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abstraction, the virtual reality of information,
programming or poetry, math or music,
curves or colorings upon which the
fortunes of states and armies, companies
and communities now depend The bold
aim of this book is to make manifest the
origins, purpose, and interests of the
emerging class responsible for making this
new world—for producing the new
concepts, new perceptions, and new
sensations out of the stuff of raw data
A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the
fraught territory between the ever more
strident demands by drug and media
companies for protection of their patents
and copyrights and the pervasive popular
culture of file sharing and pirating This
vexed ground, the realm of so-called “intellectual
prop-erty,” gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one
that pits the creators of information—the hacker class of
researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists
and musicians, philosophers and programmers—
against a possessing class who would monopolize what
the hacker produces
“Ours is once again an age of manifestos Wark’s book
chal-lenges the new regime of property relations with all the
epigrammatic vitality, conceptual innovation, and
revolution-ary enthusiasm of the great manifestos.”
—Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire
“A Hacker Manifesto is a highly original and provocative book
At a moment in history where we are starved of new political
ideas and directions, the clarity with which Wark identifies a
new political class is persuasive, and his ability to articulate
their interests is remarkable.”
—Marcus Boon, author of The Road of Excess
“McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto might also be called,
without too much violence to its argument,The Communist
Manifesto 2.0 In essence, it’s an attempt to update the core
of Marxist theory for that relatively novel set of historical
circumstances known as the information age.”
—Julian Dibbell, author of
Play Money: Diary of a Dubious Proposition
Q & A with McKenzie Wark
Q: So why hackers?
A: Whenever you try to describe something new you
have to reach into the language and find an old word thatcan do a new job I like “hacker” because it’s a good oldsturdy English word There’s nothing Latinate about it
What I want this word to do is todescribe a new kind of class interest.Hackers are people who create new ideas.Hackers innovate But they don’t own themeans of realizing the value of what theycreate So a hacker could be a computerprogrammer or a musician or a novelist
or a bio-chemist
Q: Most people would think of hackers
as kids who break into computers
A: It used to mean people who create
new computer code, but it is interestinghow it’s a term that’s been trivialized anddemonized I think that’s always the casewith new kinds of political force Theword “democrat” used to be an insult
I want to do the opposite with the term: make it broaderand more inclusive, not something narrow andmarginal Hackers could be working in any field, notjust computing Although it seems only appropriate toname a whole class over one of its leading new forms ofcreativity—the programmers
Q: So what from your own experience led you to this
book?
A: Signing contracts with publishers! I’m not kidding I
realized, as many people do, that you have very littlecontrol over the terms under which you sell the product
of your own mind The “intellectual property” laws,which pretend to protect the interests of the creator,really protect the interests of the owner And since most
of us don’t own the means of production, we don’t stayowners for long
But I also had a positive experience, on listservers likenettime.org, where I met a whole community of peopletrying to put into practice a new, global gift economy of
knowledge So that was the practice; A Hacker Manifesto
is the theory I think a lot of people could recognizethemselves in this book It tries to map the possibilitiesfor the free creation of knowledge that we have all expe-rienced, no matter how distorted it gets when it getsreduced to a commodity
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NEW TITLES 2
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 3
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 7
MORAL & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 12
PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE & SOCIETY 14
PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICS 15
PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORDS 18
WALTER BENJAMIN 20PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONALITY / LOGIC 23 POSTSTRUCTURALISM / ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 24JEWISH MYSTICISM / GERMAN PHILOSOPHY 24ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 24
ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING 26INDEX 27
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Replacement for
the Soul
Mind and Meaning in
Literature and Philosophy
BRETT BOURBON
Bourbon asserts that our
complex and variable
rela-tion with language defines
a domain of meaning and
being that is misconstrued
and missed in philosophy,
in literary studies, and in our ordinary understanding of
what we are and how things make sense Accordingly,
his book seeks to demonstrate how the study of
litera-ture gives us the means to understand this relationship
“This is an adventurous and unusual book Bourbon moves
back and forth between literary and philosophical contexts
with ease, showing in multifarious ways how the one can,
often in unexpected ways, illuminate the other Throughout
these wide-ranging explorations Bourbon uncovers a good
deal about both the nature of literary meaning and our
distinc-tive—if tellingly irreducible—relations to literary texts.”
—Garry L Hagberg, author of Art as Language:
Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory
“What makes Benjamin Libet different from all the otherswriting on [consciousness] is that he has actually spentthe past 40 years experimenting on the topic His findingshave played a central role in others’ speculations Now hehas put his life’s work into a single short book.”
—Steven Rose,New Scientist
“Benjamin Libet’s discoveries are of extraordinary est His is almost the only approach yet to yield any cred-ible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced bythe brain.Mind Time endeavors to clarify these startlingobservations for the general public, set them in properframework of neuroscientific knowledge, and probe theirphilosophical meaning Libet’s work is unique, and speaks
inter-to questions asked by all humankind.”
—Robert W Doty, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology andAnatomy, University of Rochester
Harvard edition World Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
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 aboutthis 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 therole of imagination in logical reasoning, belief formation, the understanding of negation and possibility, and thecomprehension of meaning His overall claim is that imagination pervades our mental life, obeys its own distinctiveprinciples, 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 workdone 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
OF MIND
Trang 4The Ethics of Memory
AVISHAI MARGALIT
2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year
Award Philosophy Category
Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2003—
Nonfiction
Avishai Margalit’s work offers a
philoso-phy for our time, when, in the wake of
overwhelming atrocities, memory can
seem more crippling than liberating, a
force more for revenge than for
recon-ciliation Morally powerful, deeply
learned, and elegantly written, The
Ethics of Memory draws on the resources
of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to
provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us
who care about the nature of our relations to others
“[A] thought-provoking book For Margalit the paradigm is
Jewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories of
humiliation Still, his sensitive meditations show how these two
strains of hurt might be overcome In a marvelous chapter
called ‘Forgiving and Forgetting,’ Margalit asks whether we
have a duty to forgive those who have wronged us His answer
is elegant Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker His
philosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in all
our complexity And yet he is committed to making sense of us
in ways that will make us better.”
—Jonathan Lear,New York Times Book Review
be found in Descartes and Locke, who worried that we seemnot to perceive actual things
but to confront only ideas ofthem If we can’t referwithout unique objects ofreference, our claims to truthmay be in trouble There arealternatives to his theory ofreference, but Camp’s book will provoke thought.”
—Leslie Armour,Library Journal
2002; 2004 256 pp
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“[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 thedualism 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 themedievals also leads to a most informative, and rare, presentation of the influence of thedoctrine of transubstantiation on discussions of substance and sense qualities Among themany books on Descartes, this one ranks with a mere handful in terms of the highest worth.”
Trang 5“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.
Paper $22.50 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-00563-5
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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
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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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 oflanguage, Brandom manages successfully to carry out a program within the philosophy oflanguage that has already been sketched by others, without losing sight of the vision inspiring theenterprise in the important details of his investigation … Using the tools of a complex theory oflanguage, Brandom succeeds in describing convincingly the practices in which the reason andautonomy 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 Cloth $43.00 / £27.95 ISBN 0-674-00158-3
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 thenature 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 subtleanalyses Hurley’s readers have come to expect in her work [It] is a significant work not onlybecause 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 willcontinue to be felt for years to come.”
—Dan Silber,Philosophy in Review
1998; 2002 32 illus., 8 tables 528 pp.
Paper $26.50 / £17.95 ISBN 0-674-00796-4 Cloth $63.00 / £40.95 ISBN 0-674-16420-2
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life
JONATHAN LEAR
2001 Gradiva Award for the Best Book in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Sponsored by the WorldOrganization and the Public Education Corporation of the National Association for theAdvancement 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 desirescan 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 moveback and forth between contemporary discussions among philosophers and the highly technicalliterature 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.
Paper $16.00 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-00674-7 Cloth $26.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00329-2
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ERIC A MACGILVRAY
The reluctance to admit controversial beliefs as
legiti-mate grounds for public action threatens to prevent us
from responding effectively to many of the leading
social and political challenges that we face Eric
MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention
away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial
public ends in the present and toward the problem of
evaluating potentially controversial public ends through
collective inquiry over time Rather than ask ourselves
which public ends are justified, we must instead decide
which public ends we should seek to justify
Reconstructing Public Reason offers a fundamental
re-thinking of the nature and aims of liberal toleration, and
of the political implications of pragmatic philosophy It
also provides fresh interpretations of founding
prag-matic thinkers such as John Dewey and William
James, and of leading contemporary figures such as
John Rawls and Richard Rorty
“Imaginatively conceived and skillfully executed,
Reconstructing Public Reason will appeal to those anxious
about the declining (orascending!) influence ofpragmatism and thoseanxious about the practicalsignificance of theorizingabout political justice gener-ally and political liberalismspecifically No small accom-plishment.”
—Alfonso Damico,The University of Iowa
“This is an intelligent bookthat addresses two impor-tant and fashionable themes
in political tism and political liberalism And it contributes to our under-
By examining major ings in ancient, medieval,and modern politicalphilosophy, Fleischackershows how we arrived atthe contemporary mean-ing of distributive justice
writ-“Fleischacker provides a fascinating account of the ment of our contemporary notion of distributive justice This is
develop-an excellent book that fills a real need.”
—Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, andauthor of Welfare and Rational Care
“This is a succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history ofdistributive justice that will be a boon for teachers andstudents Written with a light touch, it will provoke discussionand thought, raising the possibility of seeing things differently
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,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 theirconduct 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, andFoucault It ably shows how the theme emerged from the problems of the Enlightenment and attempts by Marx andNietzsche 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
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NEW
Just Work
RUSSELL MUIRHEADThis elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and thekind of work we do Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work thatfulfills 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 somethingimportant to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasinglyurgent 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 domesticwork 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 weboth 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 doand the persons we are With a clear and distinctive voice, Muirhead revives work as a subject forpolitical 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
new in paperback
Rationality and Freedom
AMARTYA SENRationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts inphilosophy and the social sciences In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice,the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight tothese difficult issues This volume—the first of the two—is principally concerned withrationality and freedom
“Amartya Sen occupies a unique position among modern economists He is an outstandingeconomic 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 ofinvestment in poor countries and, more recently, on famine At the same time, he takes a broadview 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
‘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.
Cloth $22.95 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-01268-2
Foundations of Hegel’s Social Theory
Actualizing Freedom
FREDERICK NEUHOUSERFrederick Neuhouser’s task is to understand the conceptions of freedom on which Hegel’ssocial theory rests and to show how they ground his arguments in defense of the modernsocial 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 himaccessible.”
—Allen W Wood, Yale University
“This is a fine book, and it will be a significant contribution both to Hegel scholarship and tocontemporary philosophical discussions of modern ethical life.“
—Robert B Pippin, University of Chicago
2000; 2003 352 pp
Paper $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01124-4 Cloth $55.00/£35.95 ISBN 0-674-00152-4
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Trang 9If 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
“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-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
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
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Trang 10The 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
“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.
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 appropriatelyre-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
SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Trang 11Semblances of Sovereignty
The Constitution, the State, and American Citizenship
T ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF
“Aleinikoff examines sovereignty, citizenship, and the broader concept of membership (aliens as well
as citizens) in the American nation-state and suggests that American constitutional law needs
‘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.”
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
Trang 12Cities of Words
Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
STANLEY CAVELLSince Socrates and hiscircle first tried to framethe Just City in words,discussion of a perfectcommunal life—a life ofjustice, reflection, andmutual respect—has had
to come to terms with thedistance between that idea and reality Measuring this
distance step by practical step is the philosophical
project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his
exploratory path Situated at the intersection of two of
his longstanding interests—Emersonian philosophy and
the Hollywood comedy of remarriage—Cavell’s new
work marks a significant advance in this project The
book—which presents a course of lectures Cavell
presented several times toward the end of his teaching
career at Harvard—links masterpieces of moral
philoso-phy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new
way of looking at our lives and learning to live with
ourselves
“What does it mean to live a moral life? In his typically
provocative fashion, Cavell answers this question by
juxtapos-ing various philosophical responses with particular films that
illuminate those responses Cavell’s ‘letters’ offer a ready
and heady departure from the usual conversation on moral
life, and his inventive use of film helps bring the philosophers
he discusses to life.”
—Henry I Carrigan Jr.,Library Journal
“In Cities of Words, a knotty and enlightening book, chapters
about philosophers are paired with chapters about films:
Emerson and The Philadelphia Story, Locke and Adam’s Rib,
Nietzsche and Now, Voyager, Aristotle and The Awful Truth
Cavell shows that the spirit of moral quest has an unusual
power, even in the restricted world of these films For all their
artifice, they suggest that characters really can change
them-selves, that they can form ideals of justice, while keeping in
mind how much failure and imperfection will be met along the
way That’s not a bad democratic vision, and it remains as
potent now as it was when Katharine Hepburn rediscovered
her love for Cary Grant.”
—Edward Rothstein,New York Times
Belknap 2004 480 pp
Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01336-0
NEW
Ethics without Ontology
HILARY PUTNAM
In this brief book one ofthe most distinguishedliving American philoso-phers takes up the ques-tion of whether ethicaljudgments can properly
be considered objective—
a question that has vexedphilosophers over the pastcentury Reviewing what
he deems the disastrous consequences of ontology’sinfluence on analytic philosophy—in particular, thecontortions it imposes upon debates about the objective
of ethical judgments—Hilary Putnam proposes doning the very idea of ontology
aban-“Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished livingAmerican philosophers, a philosopher whose writings havedone much to shape the agenda of analytic philosophy overthe last forty years Much of the interest of this book lies in theway that it illustrates, with unmistakable clarity, how severe acritic of mainstream analytic philosophy Putnam hasbecome.”
—Michael Williams, Professor of Philosophy,Johns Hopkins University
“practical reason view ofethics” can survive chal-lenges from within philoso-phy and from theantirationalist postmoderncritique of reason At theheart of her argument is theAristotelian idea of the formation of character throughupbringing; these ancient ideas can be made contempo-rary if one understands them in a naturalized way
“This is an intricate and stimulating book an argument that
is impressive in its coherence and subtlety, and in the ful way it engages with issues that are right at the centre ofcontemporary philosophical debate.”
insight-—John Cottingham,Times Literary Supplement
2002; 2004 224 pp.
Paper $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01365-4 Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-00650-X
Trang 13Law’s Quandary
STEVEN D SMITHThis lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudentialthought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaisethat currently afflicts not only legal theory but law ingeneral Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabularyand methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontolog-ical commitments that were explicitly articulated bythinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even
by Joseph Story But these commitments are out of syncwith the world view that prevails today in academic andprofessional thinking So our law-talk thus degeneratesinto “just words”—or a kind of nonsense
“Ordinary people assume that legal terms like freedom ofspeech have some real or true meaning Most important legaltheorists say there is no such thing It is not unheard of for thesophisticated classes to reach conclusions at odds withcommon sense But this creates a real problem for the stabil-ity of our legal system Smith explores this quandary in a waythat is wonderfully clear, honest, and funny This is the bestbook I have read in several years.”
—John H Garvey, author of What Are Freedoms For?
“Smith’s treatment of the issues he addresses is outstanding.His discussion is consistently probing, thoughtful, and imagi-native Smith’s range of reference is impressively broad—yet
I never had the sense that he was trying to impress Hisclarity—aided by his wonderfully engaging, and occasionallyhumorous, conversational style—is exemplary But the envi-able clarity/accessibility of Smith’s writing should not obscurejust how penetrating—I am tempted to say, brilliant—hiscommentary is It may sound faintly ridiculous to say this, but
I thought that this book was a jurisprudential page turner.”
—Michael J Perry, author of Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy
2004 222 pp Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01533-9
new in paperback
The Collapse of the Fact/Value
Dichotomy and Other Essays
of science and mathematicslends weight to his eloquentdemolition of the dichotomybetween judgments of factand judgments of value thatplays such a baneful role ineconomics, public policy,and the law, discouraging serious normative inquiry and argu-
ment Anyone tempted by Milton Friedman’s famous claim that
concerning differences of value ‘men can ultimately only fight’
should read this elegant and wonderful book.”
—Martha Nussbaum, The University of Chicago
“Hume’s and much 20th-century moral philosophy contrasted
moral with factual judgments and led people to conclude that
the former, unlike the latter, are subjective in the sense of not
being rationally supportable Putnam believes that the
contrast is ill conceived and that the conclusion is both
unwar-ranted and false He acknowledges the usefulness of the fact/
value distinction but denies that anything metaphysical
follows from it Putnam covers such matters as imperative
logic, economics vis-à-vis ethics, and preference theory and
such thinkers as V Walsh, L Robbins, and R M Hare A fine
distribu-“Luck-neutralization is a central concept in contemporary work on distributive justice, and thus moral responsibility isalso 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
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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