘this car,’ were you thinking ofthe car you couldn’t unlock or the car that youowned? Camp says neither. You were thinkingabout something like both but you did notsucceed in referring to either. Camp ... has notjust produced a brain twister. His problem can

be found in Descartes and Locke, who worried that we seemnot to perceive actual thingsbut to confront only ideas ofthem. If we can’t referwithout unique objects ofreference, our claims to truthmay be in trouble. There arealternatives to his theory ofreference, but Camp’s book... will provoke thought.”

—Leslie Armour,Library Journal

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Descartes’s Concept of MindLILLI ALANEN

“Descartes’s Concept of Mind is a book of high quality. The main point of the project is to detailDescartes’s theory of the embodiment of the human mind. This is a neglected side of histhought, and Alanen treats it in an illuminating way. The exposition is clear and remarkably wellinformed. And she persuasively shows that Descartes had a complicated and interesting viewof this matter.”—John Carriero, UCLA2003 368 pp. Cloth $65.00 / £41.95 ISBN 0-674-01043-4

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Descartes’s DualismMARLEEN ROZEMOND

Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartes’s aim to provide a metaphysics that wouldaccommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. Her approach includesdiscussion of central differences from and similarities to the scholastics and how thesediscriminations affected Descartes’s defense of the incorporeity of the mind and themechanistic conception of body.

“[Descartes’s Dualism is] a thorough and careful study of Descartes’s account of the mind/soul.”—Stephen Gaukroger, Times Literary Supplement

“[Descartes’s Dualism] is a brilliant book. Rozemond provides an excellent articulation of thedualism of Descartes. Her analytic skills are very high, and her references to the medieval back-ground of Descartes’s theory of knowledge are crisp and secure ... Rozemond’s interest in themedievals also leads to a most informative, and rare, presentation of the influence of thedoctrine of transubstantiation on discussions of substance and sense qualities. Among themany books on Descartes, this one ranks with a mere handful in terms of the highest worth.”—M. A. Bertman, Choice1998; 2002 304 pp. Paper $21.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00968-1 Cloth $55.00/£35.95 ISBN 0-674-19840-9

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Expression and the InnerDAVID FINKELSTEIN

“This book is an important contribution to a group of problems which have a central place inphilosophy of mind. Here I am taking ‘philosophy of mind’ in a broad sense; Finkelstein’s book andthe problems he discusses have implications for philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epis-temology. The book is written with intelligence and verve. Very few works in philosophy haveanything describable as ‘narrative tension,’ but Finkelstein’s certainly does. He draws the readerinto the problems he is attempting to solve with the skill of a writer of detective stories; he leadshis readers down paths that appear inviting, only then to demonstrate why the apparent solutionson offer down those paths won’t do; and his arguments for the solution he himself offers at theend have the force, and the place in the book, of the denouement of a good thriller.”

—Cora Diamond, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia2003 194 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01156-2

Thinking How to LiveALLAN GIBBARD

“In this fascinating book, Gibbard applies his development of the tools of traditional Anglo-American metaethical theory to the questions about that most basic philosophical concern: Howshould one live? ... Gibbard’s arguments are clear and illustrated with helpful examples. His finalresult is sure to generate disagreement, but theorists in this area must contend with his argu-ments.”

—J. H. Barker, Choice

“This is a remarkable book. It takes up a central and much-discussed problem—the differencebetween normative thought (and discourse) and ‘descriptive’ thought (and discourse). It developsa compelling response to that problem with ramifications for much else in philosophy. But perhapsmost importantly, it brings new clarity and rigor to the discussion of these tangled issues. It willtake some time to come to terms with the details of Gibbard’s discussion. It is absolutely clear,however, that the book will reconfigure the debate over objectivity and ‘factuality’ in ethics.”

—Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University2003 6 tables 320 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01167-8

Simple MindednessIn Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of MindJENNIFER HORNSBY

“Jennifer Hornsby [has written] a series of careful and insightful papers ... over the past twentyyears. In Simple Mindedness, she does us the great service of collecting twelve of these paperstogether in a single volume ... Her overall picture of the mind is filled out in a helpful introduction,and in a series of useful postscripts ... Hornsby disagrees with both Descartes and materialists ...She denies that people are composed of a material and an immaterial substance ... [but also]denies that mental properties reduce to physical properties ... Materialists who put in the time andeffort to [weigh Hornsby’s views] will be richly rewarded. There is much an orthodox materialistcan learn from the heretical Hornsby.”

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Tales of the Mighty DeadHistorical Essays in the Metaphysics of IntentionalityROBERT B. BRANDOM

A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematicphilosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophersworking today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Westernphilosophy from Descartes to the present.

“Just as Kant managed to recast a good bit of the history of philosophy as a struggle betweenrationalism and empiricism (thus leading to his synthesis of the two), Brandom has recast asubstantial portion of modern philosophy as a struggle over the consequences of inferentialistapproaches. The way he shows that there is a coherent line to be traced from Leibniz to Spinozato Kant to Hegel to Frege to Heidegger to Wittgenstein to Sellars is brilliant; it will quite naturallyalso be controversial (in all the best senses). This is one of those books that will force even thepeople who disagree most with him to have to take his position all the more seriously. If nothingelse, this shows that the usual ways of drawing the (by now tired) ‘continental/analytic’ distinc-tions are in serious need of rethinking. Brandom’s is an original voice. Brandom’s work, obviouslyanalytical in orientation, also claims to take its inspirations from figures normally shunned inanalytic circles. This makes him a key figure in the effort to ‘overcome’ the dichotomy.”

—Terry Pinkard, Northeastern University2002 448 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00903-7

Articulating ReasonsAn Introduction to InferentialismROBERT B. BRANDOM

2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award—Philosophy Category

“Displaying a sovereign command of the intricate discussion in the analytic philosophy oflanguage, Brandom manages successfully to carry out a program within the philosophy oflanguage that has already been sketched by others, without losing sight of the vision inspiring theenterprise in the important details of his investigation … Using the tools of a complex theory oflanguage, Brandom succeeds in describing convincingly the practices in which the reason andautonomy of subjects capable of speech and action are expressed.”

—Jürgen Habermas 2000; 2001 240 pp. Paper $20.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00692-5 Cloth $43.00 / £27.95 ISBN 0-674-00158-3

Consciousness in ActionS. L. HURLEY

1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of Philosophy and Religionby the Association of American Publishers

“Consciousness in Action contains ten highly original, densely argued, interrelated essays on thenature and unity of consciousness, the relationships of consciousness to underlying neurophysi-ological processes and environmental stimuli, and the connections among consciousness, percep-tion and action ... [It] exhibits the astonishing breadth of knowledge, technical virtuosity and subtleanalyses Hurley’s readers have come to expect in her work ... [It] is a significant work not onlybecause of its depth, originality and impressive detail, but also because its integration of philoso-phy with neuropsychology and cognitive science provides new avenues of research for philoso-phers concerned about the nature of the mind, perception, and action ... [H]er book’s impact willcontinue to be felt for years to come.”

—Dan Silber, Philosophy in Review1998; 2002 32 illus., 8 tables 528 pp.Paper $26.50 / £17.95 ISBN 0-674-00796-4 Cloth $63.00 / £40.95 ISBN 0-674-16420-2

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of LifeJONATHAN LEAR

2001 Gradiva Award for the Best Book in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Sponsored by the WorldOrganization and the Public Education Corporation of the National Association for theAdvancement of Psychoanalysis

“An extended meditation on Aristotle’s conception of happiness and Freud’s approach to death,the book argues that both thinkers fell prey to a similar illusion ... [the thought] that our desirescan ever come to an end ... There is great depth to Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.”—Andrew Stark, Times Literary Supplement

“Not many people are equally appreciative of Plato and Freud, and fewer still are able to moveback and forth between contemporary discussions among philosophers and the highly technical

literature of psychoanalysis as easily as Lear does ... Daring and provocative.”—Richard Rorty, New York Times Book ReviewThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2000; 2002 204 pp.Paper $16.00 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-00674-7 Cloth $26.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00329-2

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Reconstructing Public ReasonERIC A. MACGILVRAY

The reluctance to admit controversial beliefs as legiti-mate grounds for public action threatens to prevent usfrom responding effectively to many of the leadingsocial and political challenges that we face. EricMacGilvray argues that we should shift our attentionaway from the problem of identifying uncontroversialpublic ends in the present and toward the problem ofevaluating potentially controversial public ends throughcollective inquiry over time. Rather than ask ourselveswhich public ends are justified, we must instead decidewhich public ends we should seek to justify.Reconstructing Public Reason offers a fundamental re-thinking of the nature and aims of liberal toleration, andof the political implications of pragmatic philosophy. Italso provides fresh interpretations of founding prag-matic thinkers such as John Dewey and WilliamJames, and of leading contemporary figures such asJohn Rawls and Richard Rorty.

“Imaginatively conceived and skillfully executed,Reconstructing Public Reason will appeal to those anxious

about the declining (orascending!) influence ofpragmatism and thoseanxious about the practicalsignificance of theorizingabout political justice gener-ally and political liberalismspecifically. No small accom-plishment.”—Alfonso Damico,

The University of Iowa

“This is an intelligent bookthat addresses two impor-tant and fashionable themesin political theory—pragma-

tism and political liberalism. And it contributes to our under-standing of both.”

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A Short History of Distributive JusticeSAMUEL FLEISCHACKER

Fleischacker argues thatguaranteeing aid to thepoor is a modern idea,developed only in the lasttwo centuries. To attrib-ute a longer pedigree todistributive justice is tofail to distinguish be-tween justice and charity.By examining major writ-ings in ancient, medieval,and modern politicalphilosophy, Fleischackershows how we arrived atthe contemporary mean-ing of distributive justice.

“Fleischacker provides a fascinating account of the develop-ment of our contemporary notion of distributive justice. This isan excellent book that fills a real need.”

—Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, andauthor of Welfare and Rational Care

“This is a succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history ofdistributive justice that will be a boon for teachers andstudents. Written with a light touch, it will provoke discussionand thought, raising the possibility of seeing things differently.A fine contribution.”

—Ross Harrison, author of Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece

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The Modern Self in the LabyrinthPolitics and the Entrapment ImaginationEYAL CHOWERS

“This is an erudite and original study of the great entrapment and proto-entrapment theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries,namely, Kant, Mary Shelley, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Benjamin, Kafka and Foucault. As Chowers convincingly shows,these theorists argue that moderns have come to be subject to and subjectified by historical processes that govern theirconduct ... The interpretation of individual authors and the story as a whole are presented with an exemplary depth of schol-arship and insight, and the cumulative effect is to throw a critical and foreboding light on the present.”

—James Tully, University of Victoria

“This book identifies the theme of ‘social entrapment’ in three important 20th century social theorists: Weber, Freud, andFoucault. It ably shows how the theme emerged from the problems of the Enlightenment and attempts by Marx andNietzsche to solve them. It also points out some of the dead ends to which it has led its expositors. An impressive combina-tion of research and argument.”

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Just WorkRUSSELL MUIRHEAD

This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and thekind of work we do. Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work thatfulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings ofa just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has somethingimportant to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasinglyurgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community. Muirhead weaves his argument out of sociological, economic, and philosophical analy-sis. He shows, among other things, how modern feminism’s effort to reform domesticwork and extend the promise of careers has contributed to more democratic under-standings of what it means to have work that fits. Just Work shows what it would meanfor work to make good on the high promise so often invested in it and suggests what weboth as a society and as individuals might do when it falls short.

“In this original and provocative book, Muirhead argues that justice in work is more than a matterof fair wages and decent working conditions; it is also a matter of fit—between the work we doand the persons we are. With a clear and distinctive voice, Muirhead revives work as a subject forpolitical theory and illuminates the ethics of everyday life.”

—Michael Sandel, author of Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy2004 224 pp. Cloth $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-01558-4

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Rationality and FreedomAMARTYA SEN

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts inphilosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice,the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight tothese difficult issues. This volume—the first of the two—is principally concerned withrationality and freedom.

“Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists. He is an outstandingeconomic theorist, a world authority on social choice and welfare economics. He is a leading figurein development economics, carrying out pathbreaking work on appraising the effectiveness ofinvestment in poor countries and, more recently, on famine. At the same time, he takes a broadview of the subject and has done much to widen the perspective of economists.”

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Why Societies Need DissentCASS R. SUNSTEIN

“Why Societies Need Dissent ... shows that demands for lock-step conformity are wrong and unin-formed thinking. Sunstein’s important new study is filled with empirical evidence of the significanceof opposition, found in his compelling explanations of the need for, and benefits of, disagreement.Sunstein reveals that, in fact, the influence of dissenters is for the better, be it with courts, juries,corporate boardrooms, churches, sports teams, student organizations or faculties, not to mention‘the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court ... during times of both war and peace.’”

—John W. Dean, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewOliver Wendell Holmes Lectures 2003 3 line illus., 5 charts 256 pp.Cloth $22.95 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-01268-2

Foundations of Hegel’s Social TheoryActualizing FreedomFREDERICK NEUHOUSER

Frederick Neuhouser’s task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel’ssocial theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modernsocial world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel’s most important and least under-stood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of “social freedom.”

“Hegel is an obscure and difficult writer, but Neuhouser has an effortless way of making himaccessible.”

—Allen W. Wood, Yale University

“This is a fine book, and it will be a significant contribution both to Hegel scholarship and tocontemporary philosophical discussions of modern ethical life.“

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If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?G. A. COHEN

2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award—Philosophy Category

“This is an unusual book, a remarkably successful blend of autobiography, intellectual history andmoral philosophy that reflects the author’s distinctive outlook and background ... [It] presents, Ibelieve, the most important contemporary challenge to the egalitarian form of liberalism ... Thequestions he asks are the ones we should all be worrying about.”

—Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement

“Cohen is much the funniest living Anglophone political philosopher of any note, as well asperhaps the cleverest.”

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Sovereign VirtueThe Theory and Practice of EqualityRONALD DWORKIN

“For the last two decades, Ronald Dworkin has been developing answers to...questions [of publicpolicy] as part of a powerful and surprising response to the larger question of how we shouldreconcile liberty with equality. Unlike many partisans of equality, he thinks conservatives are rightto hold individuals largely responsible for their own fates. But unlike many partisans of liberty, henevertheless believes in substantial governmental intervention to bring about more equality. And,unlike both, he argues that, in the deepest sense, equality and liberty are never truly at odds. InSovereign Virtue, Dworkin has brought together this surprising theory and some of its applica-tions...If we care about having a rational public discourse about the many contests that seem topit liberty against equality, we owe his book a careful reading.”

—K. Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books

“Sovereign Virtue ... is ... extraordinarily impressive: supple, suave and enviably deft, like all hiswork, and in its cumulative effect quite exceptionally illuminating…[Dworkin] has been in manyways the most systematic moral, political and legal thinker of the past three decades in theAnglophone world. He may lack the personal authority or the singularity of mind of John Rawls.But on this evidence he has a substantially broader range of ambition, a set of forceful moral intu-itions, a speed and boldness of intellectual manoeuvre, and a combination of energy and sheerpertinacity that are all his own.”

—John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement2000; 2002 528 pp.Paper $20.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00810-3 Cloth $37.50 / £24.95 ISBN 0-674-00219-9

Varieties of Religion TodayWilliam James RevisitedCHARLES TAYLOR

“Now at last we have a book about ... William James, and it has been produced by a religiouslyobsessed man himself. Charles Taylor has been writing philosophy for many years, and the scopeof his achievement is extraordinary. He has written on ethics, epistemology, language, and poli-tics. He has analyzed Greek, medieval, Renaissance, and modern thought in learned discourses onthe history of ideas. Even more amazing, perhaps, is that a corpus of philosophy so wide shouldbe so intellectually coherent. All of Taylor’s writings are unified by a goal, a mission, almost acalling: to understand by philosophical means who we have become and who we ought to striveto become ... [A] small but very stimulating book.”

—Erin Leib, New Republic

“Old-time religion had a story about these sources of despair, reinforced every Sunday morning,but James will have none of this—he cannot be so easily consoled. What he needs is a directsensation of the presence of God. The trouble is that such experiences are rare, and fragile andisolating, not to mention questionable (even for a theist like James). Religion, if it is to survive,must be buttressed by more than fleeting sensation. The acute question raised by Charles Taylor’sinteresting book is whether the modern world has room for anything else.”

—Colin McGinn, Wall Street JournalInstitute for Human Sciences Vienna Lectures Series 2002; 2003 142 pp.Paper $12.00 / £7.95 ISBN 0-674-01253-4 Cloth $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00760-3

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The Law of PeoplesJOHN RAWLS

“[These essays are] some of [Rawls’s] strongest published expressions of feeling ... These are thefinal products of a remarkably pure and concentrated career ... The writings of John Rawls, whomit is now safe to describe as the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century ...owe their influence to the fact that their depth and their insight repay the close attention that theiruncompromising theoretical weight and erudition demand.”

—Thomas Nagel, New Republic

“This is the most engaging and accessible book Rawls has written ... For the most part Rawlslays out his argument in a straightforward way, and refers extensively to historical and contem-porary episodes to illustrate it.”

—David Miller, Times Literary Supplement1999; 2001 210 pp.Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-00542-2 Cloth $25.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00079-X

A Theory of JusticeRevised EditionJOHN RAWLS

“Rawls’s Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this century’s most important workof political philosophy. Originally published in 1971, it quickly became the subject of extensivecommentary and criticism, which led Rawls to revise some of the arguments he had originallyput forward in this work ... This edition will certainly become the definitive one; all scholars willuse it, and it will be an essential text for any academic library. It contains a new preface thathelpfully outlines the major revisions, and a ‘conversion table’ that correlates the pagination ofthis edition with the original, which will be useful to students and scholars working with thisedition and the extensive secondary literature on Rawls’s work. Highly recommended.”

—J. D. Moon, Choice

Review of the previous edition:

“John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy toprovide the social contract tradition with what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, themost formidable defense it has yet received ... [and] makes available the powerful intellectualresources and the comprehensive approach that have so far eluded antiutilitarians. He alsomakes clear how wrong it was to claim, as so many were claiming only a few years back, thatsystematic moral and political philosophy are dead ... Whatever else may be true it is surely truethat we must develop a sterner and more fastidious sense of justice. In making his peerlesscontribution to political theory, John Rawls has made a unique contribution to this urgent task.No higher achievement is open to a scholar.”

—Marshall Cohen, New York Times Book ReviewBelknap 1999 12 line illus. 560 pp.Paper $24.95 ISBN 0-674-00078-1 Cloth $52.00 ISBN 0-674-00077-3

Liberalism with HonorSHARON R. KRAUSE

“This book makes a highly original and richly constructive contribution to contemporary democratictheory as well as to the interpretation and application of the thought of Montesquieu, Tocqueville, andthe American tradition of political thought and culture, rooted in the Founding Fathers. The argumentof the book establishes, for perhaps the first time in current literature, how capacious and fertile maybe the moral resource for democratic theory that is to be found in a reconsidered and appropriatelyre-elaborated concept of honor.”

—Thomas Pangle, author of Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace2002 288 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £22.95 ISBN 0-674-00756-5

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Semblances of SovereigntyThe Constitution, the State, and American CitizenshipT. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF

“Aleinikoff examines sovereignty, citizenship, and the broader concept of membership (aliens as wellas citizens) in the American nation-state and suggests that American constitutional law needs ‘under-standings of sovereignty and membership that are supple and flexible, open to new arrangements’ ...Sure to generate heated debate over the extent to which the rules governing immigration, Indian tribes,and American territories should be altered, this book is required reading for constitutional scholars.”

—R. J. Steamer, Choice2002 320 pp. Cloth $48.00 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-00745-X

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Justice as FairnessA RestatementJOHN RAWLS

EDITED BY ERIN KELLY

“There have been millions of words written about A Theory of Justice and many articles andseveral books by Rawls defending and expanding its doctrines. Justice as Fairness will almostcertainly be the last of these, and it should take its place as the best and most comprehensivestatement of Rawls’s eventual position. It is an exemplary work in every way. Rawls’s own virtuesshine through. He follows the argument where it leads. He listens to his critics and acknowledgeshis supporters; he gives way when it is necessary, but remains firm where he can take a stand.Anybody convinced that political thought is all about disguised power, or rhetoric, or ideology inthe bad sense of the word, should confront this book.”

—Simon Blackburn, Times Literary SupplementBelknap 2001; 2001 2 line illus. 240 pp.Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00511-2 Cloth $50.00 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-00510-4

Lectures on the History of Moral PhilosophyJOHN RAWLS

EDITED BY BARBARA HERMAN

“What names would we want to place next to Wittgenstein and Heidegger? No thinker, I believe,has a greater right to stand alongside them than John Rawls. Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, whichappeared in 1971, changed forever the landscape of moral and political philosophy. LikeWittgenstein and Heidegger, Rawls has shown a remarkable capacity for self-criticism. Like them,he has gone on to revise in significant ways the doctrines that first established his fame ... Thepublication of the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy is thus a major event, since here wefind the conception of modern ethics as a whole, the understanding of its characteristic themesand problems, that has inspired Rawls’s political thought.”

—Charles Larmore, New Republic2000 4 line illus. 414 pp.Paper $20.95 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00442-6 Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-00296-2

Collected PapersJOHN RAWLS

EDITED BY SAMUEL FREEMAN

“What a body of work this is, and what an accomplishment. Collected Papers affords an opportu-nity to step back and see [Rawls’s] work as a whole, as the elaboration of a single powerful andabiding idea ... This volume of Collected Papers stands as an inspiration to the next generation oftheorists.”

—Jeremy Waldron, London Review of Books

“The course of Rawls’s career can be followed clearly in the Collected Papers, whose twenty-sevenchapters span forty-eight years ... The writings of John Rawls, whom it is now safe to describe asthe most important political philosopher of the twentieth century ... owe their influence to the fact thattheir depth and their insight repay the close attention that their uncompromising theoretical weightand erudition demand.”

—Thomas Nagel, New Republic1999; 2001 1 table 672 pp. Paper $27.95 / £18.95 ISBN 0-674-00569-4

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Cities of WordsPedagogical Letters on aRegister of the Moral LifeSTANLEY CAVELL

Since Socrates and hiscircle first tried to framethe Just City in words,discussion of a perfectcommunal life—a life ofjustice, reflection, andmutual respect—has hadto come to terms with the

distance between that idea and reality. Measuring thisdistance step by practical step is the philosophicalproject that Stanley Cavell has pursued on hisexploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two ofhis longstanding interests—Emersonian philosophy andthe Hollywood comedy of remarriage—Cavell’s newwork marks a significant advance in this project. Thebook—which presents a course of lectures Cavellpresented several times toward the end of his teachingcareer at Harvard—links masterpieces of moral philoso-phy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a newway of looking at our lives and learning to live withourselves.

“What does it mean to live a moral life? In his typicallyprovocative fashion, Cavell answers this question by juxtapos-ing various philosophical responses with particular films thatilluminate those responses ... Cavell’s ‘letters’ offer a readyand heady departure from the usual conversation on morallife, and his inventive use of film helps bring the philosophershe discusses to life.”

—Henry I. Carrigan Jr., Library Journal

“In Cities of Words, a knotty and enlightening book, chaptersabout philosophers are paired with chapters about films:Emerson and The Philadelphia Story, Locke and Adam’s Rib,Nietzsche and Now, Voyager, Aristotle and The Awful Truth ...Cavell shows that the spirit of moral quest has an unusualpower, even in the restricted world of these films. For all theirartifice, they suggest that characters really can change them-selves, that they can form ideals of justice, while keeping inmind how much failure and imperfection will be met along theway. That’s not a bad democratic vision, and it remains aspotent now as it was when Katharine Hepburn rediscoveredher love for Cary Grant.”

—Edward Rothstein, New York TimesBelknap 2004 480 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01336-0

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Ethics withoutOntologyHILARY PUTNAM

In this brief book one ofthe most distinguishedliving American philoso-phers takes up the ques-tion of whether ethicaljudgments can properlybe considered objective—a question that has vexedphilosophers over the pastcentury. Reviewing whathe deems the disastrous consequences of ontology’sinfluence on analytic philosophy—in particular, thecontortions it imposes upon debates about the objectiveof ethical judgments—Hilary Putnam proposes aban-doning the very idea of ontology.

“Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished livingAmerican philosophers, a philosopher whose writings havedone much to shape the agenda of analytic philosophy overthe last forty years. Much of the interest of this book lies in theway that it illustrates, with unmistakable clarity, how severe acritic of mainstream analytic philosophy Putnam hasbecome.”

—Michael Williams, Professor of Philosophy,Johns Hopkins University

2004 1 table 176 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01310-7

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Ethical FormationSABINA LOVIBOND

Sabina Lovibond invites herreaders to see how the“practical reason view ofethics” can survive chal-lenges from within philoso-phy and from theantirationalist postmoderncritique of reason. At theheart of her argument is the

Aristotelian idea of the formation of character throughupbringing; these ancient ideas can be made contempo-rary if one understands them in a naturalized way.

“This is an intricate and stimulating book ... an argument thatis impressive in its coherence and subtlety, and in the insight-ful way it engages with issues that are right at the centre ofcontemporary philosophical debate.”

—John Cottingham, Times Literary Supplement2002; 2004 224 pp.Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01365-4 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00650-X

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Law’s Quandary STEVEN D. SMITH

This lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudentialthought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaisethat currently afflicts not only legal theory but law ingeneral. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabularyand methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontolog-ical commitments that were explicitly articulated bythinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and evenby Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of syncwith the world view that prevails today in academic andprofessional thinking. So our law-talk thus degeneratesinto “just words”—or a kind of nonsense.

“Ordinary people assume that legal terms like freedom ofspeech have some real or true meaning. Most important legaltheorists say there is no such thing. It is not unheard of for thesophisticated classes to reach conclusions at odds withcommon sense. But this creates a real problem for the stabil-ity of our legal system. Smith explores this quandary in a waythat is wonderfully clear, honest, and funny. This is the bestbook I have read in several years.”

—John H. Garvey, author of What Are Freedoms For?

“Smith’s treatment of the issues he addresses is outstanding.His discussion is consistently probing, thoughtful, and imagi-native. Smith’s range of reference is impressively broad—yetI never had the sense that he was trying to impress. Hisclarity—aided by his wonderfully engaging, and occasionallyhumorous, conversational style—is exemplary. But the envi-able clarity/accessibility of Smith’s writing should not obscurejust how penetrating—I am tempted to say, brilliant—hiscommentary is. It may sound faintly ridiculous to say this, butI thought that this book was a jurisprudential page turner.”

—Michael J. Perry, author of Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy

2004 222 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01533-9

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The Collapse of the Fact/ValueDichotomy and Other EssaysHILARY PUTNAM

“Putnam’s The Collapse ofthe Fact/Value Dichotomy isa tour de force by a greatphilosopher. In an era ofpseudo-scientific reduction-ism in what should be ‘thehuman sciences’, Putnam’sdistinction as a philosopherof science and mathematicslends weight to his eloquentdemolition of the dichotomybetween judgments of factand judgments of value thatplays such a baneful role ineconomics, public policy,

and the law, discouraging serious normative inquiry and argu-ment. Anyone tempted by Milton Friedman’s famous claim thatconcerning differences of value ‘men can ultimately only fight’should read this elegant and wonderful book.”

—Martha Nussbaum, The University of Chicago

“Hume’s and much 20th-century moral philosophy contrastedmoral with factual judgments and led people to conclude thatthe former, unlike the latter, are subjective in the sense of notbeing rationally supportable. Putnam ... believes that thecontrast is ill conceived and that the conclusion is both unwar-ranted and false. He acknowledges the usefulness of the fact/value distinction but denies that anything metaphysicalfollows from it ... Putnam covers such matters as imperativelogic, economics vis-à-vis ethics, and preference theory andsuch thinkers as V. Walsh, L. Robbins, and R. M. Hare. A finephilosophical workout.”

—Robert Hoffman, Library Journal2002; 2004 208 pp.Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01380-8 Cloth $37.50 / £24.95 ISBN 0-674-00905-3

Justice, Luck, and KnowledgeS. L. HURLEY

The recent past has seen striking advances in our understanding of both moral responsibility and distribu-tive justice. S. L. Hurley’s ambitious work brings these two areas of lively debate into overdue contact witheach other. Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches interms of responsibility; in this view, the aim of egalitarianism is to respect differences between positions forwhich people are responsible while neutralizing differences that are a matter of luck. But this approach,Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actu-ally play within distributive justice. Her book brings the new articulation of responsibility to bear in explain-ing these constraints.

“Luck-neutralization is a central concept in contemporary work on distributive justice, and thus moral responsibility isalso a central concept (insofar as luck is what one is not morally responsible for). It is therefore fruitful and illuminat-ing to apply important insights from responsibility theory to various theories of distrib-utive justice. The book is written in a lively style, Susan Hurley is remarkablywell-versed in the literature on free will and moral responsibility as well as distributivejustice, and the ideas are vibrant and provocative ... [A] path-breaking book.”

—John Martin Fischer, Professor of Philosophy, University of California Riverside

“Hurley’s arguments are highly original. This is an impressive and insightful book.”—Peter Vallentyne, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University2003 6 line illus. 524 pp.Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-01029-9

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The Emergenceof SexualityHistorical Epistemologyand the Formation ofConceptsARNOLD I. DAVIDSON

“No one of his generation hasbetter mastered Foucault’sarcheological and genealogi-cal work than Davidson. I donot mean in saying so that heis an expert on Foucault

(which he is) but rather that he has learned how best to do hisown work having seen what Foucault could do.”

—Ian Hacking, Common Knowledge

“In presenting his account of historical epistemology (tracingthe ways concepts are modified as conditions of objectivity andforms of subjectivity change each other), Arnold Davidson takesas a pivotal task the confrontation of Foucault’s writing (to thetotality of which Davidson is a world-renowned guide) with thatof Freud (on whose Three Essays on Sexuality he has producedground-breaking work), along the way showing the pertinenceto his project of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. Agrowing body of students and specialists in philosophy, andcultural studies, and the history of science, in particular ofpsychiatry, have been profiting from Arnold Davidson’s clarityand his stunning erudition for a couple of decades now. Thisinitial selection of his essays is an excellent introduction to hissingular array of scholarly and critical accomplishments.”

—Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University2002; 2004 17 halftones, 12 line illus. 272 pp.Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01370-0 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00459-0

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Four Cultures of the WestJOHN W. O’MALLEY

“In this erudite work ofcultural history, O’Malleyextends ‘an invitation toconsider and notice’ fourdistinctive paradigms orcultures that, taken together,handsomely help decodeWestern intellectual andcultural history. These four

paradigms are the prophetic, the academic, the humanistic,and the culture of art and performance ... O’Malley success-fully showcases the affinities between historic cultures (e.g.,the Greco-Roman) and persons (e.g., Aristotle, Aquinas, andLuther) and cultural realities in our own time (e.g., the contem-plative rhetoric of Lincoln at Gettysburg prefiguring the rhetor-ical contemplation at Ground Zero).”

—Sandra Collins, Library Journal

“O’Malley’s succinct analysis of the Four Cultures of the Westis one of those rare books that uses history to tell us as muchabout the intellectual conflicts of the present as it does aboutthose of the past. I predict his categorical analysis will bewidely cited and widely debated by commentators wellbeyond academic specialists.”

—Kenneth Woodward, contributing editor for Newsweekand author of Making Saints

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Lessons of the MastersGEORGE STEINER

“Steiner’s Lessons of the Masters sets forth the disturbing complexity ofthe relationship between teacher and pupil, master and disciple ... Someof the best writing in Steiner’s book is scorching characterisation—ofbad teachers, of the politically correct, and the hypocrites who woulddeny the erotic element in the teacher-pupil relationship.”

—Germaine Greer, The Times

“[Steiner] brings his formidable charisma, his unrivalled range of referenceand powers of rhetoric to bear on the peaks (as well as some troughs) ofpedagogy, in history and literature: Socrates and Alcibiades, the parables ofChrist, Faust, Virgil and Dante, Abelard and Eloise ... Like his hero Socrates,Steiner professes to have few answers, but his questions sweep you along.”

—Robin Blake, Financial Times

“George Steiner’s reflections on the electric relationship between teacher and student takes the reader ona high-speed rollercoaster ride to visit the greatest figures of Western civilization ... Where there is greatmastery, there is likewise great jealousy, treachery, threat, and fear. Steiner passionately throws out a wideand undaunted net of inquiry into this perennially prickly and powerful subject.”

—Patty Podhaisky, Bloomsbury ReviewThe Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 2003 208 pp. Cloth $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01207-0

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Ugly FeelingsSIANNE NGAI

Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions likeanger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which actionis blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affectsgive rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelingsbecome all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity. Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irri-tation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and aparadoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the polit-ically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seemmost at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from late-twentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television.Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock,Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai showshow art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in theaffirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening.Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological andrepresentational dilemmas in literature—with a particular focus on those inflected bygender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, femi-nist studies, and aesthetic theory.

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Between Kant and HegelLectures on German IdealismDIETER HENRICH

EDITED BY DAVID S. PACINI

“These are excellent lectures and make a valuable and exciting book. Henrich certainly gives abetter introduction to the philosophizing that took place between Kant and Hegel than any otherthat I know of. He wants to show that the positions of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel each represent anoption that is still open for live philosophical debate. Can there be a single-track systematicphilosophy encompassing nature as well as mind? Dieter Henrich shows how this develops intoa wide-ranging problem, allowing both for criticism of Kant and for constructive moves made afterthe criticisms are taken into account. He thus tries to show us argumentative steps by which onemight proceed from a Kantian position to a Fichtean and then on to an Hegelian view. Theselectures were given in 1973. Much has been done in English on Hegel since then, but relativelylittle on the ‘between’ period which Dieter Henrich addresses. This is not an ordinary textbook. It’svery much infused with Dieter Henrich’s own philosophical views. The topics and people DieterHenrich discusses he really illuminates, both in terms of the historical context and in terms of thesoundness or lack of it of the philosophy he is discussing. He is himself deeply inside that tradi-tion, yet knows enough about the work of those outside it to make quite comprehensible to theoutsiders what it’s like on the inside.”

—J. B. Schneewind, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University2003 1 chart 384 pp. Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-00773-5

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The Romantic ImperativeThe Concept of Early German RomanticismFREDERICK C. BEISER

The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part becausethey defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and the arts must be kept sepa-rate. Indeed, as the literary component of Romanticism has been studied and cele-brated in recent years, its philosophical aspect has receded from view. This book, by oneof the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers an explanation ofRomanticism that not only restores but also enhances understanding of the movement’sorigins, development, aims, and accomplishments—and of its continuing relevance.

“This is an excellent book. Its ten chapters are much more accessible and often clearer thanthe larger classic tomes on the subject. Each takes up a very significant topic and is sure to beread with profit by a wide range of readers—whether they are new to the field or already quitefamiliar with it. The book concerns an era, Early German Romanticism, that is properly becom-ing a major focus of new research. This volume could become one of the most helpful steps inmaking the area part of the canon for Anglophone scholars in all fields today. It is surely one ofthe best remedies for correcting out of date images of the work of the German romantics asregressive, obscurantist, or irrelevant. Early German Romanticism extends and modifies theproject of the Enlightenment. The author shows that it deserves our attention not only becauseit is an era represented by some of the most interesting and creative personalities in our culturalhistory, but also because its main line of thought is responsible for a way of thinking central toour own time, namely a naturalism that might be expansive enough to do justice to traditionalinterests in the unique value of human freedom.”—Karl Ameriks, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame2004 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01180-5

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Embodiment of a NationHuman Form in American PlacesCECELIA TICHI

From Harriet Beecher Stowe’s image of the Mississippi’s “bosom” to Henry DavidThoreau’s Cape Cod as “the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts,” the Americanenvironment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring suchinstances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and oftencontrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.

“In this fascinating analysis of American geographical and topographical imagery, Cecelia Tichidemonstrates the many ways in which our history, as well as our cultural values, are embedded

in our monuments and historical sites. Using interdisciplinary perspectives from literature, history, and visual and material culturalstudies,Tichi shows us how to read our national mythology in our continually shifting interpretation of our national sites and places.”

—Wendy Martin, author of An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich

“A brilliant analysis of how the landscape and physical environment of the United States have been transformed physically andimaginatively by creative, but often destructive, projections of national bodily identities onto the land. Tichi demonstrates howtechnologies combine with political motives, social impulses, and historical developments to infuse spaces and places withnational meanings, even bodily geo-identity. This is bold, original research.”

—Emory Elliott, General Editor of Columbia Literary History of the United States2001; 2004 38 halftones 320 pp.Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01361-1 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00494-9

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Friends of Interpretable ObjectsMIGUEL TAMEN

“In an exquisitely idiosyncratic book of enormous intellectual ambition crammed into a tiny space ... Tamen wants to redefineaesthetics ... In his scheme, the interpretable object (which might be what we recognize as an artwork, but does not need to be)exists by virtue of its ‘friends’—those people who gather round it and, so to speak, talk to it, as we might do with a statue orpainting. How do objects ‘talk back’ from within a museum or a church? Suavely Wittgensteinian and insatiably curious, Tamen’sarguments are hardly devalued by the lack of any earth-shattering conclusion.”

—Stephen Poole, The Guardian

“Because Tamen is willing to go out on various disciplinary and logical limbs, this is a book like no other. It will appeal to studentsof literature and the visual arts, it will be debated by the more humanistic of philosophers, and it will perform noble cross-overactivity between those disciplines and material from theories of law, science, and ecology. The book will work in this admirableway for those who are open-minded, inquisitive, and seducible by some lovely instances of intellectual wit.”

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Art MattersPETER DE BOLLA

“Art Matters is against intimidation. De Bolla’s ambition in this book is to show us just how gener-ous art objects are, given a chance; and just how difficult it has become to experience our expe-rience of them in the language available. There are stories to be told about the eloquence of beingmute, and de Bolla has used his own aesthetic experiences to tell them. Art Matters is writingabout art at its most telling. It is a remarkable book.”

—Adam Phillips, Principal Child Psychotherapist,Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London

“Peter de Bolla’s Art Matters is an extraordinary description of and argument for the uniquenessof the aesthetic experience. Despite the inherent difficulty and complexity of this enterprise (inwhich aspects of musical performance, lyric poetry, and contemporary painting are described withgreat attentiveness) de Bolla has produced a grippingly refined and persuasive text, utterly free ofsentimentality or cant, true, direct, original.”

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Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare ExperiencesPHILIP FISHER

“A short but ample book, in which Fisher ranges well beyond his home territory of literature intoscience, mathematics, philosophy, architecture, mythology, and modern art and whereShakespeare rubs shoulders with Frank Lloyd Wright, Nabokov with Aristotle, Newton with CyTwombly. Fisher takes wonder where he finds it, in the Chicago skyline, Miranda’s exclamations inThe Tempest or Descartes’s explanation of the rainbow. Experiences of wonder may be by defini-tion rare, but for Fisher they are dispersed all over the map of knowledge ... This is a learned, culti-vated work.”

—Lorraine Daston, London Review of Books

“Like Kant, Fisher wants to sketch out ‘the lively border’ between aesthetics and intelligibility, andhe is to be applauded for pursuing this border in and of itself, without reducing aesthetic experi-ence to ideology, sociology, or identity politics, as the greater part of university literary criticism hastended to do over the past decade. Unlike Kant, Fisher employs an eclectic discursive method,passing with admirable erudition from Descartes’s account of the rainbow to Plato’s geometricalproblem of how to double the area of a square to an analysis of two abstract canvases by CyTwombly.”

—Adam Bresnick, Times Literary Supplement1999; 2003 16 color illus., 1 halftone, 16 line illus. 208 pp.Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-95562-5 Cloth $40.00 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-95561-7

The Secret Life of PuppetsVICTORIA NELSON

10th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Sponsored by theModern Language Association of America

“Translating ancient thought systems into contemporary terms, finding equivalents of the old in thenew, Nelson skillfully manages to thrust the sphere of academic research headlong into popularculture, making this both accessible and erudite ... In a dizzying journey that opens with aRenaissance grotto and concludes with The Truman Show and virtual reality, we are taken on arollercoaster ride through the underside of western mysticism. As Nelson herself warns the reader,when crawling out from the ‘hole of this book,’ whatever emerges ‘will not be the same as whatwent in.’”

—Aura Satz, Financial Times

“This is New Age prophecy at its most verbally sexy and literarily savvy. It is fun, enticing, andchock full of brilliance.”

—Laura Bass, Washington Times

“Explores the hauntings, possessions, and other uncanny phenomena proliferating in literature andentertainment … she argues strongly, in vivid and original readings … for a new approach to theuses of fantasy and to the relationship between material and immaterial phenomena.”

—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement

“A wonderful, unlikely, necessary book which links high and low and pop culture, the sacred andthe profane, into a magnificent webwork of pattern and gnosis—it is erudite, irreverent, andprofound. Just read it.”

—Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Sandman2002; 2003 15 halftones 368 pp.Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-01244-5 Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-00630-5

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J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of WordsELI FRIEDLANDER

Eli Friedlander reads Rousseau’s autobiography, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, asphilosophy. Reading this work against Descartes’s Meditations, Friedlander showshow Rousseau’s memorable transformation of experience through writing opens upthe possibility of affirming even the most dejected state of being and allows the emer-gence of the innocence of nature out of the ruins of all social attachments. In tracingthe re-creation of a human subject in reverie, Friedlander is alive to the very form ofthe experience of reading the Reveries by showing the ways this work needs to—andin effect does—generate a reader, without betraying Rousseau’s utter solitude.Friedlander’s book provides an afterlife for the Reveries in modern philosophy. Itconstitutes an alternative to the analytic tradition’s revival of Rousseau, primarilythrough Rawls’s influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the fate ofRousseau’s writings in the continental tradition, determined by and large byDerrida’s deconstruction. Friedlander’s reading of the Reveries, a work that hasfascinated generations of readers, is an incomparable introduction to one of thegreatest thinkers in Western culture.

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The World Republic of LettersPASCALE CASANOVA

TRANSLATED BY M. B. DEBEVOISE

The “world of letters” has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, PascaleCasanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements—a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, andin which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance.Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary“melting pot,” Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world ofletters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible butimplacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings ofFernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the firstsystematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing ofliterature worldwide.

“This is a marvelous study of the international networks and ethnic forcefields out of which amodern world literature has emerged. In drawing a map of the literary globe, PascaleCasanova shows just how different it is from any political map ever framed. Unlike many previ-ous comparativists, she shows just how many of the texts of literary modernism have beencontributed by peoples without financial or political power. This is a brave, audacious and lumi-nous analysis, and a bracing challenge to those who still believe in the nation as an explana-

tory category. This book will provoke debate for years to come.”—Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland and Irish Classics

“As a researcher, Pascale Casanova specializes in the exception. Along with a literary knowledge that is exceptional in itsbreadth and depth, she possesses a theoretical knowledge that is truly vast and wielded with great authority. In pursuing thisimmense topic—the universe of relations that constitute the ‘World Republic of Letters’—she has set herself a daunting chal-lenge: that of constructing, and empirically verifying, a theoretical model for the ‘fabric of the universal.’”

—Pierre Bourdieu, author of Distinction and Language and Symbolic PowerConvergences: Inventories of the Present 2005 440 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £22.95 ISBN 0-674-01345-X

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Keywords andConcepts inEvolutionaryDevelopmental BiologyEDITED BY BRIAN K. HALL ANDWENDY M. OLSON

The new field of evolutionarydevelopmental biology is one ofthe most exciting areas of contem-porary biology. The fundamentalprinciple of evolutionary develop-mental biology (“evo-devo”) is thatevolution acts through inheritedchanges in the development of theorganism. “Evo-devo” is not merely a fusion of the fieldsof developmental and evolutionary biology, the graftingof a developmental perspective onto evolutionarybiology, or the incorporation of an evolutionaryperspective into developmental biology. Evo-devostrives for a unification of genomic, developmental,organismal, population, and natural selectionapproaches to evolutionary change. It draws from devel-opment, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecu-lar and systematic biology, but has its own set ofquestions, approaches, and methods. Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary DevelopmentalBiology is the first comprehensive reference work for thisexpanding field. Covering more than fifty central termsand concepts in entries written by leading experts,Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced bythis new subdiscipline of biology, providing the coreinsights and ideas that show how embryonic develop-ment relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, andresponses to and integration with environmental factors.

“With the recent explosion of interest in evolutionary develop-mental biology, fueled by advances in molecular analysis, thiswork arrives at an extremely important time ... Chapters arethoughtfully written by an extraordinarily wide range of scientistsfrom nearly every perspective of evolution and development.”

—K. Crawford, ChoiceHarvard University Press Reference Library 2003 25 line illus., 7 tables 496 pagesCloth $59.95 / £38.95 ISBN 0-674-00904-5

Doubling the PointEssays and InterviewsJ. M. COETZEE

2003 Recipient of the Nobel Prize

EDITED BY DAVID ATTWELL

These essays and interviews, documentingCoetzee’s longtime en- gagement with his ownculture, and with modern culture in general,constitute a literary autobiography of strikingintellectual, moral, and political force.

“The interviews are serious colloquies, and they illumi-nate the texts they discuss, but above all they give astrong impression of the author on his own view of

what he is trying to do. One is left with an impression of adeeply informed mind. Coetzee is a writer of internationalstature, far above mere regional interest, and we can hardlyhelp being interested in his being an Afrikaans-speaking SouthAfrican. This is a book of distinction.”

—Frank Kermode1992 7 line illus. 448 pp.Paper $21.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-21518-4

KafkaKLAUS WAGENBACH

In Kafka’s writing, AlbertCamus tells us, we travel“to the limits of humanthought.” And in thisbook, the world’s leadingKafka authority conductsus to the deepest reachesof Kafka’s own troubledpsyche, to reveal the innerworkings of the man whogave his name to a centralfacet of modern experi-ence, the Kafkaesque.Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biog-raphy of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recentinformation to produce a concise but finely nuancedportrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quin-tessential figure of modernity.

2003 16 color illus., 31 duotones, 10 line drawings, 1 map 192 pp.Cloth $21.50 / COBEEI ISBN 0-674-01138-4

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A New History of German LiteratureDAVID E. WELLBERY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

JUDITH RYAN, GENERAL EDITOR

HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT, ANTON KAES, JOSEPH LEO KOERNER,DOROTHEA E. VON MÜCKE, EDITORS

“The essays making up this new history of the literary and philosophical culture of the peopleof the German lands (and of Germans abroad) are of an unfailingly high standard. Many arenoteworthy contributions to scholarship and criticism. The ingenious plan of the book permits avariety of style and approach, while strong editing has resulted in exemplary clarity and pithi-ness of expression. Well conceived, eclectic, lively, and informative, this New History gives us amodel overview of what German literature and thought looks like from the twenty-first century.”—J. M. Coetzee, author of Elizabeth Costello and Doubling the Point

“An enticing and authoritative review of German literature from its most splendid high points to a most horrible nadir and itsaftermath. This book well documents how—in a remarkable post-war process of moral regeneration—German literaturestruggles to come to terms with what happened.”

—Amos Elon, author of The Pity of It All

“Harvard’s New History of German Literature is an encyclopedic browser of incomparable quality for Germanophiles andGermanophobes alike. In a series of brief, penetrating essays, it retells thirteen centuries of German history through a broadspectrum of literature by both obscure and famous authors. For modern readers ready to tackle the riddle of modern Germanywith real hope of solving it, here is the guide.”

—Steven Ozment, author of A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People and The Bürgermeister’s DaughterBelknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library2005 12 halftones, 4 maps 1032 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01503-7

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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913–1926WALTER BENJAMIN

EDITED BY MARCUS BULLOCK AND MICHAEL W. JENNINGS

This first volume shows that even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishingintellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama,philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and muchmore. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or children’s booksas he is when dealing with weightier issues such as symbolic logic or epistemology.

“To encounter Benjamin’s piece [‘The Life of Students’] is like overhearing the opening notesof one of the most intellectually compelling friendships of our century. It is greatly to the creditof Harvard University Press to have made the text finally available to English-speaking readers.In general, the editors of this volume have made an exemplary choice of what to include, andwhen their projected multi-volume selection is complete, it will constitute the most importantcompilation of Benjamin’s writings outside the mammoth German Collected Works.”—Michael André Bernstein, New Republic

“Benjamin has gradually emerged as a major presence in 20th-century letters. This reputation rests on his extraordinary andhighly idiosyncratic gift for original and far-reaching insights. It was his ambition to become Germany’s leading literary critic, astatus that many no doubt would be inclined to award him posthumously ... Benjamin is sometimes misunderstood, since onlycertain parts of his overall output have come into view here. The 65 pieces collected in this excellent first volume of the newHarvard Benjamin should help clarify the larger picture as well as deepen and enliven the discussion.”

—Steve Dowden, Washington TimesBelknap 1996; 2004 7 halftones 520 pp.Paper $18.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01355-7 Cloth $47.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-94585-9

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Volume 2, 1927–1934Belknap 22 halftones, 3 line illus. 880 pp. Cloth $46.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-94586-7

The paperback version of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings,Volume 2 will be available in Spring 2005; it will be broken intotwo parts.

Volume 3, 1935–1938Belknap 2002 12 halftones 480 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-00896-0

Volume 4, 1938–1940Belknap 2003 4 halftones 512 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01076-0

The Arcades ProjectWALTER BENJAMIN

“We will be feasting on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project foryears to come...By any standard, the appearance of this long-awaited work is a towering literary event...The ArcadesProject surpasses its legend. It captures the relationshipbetween a writer and a city in a form as richly developed asthose presented in the great cosmopolitan novels of Proust,Joyce, Musil and Isherwood.”

—Herbert Muschamp, New York Times

“Quite simply, the Passagen-Werk is one of the twentiethcentury’s great efforts at historical comprehension—somewould say the greatest.”

—T. J. ClarkBelknap 2002; 1999 42 halftones 1088 pp.Paper $23.95 / £15.95 ISBN 0-674-00802-2 Cloth $47.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-04326-X

The Complete Correspondence,1928–1940THEODOR W. ADORNO AND WALTER BENJAMIN

EDITED BY HENRI LONITZ

TRANSLATED BY NICHOLAS WALKER

“To reconsider the relationship between Theodor Adorno andWalter Benjamin is to reflect on one of the most enduringphilosophical friendships of the twentieth century.”

—Richard Wolin, New Republic

“The extensive correspondence between Adorno andBenjamin—now happily available in English—reveals thecomplexities of their tortured philosophical friendship.”

—James Miller, New York Times Book Review1999; 2001 400 pp.Paper $19.95 / COBE ISBN 0-674-00689-5 Cloth $47.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-15427-4

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Naturalism in QuestionEDITED BY MARIO DE CARO AND DAVID MACARTHUR

“Naturalism in Question is undertaking an important task—to address the prevalence of scientificnaturalism as the paradigm of serious philosophical work in contemporary Anglo-American philos-ophy. The fact that such eminent philosophers as Davidson, Cavell, McDowell, Stroud, and Putnamare brought together around a common issue is itself an attractive feature. It provides a certainlandscape of contemporary American Philosophy that is most important to bring into view. It showsthat despite all their obvious differences, such philosophers can be seen as sharing a similarconcern to revive a form of philosophy that does not model its rigor on problematic pictures ofscientific work.”

—Eli Friedlander, author of Signs of Sense: A Reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

“The book’s concern with how to position philosophy with respect to science and nature isabsolutely central to contemporary philosophical discussion. The contributors are distinguishedand talented philosophers, and their articles in this volume will sustain and reinforce their reputa-tion for philosophical clarity and insight. The more expansive naturalisms they advocate are impor-tant, constructive, and often provocative responses to a growing recognition of the inadequaciesof naturalist orthodoxy. The book thereby promises to be at the center of a renewed discussion ofnaturalism, which will likely push the entire field in new directions.”

—Joseph Rouse, author of How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism

2004 350 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-01295-X

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Politics of NatureHow to Bring the Sciences into DemocracyBRUNO LATOUR

TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE PORTER

This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting theterms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus farenvisioned. Bruno Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature andsociety—and the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating humans andnonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced.

“This is much more than a reworking of politics. It is a sketch of a resolution of the perennial ques-tions of what we know and what exists ... Latour ... can be infuriating. But he is never boring.Politics of Nature must be difficult because it challenges assumptions that are built into ourlanguages, such as the hallowed distinction between ‘facts’ and ‘values’ ... It is worth reading—twice.”

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Historical OntologyIAN HACKING

“[Hacking] focuses on the interactions between what there is (or comes to be) and our conceptsthereof. The kinds of objects he considers, both of which heregards as historical, are Aristotelian universals and theirinstances. He emphasizes that not only do ordinary physicalobjects and people and their institutions begin, develop, and end,but so do concepts, e.g., those language, knowledge, a child,(psychic) trauma, and scientific reasoning ... Stimulating, incisive,and clear even in expounding theories of unclear writers.”—Robert Hoffman, Library Journal2002; 2004 288 pp.Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-01607-6 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00616-X

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Darwin and DesignDoes Evolution Have a Purpose?MICHAEL RUSE

“This has to be the best of Ruse’s many books,and it is hard to imagine how a better one couldbe written on this subject. With an understand-ing erudition spiced with good-natured wit andoccasional sly ribaldry, Ruse moves easily andassuredly among biology, philosophy, history,and theology.”

—Robert T. Pennock, Science

“Michael Ruse’s latest book, Darwin and Design,is an intellectual history of the design argument and its Darwiniansolution ... His story is a fascinating one, enlivened especially byhis accounts of various imaginative attempts before Darwin tosolve the design problem without recourse to a deity.”

—Daniel W. McShea, American Scientist2003; 2004 12 halftones, 5 line illus. 384 pp.Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01631-9 Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01023-X

Bigger than ChaosUnderstanding Complexity through ProbabilityMICHAEL STREVENS

“This book is a model of clarity, at both the ‘macro’ and the‘micro’ levels; the expository style is entertaining withoutbeing distracting; the presentation of technical material showsthe deft touch of someone who has mastery of it without theinclination to overindulge in it.”

—Ned Hall, M.I.T.

“This impressive book tackles an important question: how cansystems of many interacting parts, which thus display low-level complexity, give rise to high-level simplicity? Saidanother way: how can very complicated and seemingly capri-cious micro-behavior generate stable, predictable macro-behavior? Complex systems of the sort Strevens deals withare all around us. Thermodynamics and ecology are just thebeginning. He makes real progress on a genuinely difficulttopic, one that is of central interest to science and to thephilosophy of science. He also has a seemingly effortlesscommand of his materials and a sure grip on the conceptualissues. The work is technically sophisticated—he knows hismathematics, probability theory and physics—and elegantlywritten. This is what good philosophy is all about.”

—Alan Hajek, California Institute of Technology2003 39 line illus. 432 pp. Cloth $59.95 / £38.95 ISBN 0-674-01042-6

InvariancesThe Structure of the Objective WorldROBERT NOZICK

“Robert Nozick’s intellectual energy is a thing ofwonder. In Invariances he ranges copiously overrelativity theory and quantum theory, cosmology,modal logic, topology, evolutionary biology,neuroscience, cognitive psychology, decisiontheory, economics, and even Soviet history—notto mention his strictly philosophical forays intothe nature of truth, objectivity, necessity,consciousness, and ethics.”

—Colin McGinn, New York Review of BooksBelknap 2001; 2003 432 pp.Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01245-3 Cloth $35.00 / £22.95 ISBN 0-674-00631-3

Making Sense of LifeExplaining Biological Development withModels, Metaphors, and MachinesEVELYN FOX KELLER

A history of the diverse and changingnature of biological explanation in aparticularly charged field, Making Senseof Life draws our attention to the tempo-ral, disciplinary, and cultural compo-nents of what biologists mean, and whatthey understand, when they propose toexplain life.

“Making Sense of Life is about the impor-tance of recognizing [the] tight connection

between the use of language in the social domain and how itproduces biological ‘understanding’ ... The central argumentsof Making Sense of Life are made with grace and authority.Those who are unsettled by them, and who wish to take issuewith Keller, could not ask for a more accomplished andeloquent adversary.”

—Lisa Jardine, New Scientist2002; 2003 5 halftones, 4 line illus. 400 pp.Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-01250-X Cloth $29.95 / £19.95ISBN 0-674-00746-8

Time and ChanceDAVID Z ALBERT

This book is an attemptto get to the bottom of anacute and perennialtension between our bestscientific pictures of thefundamental physicalstructure of the world andour everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble isabout the direction of time. The situation is that it is aconsequence of almost every one of those fundamentalscientific pictures—and that it is at the same time radi-cally at odds with our common sense—that whatevercan happen can just as naturally happen backwards.

“Albert is perfecting a style of foundational analysis that isuniquely his own ... It has a surgical precision ... and it is ruth-less with pretensions. The foundations of thermodynamics isa topic that has accumulated a good deal of dead wood; thisis a fire that will burn and burn.”

—Simon W. Saunders, Oxford University2001; 2003 29 line illus. 192 pp.Paper $18.95 / £12.95 OIP ISBN 0-674-01132-5

Facing UpScience and Its Cultural AdversariesSTEVEN WEINBERG

“[Facing Up is] lucidly written as ever, witha gentle humor that does not hide[Weinberg’s] strong convictions on science,philosophy and religion. I unreservedlyrecommend it, not only to scientists but toall who share his beliefs in the contributionthat science has made, and will continue tomake, to the way we see ourselves and ourworld.”—Brian Pippard, Times LiterarySupplement2001; 2003 1 halftone 306 pp.Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01120-1 Cloth $26.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00647-X

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QuintessenceBasic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. QuineW. V. QUINE

EDITED BY ROGER F. GIBSON, JR.

Quintessence for the first time collects Quine’s classic essays in one volume, offering a much-needed introduction tohis general philosophy. The selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation oftheoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind;and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciationof the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materiallyadvanced.

“Specialists ... will be grateful for this well-modulated selection of Quine’s most important essays and articles, which reflect histhinking up to the end of his life.”

—Leon H. Brody, Library JournalBelknap 2004 448 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01048-5

Saving the DifferencesEssays on Themes from Truth and ObjectivityCRISPIN WRIGHT

Crispin Wright’s Truth and Objectivity brought about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debatesconcerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposalsput forward in that landmark work. The collection includes the Gareth Evans memorial lecture in which theprogram of Truth and Objectivity was first announced, as well as all of Wright’s published reactions to the extensivecommentary his study provoked; it presents substantial new developments and applications of the pluralisticoutlook on the realism debates proposed in Truth and Objectivity, and further pursues its distinctive minimalistconceptions of truth and of truth-aptitude.

“[A] thorough and subtle examination of [the] multiple criteria of realism.”—Paul Horwich, Times Literary Supplement

“Truth and Objectivity is a strikingly resourceful and serious book, imbued with respect for the difficulty of philosophical prob-lems and a readiness to probe them with all the conceptual instruments of contemporary analytic philosophy.”

—Timothy Williamson, International Journal of Philosophical Studies

“A milestone in the discussion of realism.”—Jim Edwards, Mind2003 560 pp. Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-01077-9

Return to ReasonSTEPHEN TOULMIN

“There is now a ‘loss of confidence’ ... in our traditional ideas about rationality, according toToulmin. Especially among those in the humanities, he argues, the claims of rationality havebeen progressively challenged over the last 20 or 30 years, to the point of being sidelined. Thisis a common complaint and not exactly news, but Toulmin does not merely bemoan and rant,as many others have done. He offers a diagnosis and a solution. Rationality has come underthreat, he believes, because of the undue influence of classical mechanics and abstract math-ematical methods on our idea of what intelligent problem-solving should be. Deduction in thestyle of Euclid’s geometry, mechanically predictable and rigorous law in the style of Galileo andNewton, indubitable certainty in the style of Descartes’ ‘I think, therefore I am’ all exert a maligninfluence, insofar as they overshadow a looser, more pragmatic and less abstract concept of‘reasonableness.’ What we need is more open-minded, informal reasonableness and less inap-

propriately mathematical rationality. Only then, Toulmin argues, can the idea of reason regain its rightful good name.”—Anthony Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times2001; 2003 256 pp.Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01235-6 Cloth $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00495-7

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Feeling in TheoryEmotion after the “Death of the Subject”REI TERADA

This revolutionary work transforms the interdiscipli-nary debate on emotion by suggesting a positive relationbetween the “death of the subject” and the very exis-tence of emotion. Reading the writings of Derrida andde Man, Rei Terada finds grounds for construingemotion as nonsubjective.

“What starts from a shrewd review of contemporary polemicsgoes on to take the shape of a theory of emotion of Terada’s

own, drawn from her analytical reading of post-structuralistwriting and of earlier and present-day philosophies ofemotion. With Feeling in Theory Terada has produced some-thing excellent and major, both a contribution to post-struc-turalist theory and its interpretation, and a placing of it in awider surround.”

—Cynthia Chase, author of Decomposing Figures2001; 2003 222 pp.Paper $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01127-9 Cloth $47.00 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-00493-0

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The Sabbatean ProphetsMATT GOLDISH

The story of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainlybeen explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. MattGoldish shifts the focus of Sabbatean studies from thetheology of Lurianic Kabbalah to the widespread seven-teenth-century belief in latter-day prophecy. By placingSabbateanism in a broad cultural context, Goldish inte-grates this Jewish messianic movement into the earlymodern world, making its story accessible to scholarsand students alike.

2004 240 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01291-7

German IdealismThe Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801FREDERICK C. BEISER

“[A] magnificent ... book ... That Beiser manages to keep thereader afloat as he steers through such deep and turbulentwaters deserves the highest praise. Expository writing ofunfailing lucidity is supported by reference to an unrivalledrange of sources ... I learned something from this book onalmost every page ... For anyone at all seriously interested inthe topic this is now the place to start.”

—Michael Rosen, Times Literary Supplement2002 752 pp. Cloth $65.00 / £41.95 ISBN 0-674-00769-7

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Labored in Papyrus LeavesPerspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed toPosidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)EDITED BY BENJAMIN ACOSTA-HUGHES,ELIZABETH KOSMETATOU, AND MANUEL BAUMBACH

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenisticepigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E.poet Posidippus, one of the most significant

literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collec-tion are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives:papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical,literary, and aesthetic.

Hellenic Studies #2 2004 250 pp. Paper $25.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-01105-8

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Inventing SuperstitionFrom the Hippocratics to the ChristiansDALE B. MARTIN

Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its historyover eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of thefourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of philosophers, histo-rians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition wasinvented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs,especially the belief that gods or other superhuman beings would harm people orcause disease. Tracing the social, political, and cultural influences that informed clas-sical thinking about piety and superstition, nature and the divine, InventingSuperstition exposes the manipulation of the label of superstition in argumentsbetween Greek and Roman intellectuals on the one hand and Christians on the other, and the purposeful alterationof the idea by Neoplatonic philosophers and Christian apologists in late antiquity.

“Martin calls upon the teachings of thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, Plotinus, and Porphyry as he defines natureand the divine, monotheism and polytheism, and earlier definitions of superstition. The book’s peak is a wonderful discussion ofCelsus’s attacks on Christianity as impious and Origen’s successful Christian response in Contra Celsum. The perfect mindopener for readers desiring a better understanding of the religious climate of antiquity.”

—Gary P. Gillum, Library Journal2004 320 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01534-7

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MoraliaVolume XVI. IndexPLUTARCH

Plutarch’s “Moralia,” Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of informationconcerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. But access to the riches of this collectionof over seventy essays has long been hindered by lack of any comprehensive index. This problem has at last beensolved: the Loeb Classical Library’s edition of the Moralia is now brought to completion with an analytical Indexvolume.Renowned as a biographer because of his “Parallel Lives,” Plutarch (born about 50 C.E.) was also a teacher of philos-ophy in Rome, a priest at Delphi, and an engaging essayist with a warm, urbane, and judicious style. Whether advis-ing about marriage and education, discussing prophecy, divine providence, and life after death, setting forth rulesfor politicians, or commenting on personal virtues and vices, his Moral Essays reveal not just Plutarch’s thinkingbut also the world in which he lived. Edward O’Neil’s thorough index provides an invaluable roadmap for track-ing the wealth of information and wisdom to be found in them.

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What Is Ancient Philosophy?PIERRE HADOT

TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL CHASE

“Pierre Hadot deserves to be better known to English-language readers—and not just becausehe was a favorite of Michel Foucault’s and is the man largely responsible for introducingWittgenstein to the French. Hadot is a historian of ancient philosophy, a professor emeritus atthe prestigious Collège de France. But it is more accurate to say that he is a philosopher whomakes use of the ancients for his own ideas ... In What is Ancient Philosophy? Hadot brings allhis concerns together in a small volume of extraordinary erudition and surprising ... clarityof prose ... It is the summa of a distinguished career.”—Barry Gewen, New York Times Book ReviewBelknap 2002; 2004 382 pp.Paper $15.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01373-5 Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-00733-6

The Inner CitadelThe Meditations of Marcus AureliusPIERRE HADOT

Translated by Michael Chase

“Plato used to talk of philosopher-kings; Marcus Aurelius was something even better: He was a philosopher-emperor. Theleader of the Roman Empire spent most of his life in troubling times, campaigning against the barbarians, dealing withconspiracy at home, even combatting an upstart cult that revered one of those Galilean wonder-workers. Yet the mostpowerful man in the world still managed to live the life of a Stoic, and to record his reflections on how we should live. Thosemeditations, as these inner pep talks are usually called, became one of the best-loved books of antiquity ... This study—bya leading authority on Marcus—provides background matter and analysis of the main themes in the Meditations, as well asfresh translations of many of the sayings.

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Acosta-Hughes, Labored in Papyrus..., 24

Adorno/Benjamin, Complete..., 20

Alanen, Descartes’s Concept of Mind, 4

Albert, Time and Chance, 22

Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty, 11

Avery/et al., Early Admissions Game, 26

Beiser, German Idealism, 24

Beiser, Romantic Imperative, 16

Benjamin, Arcades Project, 20

Benjamin, Selected Writings, 20

Bourbon, Finding a Replacement..., 3

Brandom, Articulating Reasons, 6

Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead, 5

Camp, Confusion, 4

Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 18

Cavell, Cities of Words, 12

Chait, Questions of Tenure, 26

Chowers, Modern Self in the Labyrinth, 7

Coetzee, Doubling the Point, 19

Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian..., 9

Davidson, Emergence of Sexuality, 14

de Bolla, Art Matters, 17

De Caro/Macarthur, Naturalism..., 21

Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, 9

Finkelstein, Expression and the Inner, 5

Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow..., 17

Fleischacker, A Short History..., 7

Friedlander, J. J. Rousseau..., 18

Gibbard, Thinking How to Live, 5

Goldish, Sabbatean Prophets, 24

Hacking, Historical Ontology, 21

Hadot, Inner Citadel,

Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy?, 25

Hall/et al., Keywords and Concepts..., 19

Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel, 15

Hornsby, Simple Mindedness, 5

Hurley, Consciousness in Action, 6

Hurley, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, 13

Keller, Making Sense of Life, 22

Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein..., 26

Krause, Liberalism with Honor, 10

Latour, Politics of Nature, 21

Lear, Happiness, Death..., 6

Libet, Mind Time, 3

Light, Making the Most of College, 26

Lovibond, Ethical Formation, 4

MacGilvray, Reconstructing Public Reason, 7

Margalit, Ethics of Memory, 4

Martin, Inventing Superstition, 25

McGinn, Mindsight, 3

McSherry, Who Owns Academic..., 26

Muirhead, Just Work, 8

Nelson, Secret Life of Puppets, 17

Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel’s..., 8

Ngai, Ugly Feelings, 15

Nozick, Invariances, 22

O’Malley, Four Cultures of the West, 14

Plutarch, Moralia, 25

Putnam, Collapse of the Fact/Value..., 13

Putnam, Ethics without Ontology, 12

Quine, Quintessence, 23

Rawls, Collected Papers, 10

Rawls, Justice as Fairness, 11

Rawls, Law of Peoples, 10

Rawls, Lectures on the History..., 11

Rawls, Theory of Justice, 10

Rozemond, Descartes’s Dualism, 4

Ruse, Darwin and Design, 22

Sen, Rationality and Freedom, 8

Smith, Law’s Quandary, 13

Steiner, Lessons of the Masters, 14

Strevens, Bigger than Chaos, 22

Sunstein, Why Societies Need..., 8

Tamen, Friends of Interpretable..., 16

Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today, 9

Terada, Feeling in Theory, 24

Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation, 16

Toulmin, Return to Reason, 23

Wagenbach, Kafka, 19

Wark, Hacker Manifesto, 2

Weinberg, Facing Up, 22

Wellbery, New History..., 18

Wright, Saving the Differences, 23

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