University of Chicago Press 2024 Philosophy Catalog

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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

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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

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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

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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

4 General Philosophy

Speaking the Truth about Oneself

Madness, Language, Literature

The Chicago Foucault Project

Descartes

Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 Michel Foucault Michel Foucault “The essays collected in this book are as urgent “Fruchaud and Lorenzini deliver a highly read‑ today as they were fifty years ago: provocative, able set of lectures Foucault delivered in English generative, and timely. Each is a bridge connecting at Victoria University (Toronto) in 1982, just two Foucault’s histories of the modern subject to years prior to his untimely passing, lectures different fields of inquiry, from literature to that are pivotal in connecting the vertices of structuralism to the philosophy of J. L. Austin.

Foucault’s triangle: the will to know, the obligation Anyone interested in literary theory, early mod‑ to confess, and care of the self. Drawing on unpub‑ ern history, or continental philosophy will find lished notes, audio recordings, and student notes, these essays inspiring.”—Richard Neer, University which, in some cases, Foucault himself corrected, of Chicago the editors have erected an important monument 2023 240 p. 6 x 9 16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77483-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50 to Foucault’s continuing relevance.”—Choice 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

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 “Very few books have struck this reviewer as both reader a more fully human Descartes than is found poetic and so very real at the same moment . . . a in most introductions to his philosophy.”—Choice deeply felt and touchingly presented view of how Renaissance Lives Distributed for Reaktion Books to be human . . . If the reader can accept May’s 288 p. 51/2 x 81/2 11 color plates, 14 halftones starting premise—that all beings suffer—then the 2023 17 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-683-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50 rest will be easy to digest. Highly recommended.”

—Choice Robert Hooke’s Experimental Accepting Our Vulnerability Todd May

2025 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84010-9 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Philosophy

Felicity Henderson “In this absorbing and wide‑ranging study, The Philosophy of Memoir Felicity Henderson charts the vast range of Helena de Bres activities pursued by the virtuoso Robert Hooke, “Anyone in the process of reading, writing, natural philosopher and architect, master of criticizing, or teaching a memoir should stop ingenious instruments and visionary projects.” immediately, read this book, and then get back to —Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge work. . . . Artful Truths is must reading for those Renaissance Lives Distributed for Reaktion Books interested in memoirs of the past, present, and 2025 192 p. 5.43 x 8.5 10 color plates, 17 halftones future.”—Choice 18 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-954-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Artful Truths

2021 248 p. 51/2 x 81/2 15 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79380-1 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

General Philosophy 5

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Of Bridges

A Poetic and Philosophical Account

Thomas Harrison Sandra Laugier “Laugier’s brilliant book provides a concise history “. . . . these nine intriguing and accessible essays will connect readers to old and new ways of of the philosophy of language after Quine and thinking about what bridges do and often to what Wittgenstein. But Laugier does more than that: she shows why Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell’s they might have already done. . . . Harrison com‑ bines keen observations with cogent analyses claim that to speak about language is to speak about the world is an antimetaphysical revolution that will make readers think twice before cross‑ ing another bridge, whether it is over a highway in philosophy, a revolution that transforms our or waterway or simply connects what one makes understanding of epistemology and ethics.” in one’s mind.”—Choice —Toril Moi, Duke University

2023 304 p. 6 x 9 3 color plates, 73 halftones 2023 168 p. 6 x 9 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82649-3 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60 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

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

Distributed for Seagull Books 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

2021 224 p. 6 x 9 21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81585-5 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30 Distributed for Seagull Books 2023 86 p. 51/2 x 73/4 25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-80309-206-5 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

6 General Philosophy

A Philosophy of Lying

A Philosophy of Hope

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The Madness of Knowledge

Lars Svendsen Lars Svendsen “’It is better to be fooled occasionally than to go From a leading philosopher, A Philosophy of Hope through life with . . . chronic distrust,’ writes phi‑ explores hope’s nature and power, distinguishing losopher Svendsen in this clever take on lying and it from wishful thinking. Lars Svendsen argues telling the truth. . . . And though people can be that hope shapes our future and empowers indi‑ dishonest, Svendsen remains hopeful that serial viduals, highlighting its role in giving life mean‑ lying is an anomaly. His reflections are nuanced, ing and driving positive change. his conclusions smart, and he keeps things free of Distributed for Reaktion Books 224 p. 4.72 x 7.87 academic jargon. Philosophy‑minded readers will 2024 29 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-943-2 $22.50 Your Price: $16.88 find this an enjoyable and enlightening study.”

—Publishers Weekly 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 Distributed for Reaktion Books

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 Distributed for Reaktion Books

2021 356 p. 61/4 x 91/4 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-494-9 $42.00 Your Price: $31.50

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 Distributed for Reaktion Books

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

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2022 224 p. 5 x 73/4 27 halftones 31 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-606-6 $22.00 Your Price: $16.50

General Philosophy 7

The Afterlife of Data

How to Think Impossibly

“Fascinating. . . . [Deep] questions of memori‑ alization, ownership, and preservation, deftly teased out by the author.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Kripal bravely dives into fundamental questions, and he offers mind‑stretching possibilities as a result.”—Kirkus Reviews

What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care Carl Öhman

“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

About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else Jeffrey J. Kripal

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 “This book offers a fascinating series of sophisti‑ reasoned narrative arc. This is one of the most cated and insightful reflections on the many ways exciting, imaginative, and original books I’ve read in years, as well as one of the most accom‑ the appraisal of numbers has shaped culture and civilization. . . . [It] will yet be an intellectu‑ plished and learned: it is truly innovative literary criticism grounded in solid literary scholar‑ al treat for anyone who may delight in original ship.”­—Helen Deutsch, University of California philosophical musings without having to cross 2022 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones Greco‑Abrahamic borders.”—Choice 36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82104-7 $32.50 Your Price: $22.75 A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg

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

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 2023 328 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone it mounts to Robert Brandom’s contention that 34 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82402-4 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50 Hegel is best understood within the project of analytic philosophy.”—Choice “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 336 p. 6 x 9 28 line drawings 37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82607-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

8 General Philosophy/Ethics and Moral Philosophy

Touchy Subject

Addiction Becomes Normal

“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

“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

The History and Philosophy of Sex Education On the Late-Modern American Subject Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen Jaeyoon Park

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

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Enlightenment Biopolitics

The Three Ethologies

“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

“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

A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens William Max Nelson

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

A Positive Vision for Rebuilding Human-Animal Relationships Matthew Calarco

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

2023 152 p. 51/2 x 81/2 2024 192 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones, 1 tables 40 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81972-3 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30 43 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83448-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

Ethics and Moral Philosophy 9

Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness

Black Paper

“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

“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

Essays in Finitude John T. Lysaker

2023 256 p. 6 x 9 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82791-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Writing in a Dark Time Teju Cole

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 Moral Courage in Times of Confusion she was not a system builder and was not inter‑ and Despair ested in offering axioms by which to rearrange Kristen Renwick Monroe the world. Yet in following her train of thought, “A stunning tour de force on the concept of moral we experience the illuminating force of her courage. Its brilliance lies in how Monroe moves insights.”—The New York Review of Books to the heart of what psychodynamic psychology 2023 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 brings to the understanding of moral courage and 48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82950-0 $28.00 Your Price: $19.60 its relation to ordinary human beings. Beautifully Idiocracy written and clear, When Conscience Calls reflects The Culture of the New Idiot deep thought, careful writing, and great intelli‑ Zoran Terzic gence.”—James Glass, University of Maryland

When Conscience Calls

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 table 46 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78634-6 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40

“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 Distributed for DIAPHANES

2023 192 p. 51/4 x 81/4 49 Paper ISBN: 978-3-0358-0367-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

10 Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

The Musician as Philosopher

New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde, 1958–1978 Michael Gallope

Magical Nominalism

The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph Martin Jay

“. . . an inspired and dilative look at the mael‑ “. . . characterized by a broad genealogical sweep, strom of creative work in music and sound detailed and circumspect historical and cultural emanating from thinkers and doers living and working in mid‑twentieth century New York City. analyses, and a masterful internal architecture.

There is a great deal of wisdom in Jay’s text, as . . . Understanding these musicians as philoso‑ well as an incorruptible generosity of Geist (mind, phers, Gallope offers readers a deep history of sounds, styles, and ideas that ushered in music’s spirit, and intellect) that traverses the book’s future.”—Kwami T. Coleman, New York University entirety.”—Gerhard Richter, Brown 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 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79220-0 $31.00 Your Price: $21.70

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

Political Philosophy and Critical Theory 11

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

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 59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83904-2 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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, 2022 264 p. 6 x 9 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81785-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00 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

12 Political Philosophy and Critical Theory

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 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82432-1 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

When Spinoza Met Marx

Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity Tracie Matysik

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 65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84012-3 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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

“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 Class 200: New Studies in Religion philosophy. When Spinoza Met Marx is an excel‑ 2021 192 p. 6 x 9 lent book, and it deserves considerable attention 66 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81565-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00 from readers in modern European intellectual his‑ tory and from anyone interested in the modern for‑ Leo Strauss on Plato’s tunes of Marxism and posthumanist social theory.” Protagoras —Peter E. Gordon, coauthor of Authoritarianism: Leo Strauss Three Inquiries in Critical Theory “This transcript of the discussion between Leo The Life of Ideas Strauss and his students covers significant topics 2023 368 p. 6 x 9 63 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82233-4 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00 of importance to Strauss and political theory more broadly: the political uses of myth; the question of Leo Strauss on Nietzsche’s whether virtue can be taught; the ideas of courage, justice, and moderation; and freedom of thought Thus Spoke Zarathustra and speech, among many others.”—Choice Leo Strauss The Leo Strauss Transcript Series

The Leo Strauss Transcript Series

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History of Philosophy and Classic Works 13

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

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 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81917-4 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Perjury and Pardon, Volume II

Jacques Derrida “. . . Presents an expansive vision of responsibil‑ Jacques Derrida ity with the supreme clarity and profound rigor “[Derrida’s seminars] constitute not only a record that mark Derrida’s style as a formidable teacher of his work as a teacher, but also an intellectual across geographical and academic boundaries. journal, preserving his responses to new develop‑ Wills’s unique interpretative skills have resulted ments in politics, philosophy and literature. in yet another unsurpassed translation of . . . Derrida was probably the best‑known philos‑ Derrida’s breathtaking thought and legacy.” opher of his generation, but the publication of —Hent de Vries, New York University his seminars reveals that he was also a conscien‑ 2023 360 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones 72 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82528-1 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50 tious, kind, and industrious teacher.”

—The London Review of Books

Hospitality, Volume II

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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

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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 73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82935-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

14 History of Philosophy and Classic Works

American Exceptionalism

Don’t Forget to Live

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

“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

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America’s Philosopher

Inventing Philosophy’s Other

“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

“[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

A New History of an Old Idea Ian Tyrrell

Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises “Tyrrell, a distinguished Australian historian, has Pierre Hadot

John Locke in American Intellectual Life Claire Rydell Arcenas

2023 280 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones 75 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82933-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The France Chicago Collection

Phenomenology in America Jonathan Strassfeld

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 What is Nietzsche’s Zarathustra? to Wisdom 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 76 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-58156-9 $54.00 Your Price: $37.80

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

Ancient and Classical Philosophy 15

Reason and Character

The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy Lorraine Smith Pangle

Homer

The Very Idea James I. Porter

“This book is a reckoning with who or what we “Pangle’s book offers a singularly illuminating, understand Homer to be and how we have rein‑ meticulous, and learned examination of one of vented him for our own ends. Porter makes clear the two central works of classical political phi‑ the impossibility of Homer both as a concept and losophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. . . . Her as a person, revealing him as the illusion of a argument that Aristotle ultimately offers a subtle, perfectly formed whole that has been kept alive humane, socially responsible critique of the more for millennia, a ghost in the machine, a phantom conventional accounts of moral responsibility is both alive and dead. . . . An original, compelling, all the more powerful because of her attention to and eye-opening book.”—Alex C. Purves, author Aristotle’s overall discussion and because of her of Homer and the Poetics of Gesture 2023 280 p. 6 x 9 careful exegesis of the text.”—Peter Ahrensdorf, 83 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67590-9 $19.00 Your Price: $13.30 Davidson College 2024 336 p. 6 x 9 80 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83335-4 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Oikonomia

The Complete Works

Ancient Greek Philosophers on the Meaning of Economic Life Étienne Helmer

“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

“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

Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments Epictetus

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 82 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79864-6 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

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

16 Ancient and Classical Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion

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

Philosophy of Religion 17

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

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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

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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

18 Philosophy of Science

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)

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Beautiful Experiments

An Illustrated History of Experimental Science Philip Ball

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

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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 “Although experimentation is arguably the back‑ poses a deceptively simple question: why, he bone of modern science, historians of science asks, knowing what we do now, do we still bother have tended to focus their studies on theoretical with Mendel? . . . This isn’t the first attempt to lay developments. . . . Ball aims to rectify that dispar‑ history’s ghosts to rest and reset our ideas about ity. The richly illustrated book is a treat for the genetics. That said, I can’t think of one that is eyes.”—Physics Today, “2023 Books that Stood Out” better argued, more fair‑minded, or more enjoy‑ 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 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

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.

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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

Philosophy of Science 19

An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

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

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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 Why 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

New in Paperback

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

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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

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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 University 2023 352 p. 6 x 9 111 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82797-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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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

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Evolution and the Machinery of Chance Philosophy, Probability, and Scientific Practice in Biology Marshall Abrams

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