PHILOSOPHY from CHICAGO
How to Think like a Philosopher
Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking
Julian Baggini
“Baggini is that happy thing—a philosopher who recognizes that readers go glassy‑eyed if presented with high‑octane philosophical discourse. And yet [it] is in all our interests to consider crucial aspects of what it means to be human.”— Observer, on Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will
2023 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Metaracial Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity
Rei Terada
“Behind the ‘subject slave,’ universally human by virtue of the dialectic, there is a second slave hiding, the Black slave. Deconstructing this trope in Hegel, Terada reveals the philosophical sources of an embar rassing paradox—antiblack antiracism—which con tinuously 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
2 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82371 3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Don’t Forget to Live Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises
Pierre Hadot
“This deeply personal work, by one of the greatest of French classical philosophers, featuring one of his major inspirations, the great German author and philosopher Goethe, excellently translated by Michael Chase, might just change your life. It is the culmina tion of Hadot’s long‑term concern with ‘philosophy as a way of life,’ and constitutes a significant expansion and deepening of this theme.”
—John Dillon, Trinity College Dublin
The France Chicago Collection
2023 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2 7 halftones
3 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 49716 7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life A Philosophical Grand Tour
Scott
Samuelson“Rome as a Guide to the Good Life immerses us in glorious works of art and architecture. But in Rome, every aspect of life, from Raphael to food to gestic ulation, is an art. Rather than guiding us through the labyrinth of the city’s streets, Samuelson guides us through the labyrinth of life, more daunting than any streetscape.”—Ingrid
D.Rowland, author of Giordano Bruno and The Collector of Lives
2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 color plates, 2 halftones
4 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 78004 7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00
The Complete Works Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments Epictetus
“This new translation of Epictetus by Waterfield is very welcome indeed. Both the translation and the notes help to make Epictetus more accessible than ever. Especially valuable is the introduction, which expertly situates Epictetus’s thought within wider Stoic philosophy and touches on many of the key debates in recent scholarship.”—John Sellars, author of The Pocket Epicurean
2022 480 p. 6 x 9 10 b/w halftones
5 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 76947 9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Madness, Language, Literature
Michel Foucault
Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between mad ness, language, and literature, French philosopher
Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in his later, more well known writings. Collected here, these previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an analysis of language and experience detached from their histori cal constraints.
The Chicago Foucault Project
2023 240 p. 6 x 9
6 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 77483 1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Inventing Philosophy’s Other Phenomenology in America
Jonathan Strassfeld
“Strassfeld is one of the most talented young schol ars writing about the history of academic thought. Ambitious and comprehensive, Inventing Philosophy’s Other suggests that the triumph of analytic phi losophy in America was neither preordained nor determined strictly on the basis of the quality of thought.”—Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania
2022
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Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy Finding His Way
Richard Schacht
“Schacht’s latest book is one of a kind. With unparal leled insight, he offers a comprehensive, sharp‑sight ed, and scrupulously honest rendering of Nietzsche’s main concerns, but above all an illuminating investi gation into the primary, determining questions: What exactly is the purpose of philosophy, according to Nietzsche? How did he radically transform the dis cipline? And why did he have to? A priceless book which provides a lucid understanding of Nietzsche’s specific stance and logic.”—Patrick Wotling, University
2023
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Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
Sartre’s Appropriation of Hegel and Marx
Terry Pinkard
“Pinkard has written a pathbreaking and compelling work that shows the importance of Sartre’s extensive rethinking of his understanding of Hegel and Marx and the role of Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism in his later thought. Key concepts such as subjectivity, agency, reciprocity, dialectic, materiality, and sociality are given original and philosophically rich interpre tations, all presented with striking lucidity. Practice, Power, and Forms of Life is an extraordinary tour de force, both as interpretation and as philosophy, and it should lead to a major reassessment of the later Sartre.”—Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
2022 200 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 political theorist of the American Revolution is only the most striking of its findings. This book will surprise and inform every reader invested in the his tory of American political culture. There is simply nothing comparable in the existing literature.”
—Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University
2022 280 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
10 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 63860 7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
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 suc ceeds 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 remarkable achievement and a major contribution to understanding Rousseau.”
—Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto
2023 288 p. 6 x 9
11 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82550 2 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75
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 excellent book, and it deserves considerable attention from readers in modern European intellectual history and from any one interested in the modern fortunes 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
12 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 82233 4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00
The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn
Incommensurability in Science
Thomas S. Kuhn
“Combining Kuhn’s unfinished last book, The Plurality of Worlds, with two related works not previously available in English, and a substantial and illuminating introduction by editor Bojana Mladenović, The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn will be received as an absolute gem by philosophers of science, as well as by the wide swath of academics across the social sciences and humanities who revere Kuhn.”
—Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto
2022 312 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
13 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 82274 7 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Family Idiot
Gustave Flaubert, 1821–1857, An Abridged Edition
Jean-Paul Sartre
“The nihilism of the imaginary, as it is elaborately anatomized in The Family Idiot, is [not] a mere nine teenth‑century curiosity or a local feature of some specifically French middle‑class culture; nor is it a private obsession of Jean‑Paul Sartre himself. Turning things into images, abolishing the real world, grasp ing the world as little more than a text or sign‑sys tem—this is notoriously the very logic of our own consumer society, the society of the image or the media event . . . [The Family Idiot] may well speak with terrifying immediacy [today].”—Fredric Jameson, on the unabridged edition, New York Times
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
14 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82232 7 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
Scott R. Stroud
“Ambedkar was one of the greatest legal and political thinkers of the twentieth century, but his thought is barely known in the United States. With wide‑rang ing research and insightful philosophical probing, Stroud shows that Ambedkar, using Dewey’s works as a fulcrum, created a distinctive form of Buddhist pragmatism, committed to meliorist social dialogue, non‑anger, and the flexible pursuit of social democ racy. A major achievement.”—Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
2023 320 p. 6 x 9
15 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82432 1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30
The Ashtray
(Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
Errol Morris
Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth.
2023 192 p. 8 x 10 49 color plates, 39 halftones
16 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 92269 0 $25.00
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A Decent Life
Morality for the Rest of Us
Todd May
A conversational and approach able guide to how to be a better person, from one of the philo sophical consultants behind the hit tv show The Good Place
2021 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table
17 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 78634 6 $18.00
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The Subversive Simone Weil
A Life in Five Ideas
Robert Zaretsky
Distinguished literary biographer Robert Zaretsky upends our thinking on Simone Weil, bringing us a woman and a philosopher who is complicated and challeng ing, while remaining incredibly relevant.
2021 200 p. 51/2 x 81/2
18 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 54933 0 $20.00
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Nietzsche and Race
Marc de Launay
A definitive debunking of the “Nietzsche as Nazi” caricature.
2023 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2
19 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 81972 3 $29.00
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Disalienation
Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar
France
Camille Robcis
A transnational history of institu tional psychotherapy from its ori gins in France through its various transformations between 1945 and 1975.
Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
2021 240 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones
20 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 77774 0 $35.00
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Accident
A Philosophical and Literary History
Ross Hamilton
From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea.
2022 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
21 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82104 7 $32.50
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Artful Truths
The Philosophy of Memoir
Helena de Bres
Offers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir.
2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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The Rabbit Between Us
Victor Menza
Through philosophy, history, edu cation, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love.
Distributed for Seagull Books
2021 172 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
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Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought
John T. Lysaker
Lysaker examines the relationship between philosophical thought and the act of writing to explore how this dynamic shapes the field of philosophy.
2021 224 p. 6 x 9
24 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 81585 5 $25.00
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The Madness of Knowledge
On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing
Steven Connor
In an age of artificial intelligence, alternative facts, and mistrust of truth, The Madness of Knowledge offers an opulent, enlarging, and sometimes unnerving psychopa thology of intellectual life.
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2021 384 p. 61/4 x 91/4
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The Sea as Mirror Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
Wu Yi
A rich exploration of the philo sophical and literary meanings of the ocean.
Distributed for DIAPHANES
2021 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4
26 Paper ISBN: 978 3 0358 0368 6 $35.00
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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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2022 72 p. 51/2 x 73/4
27 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 85742 996 4 $19.00
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What Is Time?
An Enquiry
Truls Wyller
Wyller enquires into time’s com plex nature, juxtaposing the latest scientific theories with our per sonal experience of chronology.
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2020 176 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones
28 Paper ISBN: 978 1 78914 236 5 $18.00
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A Philosophy of Lying
Lars Svendsen
From lying to friends to lies in politics, a wide ranging exam ination of the forms and ethics of falsehood.
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2022 136 p. 43/4 x 73/4
29 Paper ISBN: 978 1 78914 563 2 $20.00
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Taste
A Philosophy of Food
Sarah E. Worth
A thoughtful consideration of taste as a sense and an idea and of how we might jointly develop both.
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2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Ritchie Robertson
An accessible and informative study of the life and work of this vaunted German philosopher.
Critical Lives
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2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 27 halftones
31 Paper ISBN: 978 1 78914 606 6 $19.00
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Descartes
The Renewal of Philosophy
Steven Nadler
A critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle (“I think therefore I am.”) reshaped modern philosophy.
Renaissance Lives
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2023 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 11 color plates, 14 halftones
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Street Life and Morals
German Philosophy in Hitler’s Lifetime
Lesley Chamberlain
With resonance for today, this book explores a significant crisis of German philosophy and nation al identity in the decades around World War II.
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2021 356 p. 61/4 x 91/4
33 Cloth ISBN: 978 1 78914 494 9 $40.00
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The Idea of World
Public Intellect and Use of Life
Paolo Virno
A philosophical exploration of what capitalistic societies truly mean for the individual.
The Italian List
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2022 172 p. 6 x 9
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Occasional Philosophical Writings
Jean-Paul Sartre
Four essays by the French master addressing other philosophers and their work.
The French List
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2021 144 p. 5 x 8
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Ethics by Committee
A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State Noortje Jacobs
How liberal democracies in the late twentieth century have sought to resolve public concerns over charged issues in medicine and science.
2022 264 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones
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Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
Michel Foucault
A collection of Foucault’s lectures that trace the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self.
The Chicago Foucault Project 2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 line drawings
37 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82645 5 $24.00
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Uncountable
A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg
Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compro mise our sense of humanity.
2021 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
38 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 64698 5 $30.00
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Victories Never Last
Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague
Robert Zaretsky
A timely and nuanced book that sets the author’s experience as a nursing home volunteer during the pandemic alongside the wis dom of great thinkers who con fronted their own plagues.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Dark Lens
Imaging Germany, 1945
Françoise Meltzer
Esteemed scholar Françoise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war.
2021 256 p. 6 x 9 4 color plates, 41 halftones
40 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 81685 2 $27.50
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Black Paper
Writing in a Dark Time
Teju Cole
A wide ranging collection of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
Berlin Family Lectures
2021 288 p. 5 x 8 8 color plates, 6 halftones
41 Cloth ISBN: 978 0 226 64135 5 $22.50
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Philosophy by Other Means
The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts
Robert B. Pippin
Pippin expands his work on the relationship between philosophy and the arts, demonstrating the importance of practicing philo sophical criticism and showing how the arts can provide key insights for philosophy.
2021 304 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
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The Pensive Image Art as a Form of Thinking
Hanneke Grootenboer
Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought.
2021 240 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 26 halftones
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The Porch Meditations on the Edge of Nature
Charlie Hailey
Solidly grounded in ideas, ecol ogy, and architecture, Charlie Hailey’s The Porch takes us on a journey along the edges of nature where the outside comes in, hosts meet guests, and imagination runs wild.
2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings
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The Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture
Susan Stewart
Poet and critic Susan Stewart considers our contin ued fascination with ruins and their hold on popular imagination.
2021 400 p. 7 x 10 11 color plates, 80 halftones
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Sound and Affect
Voice, Music, World
Edited by Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, and Stephen Decatur Smith
At the intersection of sound stud ies and affect theory, the essays in this volume address the sounds and music that surround us in everyday life and the responses they can provoke.
2021 416 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones
46 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 75801 5 $35.00
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Theory of Form
Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age
Florian Klinger
A pragmatist conception of artis tic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter. 2022 192 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones
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Filmed Thought
Cinema as Reflective Form
Robert B. Pippin
Pippin is well known as a philos opher who applies his ideas to film, and here he continues his investigations of cinema, showing how it shares with philosophy a sustained investigation of what it means to be human.
2019 312 p. 6 x 9 66 color plates, 30 halftones
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A Defense of Judgment
Michael W. Clune
Clune argues for cultivating artis tic judgment in the field of literary studies, arguing for its political potential to transcend consumer culture and market preferences.
2021 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2
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Like Andy Warhol
Jonathan Flatley
A revelatory look at Warhol’s likeness producing practices, reflecting the singular artist’s whole range of interests and media.
2023 288 p. 7 x 10 12 color plates, 65 halftones
50 Paper ISBN: 978 0 226 82394 2 $35.00
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Thinking Out of Sight
Writings on the Arts of the Visible
Jacques Derrida
This volume brings together nine teen of Jacques Derrida’s texts on the making of visual artworks.
The France Chicago Collection
2021 328 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
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