PHILOSOPHY Spring 2020
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Across the Great Divide
Anaesthetics of Existence
Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory Jeremy Arnold
Essays on Experience at the Edge Cressida J. Heyes
March 2020 240pp 9781503612143 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503612136 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 280pp 9 illus. 9781478008262 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478007814 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and compelling account of how this split has shaped the field of political philosophy and suggests means of addressing it.
Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges.
Arkography
Chorology
A Grand Tour through the Taken-for-Granted Gunnar Olsson
On Beginning in Plato’s Timaeus John Sallis
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth May 2020 252pp 8 photos, 25 illus., 11 charts 9781496220295 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9781496219473 £56.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
The Collected Writings of John Sallis April 2020 192pp 9780253046666 £16.99/$20.00 PB 9780253046659 £52.00/$60.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discourses in the history of philosophy. Plato’s discourse on the chora—the chorology—forms the pivotal moment in the Timaeus.
Gunnar Olsson’s tale follows an explorer from the oldest creation epics extant to the power struggles of today.
Circling the Elephant
Curating As Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon
A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity John J. Thatamanil
Thinking Theory January 2020 352pp 9781517908652 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517908645 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions May 2020 320pp 9780823287734 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288526 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a new ethics for the global practice of curating. Primarily philosophical in scope, evades normative approaches to ethics in favor of an intuitive ethics that operates at the Thatamanil envisions religious diversity as a threshold of thought and action. Explores the promise, not a problem, and proposes a new work of authors as diverse as Heidegger, Spinoza, theology of religious diversity that opens the door Meillassoux, Mudimbe, Chalier, and Kofman. to robust interreligious learning and Christian Excludes Japan & ANZ transformation through encountering the other.
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Curiosity Studies
Dead Voice
A New Ecology of Knowledge Edited by Perry Zurn & Arjun Shankar
Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages Jesus R. Velasco
April 2020 352pp 19 b&w photos 9781517905408 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517905392 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Middle Ages Series January 2020 256pp 9780812251869 £60.00/$69.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Curiosity Studies stages an interdisciplinary conversation about what curiosity is and what resources it holds for human and ecological flourishing. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Explores how the 13th century law code known as Siete Partidas introduced canon and ecclesiastical law in the vernacular for explicitly secular purposes and embraced intellectual disciplines and fictional techniques that normally lie outside legal science.
Discourse, Figure
Early Modern Aristotle
Jean-François Lyotard Translated by Antony Hudek & Mary Lydon
On the Making and Unmaking of Authority Eva Del Soldato
Cultural Critique Books October 2019 544pp 21 b&w photos, 32 b&w plates 9780816645664 £24.99/$30.00 NIP UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
March 2020 320pp 6 illus. 9780812251968 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Del Soldato contends that, because the authority of Aristotle—like that of any other ancient, including Plato—was a construct, it could be tailored and customized to serve agendas that were often in direct contrast to one another, at times even in open conflict with the very tenets of Peripatetic philosophy.
Jean-François Lyotard is recognized as one of the most significant French philosophers of the twentieth century. Now available in English, Discourse, Figure is Jean-François Lyotard’s thesis. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Form and Event
Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World Carlo Diano Translated by Timothy C. Campbell & Lia Turtas
Commonalities July 2020 144pp 9780823287925 £19.99/$25.00 PB 9780823287932 £74.00/$90.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Carlo Diano’s Form and Event appears here in English for the first time.
History, Metaphors, Fables
A Hans Blumenberg Reader Hans Blumenberg Translated by Hannes Bajohr, Florian Fuchs & Joe Paul Kroll
signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation July 2020 606pp 9781501747984 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781501732829 £99.00/$115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg. Excludes ANZ
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information
Gilbert Simondon Translated by Taylor Adkins
Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon Translated by Taylor Adkins
June 2020 440pp 9780816680023 £22.99/$27.50 PB 9780816680016 £95.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
June 2020 336pp 9781517909529 £22.99/$27.50 PB 9781517909512 £95.00/$110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
More than fifty years after its original publication in French, this groundbreaking work of philosophical theory is now available in its first complete English language translation. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Presents archival documents detailing the preliminary research conducted by Gilbert Simondon. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Influx and Efflux
Invoking Hope
Writing Up with Walt Whitman Jane Bennett
Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner
May 2020 224pp 33 color illus. 9781478008309 £20.99 /$25.95 PB 9781478007791 $86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 264pp 15 b&w photos 9781517908867 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781517908850 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Pursuing a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live.
Wegner argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and a deep and critical reading of our current situation of what Bertolt Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, or dark times. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Levinas’s Politics
Liberalism and Its Critics
Justice, Mercy, Universality Annabel Herzog
Edited by Michael J. Sandel
Haney Foundation Series February 2020 208pp 9780812251975 £47.00/$55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
December 1984 278pp 9780814778418 £21.99/$27.00 PB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In recent decades liberalism has faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. This volume presents leading statements of rightsbased liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
In Levinas’s Politics, Annabel Herzog argues that Levinas’s Talmudic readings embody a political pragmatism which complements, revises, and challenges the ethical analyses he offers in his phenomenological works. Confronts a major difficulty in Levinas’s philosophy: the relationship between ethics and politics.
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Medical Technics
Merleau-Ponty’s Poetic of the World
Don Ihde
Forerunners: Ideas First September 2019 94pp 9781517908300 £8.00/$10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Philosophy and Literature Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone & Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
Medical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy August 2020 256pp 9780823287703 £24.99/$32.00 PB 9780823288137 £91.00/$110.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book focuses on Merleau-Ponty’s extensive engagement with literature.
On Not Dying
On Universals
Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman
Constructing and Deconstructing Community Étienne Balibar Translated by Joshua David Jordan
April 2020 336pp 9781517908102 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517908096 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Commonalities August 2020 160pp 9780823288557 £21.99/$28.00 PB 9780823288564 £79.00/$95.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of immortality as a secular and scientific category. It interrogates the social implications of technoscientific immortalism and raises important political questions. Excludes Japan & ANZ
In this book, one of our most important political philosophers builds on the critiques of the tacit exclusions of Enlightenment thought.
Paths in Heidegger’s Later Thought
Platonism and Naturalism
Edited by Günter Figal, Diego D’Angelo, Tobias Keiling & Guang Yang
The Possibility of Philosophy Lloyd P. Gerson
March 2020 318pp 9781501747250 £47.00/$55.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Studies in Continental Thought April 2020 356pp 9780253047205 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9780253047199 £82.00/$95.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the “anti-Platonism” in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Excludes ANZ
This volume gathers the work of an international group of scholars to present a range of ways in which Heidegger can be read and a diversity of styles in which his thought can be continued.
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Practicing the Good
Sites of the Ascetic Self
Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukrov
John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation Niki Kasumi Clements
e-flux April 2020 304pp 10 b&w photos 9781517909550 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517909604 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2020 294pp 9780268107857 £50.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of fifthcentury ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life.
A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Songs of Nature
Textures of the Ordinary
On Paintings by Jun Cao John Sallis Illustrated by Cao Jun
Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein Veena Das
The Collected Writings of John Sallis April 2020 128pp 9780253046611 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9780253046604 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Thinking from Elsewhere May 2020 432pp 9780823287697 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823287895 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking up Cao Jun’s art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental.
This book is an exploration of everyday life in which anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy.
The Decision of Desire
The Elements of Foucault
Silvia Lippi Translated by Peter Skafish
Gregg Lambert
Univocal March 2020 240pp 4 b&w photos 9781517905293 £20.99 /$25.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Posthumanities May 2020 144pp 9781517908782 £18.99/$23.00 PB 9781517908775 £79.00/$92.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Providing insight to the lay reader of psychoanalytic theory as much as to practicing psychoanalysts, The Decision of Desire is a bold reengagement with the legacy of the notion of desire within psychoanalysis and the quandary of how to assume responsibility for desires. Excludes Japan & ANZ
The first generally accessible, yet rigorous and comprehensive, discussion of lectures and major published works of Foucault’s post-1975 theory of biopower and of the major innovation of the concept of dispositif. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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The Last Years of Karl Marx
The Nature of Human Persons
An Intellectual Biography Marcello Musto Translated by Patrick Camiller
Metaphysics and Bioethics Jason T. Eberl
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics June 2020 442pp 9780268107734 £58.00/$75.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
June 2020 216pp 9781503612525 £17.99/$22.00 PB 9781503610583 £60.00/$70.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence—that is, with what is a human being identical or what types of parts are necessary for a human being to exist: an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul?
Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English.
Theological Territories
Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking
A David Bentley Hart Digest David Bentley Hart
From Eriugena to Emerson Willemien Otten
April 2020 420pp 9780268107185 £21.99/$29.00 PB 9780268107178 /$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Cultural Memory in the Present March 2020 312pp 9781503611672 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781503606708 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
One of America’s most eminent contemporary writers on religion, Hart reflects on the state of theology “at the borders” of other fields of discourse—metaphysics, philosophy of mind, science, the arts, ethics, and biblical hermeneutics in particular.
Revisiting the history of Western religious thought and the role of nature and creation therein, this book paves the way for a new natural theology by bringing medieval theologian John the Scot Eriugena into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Thinking the Event
Thinking with Balibar
François Raffoul
A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice Edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris & Jacques Lezra
Studies in Continental Thought June 2020 456pp 9780253045362 £43.00/$50.00 PB 9780253045133 £86.00/$100.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
What happens when something happens? If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul deconstructs what happens when something happens, the very happening.
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory July 2020 256pp 9780823288489 £27.99/$35.00 PB 9780823288519 £103.00/$125.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Collects essays which each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought.
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Untangling Twinning
Value and Vulnerability
What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos Maureen L. Condic
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics February 2020 176pp 9780268107055 £35.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Looks at the questions raised by human twinning based on a unique synthesis of molecular developmental biology and Aristotelian philosophy.
An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity Edited by Matthew R. Petrusek & Jonathan Rothchild
June 2020 580pp 9780268106652 £115.00/$150.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Brings together scholars of religion to identify and examine conceptions and interpretations of dignity within different religious and philosophical and their applications to contemporary issues of conflict.
William James
Your Whole Life
Empiricism and Pragmatism David Lapoujade Translated by Thomas Lamarre
Thought in the Act December 2019 168pp 9781478006763 £19.99/$23.95 PB 9781478005155 £77.00/$89.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lapoujade’s William James is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to and a pioneering rereading of James’s thought.
Beyond Childhood and Adulthood James Bernard Murphy
Haney Foundation Series May 2020 288pp 9780812252231 £52.00/$59.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
When we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adults, and, finally, old and infirm. But as James Bernard Murphy observes, growth is not limited to the young nor is decline limited to the aged.
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