Our Country
Corresponding with Ludwig
Britain, Resolution and Resolve
Edited by Brian McGuinness
Roger Scruton
Translated by Peter Winslow Translated into English for the first time, these letters between Ludwig and his siblings reveal a side of Wittgenstein few would have known. Their intimacy offers new insights into his relationships and groundbreaking ideas. Using a different tone for each of his siblings, he creates distinct portraits. The open tone to Hermine, a mother figure; the practical, joking tone to Paul; the loving and witty tone to Helene Salzer. Spanning fifty years, the letters collected here illuminate Wittgenstein as never before.
In this bracingly controversial book, Roger Scruton revisits the foundations of our national experience, surveying the British legacy – social, cultural, legal and political – and animating the sentiments that attach us to it. He asks to what are our duties owed, and why? How do we respond to the pull of globalisation, to mass migration, to the rise of Islam and to the decline of Christian belief? Do we accept these things as inevitable, or do we resist? And if we resist, on what basis do we build? An invitation to join, rather than an attempt to condemn, Our Country is also a summary of Scruton’s life’s work as a writer and philosopher.
P R I M A RY P H I L O S O P H Y
Wittgenstein's Family Letters
UK November 2017 • US January 2018 • 224 pages • No illustrations HB 9781472947888 • £16.99 / $18.00 Individual eBook 9781472947871 • £14.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472947864 Bloomsbury Continuum
UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 256 pages HB 9781474298131 • £20.00 / $28.00 Individual eBook 9781474298148 • £20.00 Library eBook 9781474298117 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Dissenting Words Jacques Rancière, University of Paris VIII, France
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness
Edited and translated by Emiliano Battista
Gary Cox, University of Birmingham, UK
Interviews with Jacques Rancière
Through these dialogues Jacques Rancière offers us an incisive overview of his philosophical project, from its beginnings during the ‘Red Years’ in France to its most recent formulations. It supplements Rancière's scholarly and theoretical works with his reflections on the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought. In a conversational style brimming with informative asides into current events, Dissenting Words draws upon examples ranging from the history of the workers' struggle to literature, cinema and the arts - all of which we have learned to associate with Rancière. UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 384 pages PB 9781350024700 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781623566197 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781623568818 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781623565039 Bloomsbury Academic World English
‘Here the bestselling author of How to Be an Existentialist delivers a crunchier, more technical reading of the views of Sartre, De Beauvoir, Heidegger and others ... Cox leads the reader well through vivid examples’ - The Guardian An entertaining philosophical guide to life, love, hate, freedom, sex, anxiety, God and death; a guide to everything and nothing. Taking us on a journey which fascinates, provokes and inspires, Cox explores existentialism's uncompromising view of human reality. Addressing the challenge of living honestly and authentically, he sets the wisdom of the existentialist philosophers alongside the wit of great musicians and comedians. UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 192 pages PB 9781350029729 • £9.99 / $13.95 Previously published in HB 9781441107831 Individual eBook 9781441157379 • £9.99 / $10.99 Library eBook 9781441189967 Bloomsbury Academic
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