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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILOSOPHY 2005 Click on titles or jacket images to get more information about a title or to order online. NEW TITLES NEW A Hacker Manifesto MCKENZIE WARK A double is haunting the world—the double of 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 that can do a new job. I like “hacker” because it’s a good old sturdy English word. There’s nothing Latinate about it. What I want this word to do is to describe a new kind of class interest. Hackers are people who create new ideas. Hackers innovate. But they don’t own the means of realizing the value of what they create. So a hacker could be a computer programmer or a musician or a novelist or a bio-chemist. Q: Most people would think of hackers as kids who break into computers. A: It used to mean people who create new computer code, but it is interesting how it’s a term that’s been trivialized and demonized. I think that’s always the case with new kinds of political force. The word “democrat” used to be an insult. I want to do the opposite with the term: make it broader and more inclusive, not something narrow and marginal. Hackers could be working in any field, not just computing. Although it seems only appropriate to name a whole class over one of its leading new forms of creativity—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 little control over the terms under which you sell the product of your own mind. The “intellectual property” laws, which pretend to protect the interests of the creator, really protect the interests of the owner. And since most of us don’t own the means of production, we don’t stay owners for long. But I also had a positive experience, on listservers like nettime.org, where I met a whole community of people trying to put into practice a new, global gift economy of knowledge. So that was the practice; A Hacker Manifesto is the theory. I think a lot of people could recognize themselves in this book. It tries to map the possibilities for the free creation of knowledge that we have all expe- rienced, no matter how distorted it gets when it gets reduced to a commodity. 2004 208 pp. Cloth $21.95 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-01543-6 2 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 20 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21 PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONALITY / LOGIC 23 POSTSTRUCTURALISM / ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 24 JEWISH MYSTICISM / GERMAN PHILOSOPHY 24 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 24 ACADEMICALLY SPEAKING 26 INDEX 27 Cover art: PhotoDisc ® TABLE OF CONTENTS Visit our online feature for this book: www.hup.harvard.edu/features/warhac/ NEW Finding a 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 2004 290 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £32.95 ISBN 0-674-01297-6 NEW Mind Time The Temporal Factor in Consciousness BENJAMIN LIBET Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings—and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance for our understanding of consciousness. “What makes Benjamin Libet different from all the others writing on [consciousness] is that he has actually spent the past 40 years experimenting on the topic. His findings have played a central role in others’ speculations. Now he has put his life’s work into a single short book.” —Steven Rose, New Scientist “Benjamin Libet’s discoveries are of extraordinary inter- est. His is almost the only approach yet to yield any cred- ible evidence of how conscious awareness is produced by the brain. Mind Time endeavors to clarify these startling observations for the general public, set them in proper framework of neuroscientific knowledge, and probe their 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. Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01320-4 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 WWW.HUP.HARVARD.EDU 3 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The Ethics of Memory AVISHAI MARGALIT 2002 F oreWord Ma gazine 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 2002; 2004 240 pp. Paper $14.95 / £9.95 ISBN 0-674-01378-6 Cloth $24.95 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00941-X Confusion A Study in the Theory of Knowledge JOSEPH L. CAMP, JR. “Imagine that you think you see your car in the lot at Dodger Stadium, but your key won’t work. You think to yourself, ‘I owe $500 on this car.’ Then you see a stuffed Panda in the backseat and decide that it’s a different car. When you thought about ‘this car,’ were you thinking of the car you couldn’t unlock or the car that you owned? Camp says neither. You were thinking about something like both but you did not succeed in referring to either. Camp has not just produced a brain twister. His problem can be found in Descartes and Locke, who worried that we seem not to perceive actual things but to confront only ideas of them. If we can’t refer without unique objects of reference, our claims to truth may be in trouble. There are alternatives to his theory of reference, but Camp’s book will provoke thought.” —Leslie Armour, Library Journal 2002; 2004 256 pp. Paper $18.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-01591-6 Cloth $42.50 / £27.95 ISBN 0-674-00620-8 1-800-405-1619 / www.hup.harvard.edu new in paperback 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 new in paperback 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. Paper $21.50 / £13.95 ISBN 0-674-00968-1 Cloth $55.00/£35.95 ISBN 0-674-19840-9 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 4 new in paperback PHILOSOPHOY OF M IND 5 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. Paper $22.50 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-00563-5 Cloth $42.50 / £27.95 ISBN 0-674-80818-5 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 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 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 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. 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 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. Paper $16.00 / £10.95 ISBN 0-674-00674-7 Cloth $26.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00329-2 1-800-405-1619 / www.hup.harvard.edu PHILOSOPHY OF MIND 6 NEW Reconstructing Public Reason 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 (or ascending!) influence of pragmatism and those anxious about the practical significance of theorizing about political justice gener- ally and political liberalism specifically. No small accom- plishment.” —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 2004 256 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 0-674-01542-8 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY x NEW A Short History of Distributive Justice SAMUEL FLEISCHACKER Fleischacker argues that guaranteeing aid to the poor is a modern idea, developed only in the last two centuries. To attrib- ute a longer pedigree to distributive justice is to fail to distinguish be- tween justice and charity. By examining major writ- ings in ancient, medieval, and modern political philosophy, Fleischacker shows how we arrived at the contemporary mean- ing of distributive justice. “Fleischacker provides a fascinating account of the develop- ment of our contemporary notion of distributive justice. This is an excellent book that fills a real need.” —Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Welfare and Rational Care “This is a succinct, coherent, and wide-ranging history of distributive justice that will be a boon for teachers and students. Written with a light touch, it will provoke discussion and thought, raising the possibility of seeing things differently. A fine contribution.” —Ross Harrison, author of Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion’s Masterpiece 2004 204 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 0-674-01340-9 NEW 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 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 WWW.HUP.HARVARD.EDU 7 1-800-405-1619 / www.hup.harvard.edu NEW Just Work RUSSELL MUIRHEAD This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and Muirhead has something important to say about the partial satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need to balance the claims of work against those of family and community. Muirhead weaves his argument out of sociological, economic, and philosophical 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 new in paperback 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. Cloth $22.95 / £14.95 ISBN 0-674-01268-2 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. Paper $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01124-4 Cloth $55.00/£35.95 ISBN 0-674-00152-4 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 8 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- 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 Cloth $19.95 / £12.95 ISBN 0-674-00760-3 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 9 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 SOCIAL & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 10 [...]... severe a critic of mainstream analytic philosophy Putnam has become.” —Michael Williams, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University 2004 1 table 176 pp Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 0-674-01310-7 new in paperback Ethical Formation SABINA LOVIBOND Sabina Lovibond invites her readers to see how the “practical reason view of ethics” can survive challenges from within philosophy and from the antirationalist... the soundness or lack of it of the philosophy he is discussing He is himself deeply inside that tradition, 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... 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. .. $26.00 / £16.95 ISBN 0-674-00647-X 1-800-405-1619 / www.hup.harvard.edu PHILOSOPHY OF 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... explaining these constraints “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 MORAL & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY “Luck-neutralization is a central concept in contemporary work on distributive justice, and thus moral responsibility is also a... 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 13 PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE & SOCIETY NEW new in paperback Four Cultures of the West The Emergence of Sexuality JOHN W O’MALLEY Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts... 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 philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking... £19.95 ISBN 0-674-00630-5 PHILOSOPHY OF AESTHETICS “Explores the hauntings, possessions, and other uncanny phenomena proliferating in literature and entertainment … she argues strongly, in vivid and original readings … for a new approach to the uses of fantasy and to the relationship between material and immaterial phenomena.” —Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 17 PHILOSOPHY IN THE WORDS NEW... 0-674-04326-X 20 WALTER BENJAMIN 1-800-405-1619 / www.hup.harvard.edu 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 philosophy The fact that such eminent philosophers as Davidson,... consequences of ontology’s influence on analytic philosophy in particular, the contortions it imposes upon debates about the objective of ethical judgments—Hilary Putnam proposes abandoning the very idea of ontology “Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished living American philosophers, a philosopher whose writings have done much to shape the agenda of analytic philosophy over the last forty years Much . 2 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 20 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 21 PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONALITY / LOGIC 23 POSTSTRUCTURALISM / ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY