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Contents Social & Political Philosophy �� 3 General Interest �� 3 Ethics & Moral Philosophy �� 5 Philosophy of Language & Education �� 5 Philosophy of Science & Mathematics �� 6 Analytic Philosophy �� 6 Ecology �� 6 Art & Aesthetics �� 7

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The Authoritarianism of Everyday Life Marcia Tiburi, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France Now available in English for the first time, Marcia Tiburi’s prescient work speaks to our present moment. Drawing on her own first-hand brutal encounters, Tiburi connects ways of thinking in Brazil to what is happening around us today and introduces us to the fascist as manipulator, the distorter of other people's speech, and activist of evil on a daily basis. This powerful book forces us to consider our actions at a subjective level and changes our way of thinking through issues of hate and divisiveness pervading politics everywhere. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages PB 9781350165373 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350165366 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350165397 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350165380 • £13.49 / $17.24 Bloomsbury Academic World English

The War Against Marxism Reification and Revolution

Tony McKenna, Independent Scholar, UK

Sex and the Failed Absolute

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK; New York University, USA; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia "A penetrating new study that redeﬁnes a term that most would be wary of returning to: dialectical materialism. What the feeling of déjà vu in reading Sex and the Failed Absolute does come from is the re-experiencing of the excitement that characterised reading his ﬁrst book back in 1989." Scottish Left Review In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Žižek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 496 pages PB 9781350202412 • £12.99 / $17.95 Previously published in HB 9781350043787 ePub 9781350043794 • £20.69 / $25.86 ePdf 9781350043770 • £20.69 / $25.86 Bloomsbury Academic

Capitalism and the Limits of Desire

John Roberts, University of Wolverhampton, UK

In the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of Marxism has often been distorted and overridden by various Stalinist dictatorships which claimed to be acting in its name. A similar undermining of freedom of thought has been accomplished at an intellectual level. Tony McKenna traces the war against Marxism which, paradoxically, has been conducted in the name of Marxism itself. As such he provides a fiery philosophical and polemical indictment of so-called ‘Marxists’ such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Althusser, Jameson, Eagleton, Mouffe, Laclau and Zizek and asks what can be done to stem this counterrevolution.

With ongoing austerity and misery for so many why does capitalism seem to be so insurmountable? John Roberts offers a scandalous and intriguing response: it is because we love capitalism more than we love ourselves. Roberts contends that disentangling ourselves from this collapsing of self into capitalism is possible, that understanding the insidious nature of capitalist thinking even when it comes to our deepest desires is the starting point. Using Marx, Lacan and Spinoza as his guides, Roberts lays out a way for individuals to move forward and forge a sense of self outside the oppressive demands of platform capitalism.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages PB 9781350201415 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350201408 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350201439 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350201422 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Academic

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages PB 9781350214958 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350214941 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350214972 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350214965 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Academic

The Future is Feminine

Philosophy as a Way of Life

Ciara Cremin, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Michael Ure, Monash University, Australia & Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University, Australia

Capitalism and the Masculine Disorder

P H I L O S O P H Y – Social & Political Philosophy / General Interest

How to Talk to a Fascist

From Antiquity to Modernity

"Gender, haven’t we had enough of the old clichés? But in these pages Ciara Cremin makes a compelling and eloquent case for the necessity of all that is signiﬁed by the ‘feminine’. It is those practices anchored in ‘masculinity’, whoever performs them, with their repudiation of the ‘feminine’, which secure the depredations of our capitalist world. This is crucial reading for all in search of that transformed world we all need, if we are to have any viable future at all." Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor, Emeritus, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us us through the history of the idea from Plato and the Buddha to Foucault, Hadot and Zizek. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended and practiced to transform their philosophy into manners of living and acting. Philosophy as a Way of Life also examines the recent resurgence of thinking about philosophy as a practical, lived reality and why this ancient tradition still has so much relevance and power in the contemporary world.

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 240 pages PB 9781350149762 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350149779 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350149793 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350149786 • £19.79 / $24.63 Bloomsbury Academic

UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 416 pages PB 9781350102149 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350102156 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781350102163 • £20.69 / $25.86 ePdf 9781350102132 • £20.69 / $25.86 Bloomsbury Academic

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P H I L O S O P H Y – Social & Political Philosophy

Political Philosophy in a Pandemic

Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion

Edited by Fay Niker, University of Stirling, UK & Aveek Bhattacharya, Social Market Foundation, UK

Edited by Kiyoshi Shimokawa, Gakushuin University, Japan & Peter R. Anstey, University of Sydney, Australia

Government lockdowns, school closures, mass unemployment, health and wealth inequality rising exponentially. Political Philosophy in a Pandemic asks us, where do we go from here? What are the ethics of our response to a radically changed, even more unequal society, and how do we seize the moment for enduring change? Addressing the political, moral and philosophical foundations of pandemic response from states and societies worldwide, the 20 essays collected here cover the most pressing debates relating to the biggest public health crisis in the last century.

In the first collection on Locke's theoretical, political and religious thought written exclusively by Japanese scholars, three important areas of Locke’s philosophical thought - knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration are covered. Each chapter criticizes established interpretations and replaces them with novel alternatives. Discussing topics that continue to have important contemporary implications politically and morally, this book stimulates Locke scholarship and initiates collaborative work between Japanese scholars and others around the world.

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 240 pages PB 9781350225909 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350225893 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350225923 • £22.49 / $28.32 Bloomsbury Academic World English

UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 272 pages HB 9781350189188 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350189201 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350189195 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Routes to a More Just Future

Rewriting Contemporary Political Philosophy with Plato and Aristotle An Essay on Eudaimonic Politics

Paul Schollmeier, University of Nevada, USA Applying the concepts and principles of Plato and Aristotle to contemporary problems, Paul Schollmeier sets out a new theory based on engagement in political activity for its own sake, not for profit or pleasure. Employing the ancient principle of happiness, Schollmeier introduces the concept of a eudaimonic polity. He argues that we can best exercise our political nature when we participate together with others in political activity without an ulterior motive. Not to engage in activity of this kind is also to deny our nature, and it leads to competitive conduct and conflict over limited resources. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 232 pages PB 9781350244504 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350066175 ePub 9781350066199 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350066182 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

New Interpretations from Japan

Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment Philippe Le Goff, University of Warwick, UK

This books offers a major re-evaluation of one the most controversial figures in the history of revolutionary politics: Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Challenging the prevailing image of Blanqui as an unthinking insurrectionalist, Le Goff rediscovers a forceful and compelling theory of mass political action and radical social change. Bringing Blanqui’s philosophy to the present, Le Goff also demonstrates that a number of his fundamental assumptions still resonate today. Shedding new light on his work, this book draws on a number of Blanqui's writings, some of which have only recently been translated into English for the first time. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781350076808 • £19.99 / $26.95 Previously published in HB 9781350076792 ePub 9781350076822 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350076815 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Contradiction Set Free Hermann Levin Goldschmidt

Translated by John Koster, Independent Scholar, USA First published in 1976, Goldschmidt’s Contradiction Set Free (Freiheit für den Widerspruch) reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the late 20th century. The book articulates the initiative to reclaim an epistemologically critical position that recognized the deep underlying link between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and political life they produce. In signaling a breakout from the academic rut and its repressive hold, their interventions advanced critical alternatives for moving beyond the predicament of an ossified institutionalized way of doing philosophy whose traumatizing consequences could no longer be ignored. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781350079786 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350079793 ePub 9781350079816 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350079809 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic World English

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The Philosophy of Matter

Wade L. Robison, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Rick Dolphijn, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Key Concepts

This book introduces us to real cases from medicine, law and science, where the stakes can be high, the situations complex, and the ethical issues often difficult to see, offering a practical approach to thinking critically about the ethical problems that occur in our professions. By guiding us through the issues at play when we face an ethical problem, we learn how to find a solution. Ideal for students or professionals, this book provides the grounding required to become a more complex moral thinker, which can be applied in a number of fields and jobs. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 384 pages PB 9781350226081 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350226074 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350226104 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350226098 • £17.99 / $22.16 Bloomsbury Academic

Adam Smith’s 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments' A Critical Commentary

John McHugh, Denison University, USA With Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments increasingly recognised as a foundational text in moral philosophy, John McHugh provides the first companion to guide readers through the work, uncovering what Smith thinks, why he thinks it, and even why he might be wrong to think it! Offering detailed analysis of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, while never losing sight of the context of Smith's oeuvre and world view more generally, this book offers both an introduction to the importance and insight of this key text, while also functioning as a great way in to Smith as a philosopher. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 352 pages HB 9781350088573 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350088597 • £117.00 / $145.36 ePdf 9781350088566 • £117.00 / $145.36 Bloomsbury Academic

Husserl's Phenomenology of Natural Language

Intersubjectivity and Communality in the Nachlass Horst Ruthrof, Murdoch University, Australia By tracing Husserl’s ideas on language from the Logical Investigations to untranslated portions of his Nachlass, Ruthrof charts all the developments in his theorization of language. Essential to his theory of linguistic meaning is the intersubjective character of language Ruthrof argues is key to Husserl’s position. Bringing his theory of language up to the present day, Ruthrof discusses metal time travel, the evolution of language, and protosyntax, progressing a new phenomenological ontology of language with wide-ranging implications for philosophy, linguistics, and cultural studies. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 224 pages HB 9781350230873 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350230897 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350230880 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

A Meditation

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself. With figures such as Spinoza, Deleuze and Serres as philosophical guides and writings on New Materialism, Posthumanism and Affect Theory as intellectual context, Rick Dolphijn proposes a radical rethinking of some of the basic themes of philosophy: subjectivity, materiality, body (both human and otherwise) and the act of living. A poetic philosophy of how to live in troubling times when even the earth beneath us feels unstable, Dolphijn offers a way to think about the world with depth, honesty and glimpses of hope. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781350211902 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350211896 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350211926 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350211919 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic

Skill in Ancient Ethics

The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome Edited by Tom Angier, University of Cape Town, South Africa & Lisa A. Raphals, University of California, USA Providing an overview of ethics in Ancient Greece, Rome and China, this collection brings together scholars working across this broad topic. As well as traditional figures, it also features essays on the importance of skill in lesser-known philosophers including Carneades and Antipater, and texts such as the Zhuangzi. In doing so, it illustrates how skill, expertise and ‘know how’ are central to ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action and cognitive science. UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 272 pages HB 9781350104327 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350104341 • £117.00 / $145.36 ePdf 9781350104334 • £117.00 / $145.36 Bloomsbury Academic

P H I L O S O P H Y – Ethics & Moral Philosophy / Philosophy of Language & Education

Practical and Professional Ethics

Philosophy and the Metaphysical Achievements of Education Language and Reason

Ryan McInerney, Lakehead University, Canada Tracing the deep connections between philosophy and education, Ryan McInerney argues that we must use philosophy to reflect on the significance of educational practice. The realization of educational ideals and policies are read alongside resource efficiency and measurable outcomes which characterise schooling today. It is from this context that McInerney defends the value inherent to the philosophy of education. Drawing on continental and analytic thinkers including Heidegger, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein, this book argues that education effects in the child a metaphysical transformation through language acquisition which enables the production of critical, thinking beings. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 176 pages HB 9781350183513 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350183537 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350183520 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

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P H I L O S O P H Y – Philosophy of Science & Mathematics / Analytic Philosophy / Ecology

Philosophy of Science: The Key Thinkers Edited by James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, Canada

This introduction brings to life the most influential thinkers in the philosophy of science, uncovering how the field has developed over the last 200 years. Now updated and revised throughout, the second edition features easy-to-follow overviews of pivotal thinkers including John Stuart Mill, Rodolf Carnap, Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, covers central issues as experience and necessity, logical empiricism, the sociology of science and realism, and includes an afterword looking ahead to emerging research trends. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 288 pages PB 9781350108264 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350108271 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350108240 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350108257 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Key Thinkers • Bloomsbury Academic

The Problem of Plurality of Logics Understanding The Dynamic Nature of Philosophical Logic Pavel Arazim, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Marking a departure from traditional logical monism and also from the recent doctrine of logical pluralism, this book offers a new view of logic as dynamic and without a definite, specific shape. It examines the origins of our standard view of logic alongside Kant’s theories, the holistic view, the issue of logic’s pragmatic significance and Robert Brandom’s logical expressivism. Arazim then draws on proof-theoretical approaches to present a detailed argument for a dynamic version of logical inferentialism. He explores the scope, possibilities and limits of this freedom to highlight the future paths logic could take. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781350146754 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350146778 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350146761 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Finding Humor in Logical Reasoning Stan Baronett, University of Nevada, USA

Combining jokes, stories, and ironic situations, Stan Baronett shows how it is possible to always ground the formal, symbolic language of logic in everyday experience. Each chapter introduces a basic logical reasoning concept through a plausible premise based on happenings in daily life. Ideas are explained and illustrated by showing how an effective joke may rely on an unanticipated assumption that leads to an unexpected result. Injecting a sense of humor into logical language, Baronett helps us understand how to analyze basic causal reasoning and provides light relief for anyone daunted by the complex world of logic. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 160 pages PB 9781350178915 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350178908 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350178939 • £13.49 / $17.24 ePdf 9781350178922 • £13.49 / $17.24 Bloomsbury Academic

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics

Edited by Andrew Aberdein, Florida Institute of Technology, USA & Matthew Inglis, Loughborough University, UK Exploring the results of applying empirical methods to the philosophy of logic and mathematics, this collection begins with the significant work of Arne Naess and the Oslo Group, discussing the connections between the ‘empirical semantics’ they developed and the experimental philosophy developed by a new generation of researchers. Chapters cover methodological analyses of the applicability of empirical techniques and include actual empirical results, demonstrating different empirical methods such as surveys, interviews, and data-mining. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 296 pages PB 9781350217959 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350039018 ePub 9781350039032 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350039025 • £26.09 / $33.25 Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Toward a Critical Theory of Nature

Certainty in Action

Carl Cassegård, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

Why Did the Logician Cross the Road?

Wittgenstein on Language, Mind and Epistemology

This book offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current ecological crisis via the Frankfurt School. Focusing on key notions of dialectics, natural history, and materialism, a critical theory of nature is outlined in favor of a more traditional Marxist theory of nature, albeit one which still builds on Marxist concepts to confirm humanity’s centrality in manufacturing environmental misery. Pre-eminent thinkers including Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Theodor Adorno are highlighted for their potential to diagnose the interpenetration of capitalism and nature in a way that neither absolutizes nor obliterates the boundary between the social and natural.

This selection of Moyal-Sharrock’s essays traces the radical importance of action as the cohesive thread weaving through Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and shows how certainty intertwines with it to produce new ways of engaging in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language. It vividly illustrates the ways in which Wittgenstein's pioneering enactivism has already impacted—and can further impact—not only philosophy, but also linguistics, psychology, primatology, evolutionary psychology and anthropology. Certainty in Action is essential reading for anyone interested in getting a grasp of Wittgenstein's lasting genius and influence.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350159501 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350176270 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350176263 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 280 pages HB 9781350071292 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350071315 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350071308 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

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Edited by Alessandro Giovannelli, Lafayette College, USA Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. 30 specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st century. Now thoroughly revised and updated throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Susanne Langer, Bernard Bolzano, as well as more coverage of post-1950 aesthetics with Frank Sibley, Stanley Cavell, Peter Kivy, Noël Carroll, Peter Lamarque, and Jerrold Levinson. UK August 2021 US August 2021 400 pages PB 9781350085565 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350085558 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350085572 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350085541 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Key Thinkers • Bloomsbury Academic •

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The Political Power of Visual Art Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan, USA Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations in contemporary art. Drawing on the work of William Kentridge and the artworld immolations of Banksy, Herwitz’s examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of offense-as-dissent, to the community driven work of George Gittoes and the identity politics of contemporary American art. Driven by questions about the capacity of the visual medium to speak politically or acquire political agency, this book is for anyone concerned with the fate of cultural politics. UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350182370 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350182387 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350182394 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350182400 • £17.99 / $22.16 Bloomsbury Academic

It's Not Personal

Rethinking Dwelling

Susan Best, Queensland College of Art, Grifﬁth University, Australia

Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia

Post 60s Body Art and Performance

How does something as potent and evocative as the body become a relatively neutral artistic material? Focusing on renowned artists such as Marina Abramovic and Angelica Mesiti, Susan Best examines how bodies are configured in late modern and contemporary art. She identifies three main ways in which they are used as material and argues that these formulations allow for the exposure of pressing social and psychological issues. In aligning this new typology for body art and performance with critical theory, Best raises questions pertaining to gender, inter-subjectivity, relation and community that continue to dominate our artistic and cultural conversation. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781350144149 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350144132 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350144163 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350144156 • £17.99 / $22.16 Bloomsbury Academic

Parallax

The Dialectics of Mind and World Edited by Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany, Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK; New York University, USA; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia & Christoph Menke, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Building on Žižek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics and aesthetics. Featuring renowned philosophers including Frank Ruda and Graham Harman, this book shows how modes of parallax remain central to many modern theoretical disciplines and to debates about speculative realism and dialectical materialism. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 320 pages • 10 b/w illus HB 9781350159624 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350172050 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350172043 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

P H I L O S O P H Y – Art & Aesthetics

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers

Heidegger, Place, Architecture Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas’ research has involved his engagement with architects and other thinkers around the issues of place, architecture and landscape, and particularly the way these practitioners have used the work of Heidegger. In Rethinking Dwelling, Malpas rethinks these issues in a way that is directly informed by an understanding of human relation to place. Engaging with a range of architectural and design concerns, including the relation between building and memory and the idea of authenticity in architecture, this book departs from the traditional phenomenological focus and provides a new ontological assessment of landscape and architecture. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 304 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350172913 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350172920 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350172937 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Political Aesthetics

Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society Karl Axelsson, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, Political Aesthetics challenges conventional views of how art's significance developed in society. By re-examining the political relevance of Joseph Addison’s (1672– 1719) and the third Earl of Shaftesbury’s (1671–1713) theories of taste, Axelsson shows that they were, first and foremost, seeking to fortify a natural link between the aesthetic experience and the consolidation of modern political society. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 280 pages PB 9781350243682 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350077751 ePub 9781350077775 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350077768 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

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P H I L O S O P H Y – Art & Aesthetics / Asian Philosophy

Lucasfilm

Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe Cyrus R.K. Patell, NYU, Abu Dhabi and NYU, USA George Lucas’s 1977 film Star Wars revolutionized both the film industry and global popular culture. Lucasﬁlm examines the ways in which these films and the world they created were shaped by philosophical ideas and debates and how this universe of cultural products became a global brand asking whether a film director can be both an auteur and a corporation. Ranging from the original Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977 to 2019's The Rise of Skywalker and all the adventures in between, this is the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Lucasfilm universe. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350100619 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350100602 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350100626 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePdf 9781350100596 • £19.79 / $24.63 Series: Philosophical Filmmakers • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Edited by Marcello Ghilardi, University of Padova, Italy & Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau, China

For anyone interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese aesthetic tradition, this handbook is the place to start. With introductory overviews, critical reflections and contextual analysis, it covers the origins of aesthetics in early China to the role of aesthetics in philosophy today. Introducing various perspectives on traditional arts, including painting, ceramics, calligraphy, poetry, music and theatre, it explores aesthetic traditions such as martial arts, rock gardening, and ritual performance. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 416 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350129764 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350129788 • £117.00 / $145.36 ePdf 9781350129771 • £117.00 / $145.36 Series: Bloomsbury Research Handbooks in Asian Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

The New Aesthetics of Deculturation

Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait What are the predominant aesthetics of the 21st century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times. Drawing on the work of Islam scholar Olivier Roy, who argued that religious fundamentalism arises when religion is separated from the indigenous cultural values, BotzBornstein shows that the production of ‘absolute’ truths through deculturation also exists in contemporary education. Including analysis of the intersections of ‘cute’, ‘excellent’, ‘sublime’, and ‘interesting’ in contemporary aesthetic culture, this is a journey through philosophy, psychology and cultural theory, redefining a new aesthetics of deculturation. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 248 pages PB 9781350243699 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350086340 ePub 9781350086364 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350086357 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

Interpreting Chinese Philosophy A New Methodology

Jana S. Rošker, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Analysing the most common misconceptions based around the basic paradigms surrounding Western Sinology, Jana Rošker alerts us to the problems and dangers of current approaches. She exposes the impossible comparisons and prejudiced assumptions that arise when we use rational analysis, a major feature of the European intellectual tradition, to read Chinese philosophy. Instead of transferring concepts and categories from Western sinology onto socio-cultural Chinese contexts, Rošker constructs a new methodology of reading, understanding and interpreting Chinese philosophy and allows us to master a more autochthonous understanding of Chinese philosophy. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages HB 9781350199866 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350199880 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350199873 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

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Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, University of Konstanz, Germany

Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance

A Cosmology of Unsociable Bodies Omar Rivera, Southwestern University, USA From pre-Columbian Inca stone architecture to 21st-century Andean photography and painting, Omar Rivera uncovers a lineage of conceptions of cosmologies as they have been expressed aesthetically in Andean philosophical traditions. In doing so, he manifests a conception of the cosmos that is organized according to elemental orders and that underlies social forms. Connecting pre-Columbian cosmologies with contemporary thinkers such as María Lugones, Linda Martín Alcoff and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Rivera's original approach introduces us to the living, evolving and aesthetic alternatives to coloniality of power and of knowledge, overhauling our understanding of decolonial theory. UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350173750 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350173774 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350173767 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond

Takeshi Morisato, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium This book brings together the work of two significant figures in contemporary philosophy. By considering the work of Tanabe Hajime, the Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School, and William Desmond, the contemporary Irish philosopher Takeshi Morisato offers a clear presentation of contemporary comparative solutions to the problems of the philosophy of religion. Importantly, this is the first book-length English-language study of Tanabe Hajime’s philosophy of religion that consults the original Japanese texts. UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 288 pages PB 9781350217942 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350092518 ePub 9781350092532 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350092525 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

Indian and Intercultural Philosophy

Personhood, Consciousness, and Causality Douglas L. Berger, Leiden University, The Netherlands For over 20 years, Douglas Berger has advanced research and reflection on Indian philosophical traditions from both classical and cross-cultural perspectives. This volume reveals the extent of his contribution by bringing together his perspectives on these classical Indian philosophies and placing them in conversation with Confucian, Chinese Buddhist and medieval Indian Sufi traditions. He shows how much relevance classical Indian thought has with ancient Confucian views of ethics, Chinese Buddhist depictions of consciousness and medieval Mughal conceptions of divinity. The result is a book celebrating the rigor, vitality and intercultural resonance of India’s rich philosophical heritage. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 272 pages HB 9781350174177 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350174191 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350174184 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Aristotle and The Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality The Plurality of Rule

Zoli Filotas, University of South Dakota, USA Connecting two strands of Aristotle’s thought, Zoli Filotas sheds light on one of the key axioms of Aristotle’s ethics and political philosophy – that every community has a ruler – and demonstrates its relevance to his ideas on personal relationships. He reveals the pluralistic conception of rule within Aristotle’s thought, tracing it through his corpus and discussing it alongside figures such as Gorgias, Xenophon, and Plato. Illuminating and thought-provoking, this book reveals Aristotle's ambivalence about political relations and the equal treatment they involve and offers an engaging inquiry into how he understood the common structures of human relationships. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781350160866 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350160880 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350160873 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Beyond Hellenistic Epistemology

Philosophy as Drama

Charles E. Snyder, Bard College, USA

Edited by Hallvard Fossheim, Vigdis SongeMøller & Knut Ågotnes, all of University of Bergen, Norway

Arcesilaus and the Destruction of Stoic Metaphysics

Charles E. Snyder considers the New Academy’s attacks on Stoic epistemology through a critical re-assessment of the 3rd century philosopher, Arcesilaus of Pitane. Focusing on the dispute between the Old and New Academy, reveals the metaphysical dimensions of Arcesilaus’ arguments as essential to grasping what is innovative about the so-called New Academy. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship on Hellenistic philosophy in French, Italian, and German, Beyond Hellenistic Epistemology builds bridges between analytical and continental approaches to the historiography of ancient philosophy, and treads new ground for the historiography of StoicAcademic debates in the early Hellenistic period. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781350202375 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350202399 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350202382 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

P H I L O S O P H Y – Asian Philosophy / Ancient Philosophy

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

Plato’s Thinking through Dialogue

Plato’s philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with established genres, such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and rhetoric. Philosophy as Drama moves debates in Plato scholarship forward when it comes to understanding both particular aspects of Plato’s dialogues and the approach itself. Containing 11 chapters of close readings of individual dialogues, with 2 chapters discussing specific themes running through them, such as music, pleasure, perception, and images, this book displays the range and diversity within Plato's corpus. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 264 pages PB 9781350243675 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350082496 ePub 9781350082519 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350082502 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

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P H I L O S O P H Y – Philosophy of Religion

Reading Augustine Miles Hollingworth

On King Lear, The Confessions, and Human Experience and Nature Kim Paffenroth

Kim Paffenroth analyses the themes of love, language, nature and reason as they were understood by Augustine and Shakespeare. The similarities and differences between these two great thinkers are here illuminated by Paffenroth's reading of Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear, two of the most influential and enduring works of the Western canon or world literature. Pairing and connecting the insights of Shakespeare’s most nihilist tragedy with those of Augustine’s most personal and sometimes self-condemnatory, sometimes triumphal work, challenges us to see worldviews as more similar than they first seem, and as more relevant to our own fragmented and disillusioned world.

Laurence Wuidar, Dominican Studium, Italy

Composed by one of Europe’s leading musicologists, now engaging an English-speaking audience for the first time, this book is a candid exploration of Wuidar’s expertise. Drawing on her long knowledge of music and the occult, from antiquity to modernity, Wuidar particularly focuses upon Augustine’s working methods while refusing to be distracted by questions of faith or morality. The result is an open and at times frightening vista on the powers that be, and our complex need to commune with them. UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781350228788 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350228795 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350228825 • £22.49 / $28.32 Series: Reading Augustine • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

Contemporary Arguments in Natural Theology

Jim Slagle, University of Portland, USA

Edited by Colin Ruloff, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada & Peter Horban, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Context, Exposition, and Repercussions Arguing against the presupposition of naturalism, Jim Slagle offers a thorough defence of Alvin Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism (EAAN) and in doing so, reveals how it shows that evolution and naturalism are incompatible. He critiques other wellknown epistemological approaches, including those of Descartes and Quine, and deftly counters the many objections against the EAAN to conclude that epistemological naturalism should be rejected on the grounds of self-defeat. As such, this book advocates an important reconsideration of contemporary thought at the intersection of philosophy, science and religion. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781350173118 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350173132 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350173125 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

The History of Religious Imagination in Christian Platonism

Exploring the Philosophy of Douglas Hedley Edited by Christian Hengstermann, University of Cambridge, UK This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings. Featuring Hedley’s inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 2018, the book sheds light on his robust concept of religious imagination as the chief power of the soul’s knowledge of the Divine and reveals its importance in contemporary metaphysics, ethics and politics. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 248 pages HB 9781350172968 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350172982 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350172975 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

On Mystery, Ineffability, Silence, and Musical Symbolism

God and Rational Belief

This book brings together experts and up-andcoming scholars working in the field today to tackle natural theology from a wide range of perspectives, including desire, beauty, mathematics, consciousness and miracles, showing how natural theology is relevant to atheists as well as theists. Aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students, the volume will also be an indispensable resource to researchers in philosophy, theology, biblical studies and religious studies. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 352 pages HB 9781350093850 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350093874 • £81.00 / $101.01 ePdf 9781350093867 • £81.00 / $101.01 Bloomsbury Academic

Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment Acts of Assent

Peter Forrest, University of New England, Australia Peter Forrest offers a rigorous analysis of why commitment matters and the challenges it presents to a range of believers. He treats commitment as a response to lost innocence and explores why humans are attached to reason and to humanism, recognising the different commitments made by theist and non-theist humanists. Of particular interest to scholars working on the philosophy of religion, the book makes the case both for and against committing to God, recognising that God’s divine character sets up an emotional rather than an intellectual barrier to commitment to worship. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781350238145 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350097711 ePub 9781350097735 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350097728 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

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Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University, UK; Michael Dillon; Ward Blanton and Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

The Phenomenology of Religious Belief Media, Philosophy, and the Arts

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art, literature and film can impact upon traditional interpretations and critical studies of religious beliefs and experiences. He examines the work of award-winning writers such as Toni Morrison and Robert Coover. By placing their work in conjunction with critical analyses of Ingmar Bergman and Pier Paolo Pasolini and combining it with the thought of George Canguilhem and Slavoj Žižek, Shapiro takes a interdisciplinary approach to the question of how life should be lived. His assessment of phenomenological subjectivity also leads him to question the nature of political theology and extend the criticism of Pauline theology. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350164307 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350164321 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350164314 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Political Theologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Language, Meaning, and Use The God Who is Not There

Robert K. Bolger & Robert C. Coburn, University of Washington, USA Can the meaning of religious language be separated from its use? Religious Language, Meaning and Use addresses what has become a contentious (though often overlooked) question in the philosophy of religion. Through philosophical argumentation and by means of religiously-inspired essays, this book seeks to return religion to the context in which the meaning and impact of its words become inseparable from the life of the believer. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 272 pages PB 9781350244511 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350059689 ePub 9781350059702 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350059696 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

A New Philosophy of Modernity and Sovereignty Towards Radical Historicisation

Przemyslaw Tacik, Jagiellonian University, Poland Tackling important philosophical questions on modernity, Przemyslaw Tacik challenges the idea that modernity marks a particular epoch, and historicises its conception to offer a radical critique of it. Including reflections on Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt, Agamben and Žižek, Tacik proposes a paradigm shift in our understanding of modernity, drawing on Hegelianism, Marxism, deconstruction, and critical theory to create wide-ranging implications for contemporary continental philosophy, theories of modernity, political theory, and critical reassessments of Marxism. Uniquely speaking to the philosophical and legal history of modernity, this book ambitiously re-orients our understanding and suggests how we might move beyond its theoretical limitations. UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781350201262 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350201286 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350201279 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Genealogies of Political Modernity

Antonio Cerella, Kingston University London, UK What is political modernity? How much of its concepts has changed with the advent of socalled globalization? What does it mean, politically speaking, to live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues by reference to key authors of Continental Philosophy: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all classical concepts are called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for both political action and theory. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350079472 • £19.99 / $26.95 Previously published in HB 9781350079465 ePub 9781350079489 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350079458 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: Political Theologies • Bloomsbury Academic

Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology

Christopher B. Barnett, Villanova University, USA Over the last several decades, technology has emerged as an important area of interest for both philosophers and theologians. Yet, despite his status as one of modernity’s seminal thinkers, Søren Kierkegaard is not often seen as one who contributed to the field. Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology argues otherwise. Christopher B. Barnett shows that many of Kierkegaard’s criticisms of "the present age" relate to the increasing dominance of technology in the West, and he puts Kierkegaard’s thought in conversation with subsequent thinkers who grappled with technological issues, from Martin Heidegger to Thomas Merton. Barnett presents a Kierkegaard who remains relevant--perhaps all too relevant--in today’s digital age.

P H I L O S O P H Y – Philosophy of Religion / Continental Philosophy

Political Theologies

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Human Dignity in the JudaeoChristian Tradition Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives

Edited by John Loughlin, University of Oxford, UK World-renowned contributors examine the roots of human dignity in classical Greece and Rome, the Scriptures and medieval theologians such as St Thomas Aquinas, as well as in the writing of St John Paul II, Renaissance art and sacred music. The book shows that dignity is also a contemporary issue by analysing situations where the traditional understanding has been challenged by philosophical and policy developments, such as transhumanism, religious freedom, immigration, robotics and medicine. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 296 pages PB 9781350238138 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350073692 ePub 9781350073715 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350073708 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

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P H I L O S O P H Y – Continental Philosophy

Nietzsche’s 'Ecce Homo' and the Revaluation of All Values

'The Gift' in Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Thomas H. Brobjer, Uppsala University, Sweden

Emilio Carlo Corriero, University of Turin

Dionysian Versus Christian Values

Challenging the standard interpretation of Nietzsche’s last published work, Ecce Homo, as mere autobiography, Thomas H. Brobjer provides an analysis of Ecce Homo as fundamental to his unfinished masterwork on the revaluation of all values. Brobjer situates his late work through the desire to undermine the system of Christian values Nietzsche believed were unchecked as the standard moral gauge for his time. In this context, Ecce Homo is able to take a new place within the history of philosophy, with Brobjer providing a complete corrective to its reception as a self-referential text full of eccentricities and little philosophical significance.

Corriero traces the notion of ‘the gift’ in Thus Spoke Zarathustra providing a new interpretation, alongside ‘the gift’s’ evolution as a key concept in the history of western philosophy and Christianity. Nietzsche's writings on the death of God, The Will to Power, the Overman, and eternal recurrence are analysed anew in Corriero’s reading. Using key 20th century writings on ‘the gift’ from Derrida, Benveniste, and Esposito, Corriero traverses compassionate love and affirmative love, to present Zarathustra as Nietzsche’s ultimate gift, at the same time cementing the centrality of ‘the gift’ to the history of sociality and philosophy.

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Hegel's Grammatical Ontology Vanishing Words and Hermeneutical Openness in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit' Jeffrey Reid, University of Ottawa, Canada Reading The Phenomenology of Spirit through a linguistic lens, Jeffrey Reid provides an original commentary to Hegel’s most famous work. Beginning with a close analysis of the preface, where Hegel himself addresses the book’s difficulty and explains his tortured language in terms of what he calls the “speculative proposition”, Reid demonstrates how every form of consciousness discussed in The Phenomenology involves and reveals itself as a form of language. UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 288 pages HB 9781350213593 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350213616 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350213609 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Hegel, Logic and Speculation

Edited by Paolo Diego Bubbio, Western Sydney University, Australia, Alessandro De Cesaris, University of Turin, Italy, Maurizio Pagano, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy (Emeritus) & Hager Weslati, Kingston University, London, UK "The book discusses a central topic of Hegel’s thought: the speculative relation between reason and actuality. The project involves both scholars connected to the Italian tradition and authors pertaining to other linguistic areas of Hegel studies. The result is a hermeneutical reading in which the logical dimension and the concrete aspects of Hegel’s philosophy are linked in new ways." Adriano Fabris, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Pisa University, Italy UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 256 pages PB 9781350243705 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350056367 ePub 9781350056374 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350056350 • £26.09 / $33.25 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Affirmative Love and Friendship

Lacan

A Genealogy Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick, UK Miguel de Beistegui provides a genealogical account of Lacan’s work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. Beistegui argues that Lacan's work requires an in-depth genealogy to chart and interpret his key concept of desire. Desire is a crucial thread throughout because it lies at the heart not only of liberal political economy, psychiatry and psychopathology, and the various discourses of recognition that shape our current politics of identity, but also of the manner in which we understand, experience and indeed govern ourselves, ethically and politically. UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 208 pages HB 9781350190771 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350190795 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9781350190788 • £76.50 / $94.85 Bloomsbury Academic

Political Readings of Descartes in Continental Thought Alon Segev, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Descartes' philosophy plays a special role in the works of both renowned and marginal writers in the Continental Tradition, particularly in their views on society and politics. This is the first book to consider political responses to Descartes in 19th and 20th century European thinkers. Alon Segev shows on the one hand how Continental authors utilize Descartes’ philosophy to advance the core ideas of Enlightenment and to combat Capitalism, Materialism, Absolutism, Fascism, Nazism, and Neo-Paganism. However, on the other hand, Segev demonstrates that Continental authors have also discerned in Descartes’ philosophy the main source of all these maladies of modernity. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 184 pages PB 9781350243668 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350069718 ePub 9781350069732 • £26.09 / $33.25 ePdf 9781350069725 • £26.09 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic

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