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Q: So why hackers?
A Hacker Manifesto A: Whenever you try to describe something new you
MCKENZIE WARK have to reach into the language and find an old word that
A double is haunting the world—the double of can do a new job. I like “hacker” because it’s a good old
abstraction, the virtual reality of information, sturdy English word. There’s nothing Latinate about it.
programming or poetry, math or music, What I want this word to do is to
curves or colorings upon which the describe a new kind of class interest.
fortunes of states and armies, companies Hackers are people who create new ideas.
and communities now depend. The bold Hackers innovate. But they don’t own the
aim of this book is to make manifest the means of realizing the value of what they
origins, purpose, and interests of the create. So a hacker could be a computer
emerging class responsible for making this programmer or a musician or a novelist
new world—for producing the new or a bio-chemist.
concepts, new perceptions, and new
sensations out of the stuff of raw data. Q: Most people would think of hackers
as kids who break into computers.
A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the
fraught territory between the ever more A: It used to mean people who create
strident demands by drug and media new computer code, but it is interesting
companies for protection of their patents how it’s a term that’s been trivialized and
and copyrights and the pervasive popular demonized. I think that’s always the case
culture of file sharing and pirating. This with new kinds of political force. The
vexed ground, the realm of so-called “intellectual prop- word “democrat” used to be an insult.
erty,” gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one I want to do the opposite with the term: make it broader
that pits the creators of information—the hacker class of and more inclusive, not something narrow and
researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists marginal. Hackers could be working in any field, not
and musicians, philosophers and programmers— just computing. Although it seems only appropriate to
against a possessing class who would monopolize what name a whole class over one of its leading new forms of
the hacker produces. creativity—the programmers.
“Ours is once again an age of manifestos. Wark’s book chal- Q: So what from your own experience led you to this
lenges the new regime of property relations with all the book?
epigrammatic vitality, conceptual innovation, and revolution- A: Signing contracts with publishers! I’m not kidding. I
ary enthusiasm of the great manifestos.” realized, as many people do, that you have very little
—Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire control over the terms under which you sell the product
“A Hacker Manifesto is a highly original and provocative book. of your own mind. The “intellectual property” laws,
At a moment in history where we are starved of new political which pretend to protect the interests of the creator,
really protect the interests of the owner. And since most
ideas and directions, the clarity with which Wark identifies a
of us don’t own the means of production, we don’t stay
new political class is persuasive, and his ability to articulate
owners for long.
their interests is remarkable.”
—Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess But I also had a positive experience, on listservers like
nettime.org, where I met a whole community of people
“McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto might also be called, trying to put into practice a new, global gift economy of
without too much violence to its argument, The Communist knowledge. So that was the practice; A Hacker Manifesto
Manifesto 2.0. In essence, it’s an attempt to update the core is the theory. I think a lot of people could recognize
of Marxist theory for that relatively novel set of historical themselves in this book. It tries to map the possibilities
circumstances known as the information age.” for the free creation of knowledge that we have all expe-
—Julian Dibbell, author of rienced, no matter how distorted it gets when it gets
Play Money: Diary of a Dubious Proposition reduced to a commodity.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NEW TITLES 2 WALTER BENJAMIN 20

PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 3 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 7 PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONALITY / LOGIC 23
MORAL & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 12 POSTSTRUCTURALISM / ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 24
PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE & SOCIETY 14 JEWISH MYSTICISM / GERMAN PHILOSOPHY 24
PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICS 15 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 24
PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORDS 18 ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING 26

2 INDEX 27
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OF MIND

NEW
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 topics—that 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 understand-
ing of dreaming, psychosis, and the creativity of our linguistic abilities.”
—Ram Neta, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
“McGinn’s 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

NEW NEW
Finding a Mind Time
Replacement for The Temporal Factor in
the Soul Consciousness
Mind and Meaning in BENJAMIN LIBET
Literature and Philosophy Our subjective inner life is
BRETT BOURBON what really matters to us as
human beings—and yet we know relatively little about
Bourbon asserts that our
how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career
complex and variable rela-
Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have
tion with language defines
helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain
a domain of meaning and
produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet
being that is misconstrued
gives his own account of these experiments and their
and missed in philosophy,
importance for our understanding of consciousness.
in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of
what we are and how things make sense. Accordingly, “What makes Benjamin Libet different from all the others
his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of litera- writing on [consciousness] ... is that he has actually spent
ture gives us the means to understand this relationship. the past 40 years experimenting on the topic. His findings
“This is an adventurous and unusual book. Bourbon moves have played a central role in others’ speculations. Now he
back and forth between literary and philosophical contexts has put his life’s work into a single short book.”
with ease, showing in multifarious ways how the one can, —Steven Rose, New Scientist
often in unexpected ways, illuminate the other. Throughout “Benjamin Libet’s discoveries are of extraordinary inter-
these wide-ranging explorations Bourbon uncovers a good est. His is almost the only approach yet to yield any cred-
deal about both the nature of literary meaning and our distinc- ible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced by
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tive—if tellingly irreducible—relations to literary texts.” the brain. Mind Time endeavors to clarify these startling
—Garry L. Hagberg, author of Art as Language: observations for the general public, set them in proper
Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory framework of neuroscientific knowledge, and probe their
2004 290 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-01297-6 philosophical meaning. Libet’s work is unique, and speaks
to questions asked by all humankind.”
—Robert W. Doty, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and
Anatomy, University of Rochester
Harvard edition World Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
2004 21 line illus. 272 pp.
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 new in paperback
The Ethics of Memory Confusion
AVISHAI MARGALIT A Study in the Theory of Knowledge
2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year JOSEPH L. CAMP, JR.
Award Philosophy Category “Imagine that you think you see your car in the
Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2003— lot at Dodger Stadium, but your key won’t work.
Nonfiction You think to yourself, ‘I owe $500 on this car.’
Avishai Margalit’s work offers a philoso- Then you see a stuffed Panda in the backseat
phy for our time, when, in the wake of and decide that it’s a different car. When you
overwhelming atrocities, memory can thought about ‘this car,’ were you thinking of
seem more crippling than liberating, a the car you couldn’t unlock or the car that you
force more for revenge than for recon- owned? Camp says neither. You were thinking
ciliation. Morally powerful, deeply about something like both but you did not
learned, and elegantly written, The succeed in referring to either. Camp ... has not
Ethics of Memory draws on the resources just produced a brain twister. His problem can
of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to be found in Descartes and Locke, who worried that we seem
provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us not to perceive actual things
who care about the nature of our relations to others. but to confront only ideas of
“[A] thought-provoking book ... For Margalit ... the paradigm is them. If we can’t refer
Jewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories of without unique objects of
humiliation. Still, his sensitive meditations show how these two reference, our claims to truth
strains of hurt might be overcome. In a marvelous chapter may be in trouble. There are
called ‘Forgiving and Forgetting,’ Margalit asks whether we alternatives to his theory of
have a duty to forgive those who have wronged us. His answer reference, but Camp’s book
is elegant ... Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker. His ... will provoke thought.”
philosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in all —Leslie Armour,
our complexity. And yet he is committed to making sense of us Library Journal
in ways that will make us better.” 2002; 2004 256 pp.
—Jonathan Lear, New York Times Book Review Paper $18.95 / £12.95
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2002; 2004 240 pp. Cloth $42.50 / £27.95
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Descartes’s Concept of Mind
LILLI ALANEN
“Descartes’s Concept of Mind is a book of high quality. The main point of the project is to detail
Descartes’s theory of the embodiment of the human mind. This is a neglected side of his
thought, and Alanen treats it in an illuminating way. The exposition is clear and remarkably well
informed. And she persuasively shows that Descartes had a complicated and interesting view
of this matter.”
—John Carriero, UCLA
2003 368 pp. Cloth $65.00 / £41.95 ISBN 0-674-01043-4

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Descartes’s Dualism
MARLEEN ROZEMOND
Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartes’s aim to provide a metaphysics that would
accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. Her approach includes
discussion of central differences from and similarities to the scholastics and how these
discriminations affected Descartes’s defense of the incorporeity of the mind and the
mechanistic conception of body.
“[Descartes’s Dualism is] a thorough and careful study of Descartes’s account of the mind/soul.”
—Stephen Gaukroger, Times Literary Supplement
“[Descartes’s Dualism] is a brilliant book. Rozemond provides an excellent articulation of the
dualism of Descartes. Her analytic skills are very high, and her references to the medieval back-
ground of Descartes’s theory of knowledge are crisp and secure ... Rozemond’s interest in the
medievals also leads to a most informative, and rare, presentation of the influence of the
doctrine of transubstantiation on discussions of substance and sense qualities. Among the
many books on Descartes, this one ranks with a mere handful in terms of the highest worth.”
—M. A. Bertman, Choice
1998; 2002 304 pp.
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Expression and the Inner
DAVID FINKELSTEIN
“This book is an important contribution to a group of problems which have a central place in
philosophy of mind. Here I am taking ‘philosophy of mind’ in a broad sense; Finkelstein’s book and
the problems he discusses have implications for philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epis-
temology. The book is written with intelligence and verve. Very few works in philosophy have
anything describable as ‘narrative tension,’ but Finkelstein’s certainly does. He draws the reader
into the problems he is attempting to solve with the skill of a writer of detective stories; he leads
his readers down paths that appear inviting, only then to demonstrate why the apparent solutions
on offer down those paths won’t do; and his arguments for the solution he himself offers at the
end have the force, and the place in the book, of the denouement of a good thriller.”
—Cora Diamond, Professor of Philosophy, University of Virginia
2003 194 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01156-2

Thinking How to Live

ALLAN GIBBARD
“In this fascinating book, Gibbard applies his development of the tools of traditional Anglo-
American metaethical theory to the questions about that most basic philosophical concern: How
should one live? ... Gibbard’s arguments are clear and illustrated with helpful examples. His final
result is sure to generate disagreement, but theorists in this area must contend with his argu-
ments.”
—J. H. Barker, Choice
“This is a remarkable book. It takes up a central and much-discussed problem—the difference
between normative thought (and discourse) and ‘descriptive’ thought (and discourse). It develops
a compelling response to that problem with ramifications for much else in philosophy. But perhaps
most importantly, it brings new clarity and rigor to the discussion of these tangled issues. It will
take some time to come to terms with the details of Gibbard’s discussion. It is absolutely clear,
however, that the book will reconfigure the debate over objectivity and ‘factuality’ in ethics.”
—Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
2003 6 tables 320 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01167-8

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 Hornsby’s 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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Tales of the Mighty Dead

Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality
ROBERT B. BRANDOM
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic
philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers
working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western
philosophy from Descartes to the present.
“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
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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’ distinc-
tions are in serious need of rethinking. Brandom’s is an original voice. Brandom’s 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
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 Articulating Reasons
An Introduction to Inferentialism
ROBERT B. BRANDOM
2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award—Philosophy 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.”
—Jürgen Habermas
2000; 2001 240 pp.
Paper $20.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00692-5
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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 neurophysi-
ological processes and environmental stimuli, and the connections among consciousness, percep-
tion and action ... [It] exhibits the astonishing breadth of knowledge, technical virtuosity and subtle
analyses Hurley’s 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 philoso-
phy with neuropsychology and cognitive science provides new avenues of research for philoso-
phers concerned about the nature of the mind, perception, and action ... [H]er book’s 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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Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

JONATHAN LEAR
2001 Gradiva Award for the Best Book in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Sponsored by the World
Organization and the Public Education Corporation of the National Association for the
Advancement of Psychoanalysis
“An extended meditation on Aristotle’s conception of happiness and Freud’s approach to death,
the book argues that both thinkers fell prey to a similar illusion ... [the thought] that our desires
can ever come to an end ... There is great depth to Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life.”
—Andrew Stark, Times Literary Supplement
“Not many people are equally appreciative of Plato and Freud, and fewer still are able to move
back and forth between contemporary discussions among philosophers and the highly technical
literature of psychoanalysis as easily as Lear does ... Daring and provocative.”
—Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2000; 2002 204 pp.
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 SOCIAL & POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHY

NEW x NEW

Reconstructing Public Reason A Short History of Distributive Justice

ERIC A. MACGILVRAY SAMUEL FLEISCHACKER
The reluctance to admit controversial beliefs as legiti- Fleischacker argues that
mate grounds for public action threatens to prevent us guaranteeing aid to the
from responding effectively to many of the leading poor is a modern idea,
social and political challenges that we face. Eric developed only in the last
MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention two centuries. To attrib-
away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial ute a longer pedigree to
public ends in the present and toward the problem of distributive justice is to
evaluating potentially controversial public ends through fail to distinguish be-
collective inquiry over time. Rather than ask ourselves tween justice and charity.
which public ends are justified, we must instead decide By examining major writ-
which public ends we should seek to justify. ings in ancient, medieval,
and modern political
Reconstructing Public Reason offers a fundamental re-
philosophy, Fleischacker
thinking of the nature and aims of liberal toleration, and
shows how we arrived at
of the political implications of pragmatic philosophy. It
the contemporary mean-
also provides fresh interpretations of founding prag-
ing of distributive justice.
matic thinkers such as John Dewey and William
James, and of leading contemporary figures such as “Fleischacker provides a fascinating account of the develop-
John Rawls and Richard Rorty. ment of our contemporary notion of distributive justice. This is
“Imaginatively conceived and skillfully executed, an excellent book that fills a real need.”
Reconstructing Public Reason will appeal to those anxious —Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and
about the declining (or author of Welfare and Rational Care
ascending!) influence of “This is a succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history of
pragmatism and those distributive justice that will be a boon for teachers and
anxious about the practical students. Written with a light touch, it will provoke discussion
significance of theorizing and thought, raising the possibility of seeing things differently.
about political justice gener- A fine contribution.”
ally and political liberalism —Ross Harrison, author of
specifically. No small accom- Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece
plishment.” 2004 204 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01340-9
—Alfonso Damico,
The University of Iowa
“This is an intelligent book
that addresses two impor-
tant and fashionable themes
in political theory—pragma-
tism and political liberalism. And it contributes to our under-
standing of both.”
—Jeffrey Isaac, Indiana University
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The Modern Self in the Labyrinth
Politics and the Entrapment Imagination
EYAL CHOWERS
“This is an erudite and original study of the great entrapment and proto-entrapment theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries,
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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 schol-
arship and insight, and the cumulative effect is to throw a critical and foreboding light on the present.”
—James Tully, University of Victoria
“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 combina-
tion 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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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 analy-
sis. He shows, among other things, how modern feminism’s effort to reform domestic
work and extend the promise of careers has contributed to more democratic under-
standings 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 fit—between 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 Democracy’s 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
AMARTYA SEN
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 volume—the first of the two—is 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

Why Societies Need Dissent

CASS R. SUNSTEIN
“Why Societies Need Dissent ... shows that demands for lock-step conformity are wrong and unin-
formed thinking. Sunstein’s important new study is filled with empirical evidence of the significance
of opposition, found in his compelling explanations of the need for, and benefits of, disagreement.
Sunstein reveals that, in fact, the influence of dissenters is for the better, be it with courts, juries,
corporate boardrooms, churches, sports teams, student organizations or faculties, not to mention
‘the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court ... during times of both war and peace.’”
—John W. Dean, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures 2003 3 line illus., 5 charts 256 pp.
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Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory

Actualizing Freedom
FREDERICK NEUHOUSER
Frederick Neuhouser’s task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel’s
social theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modern
social world. In doing so, the author focuses on Hegel’s most important and least under-
stood contribution to social philosophy, the idea of “social freedom.”
“Hegel is an obscure and difficult writer, but Neuhouser has an effortless way of making him
accessible.”
—Allen W. Wood, Yale University
“This is a fine book, and it will be a significant contribution both to Hegel scholarship and to
contemporary philosophical discussions of modern ethical life.“
—Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago
2000; 2003 352 pp.
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Varieties of Religion Today
William James Revisited
CHARLES TAYLOR
“Now at last we have a book about ... William James, and it has been produced by a religiously
obsessed man himself. Charles Taylor has been writing philosophy for many years, and the scope
of his achievement is extraordinary. He has written on ethics, epistemology, language, and poli-
tics. He has analyzed Greek, medieval, Renaissance, and modern thought in learned discourses on
the history of ideas. Even more amazing, perhaps, is that a corpus of philosophy so wide should
be so intellectually coherent. All of Taylor’s writings are unified by a goal, a mission, almost a
calling: to understand by philosophical means who we have become and who we ought to strive
to become ... [A] small but very stimulating book.”
—Erin Leib, New Republic
“Old-time religion had a story about these sources of despair, reinforced every Sunday morning,
but James will have none of this—he cannot be so easily consoled. What he needs is a direct
sensation of the presence of God. The trouble is that such experiences are rare, and fragile and
isolating, not to mention questionable (even for a theist like James). Religion, if it is to survive,
must be buttressed by more than fleeting sensation. The acute question raised by Charles Taylor’s
interesting book is whether the modern world has room for anything else.”
—Colin McGinn, Wall Street Journal
Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lectures Series 2002; 2003 142 pp.
Paper $12.00 / £7.95 ISBN 0-674-01253-4
Cloth $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00760-3

If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?

G. A. COHEN
2001 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award—Philosophy Category
“This is an unusual book, a remarkably successful blend of autobiography, intellectual history and
moral philosophy that reflects the author’s distinctive outlook and background ... [It] presents, I
believe, the most important contemporary challenge to the egalitarian form of liberalism ... The
questions he asks are the ones we should all be worrying about.”
—Thomas Nagel, Times Literary Supplement
“Cohen is much the funniest living Anglophone political philosopher of any note, as well as
perhaps the cleverest.”
—John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement
2000; 2001 3 line illus. 256 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00693-3
Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00218-0

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 applica-
tions...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 intu-
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itions, 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
2000; 2002 528 pp.
Paper $20.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00810-3
Cloth $37.50 / £24.95 ISBN 0-674-00219-9

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The Law of Peoples
JOHN RAWLS
“[These essays are] some of [Rawls’s] strongest published expressions of feeling ... These are the
final products of a remarkably pure and concentrated career ... 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
“This is the most engaging and accessible book Rawls has written ... For the most part Rawls
lays out his argument in a straightforward way, and refers extensively to historical and contem-
porary episodes to illustrate it.”
—David Miller, Times Literary Supplement
1999; 2001 210 pp.
Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-00542-2
Cloth $25.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00079-X

A Theory of Justice
Revised Edition
JOHN RAWLS
“Rawls’s Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this century’s 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 Rawls’s 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.
Paper $24.95 ISBN 0-674-00078-1
Cloth $52.00 ISBN 0-674-00077-3

Liberalism with Honor

SHARON R. KRAUSE
“This book makes a highly original and richly constructive contribution to contemporary democratic
theory as well as to the interpretation and application of the thought of Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and
the American tradition of political thought and culture, rooted in the Founding Fathers. The argument
of the book establishes, for perhaps the first time in current literature, how capacious and fertile may
be the moral resource for democratic theory that is to be found in a reconsidered and appropriately
re-elaborated concept of honor.”
—Thomas Pangle, author of Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace
2002 288 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £22.95 ISBN 0-674-00756-5

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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 Rawls’s eventual position. It is an exemplary work in every way. Rawls’s 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.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00511-2 Cloth $50.00 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-00510-4

Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

JOHN RAWLS
EDITED BY BARBARA HERMAN
“What names would we want to place next to Wittgenstein and Heidegger? No thinker, I believe,
has a greater right to stand alongside them than John Rawls. Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, which
appeared in 1971, changed forever the landscape of moral and political philosophy. Like
Wittgenstein and Heidegger, Rawls has shown a remarkable capacity for self-criticism. Like them,
he has gone on to revise in significant ways the doctrines that first established his fame ... The
publication of the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy is thus a major event, since here we
find the conception of modern ethics as a whole, the understanding of its characteristic themes
and problems, that has inspired Rawls’s political thought.”
—Charles Larmore, New Republic
2000 4 line illus. 414 pp.
Paper $20.95 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00442-6 Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-00296-2

Collected Papers
JOHN RAWLS
EDITED BY SAMUEL FREEMAN
“What a body of work this is, and what an accomplishment. Collected Papers affords an opportu-
nity to step back and see [Rawls’s] 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 Rawls’s 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
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

“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 ‘under-
standings 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
2002 320 pp. Cloth $48.00 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-00745-X

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PHILOSOPHY

NEW NEW
Cities of Words Ethics without
Pedagogical Letters on a Ontology
Register of the Moral Life HILARY PUTNAM
STANLEY CAVELL In this brief book one of
Since Socrates and his the most distinguished
circle first tried to frame living American philoso-
the Just City in words, phers takes up the ques-
discussion of a perfect tion of whether ethical
communal life—a life of judgments can properly
justice, reflection, and be considered objective—
mutual respect—has had a question that has vexed
to come to terms with the philosophers over the past
distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this century. Reviewing what
distance step by practical step is the philosophical he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology’s
project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his influence on analytic philosophy—in particular, the
exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective
his longstanding interests—Emersonian philosophy and of ethical judgments—Hilary Putnam proposes aban-
the Hollywood comedy of remarriage—Cavell’s new doning the very idea of ontology.
work marks a significant advance in this project. The “Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished living
book—which presents a course of lectures Cavell American philosophers, a philosopher whose writings have
presented several times toward the end of his teaching done much to shape the agenda of analytic philosophy over
career at Harvard—links masterpieces of moral philoso-
the last forty years. Much of the interest of this book lies in the
phy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new
way of looking at our lives and learning to live with way that it illustrates, with unmistakable clarity, how severe a
ourselves. critic of mainstream analytic philosophy Putnam has
become.”
“What does it mean to live a moral life? In his typically —Michael Williams, Professor of Philosophy,
provocative fashion, Cavell answers this question by juxtapos- Johns Hopkins University
ing various philosophical responses with particular films that
2004 1 table 176 pp.
illuminate those responses ... Cavell’s ‘letters’ offer a ready Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01310-7
and heady departure from the usual conversation on moral
life, and his inventive use of film helps bring the philosophers
he discusses to life.” new in paperback
—Henry I. Carrigan Jr., Library Journal Ethical Formation
“In Cities of Words, a knotty and enlightening book, chapters SABINA LOVIBOND
about philosophers are paired with chapters about films: Sabina Lovibond invites her
Emerson and The Philadelphia Story, Locke and Adam’s Rib, readers to see how the
Nietzsche and Now, Voyager, Aristotle and The Awful Truth ... “practical reason view of
Cavell shows that the spirit of moral quest has an unusual ethics” can survive chal-
power, even in the restricted world of these films. For all their lenges from within philoso-
artifice, they suggest that characters really can change them- phy and from the
selves, that they can form ideals of justice, while keeping in antirationalist postmodern
mind how much failure and imperfection will be met along the critique of reason. At the
way. That’s not a bad democratic vision, and it remains as heart of her argument is the
potent now as it was when Katharine Hepburn rediscovered Aristotelian idea of the formation of character through
her love for Cary Grant.” upbringing; these ancient ideas can be made contempo-
—Edward Rothstein, New York Times rary if one understands them in a naturalized way.
Belknap 2004 480 pp. “This is an intricate and stimulating book ... an argument that
Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01336-0 is impressive in its coherence and subtlety, and in the insight-
ful way it engages with issues that are right at the centre of
contemporary philosophical debate.”
—John Cottingham, Times Literary Supplement
2002; 2004 224 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01365-4
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 new in paperback NEW
The Collapse of the Fact/Value Law’s Quandary
Dichotomy and Other Essays STEVEN D. SMITH
HILARY PUTNAM This lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudential
“Putnam’s The Collapse of thought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaise
the Fact/Value Dichotomy is that currently afflicts not only legal theory but law in
a tour de force by a great general. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabulary
philosopher. In an era of
and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontolog-
ical commitments that were explicitly articulated by
pseudo-scientific reduction-
thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even
ism in what should be ‘the by Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of sync
human sciences’, Putnam’s with the world view that prevails today in academic and
distinction as a philosopher professional thinking. So our law-talk thus degenerates
of science and mathematics into “just words”—or a kind of nonsense.
lends weight to his eloquent
“Ordinary people assume that legal terms like freedom of
demolition of the dichotomy
speech have some real or true meaning. Most important legal
between judgments of fact
theorists say there is no such thing. It is not unheard of for the
and judgments of value that
sophisticated classes to reach conclusions at odds with
plays such a baneful role in
common sense. But this creates a real problem for the stabil-
economics, public policy,
ity of our legal system. Smith explores this quandary in a way
and the law, discouraging serious normative inquiry and argu-
that is wonderfully clear, honest, and funny. This is the best
ment. Anyone tempted by Milton Friedman’s famous claim that
book I have read in several years.”
concerning differences of value ‘men can ultimately only fight’
—John H. Garvey, author of What Are Freedoms For?
should read this elegant and wonderful book.”
—Martha Nussbaum, The University of Chicago “Smith’s treatment of the issues he addresses is outstanding.
His discussion is consistently probing, thoughtful, and imagi-
“Hume’s and much 20th-century moral philosophy contrasted
native. Smith’s range of reference is impressively broad—yet
moral with factual judgments and led people to conclude that
I never had the sense that he was trying to impress. His
the former, unlike the latter, are subjective in the sense of not
clarity—aided by his wonderfully engaging, and occasionally
being rationally supportable. Putnam ... believes that the
humorous, conversational style—is exemplary. But the envi-
contrast is ill conceived and that the conclusion is both unwar-
able clarity/accessibility of Smith’s writing should not obscure
ranted and false. He acknowledges the usefulness of the fact/
just how penetrating—I am tempted to say, brilliant—his
value distinction but denies that anything metaphysical
commentary is. It may sound faintly ridiculous to say this, but
follows from it ... Putnam covers such matters as imperative
I thought that this book was a jurisprudential page turner.”
logic, economics vis-à-vis ethics, and preference theory and
—Michael J. Perry, author of
such thinkers as V. Walsh, L. Robbins, and R. M. Hare. A fine
Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy
philosophical workout.”
—Robert Hoffman, Library Journal 2004 222 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01533-9

2002; 2004 208 pp.

Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01380-8
Cloth $37.50 / £24.95 ISBN 0-674-00905-3

Justice, Luck, and Knowledge

S. L. HURLEY
The recent past has seen striking advances in our understanding of both moral responsibility and distribu-
tive justice. S. L. Hurley’s 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 actu-
ally play within distributive justice. Her book brings the new articulation of responsibility to bear in explain-
ing these constraints.
“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 illuminat-
ing to apply important insights from responsibility theory to various theories of distrib-
utive justice. The book is written in a lively style, Susan Hurley is remarkably
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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
“Hurley’s 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

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 PHILOSOPHY OF
CULTURE & SOCIETY

NEW new in paperback

Four Cultures The Emergence
of the West of Sexuality
JOHN W. O’MALLEY Historical Epistemology
“In this erudite work of and the Formation of
cultural history, O’Malley Concepts
extends ‘an invitation to ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON
consider and notice’ four “No one of his generation has
distinctive paradigms or better mastered Foucault’s
cultures that, taken together, archeological and genealogi-
handsomely help decode cal work than Davidson. I do
Western intellectual and not mean in saying so that he
cultural history. These four is an expert on Foucault
paradigms are the prophetic, the academic, the humanistic, (which he is) but rather that he has learned how best to do his
and the culture of art and performance ... O’Malley success- own work having seen what Foucault could do.”
fully showcases the affinities between historic cultures (e.g., —Ian Hacking, Common Knowledge
the Greco-Roman) and persons (e.g., Aristotle, Aquinas, and
“In presenting his account of historical epistemology (tracing
Luther) and cultural realities in our own time (e.g., the contem-
the ways concepts are modified as conditions of objectivity and
plative rhetoric of Lincoln at Gettysburg prefiguring the rhetor-
forms of subjectivity change each other), Arnold Davidson takes
ical contemplation at Ground Zero).”
as a pivotal task the confrontation of Foucault’s writing (to the
—Sandra Collins, Library Journal
totality of which Davidson is a world-renowned guide) with that
“O’Malley’s succinct analysis of the Four Cultures of the West of Freud (on whose Three Essays on Sexuality he has produced
is one of those rare books that uses history to tell us as much ground-breaking work), along the way showing the pertinence
about the intellectual conflicts of the present as it does about to his project of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. A
those of the past. I predict his categorical analysis will be growing body of students and specialists in philosophy, and
widely cited and widely debated by commentators well cultural studies, and the history of science, in particular of
beyond academic specialists.” psychiatry, have been profiting from Arnold Davidson’s clarity
—Kenneth Woodward, contributing editor for Newsweek and his stunning erudition for a couple of decades now. This
and author of Making Saints initial selection of his essays is an excellent introduction to his
Belknap 2004 272 pp. singular array of scholarly and critical accomplishments.”
Cloth $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-01498-7 —Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
2002; 2004 17 halftones, 12 line illus. 272 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01370-0
Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00459-0

Lessons of the Masters

GEORGE STEINER
“Steiner’s Lessons of the Masters sets forth the disturbing complexity of
the relationship between teacher and pupil, master and disciple ... Some
of the best writing in Steiner’s book is scorching characterisation—of
bad teachers, of the politically correct, and the hypocrites who would
deny the erotic element in the teacher-pupil relationship.”
—Germaine Greer, The Times
“[Steiner] brings his formidable charisma, his unrivalled range of reference
and powers of rhetoric to bear on the peaks (as well as some troughs) of
pedagogy, in history and literature: Socrates and Alcibiades, the parables of
Christ, Faust, Virgil and Dante, Abelard and Eloise ... Like his hero Socrates,
Steiner professes to have few answers, but his questions sweep you along.”
—Robin Blake, Financial Times
“George Steiner’s reflections on the electric relationship between teacher and student takes the reader on
a high-speed rollercoaster ride to visit the greatest figures of Western civilization ... Where there is great
mastery, there is likewise great jealousy, treachery, threat, and fear. Steiner passionately throws out a wide
and undaunted net of inquiry into this perennially prickly and powerful subject.”
—Patty Podhaisky, Bloomsbury Review
The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 2003 208 pp. Cloth $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01207-0

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Between Kant and Hegel
Lectures on German Idealism
DIETER HENRICH
EDITED BY DAVID S. PACINI
“These are excellent lectures and make a valuable and exciting book. Henrich certainly gives a
better introduction to the philosophizing that took place between Kant and Hegel than any other
that I know of. He wants to show that the positions of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel each represent an
option that is still open for live philosophical debate. Can there be a single-track systematic
philosophy encompassing nature as well as mind? Dieter Henrich shows how this develops into
a wide-ranging problem, allowing both for criticism of Kant and for constructive moves made after
the criticisms are taken into account. He thus tries to show us argumentative steps by which one
might proceed from a Kantian position to a Fichtean and then on to an Hegelian view. These
lectures were given in 1973. Much has been done in English on Hegel since then, but relatively
little on the ‘between’ period which Dieter Henrich addresses. This is not an ordinary textbook. It’s
very much infused with Dieter Henrich’s own philosophical views. The topics and people Dieter
Henrich discusses he really illuminates, both in terms of the historical context and in terms of the
soundness or lack of it of the philosophy he is discussing. He is himself deeply inside that tradi-
tion, yet knows enough about the work of those outside it to make quite comprehensible to the
outsiders what it’s like on the inside.”
—J. B. Schneewind, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
2003 1 chart 384 pp. Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-00773-5

PHILOSOPHY OF
AESTHETICS

NEW
Ugly Feelings
SIANNE NGAI
Envy, irritation, paranoia—in 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 irri-
tation, envy, and disgust, Ngai examines a racialized affect called “animatedness,” and a
paradoxical synthesis of shock and boredom called “stuplimity.” She explores the polit-
ically 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 late-
twentieth-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 literature—with a particular focus on those inflected by
gender and race—but also blind spots in contemporary literary and cultural criticism.
Her work maps a major intersection of literary studies, media and cultural studies, femi-
nist studies, and aesthetic theory.
2005 37 halftones 432 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01536-3
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The Romantic Imperative
The Concept of Early German Romanticism
FREDERICK C. BEISER
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 sepa-
rate. Indeed, as the literary component of Romanticism has been studied and cele-
brated 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 movement’s
origins, development, aims, and accomplishments—and 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 readers—whether they are new to the field or already quite
familiar with it. The book concerns an era, Early German Romanticism, that is properly becom-
ing 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

new in paperback
Embodiment of a Nation
Human Form in American Places
CECELIA TICHI
From Harriet Beecher Stowe’s image of the Mississippi’s “bosom” to Henry David
Thoreau’s 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.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01361-1 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00494-9

new in paperback
Friends of Interpretable Objects
MIGUEL TAMEN
“In an exquisitely idiosyncratic book of enormous intellectual ambition crammed into a tiny space ... Tamen wants to redefine
aesthetics ... In his scheme, the interpretable object (which might be what we recognize as an artwork, but does not need to be)
exists by virtue of its ‘friends’—those people who gather round it and, so to speak, talk to it, as we might do with a statue or
painting. How do objects ‘talk back’ from within a museum or a church? Suavely Wittgensteinian and insatiably curious, Tamen’s
arguments are hardly devalued by the lack of any earth-shattering conclusion.”
—Stephen Poole, The Guardian
“Because Tamen is willing to go out on various disciplinary and logical limbs, this is a book like no other. It will appeal to students
of literature and the visual arts, it will be debated by the more humanistic of philosophers, and it will perform noble cross-over
activity between those disciplines and material from theories of law, science, and ecology. The book will work in this admirable
way for those who are open-minded, inquisitive, and seducible by some lovely instances of intellectual wit.”
—Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
2001; 2004 208 pp. Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01368-9 Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-00646-1

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Art Matters
PETER DE BOLLA
“Art Matters is against intimidation. De Bolla’s ambition in this book is to show us just how gener-
ous art objects are, given a chance; and just how difficult it has become to experience our expe-
rience 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 Bolla’s 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

Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences

PHILIP FISHER
“A short but ample book, in which Fisher ranges well beyond his home territory of literature into
science, mathematics, philosophy, architecture, mythology, and modern art and where
Shakespeare rubs shoulders with Frank Lloyd Wright, Nabokov with Aristotle, Newton with Cy
Twombly. Fisher takes wonder where he finds it, in the Chicago skyline, Miranda’s exclamations in
The Tempest or Descartes’s explanation of the rainbow. Experiences of wonder may be by defini-
tion rare, but for Fisher they are dispersed all over the map of knowledge ... This is a learned, culti-
vated work.”
—Lorraine Daston, London Review of Books
“Like Kant, Fisher wants to sketch out ‘the lively border’ between aesthetics and intelligibility, and
he is to be applauded for pursuing this border in and of itself, without reducing aesthetic experi-
ence to ideology, sociology, or identity politics, as the greater part of university literary criticism has
tended to do over the past decade. Unlike Kant, Fisher employs an eclectic discursive method,
passing with admirable erudition from Descartes’s account of the rainbow to Plato’s geometrical
problem of how to double the area of a square to an analysis of two abstract canvases by Cy
Twombly.”
—Adam Bresnick, Times Literary Supplement
1999; 2003 16 color illus., 1 halftone, 16 line illus. 208 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-95562-5
Cloth $40.00 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-95561-7

The Secret Life of Puppets

VICTORIA NELSON
10th Annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Sponsored by the
Modern Language Association of America
“Translating ancient thought systems into contemporary terms, finding equivalents of the old in the
new, Nelson skillfully manages to thrust the sphere of academic research headlong into popular
culture, making this both accessible and erudite ... In a dizzying journey that opens with a
Renaissance grotto and concludes with The Truman Show and virtual reality, we are taken on a
rollercoaster ride through the underside of western mysticism. As Nelson herself warns the reader,
when crawling out from the ‘hole of this book,’ whatever emerges ‘will not be the same as what
went in.’”
—Aura Satz, Financial Times
“This is New Age prophecy at its most verbally sexy and literarily savvy. It is fun, enticing, and
chock full of brilliance.”
—Laura Bass, Washington Times
“Explores the hauntings, possessions, and other uncanny phenomena proliferating in literature and
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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
“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 gnosis—it 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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 PHILOSOPHY
IN THE WORDS

NEW
J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words
ELI FRIEDLANDER
Eli Friedlander reads Rousseau’s autobiography, Reveries of the Solitary Walker, as
philosophy. Reading this work against Descartes’s Meditations, Friedlander shows
how Rousseau’s memorable transformation of experience through writing opens up
the possibility of affirming even the most dejected state of being and allows the emer-
gence of the innocence of nature out of the ruins of all social attachments. In tracing
the re-creation of a human subject in reverie, Friedlander is alive to the very form of
the experience of reading the Reveries by showing the ways this work needs to—and
in effect does—generate a reader, without betraying Rousseau’s utter solitude.
Friedlander’s book provides an afterlife for the Reveries in modern philosophy. It
constitutes an alternative to the analytic tradition’s revival of Rousseau, primarily
through Rawls’s influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the fate of
Rousseau’s writings in the continental tradition, determined by and large by
Derrida’s deconstruction. Friedlander’s reading of the Reveries, a work that has
fascinated generations of readers, is an incomparable introduction to one of the
greatest thinkers in Western culture.
2004 176 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01514-2

NEW
The World Republic of Letters
PASCALE CASANOVA
TRANSLATED BY M. B. DEBEVOISE
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 previ-
ous 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 lumi-
nous analysis, and a bracing challenge to those who still believe in the nation as an explana-
tory 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 topic—the universe of relations that constitute the ‘World Republic of Letters’—she has set herself a daunting chal-
lenge: 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
Convergences: Inventories of the Present 2005 440 pp.
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Keywords and Doubling the Point
Concepts in Essays and Interviews
Evolutionary J. M. COETZEE
Developmental Biology 2003 Recipient of the Nobel Prize
EDITED BY BRIAN K. HALL AND EDITED BY DAVID ATTWELL
WENDY M. OLSON
These essays and interviews, documenting
The new field of evolutionary Coetzee’s longtime en- gagement with his own
developmental biology is one of culture, and with modern culture in general,
the most exciting areas of contem- constitute a literary autobiography of striking
porary biology. The fundamental intellectual, moral, and political force.
principle of evolutionary develop-
mental biology (“evo-devo”) is that “The interviews are serious colloquies, and they illumi-
evolution acts through inherited nate the texts they discuss, but above all they give a
changes in the development of the strong impression of the author on his own view of
organism. “Evo-devo” is not merely a fusion of the fields what he is trying to do. One is left with an impression of a
of developmental and evolutionary biology, the grafting deeply informed mind. Coetzee is a writer of international
of a developmental perspective onto evolutionary stature, far above mere regional interest, and we can hardly
biology, or the incorporation of an evolutionary help being interested in his being an Afrikaans-speaking South
perspective into developmental biology. Evo-devo African. This is a book of distinction.”
strives for a unification of genomic, developmental, —Frank Kermode
organismal, population, and natural selection 1992 7 line illus. 448 pp.
approaches to evolutionary change. It draws from devel- Paper $21.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-21518-4
opment, evolution, paleontology, ecology, and molecu-
lar and systematic biology, but has its own set of
questions, approaches, and methods. Kafka
KLAUS WAGENBACH
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental
Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this In Kafka’s writing, Albert
expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms Camus tells us, we travel
and concepts in entries written by leading experts, “to the limits of human
Keywords offers an overview of all that is embraced by thought.” And in this
this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core book, the world’s leading
insights and ideas that show how embryonic develop- Kafka authority conducts
ment relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and us to the deepest reaches
responses to and integration with environmental factors. of Kafka’s own troubled
psyche, to reveal the inner
“With the recent explosion of interest in evolutionary develop- workings of the man who
mental biology, fueled by advances in molecular analysis, this gave his name to a central
work arrives at an extremely important time ... Chapters are facet of modern experi-
thoughtfully written by an extraordinarily wide range of scientists ence, the Kafkaesque.
from nearly every perspective of evolution and development.” Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biog-
—K. Crawford, Choice raphy of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recent
Harvard University Press Reference Library information to produce a concise but finely nuanced
2003 25 line illus., 7 tables 496 pages portrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quin-
Cloth $59.95 / £38.95 ISBN 0-674-00904-5 tessential figure of modernity.
2003 16 color illus., 31 duotones, 10 line drawings, 1 map
192 pp.
Cloth $21.50 / COBEEI ISBN 0-674-01138-4

NEW
A New History of German Literature
DAVID E. WELLBERY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
JUDITH RYAN, GENERAL EDITOR
HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT, ANTON KAES, JOSEPH LEO KOERNER,
DOROTHEA E. VON MÜCKE, EDITORS
“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 pithi-
ness 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.”
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—J. M. Coetzee, author of Elizabeth Costello and Doubling the Point

“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 how—in a remarkable post-war process of moral regeneration—German literature
struggles to come to terms with what happened.”
—Amos Elon, author of The Pity of It All
“Harvard’s 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 Bürgermeister’s Daughter
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 WALTER
BENJAMIN

new in paperback
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913–1926
WALTER BENJAMIN
EDITED BY MARCUS BULLOCK AND MICHAEL W. JENNINGS
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 children’s books
as he is when dealing with weightier issues such as symbolic logic or epistemology.
“To encounter Benjamin’s 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 Benjamin’s writings outside the mammoth German Collected Works.”
—Michael André 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 Germany’s 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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1928–1940
Volume 2, 1927–1934 THEODOR W. ADORNO AND WALTER BENJAMIN
Belknap 22 halftones, 3 line illus. 880 pp.
Cloth $46.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-94586-7 EDITED BY HENRI LONITZ
The paperback version of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, TRANSLATED BY NICHOLAS WALKER
Volume 2 will be available in Spring 2005; it will be broken into “To reconsider the relationship between Theodor Adorno and
two parts.
Walter Benjamin is to reflect on one of the most enduring
Volume 3, 1935–1938 philosophical friendships of the twentieth century.”
Belknap 2002 12 halftones 480 pp.
—Richard Wolin, New Republic
Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-00896-0 “The extensive correspondence between Adorno and
Benjamin—now happily available in English—reveals the
Volume 4, 1938–1940 complexities of their tortured philosophical friendship.”
Belknap 2003 4 halftones 512 pp. —James Miller, New York Times Book Review
Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01076-0
1999; 2001 400 pp.
Paper $19.95 / COBE ISBN 0-674-00689-5
The Arcades Project Cloth $47.50 / £30.95 ISBN 0-674-15427-4
WALTER BENJAMIN
“We will be feasting on Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project for
years to come...By any standard, the appearance of this long-
awaited 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
century’s great efforts at historical comprehension—some
would say the greatest.”
—T. J. Clark
Belknap 2002; 1999 42 halftones 1088 pp.
Paper $23.95 / £15.95 ISBN 0-674-00802-2
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 PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE

NEW
Naturalism in Question
EDITED BY MARIO DE CARO AND DAVID MACARTHUR
“Naturalism in Question is undertaking an important task—to address the prevalence of scientific
naturalism as the paradigm of serious philosophical work in contemporary Anglo-American philos-
ophy. 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 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
“The book’s 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 reputa-
tion for philosophical clarity and insight. The more expansive naturalisms they advocate are impor-
tant, 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
2004 350 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-01295-X

NEW
Politics of Nature
How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
BRUNO LATOUR
TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE PORTER
This book establishes the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting 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
society—and 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 ques-
tions 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
2004 7 line illus. 320 pp.
Paper $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-01347-6
Cloth $55.00 / £35.95 ISBN 0-674-01289-5

new in paperback
Historical Ontology
IAN HACKING
“[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
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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
2002; 2004 288 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £11.95 ISBN 0-674-01607-6
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 new in paperback Making Sense of Life
Explaining Biological Development with
Darwin and Design Models, Metaphors, and Machines
Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
EVELYN FOX KELLER
MICHAEL RUSE
A history of the diverse and changing
“This has to be the best of Ruse’s many books, nature of biological explanation in a
and it is hard to imagine how a better one could particularly charged field, Making Sense
be written on this subject. With an understand- of Life draws our attention to the tempo-
ing erudition spiced with good-natured wit and ral, disciplinary, and cultural compo-
occasional sly ribaldry, Ruse moves easily and nents of what biologists mean, and what
assuredly among biology, philosophy, history, they understand, when they propose to
and theology.” explain life.
—Robert T. Pennock, Science “Making Sense of Life is about the impor-
“Michael Ruse’s latest book, Darwin and Design, tance of recognizing [the] tight connection
is an intellectual history of the design argument and its Darwinian between the use of language in the social domain and how it
solution ... His story is a fascinating one, enlivened especially by produces biological ‘understanding’ ... The central arguments
his accounts of various imaginative attempts before Darwin to of Making Sense of Life are made with grace and authority.
solve the design problem without recourse to a deity.” Those who are unsettled by them, and who wish to take issue
—Daniel W. McShea, American Scientist with Keller, could not ask for a more accomplished and
2003; 2004 12 halftones, 5 line illus. 384 pp. eloquent adversary.”
Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01631-9 —Lisa Jardine, New Scientist
Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01023-X 2002; 2003 5 halftones,
4 line illus. 400 pp.
Paper $17.95 / £11.95
Bigger than Chaos ISBN 0-674-01250-X
Understanding Complexity through Probability Cloth $29.95 / £19.95
ISBN 0-674-00746-8
MICHAEL STREVENS
“This book is a model of clarity, at both the ‘macro’ and the
‘micro’ levels; the expository style is entertaining without
Time and Chance
being distracting; the presentation of technical material shows DAVID Z ALBERT
the deft touch of someone who has mastery of it without the This book is an attempt
inclination to overindulge in it.” to get to the bottom of an
—Ned Hall, M.I.T. acute and perennial
tension between our best
“This impressive book tackles an important question: how can scientific pictures of the
systems of many interacting parts, which thus display low- fundamental physical
level complexity, give rise to high-level simplicity? Said structure of the world and
another way: how can very complicated and seemingly capri- our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is
cious micro-behavior generate stable, predictable macro- about the direction of time. The situation is that it is a
behavior? Complex systems of the sort Strevens deals with consequence of almost every one of those fundamental
are all around us. Thermodynamics and ecology are just the scientific pictures—and that it is at the same time radi-
beginning. He makes real progress on a genuinely difficult cally at odds with our common sense—that whatever
topic, one that is of central interest to science and to the can happen can just as naturally happen backwards.
philosophy of science. He also has a seemingly effortless “Albert is perfecting a style of foundational analysis that is
command of his materials and a sure grip on the conceptual uniquely his own ... It has a surgical precision ... and it is ruth-
issues. The work is technically sophisticated—he knows his less with pretensions. The foundations of thermodynamics is
mathematics, probability theory and physics—and elegantly a topic that has accumulated a good deal of dead wood; this
written. This is what good philosophy is all about.” is a fire that will burn and burn.”
—Alan Hajek, California Institute of Technology —Simon W. Saunders, Oxford University
2003 39 line illus. 432 pp. 2001; 2003 29 line illus. 192 pp.
Cloth $59.95 / £38.95 ISBN 0-674-01042-6 Paper $18.95 / £12.95 OIP ISBN 0-674-01132-5

Invariances Facing Up
The Structure of the Objective World Science and Its Cultural Adversaries
ROBERT NOZICK STEVEN WEINBERG
“Robert Nozick’s intellectual energy is a thing of “[Facing Up is] lucidly written as ever, with
wonder. In Invariances he ranges copiously over a gentle humor that does not hide
relativity theory and quantum theory, cosmology, [Weinberg’s] strong convictions on science,
modal logic, topology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and religion. I unreservedly
neuroscience, cognitive psychology, decision recommend it, not only to scientists but to
theory, economics, and even Soviet history—not all who share his beliefs in the contribution
to mention his strictly philosophical forays into that science has made, and will continue to
the nature of truth, objectivity, necessity, make, to the way we see ourselves and our
consciousness, and ethics.” world.”
—Colin McGinn, New York Review of Books —Brian Pippard, Times Literary
Belknap 2001; 2003 432 pp. Supplement
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01245-3
2001; 2003 1 halftone 306 pp.
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RATIONALITY/LOGIC

NEW
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 Quine’s 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 Quine’s most important essays and articles, which reflect his
thinking up to the end of his life.”
—Leon H. Brody, Library Journal
Belknap 2004 448 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01048-5

Saving the Differences

Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivity
CRISPIN WRIGHT
Crispin Wright’s 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 Wright’s 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 prob-
lems 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
STEPHEN TOULMIN
“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 math-
ematical methods on our idea of what intelligent problem-solving should be. Deduction in the
style of Euclid’s 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 inap-
propriately mathematical rationality. Only then, Toulmin argues, can the idea of reason regain its rightful good name.”
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—Anthony Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times

2001; 2003 256 pp.
Paper $16.95 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-01235-6
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INDEX

Acosta-Hughes, Labored in Papyrus..., 24 Lear, Happiness, Death..., 6

Adorno/Benjamin, Complete..., 20 Libet, Mind Time, 3
Alanen, Descartes’s Concept of Mind, 4 Light, Making the Most of College, 26
Albert, Time and Chance, 22 Lovibond, Ethical Formation, 4
Aleinikoff, Semblances of Sovereignty, 11 MacGilvray, Reconstructing Public Reason, 7
Avery/et al., Early Admissions Game, 26 Margalit, Ethics of Memory, 4
Beiser, German Idealism, 24 Martin, Inventing Superstition, 25
Beiser, Romantic Imperative, 16 McGinn, Mindsight, 3
Benjamin, Arcades Project, 20 McSherry, Who Owns Academic..., 26
Benjamin, Selected Writings, 20 Muirhead, Just Work, 8
Bourbon, Finding a Replacement..., 3 Nelson, Secret Life of Puppets, 17
Brandom, Articulating Reasons, 6 Neuhouser, Foundations of Hegel’s..., 8
Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead, 5 Ngai, Ugly Feelings, 15
Camp, Confusion, 4 Nozick, Invariances, 22
Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 18 O’Malley, Four Cultures of the West, 14
Cavell, Cities of Words, 12 Plutarch, Moralia, 25
Chait, Questions of Tenure, 26 Putnam, Collapse of the Fact/Value..., 13
Chowers, Modern Self in the Labyrinth, 7 Putnam, Ethics without Ontology, 12
Coetzee, Doubling the Point, 19 Quine, Quintessence, 23
Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian..., 9 Rawls, Collected Papers, 10
Davidson, Emergence of Sexuality, 14 Rawls, Justice as Fairness, 11
de Bolla, Art Matters, 17 Rawls, Law of Peoples, 10
De Caro/Macarthur, Naturalism..., 21 Rawls, Lectures on the History..., 11
Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, 9 Rawls, Theory of Justice, 10
Finkelstein, Expression and the Inner, 5 Rozemond, Descartes’s Dualism, 4
Fisher, Wonder, the Rainbow..., 17 Ruse, Darwin and Design, 22
Fleischacker, A Short History..., 7 Sen, Rationality and Freedom, 8
Friedlander, J. J. Rousseau..., 18 Smith, Law’s Quandary, 13
Gibbard, Thinking How to Live, 5 Steiner, Lessons of the Masters, 14
Goldish, Sabbatean Prophets, 24 Strevens, Bigger than Chaos, 22
Hacking, Historical Ontology, 21 Sunstein, Why Societies Need..., 8
Hadot, Inner Citadel, Tamen, Friends of Interpretable..., 16
Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy?, 25 Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today, 9
Hall/et al., Keywords and Concepts..., 19 Terada, Feeling in Theory, 24
Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel, 15 Tichi, Embodiment of a Nation, 16
Hornsby, Simple Mindedness, 5 Toulmin, Return to Reason, 23
Hurley, Consciousness in Action, 6 Wagenbach, Kafka, 19
Hurley, Justice, Luck, and Knowledge, 13 Wark, Hacker Manifesto, 2
Keller, Making Sense of Life, 22 Weinberg, Facing Up, 22
Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein..., 26 Wellbery, New History..., 18
Krause, Liberalism with Honor, 10 Wright, Saving the Differences, 23
Latour, Politics of Nature, 21