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A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed
A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork
Lenn Goodman
May 2024 247pp
9781503637474 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503629530 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed.
A Philosophy of Prayer Nothingness, Language, and Hope
George Pattison
Series edited by John D. Caputo
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
July 2024 192pp
9781531506834 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531506827 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Exploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy, Pattison pays particular attention to the question of language and the implications of the role given to silence in traditional texts, arguing that language remains a defining element of the human–God relationship and that silence should be seen as the revelation of the depth of language itself.
Alasdair MacIntyre
An Intellectual Biography Émile Perreau-Saussine
Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski
February 2024 216pp
9780268203269 £25.99/ $30.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize, the late Émile Perreau-Saussine’s Alasdair MacIntyre: Une biographie intellectuelle stands as a definitive introduction to the life and work of one of today’s leading moral philosophers. With Pinkoski’s translation, this critical examination of MacIntyre’s thought is now available to English readers for the first time.
A Ministry of Risk
Writings on Peace and Nonviolence
Philip Berrigan
Edited by Brad Wolf
April 2024 272pp 18 color illus.
9781531506285 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781531506278 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Experience the powerful legacy of Philip Berrigan’s nonviolent resistance to war and empire in the definitive collection of his writings. Authorized by the Berrigan family and arranged chronologically, these writings depict the transformation of one revolutionary soul while also providing a firsthand account of a nation grappling with its martial obsessions.
A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking
Kenneth Maly
May 2024 288pp
9781487556075 £62.00 / $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book presents a rethinking of Greek philosophy to offer the West a path to a more holistic and less conceptual understanding of the way things are.
From 1st April 2024
Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues
Angela McKay Knobel
February 2024 228pp
9780268201104 £40.00/ $45.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This study locates Aquinas’s theory of infused and acquired virtue in his foundational understanding of nature and grace. In this important book, Angela McKay Knobel provides a detailed examination of Aquinas’s theory of infused moral virtue, with special attention to the question of how the infused and acquired moral virtues are related.
Assembling Futures
Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion
Edited by Jennifer Quigley & Catherine KellerTransdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
August 2024 240pp
9781531506551 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531506544 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays in Assembling Futures reflect scholarly conversations among historians, political scientists, theologians, biblical studies scholars, and scholars of religion that transgress disciplinary boundaries to consider urgent matters expressive of the values, practices, and questions that shape human existence.
Chaos and the Automaton
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
May 2024 320pp 10 b&w illus.
9781517917111 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517917104 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s extensive collaboration with e-flux. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences.
Creatures of Attention Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant
Johannes Wankhammer
Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
June 2024 330pp 10 b&w hts., 2 line drawings
9781501775802
£27.99/ $32.95 PB
Brutalism
Achille Mbembe
Theory in Forms
January 2024 200pp
9781478025580 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478020875 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, eminent social and critical theorist Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence.
Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann
Arthur Madigan S.J.
February 2024 272pp
9780268207595 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Through his examination of MacIntyre, Nussbaum, and Spaemann, Madigan offers a vision for the future of Aristotelian moral philosophy, urging today’s philosophers to set a clear educational agenda, to continue refining their concepts and intuitions, and to engage with new conversation partners from other philosophical traditions.
9781501775796 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Creatures of Attention offers the first systematic study of a foundational discourse on attention from 1650 to 1780. Presenting pre-Kantian aesthetics as a critique of the Enlightenment paradigm of strained attention, the book offers a fresh perspective on poetics and aesthetics in eighteenth-century Germany.
Defective Institutions
A Protocol for the Republic
Jacques Lezra
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
March 2024 288pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531506919 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506902 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Working at the point of contact and conflict between socialist and anarchophilosophical traditions, Defective Institutions offers an alternative to political institutionalism in an aberrant republicanism comprised of defective institutions, run through with the necessity of their abolition.
Democratic Anarchy
Aesthetics
and Political Resistance in U.S. Literature
Matthew Scully
July 2024 256pp 5 b&w illus.
9781531507077 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531507060 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this dramatic and necessary rethinking of the meaning of Democracy, Matthew Scully grapples with an uncomfortable but obvious truth inimical to democracy: both aesthetics and politics depend on the structuring antagonism of inclusion and exclusion.
Descartes’ Meditative Turn
Cartesian Thought as Spiritual Practice
Christopher J. Wild
Cultural Memory in the Present
March 2024 352pp
9781503638594 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638280 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "meditations"—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus ? Descartes' meditative turn, Wild argues, brings to a culmination a lifelong preoccupation with the practice or craft of thinking, known as Cartesian method.
Don't Think for Yourself
Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
Peter Adamson
Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
February 2024 194pp
9780268203405 £40.00/ $45.00 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
How do we judge whether we should be willing to follow the views of experts or whether we ought to try to come to our own, independent views? This book seeks the answer in medieval philosophical thought. This clear and eloquently written book will interest scholars in and enthusiasts of medieval philosophy, Islamic studies, Byzantine studies, and the history of thought.
Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy
Adam Lovett
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
May 2024 304pp 1 table
9781512825794 £67.00/ $74.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Within this book, philosopher Lovett argues that the United States is a failed democracy as it has failed to advance equality and self-rule. Drawing on rich empirical research, Lovett focuses on real-world democratic failures and evaluates their philosophical and ethical consequences, shedding light on an increasingly troubled democratic ethos and how ordinary citizens can work to save it.
Distracted
A Philosophy of Cars and Phones
Robert Rosenberger
June 2024 296pp 9 b&w illus.
9781517916565 £24.99/ $29.00 PB
9781517916558 £104.00/ $116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Although the dangers of texting while driving are widely known, many people resist the idea that phone usage will impair their driving. By reviewing decades of empirical studies in cognitive science, Rosenberger brings together ideas from philosophy and cognitive science to leverage a postphenomenological perspective that reveals how our smartphones make us such bad drivers.
July 2024 160pp
Enlightened Spirituality
Immanuel Kant, Paul Tillich, and
Reinhold Neibuhr Edited by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach & Amanda Avila KaminskiPast Light on Present Life: Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality
9781531505738 £8.99/ $9.95 PB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents reflections on the nature of Christian spirituality in the light of Kant’s work Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Tillich directly engages Kant’s moral philosophy, and Niebuhr indirectly addresses him with his reflections on the role of conscience in religious experience.
Ethics at the Center
Jewish Theory and Practice for Living a Moral Life
Elliot N. DorffA JPS Scholar of Distinction Book
March 2024 290pp 1 photo, index
9780827615656 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff’s pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our response to moral issues depends ultimately on our conceptions of the nature of human beings and God; how Jewish law, theology, prayer, history, and community should also define and motivate Jewish responses to moral issues; and how the honorable stances of Western philosophy about moral living shed light on Judaism’s distinctive standpoints.
German Idealism and the Question of System
John Sallis Edited by Mark J. ThomasThe Collected Writings of John Sallis
April 2024 182pp 29 figures
9780253069719 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9780253069702 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Beyond its insights into the thought of German Idealism, the book is distinctive for the clarity of Sallis's exposition, his attention to the implications for philosophy today, and the sense of wonder he evokes in his readers. Because of these features, the book will be of interest to general readers as well as specialists in German philosophy.
Introduction to Philosophy
Martin Heidegger
Translated by William McNeill
Studies in Continental Thought
April 2024 314pp 4 figures
9780253069207 £54.00/ $60.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter semester of 1928–1929 at the University of Freiburg, translated into English for the first time by William McNeil. The Introduction to Philosophy volumes offer an encounter with a true master at work.
Everything is Police
Tia Trafford
Forerunners: Ideas First
January 2024 112pp
9781517916862 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing antiBlack violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, author Tia Trafford examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious— way of managing our world.
Human Life in Motion
Heidegger's Unpublished Seminars on Aristotle as Preserved by Helene Weiss
Francisco J. Gonzalez
Studies in Continental Thought
March 2024 372pp 8 b&w illus.
9780253068309 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Human Life in Motion presents for the first time the previously unpublished transcripts of the seminars on Aristotle Martin Heidegger gave in the 1920s. Human Life in Motion is a publishing event that forces a reconsideration of the thought and legacy of both philosophers.
Leo Strauss and AngloAmerican Democracy
A Conservative Critique Grant Havers
August 2024 264pp
9781501774386 £22.99/ $26.95 NIP
9780875804781 £37.00/ $40.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Havers states that Strauss was neither a man of the Far Right nor a conservative but in fact a secular Cold War liberal. He contends that Straussianism provides an ideological rationale for the aggressive spread of democratic values while ignoring the preconditions that make these values possible.
Listening to the Philosophers
Notes on Notes
Raffaella Cribiore
May 2024 294pp
9781501774768 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501774751 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students. Raffaella Cribiore shows how the study of notes can enable us to understand the methods and practices of what was an orally conducted education.
On the Appearance of the World
A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture
Mark Foster Gage
Forerunners: Ideas First February 2024 80pp
9781517917289 £9.00/ $10.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Within this book, Mark Foster Gage looks at our increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, as they seem to be getting uglier. He imagines a future scenario where architectural design and ideas from aesthetic philosophy align toward the production of a built world that is more humane, habitable, beautiful, and just.
Platonism and Naturalism
The Possibility of Philosophy
Lloyd P. Gerson
July 2024 318pp
9781501774249 £27.99/ $32.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In his third and concluding volume, 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. Gerson clearly links the construction of the Platonic system well beyond simply Plato's dialogues, providing strong evidence of the vast impact of Platonism on philosophy throughout history.
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Risālah alShamsiyyah
An Edition and Translation with Commentary
Tony Street
Library of Arabic Literature
May 2024 300pp
9781479827527 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī’s al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah is a scholarly edition and translation of The Rules of Logic, with commentary and notes. Composed by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī, a scholar of the Shāfiʿī school of law, al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world.
Out of the World
Peter Sloterdijk
Translated by Corey A. Dansereau & Gill Zimmermann
Cultural Memory in the Present
May 2024 256pp
9781503639003 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503633292 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary meditation on humanity's tendency to refuse the world. Developing the first seeds of his anthropotechnics, Sloterdijk develops a theory of consciousness as a medium, tuned and retuned over the course of technological and social history.
Porous Becomings
Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres
Edited by Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight
March 2024 344pp 5 illus.
9781478030287 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478026051 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through ethnographic encounters as diverse as angels and religious conversion in Ethiopia, the percolation of war in Bosnia, and incarcerated bodies crossing the Atlantic, Porous Becomings showcases how French philosopher of science Michel Serres’ interrogation of the fundamentals of human existence opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge.
Reading the Impossible
Sexual Difference, Critique, and the Stamp of History
Elizabeth Weed
May 2024 176pp
9781531506797 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781531506780 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In reconsidering the question of sexual difference, Weed offers a fresh perspective on what is at stake for critical reading in the neoliberal university.
Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible
July 2024 pp
9781776148936 £25.99 / $30.00 PB
9781776148943 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rick Turner was a South African academic and activist who rebelled against apartheid at the height of its power. This volume engages critically with his work on race relations, his relationship with Steve Biko, his views on religion, education and gender oppression, his model of participatory democracy, and critique of economic inequality.
The Digital and Its Discontents
Aden Evens & Alexander R. Galloway
Electronic Mediations
February 2024 264pp 1 table
9781517916329 £24.99/ $29.00 PB
9781517916312 £104.00/ $116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Digital and Its Discontents points us toward a more satisfying relationship between our digital lives and ourselves, one that requires we change how we incorporate technology into our lives. Aden Evens analyzes universal technological principles—in particular, the binary logic—to show that they encourage certain ways of thinking while making others more challenging or impossible.
Revelation Comes from Elsewhere
Jean-Luc Marion
Translated by Stephen E. Lewis Jr. & Stephanie Rumpza
Cultural Memory in the Present
August 2024 488pp
9781503639348 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503633377 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book, Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. Marion traces the development of the term Revelation to the rise of metaphysics.
Sentimental Empiricism
Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France
Davide Panagia
June 2024 288pp 8 b&w illus.
9781531506711 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506704 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Panagia’s book reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century radical empiricism and moral sentimentalism for the intellectual formation of the generation of postwar French thinkers whose work came to dominate Anglophone conversations across the humanities under the guise of “French theory.”
The Equality of Flesh
Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture
Brent Dawson
June 2024 252pp
9781501775659 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
While modern ideas of equality are defined through an inner human nature, Dawson argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conceptualized equality as an ambivalent and profoundly bodily condition. Dawson shows how increasingly vehement notions of racial difference eclipsed a nascent sense of human commonality rooted in the basic stuff of life.
The Fold
From Your Body to the Cosmos
Laura U. Marks
March 2024 336pp 49 illus.
9781478030119 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025856 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the theories of Leibniz, Glissant, Deleuze, and theoretical physicist David Bohm, Laura U. Marks offers a practical philosophy and aesthetic theory for living in and apprehending a cosmos in which every being and every thing is infinitely connected.
The Guide to the Perplexed
A New Translation
Moses Maimonides
Translated by Lenn E. Goodman & Phillip I. Lieberman
May May 720pp
9780804787383 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought, Maimonides' warm, conversational voice and clear explanatory language come through as never before in English.
The Intruder
Jean-Luc Nancy
May 2024 96pp 3 b&w illus.
9781531506186 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781531506179 £63.00/ $70.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
The most famous—and most personal—book by a major voice in modern philosophy, and the source of an acclaimed film by Claire Denis, published for the first time complete in English.
The Memory of the World
Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology
Ted Toadvine
Posthumanities
May 2024 344pp
9781517916008 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517915995 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Integrating insights from phenomenology, deconstruction, critical animal studies, and new materialism, The Memory of the World argues for a new philosophy of time that takes seriously the multiple, pleated, and entangled temporal events spanning cosmic, geological, evolutionary, and human durations.
