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A Hacker Manifesto
MCKENZIE WARK
Q: So why hackers?
A: Whenever you try to describe something new you
have to reach into the language and find an old word that
can do a new job. I like hacker because its a good old
sturdy English word. Theres nothing Latinate about it.
What I want this word to do is to
describe a new kind of class interest.
Hackers are people who create new ideas.
Hackers innovate. But they dont own the
means of realizing the value of what they
create. So a hacker could be a computer
programmer or a musician or a novelist
or a bio-chemist.
Q: Most people would think of hackers
as kids who break into computers.
A: It used to mean people who create
new computer code, but it is interesting
how its a term thats been trivialized and
demonized. I think thats always the case
with new kinds of political force. The
word democrat used to be an insult.
I want to do the opposite with the term: make it broader
and more inclusive, not something narrow and
marginal. Hackers could be working in any field, not
just computing. Although it seems only appropriate to
name a whole class over one of its leading new forms of
creativitythe programmers.
Q: So what from your own experience led you to this
book?
A: Signing contracts with publishers! Im not kidding. I
realized, as many people do, that you have very little
control over the terms under which you sell the product
of your own mind. The intellectual property laws,
which pretend to protect the interests of the creator,
really protect the interests of the owner. And since most
of us dont own the means of production, we dont stay
owners for long.
But I also had a positive experience, on listservers like
nettime.org, where I met a whole community of people
trying to put into practice a new, global gift economy of
knowledge. So that was the practice; A Hacker Manifesto
is the theory. I think a lot of people could recognize
themselves in this book. It tries to map the possibilities
for the free creation of knowledge that we have all experienced, no matter how distorted it gets when it gets
reduced to a commodity.
2004 208 pp. Cloth $21.95 / 14.95 ISBN 0-674-01543-6
NEW TITLES 2
WALTER BENJAMIN
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 3
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21
PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICS 15
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 24
ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING 26
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INDEX 27
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PHILOSOPHY
OF MIND
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Mindsight
Image, Dream, Meaning
COLIN MCGINN
How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowers
draw honeybees. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Sartre, philosophers have talked and written about
this most elusive of topicsthat is, until contemporary analytic philosophy of mind developed.
The guiding thread of this book is the distinction Colin McGinn draws between perception and imagination.
Clearly, seeing an object is similar in certain respects to forming a mental image of it, but it is also different. McGinn
shows what the differences are, arguing that imagination is a sui generis mental faculty. He goes on to discuss the
nature of dreaming and madness, contending that these are primarily imaginative phenomena. In the second half
of the book McGinn focuses on what he calls cognitive (as opposed to sensory) imagination, and investigates the
role of imagination in logical reasoning, belief formation, the understanding of negation and possibility, and the
comprehension of meaning. His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctive
principles, and merits much more attention.
This book contains the most innovative and important work that Colin McGinn has done in the course of his distinguished career.
It has the potential to be an extraordinarily influential book, and to create, almost single-handedly, a new area of systematic study
in analytic philosophy of mind: the philosophy of the imagination. Work done in this new area could provide a foundation for work
done in many other areas, including the epistemology of perception, the metaphysics of intentionality, the scientific understanding of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities.
Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
McGinns book is first rate, manifesting all the qualities of incisive argument, original
thought and clear, direct, lively, pithy writing for which he is celebrated.
Malcolm Budd, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University College London
2004 224 pp. Cloth $27.95 / 18.95 ISBN 0-674-01560-6
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Finding a
Replacement for
the Soul
Mind Time
BENJAMIN LIBET
BRETT BOURBON
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Confusion
AVISHAI MARGALIT
Avishai Margalits work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of
overwhelming atrocities, memory can
seem more crippling than liberating, a
force more for revenge than for reconciliation. Morally powerful, deeply
learned, and elegantly written, The
Ethics of Memory draws on the resources
of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to
provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us
who care about the nature of our relations to others.
[A] thought-provoking book ... For Margalit ... the paradigm is
Jewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories of
humiliation. Still, his sensitive meditations show how these two
strains of hurt might be overcome. In a marvelous chapter
called Forgiving and Forgetting, Margalit asks whether we
have a duty to forgive those who have wronged us. His answer
is elegant ... Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker. His
philosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in all
our complexity. And yet he is committed to making sense of us
in ways that will make us better.
Jonathan Lear, New York Times Book Review
2002; 2004 240 pp.
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Descartess Dualism
MARLEEN ROZEMOND
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Simple Mindedness
In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind
JENNIFER HORNSBY
Jennifer Hornsby [has written] a series of careful and insightful papers ... over the past twenty
years. In Simple Mindedness, she does us the great service of collecting twelve of these papers
together in a single volume ... Her overall picture of the mind is filled out in a helpful introduction,
and in a series of useful postscripts ... Hornsby disagrees with both Descartes and materialists ...
She denies that people are composed of a material and an immaterial substance ... [but also]
denies that mental properties reduce to physical properties ... Materialists who put in the time and
effort to [weigh Hornsbys views] will be richly rewarded. There is much an orthodox materialist
can learn from the heretical Hornsby.
Michael Smith, Times Literary Supplement
1997; 2001 2 line illus. 288 pp.
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PHILOSOPHOY OF M IND
Just as Kant managed to recast a good bit of the history of philosophy as a struggle between
rationalism and empiricism (thus leading to his synthesis of the two), Brandom has recast a
substantial portion of modern philosophy as a struggle over the consequences of inferentialist
approaches. The way he shows that there is a coherent line to be traced from Leibniz to Spinoza
to Kant to Hegel to Frege to Heidegger to Wittgenstein to Sellars is brilliant; it will quite naturally
also be controversial (in all the best senses). This is one of those books that will force even the
people who disagree most with him to have to take his position all the more seriously. If nothing
else, this shows that the usual ways of drawing the (by now tired) continental/analytic distinctions are in serious need of rethinking. Brandoms is an original voice. Brandoms work, obviously
analytical in orientation, also claims to take its inspirations from figures normally shunned in
analytic circles. This makes him a key figure in the effort to overcome the dichotomy.
Terry Pinkard, Northeastern University
2002 448 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 29.95 ISBN 0-674-00903-7
Articulating Reasons
An Introduction to Inferentialism
ROBERT B. BRANDOM
2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year AwardPhilosophy Category
Displaying a sovereign command of the intricate discussion in the analytic philosophy of
language, Brandom manages successfully to carry out a program within the philosophy of
language that has already been sketched by others, without losing sight of the vision inspiring the
enterprise in the important details of his investigation Using the tools of a complex theory of
language, Brandom succeeds in describing convincingly the practices in which the reason and
autonomy of subjects capable of speech and action are expressed.
Jrgen Habermas
2000; 2001 240 pp.
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Consciousness in Action
S. L. HURLEY
1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of Philosophy and Religion
by the Association of American Publishers
Consciousness in Action contains ten highly original, densely argued, interrelated essays on the
nature and unity of consciousness, the relationships of consciousness to underlying neurophysiological processes and environmental stimuli, and the connections among consciousness, perception and action ... [It] exhibits the astonishing breadth of knowledge, technical virtuosity and subtle
analyses Hurleys readers have come to expect in her work ... [It] is a significant work not only
because of its depth, originality and impressive detail, but also because its integration of philosophy with neuropsychology and cognitive science provides new avenues of research for philosophers concerned about the nature of the mind, perception, and action ... [H]er books impact will
continue to be felt for years to come.
Dan Silber, Philosophy in Review
1998; 2002 32 illus., 8 tables 528 pp.
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ERIC A. MACGILVRAY
SAMUEL FLEISCHACKER
The reluctance to admit controversial beliefs as legitimate grounds for public action threatens to prevent us
from responding effectively to many of the leading
social and political challenges that we face. Eric
MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention
away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial
public ends in the present and toward the problem of
evaluating potentially controversial public ends through
collective inquiry over time. Rather than ask ourselves
which public ends are justified, we must instead decide
which public ends we should seek to justify.
Reconstructing Public Reason offers a fundamental rethinking of the nature and aims of liberal toleration, and
of the political implications of pragmatic philosophy. It
also provides fresh interpretations of founding pragmatic thinkers such as John Dewey and William
James, and of leading contemporary figures such as
John Rawls and Richard Rorty.
Fleischacker provides a fascinating account of the development of our contemporary notion of distributive justice. This is
an excellent book that fills a real need.
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and
author of Welfare and Rational Care
This is a succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history of
distributive justice that will be a boon for teachers and
students. Written with a light touch, it will provoke discussion
and thought, raising the possibility of seeing things differently.
A fine contribution.
Ross Harrison, author of
Hobbes, Locke, and Confusions Masterpiece
2004 204 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 25.95 ISBN 0-674-01340-9
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This book identifies the theme of social entrapment in three important 20th century social theorists: Weber, Freud, and
Foucault. It ably shows how the theme emerged from the problems of the Enlightenment and attempts by Marx and
Nietzsche to solve them. It also points out some of the dead ends to which it has led its expositors. An impressive combination of research and argument.
Bernard Yack, Brandeis University
2004 260 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 32.95 ISBN 0-674-01330-1
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This is an erudite and original study of the great entrapment and proto-entrapment theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries,
namely, Kant, Mary Shelley, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Benjamin, Kafka and Foucault. As Chowers convincingly shows,
these theorists argue that moderns have come to be subject to and subjectified by historical processes that govern their
conduct ... The interpretation of individual authors and the story as a whole are presented with an exemplary depth of scholarship and insight, and the cumulative effect is to throw a critical and foreboding light on the present.
James Tully, University of Victoria
NEW
Just Work
RUSSELL MUIRHEAD
This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the
kind of work we do. Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that
fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of
a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something
important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly
urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community.
Muirhead weaves his argument out of sociological, economic, and philosophical analysis. He shows, among other things, how modern feminisms effort to reform domestic
work and extend the promise of careers has contributed to more democratic understandings of what it means to have work that fits. Just Work shows what it would mean
for work to make good on the high promise so often invested in it and suggests what we
both as a society and as individuals might do when it falls short.
In this original and provocative book, Muirhead argues that justice in work is more than a matter
of fair wages and decent working conditions; it is also a matter of fitbetween the work we do
and the persons we are. With a clear and distinctive voice, Muirhead revives work as a subject for
political theory and illuminates the ethics of everyday life.
Michael Sandel, author of Democracys Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
2004 224 pp. Cloth $24.95 / 16.95 ISBN 0-674-01558-4
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Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in
philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice,
the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to
these difficult issues. This volumethe first of the twois principally concerned with
rationality and freedom.
Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists. He is an outstanding
economic theorist, a world authority on social choice and welfare economics. He is a leading figure
in development economics, carrying out pathbreaking work on appraising the effectiveness of
investment in poor countries and, more recently, on famine. At the same time, he takes a broad
view of the subject and has done much to widen the perspective of economists.
A. B. Atkinson, New York Review of Books
Belknap 2003; 2004 2 line illus. 750 pp. Paper $19.95 / 12.95 OIP ISBN 0-674-01351-4
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Sovereign Virtue
The Theory and Practice of Equality
RONALD DWORKIN
For the last two decades, Ronald Dworkin has been developing answers to...questions [of public
policy] as part of a powerful and surprising response to the larger question of how we should
reconcile liberty with equality. Unlike many partisans of equality, he thinks conservatives are right
to hold individuals largely responsible for their own fates. But unlike many partisans of liberty, he
nevertheless believes in substantial governmental intervention to bring about more equality. And,
unlike both, he argues that, in the deepest sense, equality and liberty are never truly at odds. In
Sovereign Virtue, Dworkin has brought together this surprising theory and some of its applications...If we care about having a rational public discourse about the many contests that seem to
pit liberty against equality, we owe his book a careful reading.
K. Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books
Sovereign Virtue ... is ... extraordinarily impressive: supple, suave and enviably deft, like all his
work, and in its cumulative effect quite exceptionally illuminating[Dworkin] has been in many
ways the most systematic moral, political and legal thinker of the past three decades in the
Anglophone world. He may lack the personal authority or the singularity of mind of John Rawls.
But on this evidence he has a substantially broader range of ambition, a set of forceful moral intuitions, a speed and boldness of intellectual manoeuvre, and a combination of energy and sheer
pertinacity that are all his own.
John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement
A Theory of Justice
Revised Edition
JOHN RAWLS
Rawlss Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this centurys most important work
of political philosophy. Originally published in 1971, it quickly became the subject of extensive
commentary and criticism, which led Rawls to revise some of the arguments he had originally
put forward in this work ... This edition will certainly become the definitive one; all scholars will
use it, and it will be an essential text for any academic library. It contains a new preface that
helpfully outlines the major revisions, and a conversion table that correlates the pagination of
this edition with the original, which will be useful to students and scholars working with this
edition and the extensive secondary literature on Rawlss work. Highly recommended.
J. D. Moon, Choice
Review of the previous edition:
John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy to
provide the social contract tradition with what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, the
most formidable defense it has yet received ... [and] makes available the powerful intellectual
resources and the comprehensive approach that have so far eluded antiutilitarians. He also
makes clear how wrong it was to claim, as so many were claiming only a few years back, that
systematic moral and political philosophy are dead ... Whatever else may be true it is surely true
that we must develop a sterner and more fastidious sense of justice. In making his peerless
contribution to political theory, John Rawls has made a unique contribution to this urgent task.
No higher achievement is open to a scholar.
Marshall Cohen, New York Times Book Review
Belknap 1999 12 line illus. 560 pp.
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Justice as Fairness
A Restatement
JOHN RAWLS
EDITED BY ERIN KELLY
There have been millions of words written about A Theory of Justice and many articles and
several books by Rawls defending and expanding its doctrines. Justice as Fairness will almost
certainly be the last of these, and it should take its place as the best and most comprehensive
statement of Rawlss eventual position. It is an exemplary work in every way. Rawlss own virtues
shine through. He follows the argument where it leads. He listens to his critics and acknowledges
his supporters; he gives way when it is necessary, but remains firm where he can take a stand.
Anybody convinced that political thought is all about disguised power, or rhetoric, or ideology in
the bad sense of the word, should confront this book.
Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement
Belknap 2001; 2001 2 line illus. 240 pp.
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Collected Papers
JOHN RAWLS
EDITED BY SAMUEL FREEMAN
What a body of work this is, and what an accomplishment. Collected Papers affords an opportunity to step back and see [Rawlss] work as a whole, as the elaboration of a single powerful and
abiding idea ... This volume of Collected Papers stands as an inspiration to the next generation of
theorists.
Jeremy Waldron, London Review of Books
The course of Rawlss career can be followed clearly in the Collected Papers, whose twenty-seven
chapters span forty-eight years ... The writings of John Rawls, whom it is now safe to describe as
the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century ... owe their influence to the fact that
their depth and their insight repay the close attention that their uncompromising theoretical weight
and erudition demand.
Thomas Nagel, New Republic
1999; 2001 1 table 672 pp. Paper $27.95 / 18.95 ISBN 0-674-00569-4
Semblances of Sovereignty
The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship
T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF
Aleinikoff examines sovereignty, citizenship, and the broader concept of membership (aliens as well
as citizens) in the American nation-state and suggests that American constitutional law needs understandings of sovereignty and membership that are supple and flexible, open to new arrangements ...
Sure to generate heated debate over the extent to which the rules governing immigration, Indian tribes,
and American territories should be altered, this book is required reading for constitutional scholars.
R. J. Steamer, Choice
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Cities of Words
Pedagogical Letters on a
Register of the Moral Life
STANLEY CAVELL
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Ethics without
Ontology
HILARY PUTNAM
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Ethical Formation
SABINA LOVIBOND
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Laws Quandary
HILARY PUTNAM
STEVEN D. SMITH
The recent past has seen striking advances in our understanding of both moral responsibility and distributive justice. S. L. Hurleys ambitious work brings these two areas of lively debate into overdue contact with
each other. Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in
terms of responsibility; in this view, the aim of egalitarianism is to respect differences between positions for
which people are responsible while neutralizing differences that are a matter of luck. But this approach,
Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice. Her book brings the new articulation of responsibility to bear in explaining these constraints.
Hurleys arguments are highly original. This is an impressive and insightful book.
Peter Vallentyne, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth University
2003 6 line illus. 524 pp.
Cloth $55.00 / 35.95 ISBN 0-674-01029-9
Luck-neutralization is a central concept in contemporary work on distributive justice, and thus moral responsibility is
also a central concept (insofar as luck is what one is not morally responsible for). It is therefore fruitful and illuminating to apply important insights from responsibility theory to various theories of distributive justice. The book is written in a lively style, Susan Hurley is remarkably
well-versed in the literature on free will and moral responsibility as well as distributive
justice, and the ideas are vibrant and provocative ... [A] path-breaking book.
John Martin Fischer, Professor of Philosophy, University of California Riverside
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PHILOSOPHY OF
CULTURE & SOCIETY
NEW
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Four Cultures
of the West
The Emergence
of Sexuality
JOHN W. OMALLEY
Historical Epistemology
and the Formation of
Concepts
ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON
No one of his generation has
better mastered Foucaults
archeological and genealogical work than Davidson. I do
not mean in saying so that he
is an expert on Foucault
(which he is) but rather that he has learned how best to do his
own work having seen what Foucault could do.
Ian Hacking, Common Knowledge
In presenting his account of historical epistemology (tracing
the ways concepts are modified as conditions of objectivity and
forms of subjectivity change each other), Arnold Davidson takes
as a pivotal task the confrontation of Foucaults writing (to the
totality of which Davidson is a world-renowned guide) with that
of Freud (on whose Three Essays on Sexuality he has produced
ground-breaking work), along the way showing the pertinence
to his project of Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations. A
growing body of students and specialists in philosophy, and
cultural studies, and the history of science, in particular of
psychiatry, have been profiting from Arnold Davidsons clarity
and his stunning erudition for a couple of decades now. This
initial selection of his essays is an excellent introduction to his
singular array of scholarly and critical accomplishments.
Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
2002; 2004 17 halftones, 12 line illus. 272 pp.
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AESTHETICS
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Ugly Feelings
SIANNE NGAI
Envy, irritation, paranoiain contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like
anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action
is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects
give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings
become all the more suited for diagnosing the character of late modernity.
Along with her inquiry into the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called animatedness, and a
paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called stuplimity. She explores the politically equivocal work of these affective concepts in the cultural contexts where they seem
most at stake, from academic feminist debates to the Harlem Renaissance, from latetwentieth-century American poetry to Hollywood film and network television.
Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock,
Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows
how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the
affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially unthreatening.
Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of ugly feelings to investigate not only ideological and
representational dilemmas in literaturewith a particular focus on those inflected by
gender and racebut also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.
Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, feminist studies, and aesthetic theory.
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The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because
they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and the arts must be kept separate. Indeed, as the literary component of Romanticism has been studied and celebrated in recent years, its philosophical aspect has receded from view. This book, by one
of the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers an explanation of
Romanticism that not only restores but also enhances understanding of the movements
origins, development, aims, and accomplishmentsand of its continuing relevance.
This is an excellent book. Its ten chapters are much more accessible and often clearer than
the larger classic tomes on the subject. Each takes up a very significant topic and is sure to be
read with profit by a wide range of readerswhether they are new to the field or already quite
familiar with it. The book concerns an era, Early German Romanticism, that is properly becoming a major focus of new research. This volume could become one of the most helpful steps in
making the area part of the canon for Anglophone scholars in all fields today. It is surely one of
the best remedies for correcting out of date images of the work of the German romantics as
regressive, obscurantist, or irrelevant. Early German Romanticism extends and modifies the
project of the Enlightenment. The author shows that it deserves our attention not only because
it is an era represented by some of the most interesting and creative personalities in our cultural
history, but also because its main line of thought is responsible for a way of thinking central to
our own time, namely a naturalism that might be expansive enough to do justice to traditional
interests in the unique value of human freedom.
Karl Ameriks, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
2004 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 29.95 ISBN 0-674-01180-5
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Embodiment of a Nation
Human Form in American Places
CECELIA TICHI
From Harriet Beecher Stowes image of the Mississippis bosom to Henry David
Thoreaus Cape Cod as the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts, the American
environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such
instances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the historically varied and often
contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.
In this fascinating analysis of American geographical and topographical imagery, Cecelia Tichi
demonstrates the many ways in which our history, as well as our cultural values, are embedded
in our monuments and historical sites. Using interdisciplinary perspectives from literature, history, and visual and material cultural
studies, Tichi shows us how to read our national mythology in our continually shifting interpretation of our national sites and places.
Wendy Martin, author of An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich
A brilliant analysis of how the landscape and physical environment of the United States have been transformed physically and
imaginatively by creative, but often destructive, projections of national bodily identities onto the land. Tichi demonstrates how
technologies combine with political motives, social impulses, and historical developments to infuse spaces and places with
national meanings, even bodily geo-identity. This is bold, original research.
Emory Elliott, General Editor of Columbia Literary History of the United States
2001; 2004 38 halftones 320 pp.
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Art Matters
PETER DE BOLLA
Art Matters is against intimidation. De Bollas ambition in this book is to show us just how generous art objects are, given a chance; and just how difficult it has become to experience our experience of them in the language available. There are stories to be told about the eloquence of being
mute, and de Bolla has used his own aesthetic experiences to tell them. Art Matters is writing
about art at its most telling. It is a remarkable book.
Adam Phillips, Principal Child Psychotherapist,
Wolverton Gardens Child and Family Consultation Centre, London
Peter de Bollas Art Matters is an extraordinary description of and argument for the uniqueness
of the aesthetic experience. Despite the inherent difficulty and complexity of this enterprise (in
which aspects of musical performance, lyric poetry, and contemporary painting are described with
great attentiveness) de Bolla has produced a grippingly refined and persuasive text, utterly free of
sentimentality or cant, true, direct, original.
Edward Said
2001; 2003 10 color illus., 1 halftone 190 pp.
Paper $15.95 / 10.95 ISBN 0-674-01110-4
Cloth $36.00 / 23.95 ISBN 0-674-00649-6
A wonderful, unlikely, necessary book which links high and low and pop culture, the sacred and
the profane, into a magnificent webwork of pattern and gnosisit is erudite, irreverent, and
profound. Just read it.
Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Sandman
2002; 2003 15 halftones 368 pp.
Paper $17.95 / 11.95 ISBN 0-674-01244-5
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Explores the hauntings, possessions, and other uncanny phenomena proliferating in literature and
entertainment she argues strongly, in vivid and original readings for a new approach to the
uses of fantasy and to the relationship between material and immaterial phenomena.
Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement
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IN THE WORDS
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The world of letters has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale
Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements
a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and
in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance.
Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary
melting pot, Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of
letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but
implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of
Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first
systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of
literature worldwide.
This is a marvelous study of the international networks and ethnic forcefields out of which a
modern world literature has emerged. In drawing a map of the literary globe, Pascale
Casanova shows just how different it is from any political map ever framed. Unlike many previous comparativists, she shows just how many of the texts of literary modernism have been
contributed by peoples without financial or political power. This is a brave, audacious and luminous analysis, and a bracing challenge to those who still believe in the nation as an explanatory category. This book will provoke debate for years to come.
Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland and Irish Classics
As a researcher, Pascale Casanova specializes in the exception. Along with a literary knowledge that is exceptional in its
breadth and depth, she possesses a theoretical knowledge that is truly vast and wielded with great authority. In pursuing this
immense topicthe universe of relations that constitute the World Republic of Lettersshe has set herself a daunting challenge: that of constructing, and empirically verifying, a theoretical model for the fabric of the universal.
Pierre Bourdieu, author of Distinction and Language and Symbolic Power
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An enticing and authoritative review of German literature from its most splendid high points to a most horrible nadir and its
aftermath. This book well documents howin a remarkable post-war process of moral regenerationGerman literature
struggles to come to terms with what happened.
Amos Elon, author of The Pity of It All
Harvards New History of German Literature is an encyclopedic browser of incomparable quality for Germanophiles and
Germanophobes alike. In a series of brief, penetrating essays, it retells thirteen centuries of German history through a broad
spectrum of literature by both obscure and famous authors. For modern readers ready to tackle the riddle of modern Germany
with real hope of solving it, here is the guide.
Steven Ozment, author of A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People and The Brgermeisters Daughter
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The essays making up this new history of the literary and philosophical culture of the people
of the German lands (and of Germans abroad) are of an unfailingly high standard. Many are
noteworthy contributions to scholarship and criticism. The ingenious plan of the book permits a
variety of style and approach, while strong editing has resulted in exemplary clarity and pithiness of expression. Well conceived, eclectic, lively, and informative, this New History gives us a
model overview of what German literature and thought looks like from the twenty-first century.
J. M. Coetzee, author of Elizabeth Costello and Doubling the Point
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BENJAMIN
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This first volume shows that even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing
intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama,
philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting, and much
more. He is as compelling and insightful when musing on riddles or childrens books
as he is when dealing with weightier issues such as symbolic logic or epistemology.
To encounter Benjamins piece [The Life of Students] is like overhearing the opening notes
of one of the most intellectually compelling friendships of our century. It is greatly to the credit
of Harvard University Press to have made the text finally available to English-speaking readers.
In general, the editors of this volume have made an exemplary choice of what to include, and
when their projected multi-volume selection is complete, it will constitute the most important
compilation of Benjamins writings outside the mammoth German Collected Works.
Michael Andr Bernstein, New Republic
Benjamin has gradually emerged as a major presence in 20th-century letters. This reputation rests on his extraordinary and
highly idiosyncratic gift for original and far-reaching insights. It was his ambition to become Germanys leading literary critic, a
status that many no doubt would be inclined to award him posthumously ... Benjamin is sometimes misunderstood, since only
certain parts of his overall output have come into view here. The 65 pieces collected in this excellent first volume of the new
Harvard Benjamin should help clarify the larger picture as well as deepen and enliven the discussion.
Steve Dowden, Washington Times
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WALTER BENJAMIN
We will be feasting on Walter Benjamins Arcades Project for
years to come...By any standard, the appearance of this longawaited work is a towering literary event...The Arcades
Project surpasses its legend. It captures the relationship
between a writer and a city in a form as richly developed as
those presented in the great cosmopolitan novels of Proust,
Joyce, Musil and Isherwood.
Herbert Muschamp, New York Times
Quite simply, the Passagen-Werk is one of the twentieth
centurys great efforts at historical comprehensionsome
would say the greatest.
T. J. Clark
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NEW
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EDITED BY MARIO DE CARO AND DAVID MACARTHUR
Naturalism in Question is undertaking an important taskto address the prevalence of scientific
naturalism as the paradigm of serious philosophical work in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. The fact that such eminent philosophers as Davidson, Cavell, McDowell, Stroud, and Putnam
are brought together around a common issue is itself an attractive feature. It provides a certain
landscape of contemporary American Philosophy that is most important to bring into view. It shows
that despite all their obvious differences, such philosophers can be seen as sharing a similar
concern to revive a form of philosophy that does not model its rigor on problematic pictures of
scientific work.
Eli Friedlander, author of Signs of Sense: A Reading of Wittgensteins Tractatus
The books concern with how to position philosophy with respect to science and nature is
absolutely central to contemporary philosophical discussion. The contributors are distinguished
and talented philosophers, and their articles in this volume will sustain and reinforce their reputation for philosophical clarity and insight. The more expansive naturalisms they advocate are important, constructive, and often provocative responses to a growing recognition of the inadequacies
of naturalist orthodoxy. The book thereby promises to be at the center of a renewed discussion of
naturalism, which will likely push the entire field in new directions.
Joseph Rouse, author of
How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism
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Politics of Nature
How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
BRUNO LATOUR
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This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecologytransplanting the
terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far
envisioned. Bruno Latour proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and
societyand the constitution, in its place, of a community incorporating humans and
nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced.
This is much more than a reworking of politics. It is a sketch of a resolution of the perennial questions of what we know and what exists ... Latour ... can be infuriating. But he is never boring.
Politics of Nature must be difficult because it challenges assumptions that are built into our
languages, such as the hallowed distinction between facts and values ... It is worth reading
twice.
Mike Holderness, New Scientist
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[Hacking] focuses on the interactions between what there is (or comes to be) and our concepts
thereof. The kinds of objects he considers, both of which he
regards as historical, are Aristotelian universals and their
instances. He emphasizes that not only do ordinary physical
objects and people and their institutions begin, develop, and end,
but so do concepts, e.g., those language, knowledge, a child,
(psychic) trauma, and scientific reasoning ... Stimulating, incisive,
and clear even in expounding theories of unclear writers.
Robert Hoffman, Library Journal
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MICHAEL RUSE
This has to be the best of Ruses many books,
and it is hard to imagine how a better one could
be written on this subject. With an understanding erudition spiced with good-natured wit and
occasional sly ribaldry, Ruse moves easily and
assuredly among biology, philosophy, history,
and theology.
Robert T. Pennock, Science
Michael Ruses latest book, Darwin and Design,
is an intellectual history of the design argument and its Darwinian
solution ... His story is a fascinating one, enlivened especially by
his accounts of various imaginative attempts before Darwin to
solve the design problem without recourse to a deity.
Daniel W. McShea, American Scientist
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Quintessence
Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
W. V. QUINE
EDITED BY ROGER F. GIBSON, JR.
Quintessence for the first time collects Quines classic essays in one volume, offering a much-needed introduction to
his general philosophy. The selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of
theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind;
and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation
of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially
advanced.
Specialists ... will be grateful for this well-modulated selection of Quines most important essays and articles, which reflect his
thinking up to the end of his life.
Leon H. Brody, Library Journal
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Crispin Wrights Truth and Objectivity brought about a far-reaching reorientation of the metaphysical debates
concerning realism and truth. The essays in this companion volume prefigure, elaborate, or defend the proposals
put forward in that landmark work. The collection includes the Gareth Evans memorial lecture in which the
program of Truth and Objectivity was first announced, as well as all of Wrights published reactions to the extensive
commentary his study provoked; it presents substantial new developments and applications of the pluralistic
outlook on the realism debates proposed in Truth and Objectivity, and further pursues its distinctive minimalist
conceptions of truth and of truth-aptitude.
[A] thorough and subtle examination of [the] multiple criteria of realism.
Paul Horwich, Times Literary Supplement
Truth and Objectivity is a strikingly resourceful and serious book, imbued with respect for the difficulty of philosophical problems and a readiness to probe them with all the conceptual instruments of contemporary analytic philosophy.
Timothy Williamson, International Journal of Philosophical Studies
A milestone in the discussion of realism.
Jim Edwards, Mind
2003 560 pp. Cloth $55.00 / 35.95 ISBN 0-674-01077-9
Return to Reason
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There is now a loss of confidence ... in our traditional ideas about rationality, according to
Toulmin. Especially among those in the humanities, he argues, the claims of rationality have
been progressively challenged over the last 20 or 30 years, to the point of being sidelined. This
is a common complaint and not exactly news, but Toulmin does not merely bemoan and rant,
as many others have done. He offers a diagnosis and a solution. Rationality has come under
threat, he believes, because of the undue influence of classical mechanics and abstract mathematical methods on our idea of what intelligent problem-solving should be. Deduction in the
style of Euclids geometry, mechanically predictable and rigorous law in the style of Galileo and
Newton, indubitable certainty in the style of Descartes I think, therefore I am all exert a malign
influence, insofar as they overshadow a looser, more pragmatic and less abstract concept of
reasonableness. What we need is more open-minded, informal reasonableness and less inappropriately mathematical rationality. Only then, Toulmin argues, can the idea of reason regain its rightful good name.
Anthony Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times
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POSTSTRUCTURALISM/
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
Feeling in Theory
Emotion after the Death of the Subject
REI TERADA
This revolutionary work transforms the interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting a positive relation
between the death of the subject and the very existence of emotion. Reading the writings of Derrida and
de Man, Rei Terada finds grounds for construing
emotion as nonsubjective.
JEWISH MYSTICISM/
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literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives:
papyrological, art historical, archaeological, historical,
literary, and aesthetic.
Hellenic Studies #2 2004 250 pp.
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Inventing Superstition
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DALE B. MARTIN
Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history
over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the
fourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was
invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs,
especially the belief that gods or other superhuman beings would harm people or
cause disease. Tracing the social, political, and cultural influences that informed classical thinking about piety and superstition, nature and the divine, Inventing
Superstition exposes the manipulation of the label of superstition in arguments
between Greek and Roman intellectuals on the one hand and Christians on the other, and the purposeful alteration
of the idea by Neoplatonic philosophers and Christian apologists in late antiquity.
Martin calls upon the teachings of thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, Plotinus, and Porphyry as he defines nature
and the divine, monotheism and polytheism, and earlier definitions of superstition. The books peak is a wonderful discussion of
Celsuss attacks on Christianity as impious and Origens successful Christian response in Contra Celsum. The perfect mind
opener for readers desiring a better understanding of the religious climate of antiquity.
Gary P. Gillum, Library Journal
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Moralia
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PLUTARCH
Plutarchs Moralia, Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of information
concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. But access to the riches of this collection
of over seventy essays has long been hindered by lack of any comprehensive index. This problem has at last been
solved: the Loeb Classical Librarys edition of the Moralia is now brought to completion with an analytical Index
volume.
Renowned as a biographer because of his Parallel Lives, Plutarch (born about 50 C.E.) was also a teacher of philosophy in Rome, a priest at Delphi, and an engaging essayist with a warm, urbane, and judicious style. Whether advising about marriage and education, discussing prophecy, divine providence, and life after death, setting forth rules
for politicians, or commenting on personal virtues and vices, his Moral Essays reveal not just Plutarchs thinking
but also the world in which he lived. Edward ONeils thorough index provides an invaluable roadmap for tracking the wealth of information and wisdom to be found in them.
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Plato used to talk of philosopher-kings; Marcus Aurelius was something even better: He was a philosopher-emperor. The
leader of the Roman Empire spent most of his life in troubling times, campaigning against the barbarians, dealing with
conspiracy at home, even combatting an upstart cult that revered one of those Galilean wonder-workers. Yet the most
powerful man in the world still managed to live the life of a Stoic, and to record his reflections on how we should live. Those
meditations, as these inner pep talks are usually called, became one of the best-loved books of antiquity ... This studyby
a leading authority on Marcusprovides background matter and analysis of the main themes in the Meditations, as well as
fresh translations of many of the sayings.
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INDEX
INDEX
Acosta-Hughes, Labored in Papyrus..., 24
Adorno/Benjamin, Complete..., 20
Alanen, Descartess Concept of Mind, 4
Albert, Time and Chance, 22
Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty, 11
Avery/et al., Early Admissions Game, 26
Beiser, German Idealism, 24
Beiser, Romantic Imperative, 16
Benjamin, Arcades Project, 20
Benjamin, Selected Writings, 20
Bourbon, Finding a Replacement..., 3
Brandom, Articulating Reasons, 6
Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead, 5
Camp, Confusion, 4
Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 18
Cavell, Cities of Words, 12
Chait, Questions of Tenure, 26
Chowers, Modern Self in the Labyrinth, 7
Coetzee, Doubling the Point, 19
Cohen, If Youre an Egalitarian..., 9
Davidson, Emergence of Sexuality, 14
de Bolla, Art Matters, 17
De Caro/Macarthur, Naturalism..., 21
Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, 9
Finkelstein, Expression and the Inner, 5
Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow..., 17
Fleischacker, A Short History..., 7
Friedlander, J. J. Rousseau..., 18
Gibbard, Thinking How to Live, 5
Goldish, Sabbatean Prophets, 24
Hacking, Historical Ontology, 21
Hadot, Inner Citadel,
Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy?, 25
Hall/et al., Keywords and Concepts..., 19
Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel, 15
Hornsby, Simple Mindedness, 5
Hurley, Consciousness in Action, 6
Hurley, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, 13
Keller, Making Sense of Life, 22
Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein..., 26
Krause, Liberalism with Honor, 10
Latour, Politics of Nature, 21