University of Chicago Press 2024 Philosophy Catalog
PHILOSOPHY
from Chicago
The Culmination
Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
Robert B. Pippin
“The Culmination is by far the deepest and most thorough study of Heidegger’s reading of Hegel and its centrality to his account of the history of metaphysics. Pippin makes a compelling case that the rationalist equation of thinking and being remains a dogmatic assumption absent a more radical reflection on how meaning is disclosed in nonra tional ways. If, as Pippin says, Heidegger understood the idealist tradition better than anyone before him, it would be fair to add that Pippin has appreciated Heidegger’s reading of that tradition more profoundly than anyone yet has.”—Taylor Carman, Barnard College
2024 256 p. 6 x 9
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83000-1 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Lectures on Imagination
Paul
Ricoeur
“This eagerly awaited book invites the reader on a fas cinating dive into the depths of human imagination. Tracing a philosophical history from Aristotle and Kant to Husserl and Wittgenstein, Ricoeur offers a unique take on the metaphorical power of fiction in poetry and paint ing. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the sheer pleasure of invention.”—Richard Kearney, Boston College
2024 400 p. 6 x 9 1 tables
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82053-8 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
How to Think like a Philosopher
Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
Julian Baggini
“In lively and engaging prose, the book distills some of history’s most important philosophical ideas. . . . This is an important book. Much more than a guide to critiquing other people’s arguments, it explains how we can each sharpen up our own act by becoming more attentive and—crucially—more generous in our thinking. It should be required reading for commentators, politicians, and anyone who risks becoming too enamored with their own rectitude.”—The Herald (UK)
2023 336 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82664-6 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
A Precarious Happiness
Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
Peter E. Gordon
“A brilliant and lucid guide to the twists and turns of the master’s dialectics . . . [and] a masterly reading.”
The Times Literary Supplement
“Gordon’s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno’s negativism.”—Jürgen Habermas
2024 320 p. 6 x 9 4 line drawings
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82857-2 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning
Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss
Kathleen Marie Higgins
“In the midst of grieving, many people find meaning and solace in aesthetics—in the creation of works of art and in the contemplation of beauty, whether natural or human‑made. But why? Higgins takes up this neglected question and convincingly shows how aesthetic experi ences enable us to reengage with our lives after disori entating losses. Higgins’s inquiry will enlighten anyone with an interest in grief’s transformative power.”
—Michael Cholbi, University of Edinburgh
2024 256 p. 6 x 9
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83104-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Wisecracks
Humor and Morality in Everyday Life
David Shoemaker
“Shoemaker turns attention away from public controversy to ordinary life, lowering the rhetorical temperature. Many of us make fun of family and friends, their flaws and foibles, in ways that involve mockery or stereotyping —wisecracks we wouldn’t venture in public. . . . In giving them their due, [Shoemaker] sheds new light on the ethics of these everyday interactions.”—The Atlantic
2024 256 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83298-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
Philip Ball
“A journey into the concept of the mind, mixing neu rology, philosophy, technology, and other disciplines. Although everyone has a mind, few experts agree on its makeup. Ball delivers a fine investigation of the possibili ties. . . . Many of his topics are among the hottest in neuroscience today, explored by scores of academics and popularizers such as Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, and Daniel Dennett. Building on their theories and others, Ball makes a useful addition to the literature. A difficult subject lucidly illuminated, if not fully explained.”
Kirkus Reviews
2022 512 p. 6 x 9
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Bacteria to AI
Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts
N. Katherine Hayles
“A brilliant reimagining of what it means to think—and even to be human—at a time when all around us, we can see the lines between the artificial, the natural, and the informational beginning to dissolve.”—Fred Turner, Stanford University
2025 304 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 3 tables
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83747-5 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Mindprints
Thoreau’s Material Worlds
Ivan Gaskell
“‘I have travelled a good deal in Concord,’ Thoreau wrote in Walden, famously mocking the notion that travel takes place beyond the borders of one’s hometown. Devotees of the transcendentalist philosopher will be grateful that, nearly two centuries later, Gaskell took up residence in the adjacent town of Lexington and fixed his uncommon powers of perception on his erstwhile neighbor’s life and writing, traveling imaginatively with Thoreau to yield this extraordinary book. Gaskell unsettles and expands our understanding of Thoreau by homing in on the sensory particulars of his surroundings, cherished revelations of worlds past, present, and still to come.”
—Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize‑winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83607-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Nietzsche Pursued
Toward a Philosophy for the Future
Richard Schacht
“Schacht’s long‑standing and important thesis concerning Nietzsche’s naturalism is brought to fruition in this book. Nietzsche Pursued offers an invaluable, enriching, and superbly argued sequence of engagements with this extremely important thinker. This is an outstanding and original contribution to the field of Nietzsche studies by one of its most notable scholars.”—Peter R. Sedgwick, Cardiff University
2024 376 p. 6 x 9
10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83466-5 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy
Finding His Way
Richard Schacht
“Schacht’s latest book is one of a kind. With unparalleled insight, he offers a comprehensive, sharp‑sighted, and scrupulously honest rendering of Nietzsche’s main con cerns, but above all an illuminating investigation into the primary, determining questions: What exactly is the pur pose of philosophy, according to Nietzsche? How did he radically transform the discipline? And why did he have to? A priceless book which provides a lucid understanding of Nietzsche’s specific stance and logic.”—Patrick Wotling, University of Reims
2023 400 p. 6 x 9
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82285-3 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
The Force of Truth
Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in
Michel Foucault
Daniele Lorenzini
“Lorenzini has established himself as the most brilliant interpreter of the work of Michel Foucault in his genera tion. Yet, even beyond this distinction, he has learned, as few people have, to use Foucault’s work and perspective to approach topics that Foucault himself never discussed. Moreover, in his extraordinary genealogy of truth, pre sented in this book, Lorenzini brings together Foucault’s writings with those of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, among others, to give us a remarkable new way to think about some of the central issues concerning the idea of truth. Anyone who believes that analytic philosophy and continental philosophy cannot speak to one another can read this book as a superb example of how these two traditions of philosophy can mutually contribute, when read together, to the understanding of fundamental philosophical problems. If Lorenzini is the future of philosophy, philosophy is in excellent hands.”
—Arnold I. Davidson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2023
192 p. 6 x 9 2 tables
12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82745-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
Michel Foucault
“Fruchaud and Lorenzini deliver a highly read able set of lectures Foucault delivered in English at Victoria University (Toronto) in 1982, just two years prior to his untimely passing, lectures that are pivotal in connecting the vertices of Foucault’s triangle: the will to know, the obligation to confess, and care of the self. Drawing on unpub lished notes, audio recordings, and student notes, which, in some cases, Foucault himself corrected, the editors have erected an important monument to Foucault’s continuing relevance.”—
Choice
The Chicago Foucault Project
2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 line drawings
13 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82645-5 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
A Fragile Life
Accepting Our Vulnerability
Todd May
“Very few books have struck this reviewer as both poetic and so very real at the same moment . . . a deeply felt and touchingly presented view of how to be human . . . If the reader can accept May’s starting premise—that all beings suffer—then the rest will be easy to digest. Highly recommended.”
Choice
2025 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84010-9 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Artful Truths
The Philosophy of Memoir
Helena de Bres
“Anyone in the process of reading, writing, criticizing, or teaching a memoir should stop immediately, read this book, and then get back to work. . . . Artful Truths is must reading for those interested in memoirs of the past, present, and future.”— Choice
2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2
15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79380-1 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Madness, Language, Literature
Michel Foucault
“The essays collected in this book are as urgent today as they were fifty years ago: provocative, generative, and timely. Each is a bridge connecting Foucault’s histories of the modern subject to different fields of inquiry, from literature to structuralism to the philosophy of J. L. Austin. Anyone interested in literary theory, early mod ern history, or continental philosophy will find these essays inspiring.”—Richard Neer, University of Chicago
2023 240 p. 6 x 9
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77483-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Descartes
The Renewal of Philosophy
Steven Nadler
“By firmly embedding his descriptions of Descartes’ achievements in their social, political, and sometimes personal settings, Nadler gives the reader a more fully human Descartes than is found in most introductions to his philosophy.”— Choice
Renaissance Lives
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2023 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 11 color plates, 14 halftones
17 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-683-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy
Felicity Henderson
“In this absorbing and wide‑ranging study, Felicity Henderson charts the vast range of activities pursued by the virtuoso Robert Hooke, natural philosopher and architect, master of ingenious instruments and visionary projects.”
—Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
Renaissance Lives
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2025 192 p. 5.43 x 8.5 10 color plates, 17 halftones
18 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-954-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy
Sandra Laugier
“Laugier’s brilliant book provides a concise history of the philosophy of language after Quine and Wittgenstein. But Laugier does more than that: she shows why Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell’s claim that to speak about language is to speak about the world is an antimetaphysical revolution in philosophy, a revolution that transforms our understanding of epistemology and ethics.”
—Toril Moi, Duke University
2023 168 p. 6 x 9
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82957-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Family Idiot
Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition
Jean-Paul Sartre
“A virtuoso performance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, The Family Idiot is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre’s mythology.”
The New York Review of Books, on the unabridged edition
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82232-7 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought
John T. Lysaker
“[This] book is, unapologetically, a stylistic mash‑up. A reader accustomed to, if not delighted by, straightforward argumentation will find it to be a maddening journey of switchbacks and dead ends. Yet someone bored by contemporary philosophy’s hidebound method of analysis will find it a joyful intellectual jaunt.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
2021 224 p. 6 x 9
21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81585-5 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Of Bridges
A Poetic and Philosophical Account
Thomas Harrison
“. . . . these nine intriguing and accessible essays will connect readers to old and new ways of thinking about what bridges do and often to what they might have already done. . . . Harrison com bines keen observations with cogent analyses that will make readers think twice before cross ing another bridge, whether it is over a highway or waterway or simply connects what one makes in one’s mind.”— Choice
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones
22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82649-3 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
The Rabbit Between Us
Victor Menza
Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experi ences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love.
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2023 172 p. 6 x 9 1 color plate, 5 halftones
23 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80309-198-3 $21.00 Your Price: $14.70
Studiolo
Giorgio Agamben
A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher.
The Italian List
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2024 130 p. 5.5 x 7.75 27 color plates
24 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80309-368-0 $21.00 Your Price: $14.70
When the House Burns Down From the Dialect of Thought
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben tackles our crisis ridden world in a series of powerful philosophical essays.
The Italian List
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2023 86 p. 51/2 x 73/4
25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80309-206-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
A Philosophy of Lying
Lars Svendsen
“’It is better to be fooled occasionally than to go through life with . . . chronic distrust,’ writes phi losopher Svendsen in this clever take on lying and telling the truth. . . . And though people can be dishonest, Svendsen remains hopeful that serial lying is an anomaly. His reflections are nuanced, his conclusions smart, and he keeps things free of academic jargon. Philosophy‑minded readers will find this an enjoyable and enlightening study.”
Publishers Weekly
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2022 136 p. 43/4 x 73/4
26 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-563-2 $23.95 Your Price: $17.96
What Is Time?
An Enquiry
Truls Wyller
“With this erudite yet very accessible book, Wyller tackles the most central question in the study of time: How do we reconcile the time of physics with time as we experience it? His answer—drawing on history, philosophy, science, and literature—is that time is constituted by consciousness itself.”—Adrian Bardon, author of A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time
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2020 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones
27 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-236-5 $18.00 Your Price: $13.50
Street Life and Morals
German Philosophy in Hitler’s Lifetime
Lesley Chamberlain
“. . . details a survey history of philosophical thought in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . It offers valuable content and material for an advanced, general audience interested in or seeking a general over view of German philosophy during the first half of the twentieth century.”— German Studies Review
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2021 356 p. 61/4 x 91/4
28 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-494-9 $42.00 Your Price: $31.50
A Philosophy of Hope
Lars Svendsen
From a leading philosopher, A Philosophy of Hope explores hope’s nature and power, distinguishing it from wishful thinking. Lars Svendsen argues that hope shapes our future and empowers indi viduals, highlighting its role in giving life mean ing and driving positive change.
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2024 224 p. 4.72 x 7.87
29 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-943-2 $22.50 Your Price: $16.88
The Madness of Knowledge
On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing
Steven Connor
“. . . challenges the casual belief that there is a thing ‘out there,’ solid and observable, which we more or less manage to cram into our brains.
. . . Connor’s argument—regardless of their truth, our beliefs about knowledge operate in a world of fantasy—is in itself both clear and convincing.”
The Times Literary Supplement
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2021 384 p. 61/4 x 91/4
30 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-511-3 $35.00 Your Price: $26.25
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ritchie Robertson
“Robertson is a good storyteller and an erudite scholar, and one can certainly learn many histor ical facts about Nietzsche and his times by read ing this enjoyable book.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
RB-Critical Lives
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2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 27 halftones
31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-606-6 $22.00 Your Price: $16.50
The Afterlife of Data
What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
Carl Öhman
“Fascinating. . . . [Deep] questions of memori alization, ownership, and preservation, deftly teased out by the author.”—The Wall Street Journal
“By encouraging readers to think about what to do with digital corpses, so to speak, The Afterlife of Data deserves a long shelf life.”—The Economist
2024 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2 halftones
32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82822-0 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Uncountable
A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg
“This book offers a fascinating series of sophisti cated and insightful reflections on the many ways the appraisal of numbers has shaped culture and civilization. . . . [It] will yet be an intellectu al treat for anyone who may delight in original philosophical musings without having to cross Greco‑Abrahamic borders.”— Choice
2024 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82836-7 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
A Philosopher’s Economist
Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
“There is at last a comprehensive study of David Hume’s economic writings and his economic life and times. A Philosopher’s Economist is illuminating, surprising, and a pleasure to read.”
—Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
2023 328 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82402-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
How to Think Impossibly About
Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
Jeffrey J. Kripal
“Kripal bravely dives into fundamental questions, and he offers mind‑stretching possibilities as a result.”—Kirkus Reviews
2024 312 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones
35 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83368-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Accident
A Philosophical and Literary History
Ross Hamilton
“Beautifully and lucidly written, Accident balances a series of elegant and convincing close readings of texts from Oedipus Rex through Musil’s Man without Qualities with a compelling and closely reasoned narrative arc. This is one of the most exciting, imaginative, and original books I’ve read in years, as well as one of the most accom plished and learned: it is truly innovative literary criticism grounded in solid literary scholar ship.”—Helen Deutsch, University of California
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82104-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Conceptual Harmonies
The Origins and Relevance of Hegel’s Logic
Paul Redding
“In making his case, Redding places Hegel’s discussion of logic and mathematics in a broad historical context, ranging from Plato’s academy through Kepler, Newton, Leibniz, Frege, Boole, and Peirce. . . . The book will be of interest to Hegel’s scholars, not least of all for the challenge it mounts to Robert Brandom’s contention that Hegel is best understood within the project of analytic philosophy.”— Choice
2023 336 p. 6 x 9 28 line drawings
37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82607-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
General Philosophy/Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Touchy Subject
The History and Philosophy of Sex Education
Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen
“To casual observers, it might seem as if Americans are hopelessly divided on sex educa tion in public schools. Bialystok and Andersen do an admirable job of moving beyond the standard assumption of a simple, implacable culture‑war divide on the issue and pave the way for pro ductive discussion.”—Adam Laats, Binghamton University, SUNY
History and Philosophy of Education
2022 240 p. 6 x 9
38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82218-1 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
William Max Nelson
“This is a highly original study that breaks new ground and discusses fundamental issues in Enlightenment history, political theory, and biopolitics. With flawless scholarship and an extraordinary mastery of the many relevant controversies and debates of the time, Nelson fills a major gap in our knowledge of the Enlightenment. This book makes important contributions to Enlightenment scholarship and will compel us to rethink the balance between equality and inequality, as well as between inclu sion and exclusion, in Enlightenment social and political thought.”—Siep Stuurman, author of The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History
The Life of Ideas
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82558-8 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Nietzsche
and Race
Marc de Launay
“De Launay’s elegantly written book is an extremely valuable introduction to Nietzsche’s much misunderstood concept of ‘race.’”
—Christian Emden, Rice University 2023
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Addiction Becomes Normal
On the Late-Modern American Subject
Jaeyoon Park
“Today’s addiction discourse turns us all into addicts in waiting. Park’s brilliant genealogy of the modern American subject not only clarifies how this strange and pervasive conception of the human came to be. It also sketches a por trait, deeply unsettling, of a post‑disciplinary, post‑Foucauldian addicted subject whose soulless cravings come at the cost of its freedoms.
A must‑read.”—Lynne Huffer, Emory University
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83276-0 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Three Ethologies
A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships
Matthew Calarco
“Calarco is a longstanding pioneer thinker in ani mal studies who weds philosophical acuity with activist passion. In this work, he explores intel lectual and practical transformations necessary for the lively co‑existence of humans and animals in a post‑anthropocentric world. His onto‑ethical vision is a lyrical call for a worthwhile and mean ingful life rife with opportunities for co‑flourish ing.”—Eileen Crist, Virginia Tech
Animal Lives
2024 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2
42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83245-6 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
The Land Is Our Community
Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
Roberta L. Millstein
“As a philosopher of biology, Millstein brings a distinctive and valuable perspective to the interpretation of Aldo Leopold. Peppered with careful analysis of key concepts, The Land Is Our Community explores and defends the endur ing relevance of Leopold’s land ethic.”
—Marion Hourdequin, author of Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice
2024 192 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 tables
43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83448-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness
Essays in Finitude
John T. Lysaker
“A work in fragments without ever feeling frag mented, the book’s individual tesserae commu nicate a vibrant, beautiful, troubled world. Many of the text’s connected interventions stand on their own as self‑contained ephemera advocating decency and care in harsh and uncertain times. Taken as a whole or in parts, this is a rich and intimate book that suggests philosophizing risks failure in the unshakable hope of getting ‘it’ right and in the knowledge that forgiveness must remain possible.”—Mark Christian Thompson, Johns Hopkins University
2023 256 p. 6 x 9
44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82791-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
When Conscience Calls
Moral Courage in Times of Confusion and Despair
Kristen Renwick Monroe
“A stunning tour de force on the concept of moral courage. Its brilliance lies in how Monroe moves to the heart of what psychodynamic psychology brings to the understanding of moral courage and its relation to ordinary human beings. Beautifully written and clear, When Conscience Calls reflects deep thought, careful writing, and great intelli gence.”—James Glass, University of Maryland 2023 256 p. 6 x 9
45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82909-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
A Decent Life
Morality for the Rest of Us
Todd May
“May has a knack for presenting philosophical concepts in ways that are easily graspable, and his advice for living ‘a life with a goal more modest than altruism, but better than moral mediocrity’ makes such a goal seem attainable for a wide audience. Anyone interested in living a more morally conscious life will want to give this wise guide a look.”—Publishers Weekly 2021 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1
Black Paper
Writing in a Dark Time
Teju Cole
“In this erudite collection of observations writ ten over the past three years, art historian Cole meditates on art, identity, politics, and literature to decipher ‘the fractured moment in our his tory’. . . . Offering a window into his articulate worldview, Cole brings into sharp relief the very humanity he seeks.”—Publishers Weekly
Berlin Family Lectures
2023 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 color plates, 6 halftones
47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82386-7 $17.00 Your Price: $11.90
An Education in Judgment
Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
D. N. Rodowick
“Arendt’s reflections on judgment, thinking, moral action, and political courage show that she was not a system builder and was not inter ested in offering axioms by which to rearrange the world. Yet in following her train of thought, we experience the illuminating force of her insights.”—The New York Review of Books
2023 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82950-0 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Idiocracy
The Culture of the New Idiot
Zoran Terzic
“Arriving in translation from German, Zoran Terzic’s Idiocracy: The Culture of the New Idiot [. . .] identifies ‘a new quality of idiocy today’ that derives, not from mere ignorance, but from a deliberate refusal to understand things.”—Insider
Higher Ed
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2023 192 p. 51/4 x 81/4
49 Paper ISBN: 978-3-0358-0367-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
and Philosophy of Art
The Musician as Philosopher
New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978
Michael Gallope
“. . . an inspired and dilative look at the mael strom of creative work in music and sound emanating from thinkers and doers living and working in mid‑twentieth century New York City.
. . . Understanding these musicians as philoso phers, Gallope offers readers a deep history of sounds, styles, and ideas that ushered in music’s future.”—Kwami T. Coleman, New York University
2024 320 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83176-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Experimenting the Human
Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman
G Douglas Barrett
“Posing both uncomfortable questions and new possibilities for the understanding of music, Barrett trenchantly turns our attention to how experimental composers have long engaged with the critical issues of our time now being explored in many technological and humanistic fields. These essays ringingly assert the centrality of new musical expression in constituting both the human and the posthuman.”—George E. Lewis, Columbia University
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 4 halftones
51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82340-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Susan Stewart
“Stewart, a distinguished poet, a former MacArthur fellow and a Princeton professor of the humanities, charts the West’s fascination with decayed remains, from Egyptian relics to contemporary monuments of destruction and trauma. Stewart writes with poetic grace and a nonspecialist’s appreciation of printmaking, painting, literature, and architecture. Readers outside the academy will find much to value in this lovely book.”—The Washington Post
2021 400 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 80 halftones 52
Magical Nominalism
The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph Martin Jay
“. . . characterized by a broad genealogical sweep, detailed and circumspect historical and cultural analyses, and a masterful internal architecture. There is a great deal of wisdom in Jay’s text, as well as an incorruptible generosity of Geist (mind, spirit, and intellect) that traverses the book’s entirety.”—Gerhard Richter, Brown University
The Life of Ideas
2025 416 p. 6 x 9
53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83721-5 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Pensive Image
Art as a Form of Thinking
Hanneke Grootenboer
“What does it mean to say a painting thinks? The central claim of this invigorating book is not that a painting can show thought happening, as in depictions of melancholics musing, head on hand; nor that it can illustrate philosophical concepts. . . . She argues, instead, for something weirder–and more suggestive. . . . she asks: ‘Do we, as viewers, find ourselves pondering these things, or is the painting as such pensive?’ Grootenboer wants to affirm the latter.”
—Kathryn Murphy, Apollo
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 26 halftones
54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82944-9 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Philosophy by Other Means
The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts
Robert B. Pippin
“These essays display the enormous range of Pippin’s intelligence as a commentator on philos ophy and literature. Whether as an expounder of Hegel’s aesthetics or an interpreter of self‑knowl edge in What Maisie Knew, he offers discoveries that always reward the attention he demands.”
—David Bromwich, Yale University
2021 304 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
55 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77080-2 $33.00 Your Price: $23.10
Metaracial
Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity
Rei Terada
“Terada reveals the philosophical sources of an embarrassing paradox—antiblack antiracism— which continuously affects political radicalism. An elucidation which is demanding but also fascinating and hugely clarifying!”—Étienne Balibar, author of Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
2023 224 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawings
56 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82371-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Phenomenal Blackness
Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory
Mark Christian Thompson
“Phenomenal Blackness is a text long awaited by many Black scholars—and essential to all of us—seeking to understand the complex origins of postwar Black cultural and aesthetic thought. Thompson’s deep and holistic dive into an entan gled and phenomenal Blackness gives us back an intellectual history well‑nigh lost.”
—Michelle M. Wright, Emory University
Thinking Literature
2022 208 p. 6 x 9
57 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-81642-5 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60
Kant and Phenomenology
Tom Rockmore
“Rockmore is uniquely qualified to establish clearly the phenomenological epistemological narrative extending from Kant to Husserl, Heidegger, and beyond. His constructivist read ing of Kant along with his contrast of Kant with Husserl makes his case convincingly in a work of exceptional clarity and rigorous documenta tion.”—Alan Olson, Boston University
2022 264 p. 6 x 9
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A Democratic Theory of Truth
Linda M. G. Zerilli
“Democracy demands commitment to truth, but what if the most obvious threats to truth today, from cynical demagogues to AI chatbots, were actually nourished by a dangerous overestima tion of what truth can do for politics? In this lucid, sober, and timely book, Zerilli combines acute political intelligence and theoretical sophistication to present a powerfully restrained account of truth as a value within rather than above the irreducibly plural field of political opinion.”—Patchen Markell, Cornell University 2025 272 p. 6 x 9
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Trialectic
The Confluence of Law, Neuroscience, and Morality
Peter A. Alces
“. . . an ambitious, far‑ranging book about morality and human agency whose goal is to reconcile rad ically different ways of understanding people and thereby re‑envision the law. Alces has no illusions that this will be easy but he knows the territory well, focusing instead on practical interpretations of morality and their implications for law. In the process we are treated to many fascinating excur sions into law, neuroscience, psychology, and evolu tion.”—Martha J. Farah, University of Pennsylvania 2023 336 p. 6 x 9
60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82750-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Cancel Wars
How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy
Sigal R. Ben-Porath
“A guide to the issues surrounding free speech and censorship on college campuses. . . . The book ends with solid advice for students, staff, and university boards to help deal with a host of issues, including contentious public speakers and hate speech.”—Kirkus Reviews
2023 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82380-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
Scott R. Stroud
“A magnificent study of Ambedkar’s complex engagement with Dewey’s ideas, which he reworked to address India’s specific political and social conditions.”—The New York Review of Books
“Stroud’s in‑depth exploration of the influence of Dewey’s pragmatism on Ambedkar’s thought not only allows us to comprehend the positions that Ambedkar took but also, equally, to appre ciate the compromises he made in his policy engagement for Dalit empowerment from 1919 to 1956.”—Sukhadeo Thorat, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
2023 320 p. 6 x 9
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When Spinoza Met Marx
Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity
Tracie Matysik
“Matysik has written a thoughtful, deeply researched, and elegantly structured intellectual history that fastens our attention on certain key chapters in the European reception of Spinoza’s philosophy. When Spinoza Met Marx is an excel lent book, and it deserves considerable attention from readers in modern European intellectual his tory and from anyone interested in the modern for tunes of Marxism and posthumanist social theory.”
—Peter E. Gordon, coauthor of Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
The Life of Ideas
2023 368 p. 6 x 9
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Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Leo Strauss
The Leo Strauss Transcript Series
2021 304 p. 6 x 9
64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81679-1
Aristotle
Democracy and Political Science
Delba Winthrop
“Winthrop’s illuminating study of Aristotle’s Politics follows the argument of the foundation al Book III as it sets out from the democratic citizen’s claim about political freedom and moves toward the question of its philosophic justification. Her insightful account, supported by her own translation, offers us, ultimately, a distinctive Aristotelian contribution to our own understanding of democracy and the complexity of human freedom—political, moral, and intellec tual.”—Ronna Burger, Tulane University
2025 288 p. 6 x 9
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Profaning Paul
Cavan W. Concannon
“Pushing back against efforts by both theologians and philosophers to contextualize and explain Paul’s words, Concannon points out harmful passages in Paul’s seminal writings, including his message for slaves to obey masters and his calls for women to submit. . . . Sure to spark debate among scholars grappling with Paul and his legacy.”
Publishers Weekly
Class 200: New Studies in Religion
2021 192 p. 6 x 9
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Leo Strauss on Plato’s Protagoras
Leo Strauss
“This transcript of the discussion between Leo Strauss and his students covers significant topics of importance to Strauss and political theory more broadly: the political uses of myth; the question of whether virtue can be taught; the ideas of courage, justice, and moderation; and freedom of thought and speech, among many others.”— Choice
The Leo Strauss Transcript Series
2022 416 p. 6 x 9
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The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Hospitality, Volume I
Jacques Derrida
“Brilliantly edited and documented, this book is a teaching text, a reading lesson. Hospitality includes, among many other themes, the theme of granting entry to the foreigner, a theme for our time. Derrida takes us from the history of ancient philosophy into empirical detail, undoing difficulties word by word.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones
68 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82801-5 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Hospitality, Volume II
Jacques Derrida
“[Derrida’s seminars] constitute not only a record of his work as a teacher, but also an intellectual journal, preserving his responses to new develop ments in politics, philosophy and literature.
. . . Derrida was probably the best‑known philos opher of his generation, but the publication of his seminars reveals that he was also a conscien tious, kind, and industrious teacher.”
—The London Review of Books
2024 312 p. 6 x 9
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Life Death
Jacques Derrida
“In these exceptionally complex, wide‑ranging lectures written for a 1975–76 course, Derrida takes very seriously Nietzsche’s warning to ‘beware . . . saying that death is opposed to life’. . . . Essential.”— Choice 2023 328 p. 6 x 9
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Perjury and Pardon, Volume I
Jacques Derrida
“These rich stimulating lectures are classic Derrida and in David Wills’s superb translation wonderfully accessible. This is a great example of Derrida the educator introducing his audience to some of the most difficult issues of our time.”
—Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University
2022 368 p. 6 x 9
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Perjury and Pardon, Volume II
Jacques Derrida
“. . . Presents an expansive vision of responsibil ity with the supreme clarity and profound rigor that mark Derrida’s style as a formidable teacher across geographical and academic boundaries. Wills’s unique interpretative skills have resulted in yet another unsurpassed translation of Derrida’s breathtaking thought and legacy.”
—Hent de Vries, New York University
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones
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Theory and Practice
Jacques Derrida
“For Anglophone readers who view deconstruc tion as a set of arguments about language and literature or see Derrida’s early 1990s exploration of Marxism as weak and belated, Theory and Practice is enlightening.”—The Los Angeles Review of Books
2024 144 p. 6 x 9
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American Exceptionalism
A New History of an Old Idea
Ian Tyrrell
“Tyrrell, a distinguished Australian historian, has written a rich intellectual history of the dramatic shifts in the meaning of the defining but, it turns out, highly malleable idea of ‘American excep tionalism,’ from its roots in the revolutionary era to the present. Tracing the term’s changing sig nificance illuminates US history more broadly.”—Foreign Affairs
2024 288 p. 6 x 9
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America’s Philosopher
John Locke in American Intellectual Life
Claire Rydell Arcenas
“A wonderfully wide‑ranging and insightful history of John Locke’s changing reputation in America, moving from the early eighteenth century to the present with terrific scholarly command and authority. Locke’s invention, more than a century after the fact, as the key politi cal theorist of the American Revolution is only the most striking of its findings. This book will surprise and inform every reader invested in the history of American political culture. There is simply nothing comparable in the existing litera ture.”—Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University 2023 280 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82933-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
What is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra?
A Philosophical Confrontation
Heinrich Meier
A masterful, nuanced, and novel examination of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.
“Heinrich Meier opens up a completely new approach to a work that has been much read but so far hardly understood.”—Volker Gerhardt, Humboldt University, Berlin
2021 224 p. 6 x 9
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Don’t Forget to Live
Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises
Pierre Hadot
“Pointing to similarities to the ancient philoso phers Goethe knew intimately, Hadot observes that Goethe owes a debt to them but surpasses them in his emphasis on remembering to live a joyfully fulfilling life. Beautifully translated.”
Choice
The France Chicago Collection
2023 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones
77 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-49716-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Inventing Philosophy’s Other Phenomenology in America
Jonathan Strassfeld
“[A]n ambitious, important, and exceptional . . . first‑rate history of American philosophy that reminds us that the ‘best’ ideas don’t simply win out on their merits. Rather, they often come to be labeled as such after their influence is estab lished through the vagaries of institutional contingency. At a time when the line dividing the continental and analytic traditions appears to be wearing thin, we would do well to heed this injunction for historical reflection.”
The Los Angeles Review of Books
2022 352 p. 6 x 9 6 line drawings
78 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82159-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom
Rousseau’s Philosophic Life
Laurence D. Cooper
“Cooper, gives us a fascinating account of what it means to live philosophically, through an anal ysis of Rousseau’s Promenades of a Solitary Walker. While Rousseau’s life may be peculiar in many ways Cooper brilliantly uses Rousseau’s account of that life to open up for us what the experience of philosophizing can be like. Highly recommend ed!”—Michael Allen Gillespie, Duke University
2023 288 p. 6 x 9
79 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82501-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Reason and Character
Homer
The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian
Political Philosophy
Lorraine Smith Pangle
“Pangle’s book offers a singularly illuminating, meticulous, and learned examination of one of the two central works of classical political phi losophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. . . . Her argument that Aristotle ultimately offers a subtle, humane, socially responsible critique of the more conventional accounts of moral responsibility is all the more powerful because of her attention to Aristotle’s overall discussion and because of her careful exegesis of the text.”—Peter Ahrensdorf, Davidson College
2024 336 p. 6 x 9
80 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83335-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Complete Works
Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments
Epictetus
“In this volume, Waterfield provides a translation of the extant works of Epictetus, an accessible introduction, and helpful historical, scholarly notes. . . . Waterfield provides essential philo sophical ideas (for example, one should focus on what is in one’s full control and let go of what is not), a condensed list of Stoic exercises, and spe cific references to Epictetus’s works. . . . Recommended.”— Choice
2022 480 p. 6 x 9 10 b/w halftones
81 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76947-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
The Pocket Epicurean
John Sellars
“In this brief and eloquent book, Sellars takes us through the basic arguments of Epicureanism with wonderful clarity, distilling the essence of an ancient philosophy that speaks with increas ing urgency to our troubled times.”
—David Konstan, New York University
2022 64 p. 41/2 x 6
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The Very Idea
James I. Porter
“This book is a reckoning with who or what we understand Homer to be and how we have rein vented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the impossibility of Homer both as a concept and as a person, revealing him as the illusion of a perfectly formed whole that has been kept alive for millennia, a ghost in the machine, a phantom both alive and dead. . . . An original, compelling, and eye opening book.”—Alex C. Purves, author of Homer and the Poetics of Gesture
2023 280 p. 6 x 9
83 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67590-9 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Oikonomia
Ancient Greek Philosophers on the Meaning of Economic Life
Étienne Helmer
“This is a thoughtful and original exploration that rehabilitates Greek economic expertise as a branch of philosophical inquiry as well as prac tice. Arguing that ancient Greek economic life was focused on conserving and preserving—a part of guardianship in Plato, in fact, but equally central to Xenophon—Helmer traces the dynamic interplay between politics, ethics, and economics across a wide range of Greek texts in a profound ly instructive way.”—Melissa Lane, Princeton University
2024 176 p. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
84 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82734-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
The Argument of the Action
Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Seth Benardete
This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
2024 456 p. 6 x 9
85 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82643-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
A Philosophical Grand Tour
Scott Samuelson
“A delightful and immersive guide to the city of Rome and the philosophical tradition it embod ies concerning the good life, or as we would say today, the meaning of life. Travelers seeking ancient wisdom among the city’s famous build ings and works of art could ask for no better companion.”—Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 color plates, 2 halftones
86 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78004-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Plato’s “Laws”
The Discovery of Being
Seth Benardete
“There is in the United States one man who is as comfortable with the art of interpreting Homer, Herodotus, or Euripides as he is with that of understanding the most difficult problems raised by Plato’s dialogues. . . . That man is Seth Benardete.”—Pierre Vidal Naquet
2024 432 p. 6 x 9
87 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82642-4 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Plato
A Civic Life
Carol Atack
“A richly enjoyable and illuminating account of Plato’s life, and its social and political contexts. Atack handles the wealth of scholarship with a deft touch: she provides considered support for her interpretations, but never obscures the main, vivid narrative, into which she skilfully weaves a number of Plato’s key ideas and arguments.”
—Angie Hobbs, University of Sheffield
RB-Great Lives of the Ancient World
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2025 240 p. 5.43 x 8.5 27 halftones
88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-946-3 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
The Enlightenment and Original Sin
Matthew Kadane
“A scintillating story of how the Enlightenment came into being but was also resisted, a nar rative revisited through the eyes of a ‘nobody’ in mid‑eighteenth‑century England as well as through the usual authorities. Written with verve, this book is a masterpiece of layered intellectual history.”—David D. Hall, Harvard University
The Life of Ideas
2024 272 p. 6 x 9
89 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83289-0 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
Lands of Likeness
For a Poetics of Contemplation
Kevin Hart
“Hart’s work has long been marked by a distinc tive crossing of literary studies, philosophy, and theology — each of which is present in his latest book. Hart’s focus here is on the idea of contem plation, which he conceives of as a distinctive mode of mental life, a kind of thinking which is different both from argument and from the kind of discursive thinking typically connected to images and texts.”— Church Times
2023 432 p. 6 x 9
90 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82758-2 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Rousseau’s God
Theology, Religion, and the Natural Goodness of Man
John T. Scott
“Rousseau’s God considers an important question in the manner it deserves: thoroughly. Scott succeeds in reconstructing the entire complex edifice of Rousseau’s theology and relating it to the broader and even more complex context of Rousseau’s thought as a whole. This is a remark able achievement and a major contribution to understanding Rousseau.”—Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto
2023 288 p. 6 x 9
91 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-226-82550-2 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
On the Edge of the Abyss
The Jewish Unconscious before Freud Clémence Boulouque
“Is there anything new to say about the uncon scious? This remarkable book’s answer is affirmative. With subtle intelligence and vast erudition, Boulouque exposes the kabbalistic roots of the unconscious, and argues that the pre Freudian unconscious is a better guide than the Freudian in the exploration of otherness.”
—Paul Franks, Yale University
2025 304 p. 6 x 9
92 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83821-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Last Consolation Vanished
The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz
Zalmen Gradowski
“Drop whatever you are doing right now and go order the first complete English translation of his manuscripts, newly published as The Last Consolation Vanished . You may never be able to read another Holocaust‑related book again.”
—Dara Horn, Jewish Review of Books
2024 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones
93 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83323-1 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Jewish Universalisms
Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good
Jeremy Fogel
An original and comprehensive comparison of the universalisms of two major modern Jewish philosophers.
The Tauber Institute Series for the Stu Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2023 368 p. 6 x 9
94 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-172-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
The Path of Desire
Living Tantra in Northeast India
Hugh B. Urban
2024 288 p. 6 x 9 36 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables 95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83112-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
After the Death of God
Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche
Espen Hammer
Offers a fresh perspective on nineteenth century German philosophy, revealing how thinkers like Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche reimagined religion’s ethical role in modern life, providing insights for navigating today’s secular and religious divides.
2025 240 p. 6 x 9
96 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83850-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Experiments in Mystical Atheism
Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond
Brook Ziporyn
“[A] brilliant and challenging meditation on and critique of monotheism. In it, Ziporyn demon strates how those of us without the ‘God gene’ need not suffer a lack of spiritual depth or mean ing. This book is an impressive example of how Chinese dialogue with Western thought can contribute to a mature religious worldview.”
—Joseph A. Adler, Kenyon College
2024 400 p. 6 x 9
97 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83526-6 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
The Varieties of Atheism
Connecting
Religion and Its Critics
Edited by David Newheiser
“What is atheism? Neither a mere negation, nor a single (self‑evident?) truth: this book makes clear that it is as rich, varied, and nuanced as religion itself. To call yourself an atheist is not to state a position, but to start a conversation—a conversa tion for which this book is an excellent primer.”
—Alec Ryrie, author of Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
2022 224 p. 6 x 9
98 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82269-3 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
New in Paperback
How Life Works
A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Philip Ball
“Ball explains how advances in biology have upended traditional understandings of how organisms develop and reproduce. . . . Provocative and profound, this has the power to change how readers understand life’s most basic mechanisms.”—Publishers Weekly, (starred review) 2025
99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84006-2 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Beautiful Experiments
An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
Philip Ball
“Although experimentation is arguably the back bone of modern science, historians of science have tended to focus their studies on theoretical developments. . . . Ball aims to rectify that dispar ity. The richly illustrated book is a treat for the eyes.”—Physics Today, “2023 Books that Stood Out”
2023 240 p. 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 200 color plates
100 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82582-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Plasticity in the Life Sciences
Antonine Nicoglou
Uncovers the enduring allure of plasticity in biology, tracing its journey from Aristotle to the forefront of modern science, where it now rivals the gene as a concept of transformative power. Through a lively historical and philosophical exploration, she reveals how plasticity offers a revolutionary way to understand life’s adaptability —one that challenges genetic determinism and highlights the dynamic, flexible nature of living systems.
2024 320 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
101 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83716-1 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Kate MacCord
“Excellent. A truly original take on the history of the Weismann Barrier and how it developed into a questionable assumption that forms the basis of various modern concepts about germ cells and regeneration.”—Hanna Lucia Worliczek, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin Convening Science
2024 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 20 halftones
102 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83051-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Disputed Inheritance
The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
Gregory Radick
“An ambitious work . . . In paying attention to today’s sophisticated ideas about genetics, Radick poses a deceptively simple question: why, he asks, knowing what we do now, do we still bother with Mendel? . . . This isn’t the first attempt to lay history’s ghosts to rest and reset our ideas about genetics. That said, I can’t think of one that is better argued, more fair‑minded, or more enjoy able.”—New Scientist
2023 576 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 2 tables
103 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82272-3 $37.50 Your Price: $26.25
Split and Splice A Phenomenology of Experimentation
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
“This book provides a captivating perspective on an essential area in the development of a com prehensive and cohesive epistemology of experi mentation. Until now, this subject has only been approached in an incomplete and piecemeal man ner. Therefore, this book is an absolute necessity for scholars seeking a holistic understanding of experimental practices, including those often overlooked aspects that are crucial for a true and impactful comprehension of the vital role that experiments play in shaping modern science.”
Metascience
2023 256 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones
104 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82532-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
New in Paperback
Thinking with Machines from Descartes to the Digital Age
David W. Bates
“As new forms of artificial intelligence throw us into turmoil, Bates invites us to think through the ever‑evolving relations between human and humanish . Deftly weaving together cognitive science, intellectual history, and philosophy. . . . It is the perfect moment for this book.”
—Jessica Riskin, Stanford University
2024 408 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
105 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83210-4 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Of Maybugs and Men
A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality
Pieter R. Adriaens and Andreas De Block
“Adriaens and De Block present an incisive review of research into male homosexuality from a philosophical perspective. They carefully dis sect the meanings of terms that researchers often employ without a great deal of thought. Their ideas about the evolution of homosexuality are especially illuminating.”—Simon LeVay, author of Gay, Straight, and the Reason W hy 2022 264 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones
106 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82244-0 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
Pragmatism’s Evolution
Organism and Environment in American Philosophy
Trevor Pearce
“This book is an important contribution to the history of philosophical discussion of biology. I do not know of any other book that covers the material so thoroughly. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of pragmatism and the influence of biology and evolution on pragmatic thinkers.”—Richard J. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research
2020 384 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 5 tables
107 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-71991-7 $38.00 Your Price: $26.60
The Last Writings of Thomas S.
Kuhn
Incommensurability in Science
Thomas S. Kuhn
“The road from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to the drafts in Last Writings was, to a large extent, a long walk back—Kuhn’s attempt to clarify, revise, secure, and modify the ‘purple passages,’ to dissociate himself and his book from the vulgar and the relativists. In one matter, how ever, he stuck firmly to a sentiment in the book that had given aid and comfort to the supposed ‘enemies of science.’ You should not, Kuhn had written, think that scientific change brought practitioners ‘closer and closer to the truth.’”
—Steven Shapin, The London Review of Books
2024 312 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83331-6 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30
Metamodernism
The Future of Theory
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
“This reviewer was particularly fascinated by Josephson‑Storm’s description of the reading of the book as a kind of therapeutic activity for the disintegrated postmodern philosopher. This is a valuable book for those engaged in research about postmodern critiques of theory. . . . Highly recommended.”— Choice
2021 328 p. 6 x 9 109 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78665-0 $33.00 Your Price: $23.10
Theory and Reality
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition
Peter Godfrey-Smith
“Godfrey‑Smith presents a clear, comprehensive, and accessible introductory survey of the major problems and movements in the philosophy of science. . . . His exposition is accented by insight ful commentary and criticism, and by examples from the history of science all with a keen sense of humor”—Science Education
2021 368 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 110 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-61865-4 $33.00 Your Price: $23.10
20 Philosophy of Science
Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction
Joseph Rouse
“Rouse is once again on the vanguard of social theory. His naturecultural approach profoundly rethinks practice theory, demonstrating the interdependence of human practices with both the material environment and other organisms. It makes available new ways to think about cen tral topics in philosophy and the social sciences, including normativity, discourse, power, and tem porality. I will be reflecting on the consequences of this work for some time.”—Mark Risjord, Emory Universit y 2023 352 p. 6 x 9
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New in Paperback Astrotopia
The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
“A singular perspective on space technology, with unexpected comparisons to colonialism that will make readers think twice about the future of humanity on other planets.”—Library Journal
2024 224 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones
112 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83338-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Inference and Representation
A Study in Modeling Science
Mauricio Suárez
“Suárez has written a brilliant account of the inferential conception of scientific representa tion, its historical roots, and its application to contemporary scientific modeling. . . . A mag nificent work.”—Bas C. van Fraassen, Princeton University
2024 352 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
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Evolution and the Machinery of Chance
Philosophy, Probability, and Scientific Practice in Biology
Marshall Abrams
“This book will interest readers looking for the most recent discussions and finer points of current thinking about evolution. Those with a technical background in the mathematics of probability and statistics will find parts of this book especially informative. . . . Highly recom mended.”— Choice
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones, 12 line drawings, 4 tables
114 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82663-9 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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