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Walter Benjamin A Critical Life Howard Eiland • Michael W. Jennings

“In this ambitious biography, Benjamin scholars Eiland and Jennings chart the protean, prolific—albeit short—life of the German-Jewish critic and philosopher with masterly aplomb . . . The authors, in im-pressive and accessible fashion, reveal Benjamin as an eyewitness to Europe’s changing modernity.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)Belknap Press�2014�37 halftones�768 pp.�$39.95 | £25.00�cloth�9780674051867

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence An Anthropology of the ModernsBruno Latour Translated by Catherine Porter

★ Bruno Latour Is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

“Collective collaboration—some would call it ‘crowdsourcing’—is rare in philosophy, but Latour, a sociologist and anthropologist by training, is used to collaboration with scientists . . . Latour’s work makes the world—sorry, worlds—interesting again. And, best of all, it is a project to which you can attach yourself.”

—Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books2013�520 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674724990

Aspects of Psychologism Tim Crane

“Tim Crane is an original and creative voice in contemporary philoso-phy of mind and perception. These essays make a major contribution toward a more phenomenally-oriented philosophy of perception that also captures the idea that perception is world-presenting and not a matter of the mere reception of blank subjective signs.”

—Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania 2014�1 line illus.�384 pp.�$45.00 | £33.95�cloth�9780674724570

The Metaphysics and Ethics of RelativismCarol Rovane

“This is an excellent, readable, and informative book discussing a particularly interesting kind of ‘relativism.’ Perhaps the most impor-tant contribution of the book (but far from the only one) is its careful explication of the relevant sort of relativism as an instance of what Carol Rovane calls ‘multimundialism’: the thesis that one person might reject another’s beliefs without supposing that the other beliefs fail to be true. Along the way there is much useful discussion of potentially relevant ideas in the history of philosophy through such twentieth-century figures as Rudolf Carnap, W. V. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Richard Rorty, and Donald Davidson. This is the best discussion of relativism that I know of.”

—Gilbert Harman, Princeton University2013�1 halftone�304 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674725713

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Political Emotions Why Love Matters for Justice Martha C. Nussbaum

★ A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

“[Nussbaum] maps out the routes by which men and women who begin in self-interest and ingrained prejudice can build a society in which what she calls ‘public emotions’ operate to enlarge the individual’s ‘circle of concern’ . . . Those who would extend the sympathy individuals feel to include fellow citizens of whatever views, ethnicity, ability or disability must

‘create stable structures of concern that extend compassion broadly.’ Those structures cannot be exclusively rational and philosophical—as they tend to be in the work of John Rawls and other Kantian liberals—but must, says Nussbaum, be political in the sense that they find expression in the visible machinery of public life . . . It is one of the virtues of Nuss-baum’s book that she neither shrinks from sentimentality nor fears being judged philosophically unsophisticated.”

—Stanley Fish, New York Times Belknap Press�2013�480 pp.�$35.00 | £25.00�cloth�9780674724655

Religion without God Ronald Dworkin

★ Ronald Dworkin Is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

“Ronald Dworkin’s profound and moving final book . . . is unique among the works that he wrote throughout the decades of his extraordinarily creative life. Anyone who read Dworkin or heard him lecture knows that he possessed a brilliant and elegant mind, conceptually sophisticated, analytically astute, and always at the service of a moral, legal, and political cause

. . . It is rare in the life of a philosopher that a set of detailed arguments can be transfigured into a fundamental stance toward the universe and the human moral realm. In such a moment, the articulation of the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. Religion without God is . . . a deep and pre-cious book.”

—Moshe Halbertal, New Republic 2013�192 pp.�$17.95 | £13.95�cloth�9780674726826

The Religion of the Future Roberto Mangabeira Unger

How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we orga-nize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoles us? These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s book.

Both a book about religion and a religious work in its own right, it proposes the content of a religion that can survive faith in a transcen-dent God and in life after death. According to this religion—the re-ligion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in an-other life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives.

“A vital and moving philosophy of human potential. Something to feed into a dynamic new nation-state. Here’s hoping.”

—Pat Kane, Sunday Herald

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Secularism, Identity, and EnchantmentAkeel Bilgrami

“It is a rewarding experience to read these thoughtful and penetrating essays, with their wide-ranging, provocative, and challenging ideas and insights, deeply informed and carefully reasoned, and reaching to issues of fundamental concern in the contemporary world.”

—Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“This book has been eagerly anticipated by a wide interdisci-plinary audience as essays from a leading thinker in the field; it will appeal broadly, and its lasting impact is assured.”

—Michael Warner, Yale UniversityConvergences: Inventories of the Present2014�416 pp.�$45.00 | £33.95�cloth�9780674052048

The Institutions of Meaning A Defense of Anthropological HolismVincent Descombes Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz

“Descombes is one of the most exciting philosophers writing in France today. Readers of The Institutions of Meaning in the Anglo-American world will discover some familiar ideas (ho-lism, social practice theory of meaning), but developed in an original way and associated with modes of thought (anthro-pology, sociology) not usually encountered in this context.”

—Charles Larmore, Brown University

“This insightful and carefully argued book should put an end forever to the widespread tendency to understand social life in atomist terms.”

—Charles Taylor, McGill University 2014�392 pp.�$49.95 | £36.95�cloth�9780674728783

Anselm’s Other Argument A. D. Smith

“A. D. Smith’s treatments of complex philosophical and exegetical questions—particularly Anselm’s understanding of modal notions and their relation to conceivability—seem exactly right. Smith is fully in command of both the material in Anselm and of all of the modern systems of modal logic required to show what Anselm is and is not committed to.”

—Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame2014�4 diagrams�256 pp.�$49.95 | £36.95�cloth�9780674725041

Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human LifeFabrizio Amerini Translated by Mark Henninger

“What makes the book, I think, a fascinating read, is Amerini’s detailed analysis of texts that Thomas wrote throughout his career, showing how his thoughts on the topic evolved and were re�ined. In that sense, I think anyone interested in history, especially the history of philosophy and science, would be fascinated at this look inside the world of a medieval philosopher on one very particular topic.”

—John Farrell, Forbes

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TychomancyInferring Probability from Causal Structure Michael Strevens

“It seems almost magical how we infer facts about objective probabilities from symmetries and other physical properties of systems. Physicists such as Maxwell have done it with stunning success; so too evolutionary biologists since Darwin, ecologists, climate scientists, astronomers, and other scientists. Strevens argues that such reasoning comes so easily to us that even babies can do it, and we don’t notice when we do it ourselves. In this remarkable and engaging book, he plays with great aplomb the roles of such scientists—as well as the role of historian of science, of cognitive psychologist, and especially of philosopher. At a time when it is fashionable to pay lip service to ‘interdisciplinarity,’ this book is the genuine article.”

— Alan Hájek, Australian National University

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The Society of Equals Pierre Rosanvallon

“French political theorist Pierre Rosanvallon takes fresh stock of the ideal of equality in The Society of Equals, an ambi-tious bid to revive egalitarian thought in a global economy that no longer recognizes any moral or political legitimacy in schemes to redistribute wealth—let alone in more modest efforts to expand access to basic social goods such as health care, housing, or education . . . Rosanvallon deftly traces the slow collapse of the egalitarian tradition, mainly in the counterposed trajectories of French and American political thought.”

—Chris Lehmann, Bookforum 2013�384 pp.�$35.00 | £25.95�cloth�9780674724594

Metamorphoses of the City On the Western Dynamic Pierre Manent

“The culmination of thirty years of reflection on modern politics, Metamorphoses of the City is Pierre Manent’s Summa. By tracing the transformation of Western political form from the Greek city-state to the nation state, then to our increas-ingly post-national world, he raises profound questions about the future of self-government. A beautifully conceived and deeply unsettling book.”

—Mark Lilla, Columbia University 2013�384 pp.�$39.95 | £24.95�cloth�9780674072947

Democracy Disfi gured Opinion, Truth, and the People Nadia Urbinati

“Urbinati’s book is sure to unsettle current debates, with its provocative critique of democratic ‘disfigurations’ and the theories that she says misjudge them—either by depoliticiz-ing public opinion, neglecting the danger of its populist manipulation, or reducing it to citizen voyeurism.”

—John Medearis, University of California, Riverside 2014�320 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674725133

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Lines of Descent W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah

★ Kwame Anthony Appiah Is a National Humanities Medal Winner

“Appiah has penned one of the most exquisite accounts of W. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual heritage. The most towering figure of modern black thought and protest literature is recast here as ‘a cosmopolitan through and through,’ drawing deeply from the wells of learning in the early twentieth century German academy.”

— Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of BlacknessThe W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures�2014�240 pp.�$18.95 | £14.95�cloth�9780674724914

Evil Men James Dawes

★ A Maclean’s Top Book of the Year★ A Prospect Best Book of the Year

“Ranging across philosophy, literature and social science, Evil Men deploys a variety of sources—Augustine’s account of evil as the privation of good; Thomas Hardy’s poetry on the ‘Vast Imbecility’ that seems to inhere in the nature of things; and sociological studies of police torturers, among others—to produce a careful and sensitive exploration of some of the many different questions, not all answer-able, that are posed by the ‘problem of evil.’”

—John Gray, Literary Review2013�280 pp.�$25.95 | £19.95�cloth�9780674072657

Elegy for Theory D. N. Rodowick

“Massively ambitious, brilliantly erudite, and exceptionally lucid.”

—Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania

“Toward the end of this book, Rodowick writes of the era of theory that ‘to feel one’s self at the end of something inspires reflection on its ends.’ In itself, his inspired reflection revives the stream of ideas on which it reflects; if this is only an elegy, it’s one that instills its object with endless energy.”

—David Winters, Los Angeles Review of Books2014�1 halftone�304 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674046696

From the Tree to the LabyrinthHistorical Studies on the Sign and InterpretationUmberto EcoTranslated by Anthony Oldcorn

“This book is a sort of summa of one of our most important thinkers on matters of language, signi�ication, and interpretation. It illuminates all of Eco’s earlier work by providing a great deal of the historical contextualization for his arguments. It provides important and fruitful ways of thinking about the organization of knowledge and of our attitudes towards it. It intervenes in a number of debates in the philosophy of language and in linguistics. It contains a myriad of insights on medieval thinkers, Kant, and Peirce, to mention but a few.”

—Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz

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3Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic Marko Malink

“It is generally reasonable to assume that a philosophical problem for which no one has yet managed to find a solu-tion for over 2000 years is one that will simply end up as a notorious unsolved riddle in the history of philosophy. After a variety of heroic but failed attempts over the past century, it became the consensus view among historians of logic that the interpretation of Aristotle’s modal syllogistic represented a paradigm example of such a case. Until now! Marko Malink’s book presents an interpretation of this crucial branch of Aristotle’s logical theory that is both exegetically plausible and logically consistent. It is a landmark contribution.”

—James Conant, University of Chicago 2013�46 line illus., 18 tables�384 pp.�$49.95 | £39.95�cloth�9780674724549

Virtues of Thought Essays on Plato and Aristotle Aryeh Kosman

“Kosman is one of the most interesting and insightful readers of Plato and Aristotle of his generation; he is in fact one of the few people equally interesting and insightful on both authors. Virtues of Thought is the work of a real master.”

—Jennifer Whiting, University of Toronto 2014�336 pp.�$49.95 | £36.95�cloth�9780674730809

Enlightenment and Revolution The Making of Modern Greece Paschalis M. Kitromilides

Kitromilides takes in the vast sweep of the Greek Enlighten-ment, assessing key developments such as the translation of Voltaire, Locke, and other modern authors into Greek; the conflicts sparked by the Newtonian scientific revolution; the rediscovery of the civilization of classical Greece; and the emergence of a powerful countermovement.

“Kitromilides is the preeminent scholar in the field of eight-eenth-century Greek history and politics, and more generally one of the world’s leading authorities on political thought and the European Enlightenment. Enlightenment and Revolution clearly constitutes his magnum opus, brilliantly summing up his extraordinary erudition concerning the Enlightenment and Greek political ideas.”

—Larry Wol� , New York University 2013�1 map�470 pp.�$55.00 | £40.95�cloth�9780674725058

Mind, Modernity, Madness The Impact of Culture on Human Experience Liah Greenfeld

This book is a tour de force in the classic tradition of Émile Durkheim—and a bold foray into uncharted territory. Often counter-intuitive, always illuminating, it presents a many-sided view of humanity, one that enriches our deepest under-standing of who we are and what we aspire to be. 2013�3 illus.�688 pp.�$45.00 | £29.95�cloth�9780674072763

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A New Republic of Letters Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction Jerome McGann

“This is an awe-inspiring work, courageous, ambitious, startling, and full of learning, wit, and even fun. It will surely be regarded as the major realization of the several strands of McGann’s distinguished career, and will be the single most significant contribution to the literature of memory and the archive in the early twenty-first century.”

— David Greetham, author of The Pleasures of Contamination2014�7 halftones�256 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674728691

Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth CenturySelected Essays Charles Parsons

“Parsons is quite possibly the most distinguished writer on philosophy of mathematics now working and certainly the most careful and prob-ing. These essays examine a rather wide range of historical opinion on mathematical matters, both with an eye to demanding more careful interpretations and formulations from important writers such as Kant or Gödel while remaining sympathetic to their overall philosophical ambi-tions. Parsons’s treatments are unsurpassed.”

—Mark Wilson, University of Pittsburgh 2014�368 pp.�$55.00 | £40.95�cloth�9780674728066

A Natural History of Human ThinkingMichael Tomasello

“Tomasello has spent a lifetime conducting similar tests on both great apes such as chimpanzees and on humans of different ages, in order to pin down exactly where our capacities differ. In this difficult but reward-ing book, he attempts to place these results into a grand theory of how and why these differences evolve.”

—Stephen Cave, Financial Times 2014�192 pp.�$35.00 | £25.95�cloth�9780674724778

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Amerini, Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life�4Appiah, Lines of Descent�6Bilgrami, Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment�4Brandom, Reason in Philosophy�10�Crane, Aspects of Psychologism�2Dawes, Evil Men�6Descombes, The Institutions of Meaning�4Dworkin, Religion without God�3Eco, From the Tree to the Labyrinth�6Eiland,Jennings Walter Benjamin�2Ford, Essays on Anscombe’s Intention�9Greenfeld, Mind, Modernity, Madness�7

Inwood, Ethics After Aristotle�12Kateb, Human Dignity�9Kitcher, The Ethical Project�10Kitromilides, Enlightenment and Revolution�7Kosman, Virtues of Thought�7Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence�2Malink, Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic�7Manent, Metamorphoses of the City�5McDowell, The Engaged Intellect�10McDowell, Having the World in View�10McGann, A New Republic of Letters�8Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities�9Nussbaum, The New Religious Intolerance�9Nussbaum, Political Emotions�3

Parsons, Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century�8Rodowick, Elegy for Theory�6Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals�5Rovane, The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism�2Sandel, The Place of Prejudice�12Shapiro, Legality�9Smith, Anselm’s Other Argument�4Strevens, Tychomancy�5Taylor, Dilemmas and Connections�10Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Thinking�8Unger, The Religion of the Future�3Urbinati, Democracy Disfi gured�5

3Essays on Anscombe’s Intention EDITED BY Anton Ford • Jennifer Hornsby • Frederick Stoutland

“The significance of Anscombe’s book Intention has been taken for granted rather than genuinely understood. This exceptionally fine collection of essays illuminates her thought and brings out its deep differences from much contemporary philosophy of mind and action. The book is outstanding in the kind of dialogue it sets up.”

—Cora Diamond, University of Virginia 2014�324 pp.�$24.95 | £18.95�paper�9780674284265

The New Religious Intolerance Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age Martha C. Nussbaum

★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Nussbaum marshals the masters of moral philosophy—pri-marily Locke and Kant—as well as a host of literary and his-torical voices to propose an approach to religious difference that honors both difference and our shared humanity.”

—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe Belknap Press�2013�304 pp.�$16.95 | £12.95�paper�9780674725911

Creating Capabilities The Human Development Approach Martha C. Nussbaum

“A remarkably lucid and scintillating account of the the human development approach seen from the perspective of one of its major architects.”

—Amartya Sen Belknap Press�2013�256 pp.�$15.95 | £11.95�paper�9780674072350

Legality Scott J. Shapiro

“Imaginative, incisive, fair to interlocutors, and written with elegance and wit . . . Essential reading for philosophers of law.”

—Thom Brooks, Times Higher EducationBelknap Press�2013�488 pp.�$19.95 | £14.95�paper�9780674725782

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Human Dignity George Kateb

“[A] powerful and ambitious book. [Kateb] provides a sterling example of one of the most challenging of genres, the philosophic essay. He writes not just for other scholars but for anyone who loves to think. I won’t mislead you by pretending that Human Dignity is easy and pleasant. It is demanding and pleasant, the pleasures being those of an argument that illuminates an important subject.”

—Cliff ord Orwin, Globe and Mail

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Dilemmas and Connections Selected Essays Charles Taylor

★ Charles Taylor Is Winner of the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy★ Charles Taylor Is Winner of the Templeton Prize

“Charles Taylor is one of the few philosophers who has consistently made his ideas accessible to different philosophical traditions, as well as to scholars in other disciplines. His range of interests and reference is impressively wide and his writing is accessible and bracingly free of jar-gon. He is almost temperamentally incapable of writing on any subject without relating it to the most fundamental philosophical questions.”

—Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia UniversityBelknap Press�2014�424 pp.�$22.95 | £16.95�paper�9780674284364

Reason in Philosophy Animating Ideas Robert B. Brandom

★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Brandom’s expertise ranges over a bewildering array of topics, from philosophical logic and semantics to cognitive science and political philosophy, and his ability to integrate positions in these areas within a single philosophical framework is remarkable.”

— Nicholas Smith, Philosopher’s Magazine Belknap Press�2013�248 pp.�$21.95 | £16.95�paper�9780674725836

The Engaged Intellect Philosophical Essays John McDowell

“[These essays] provide the rare and instructive spectacle of a philoso-pher who is able to genuinely enrich our understanding of the history of philosophy while at the same time engaging in current philosophical problems and debates.”

—Courtney D. Fugate, Philosophy in Review 2013�360 pp.�$25.95 | £19.95�paper�9780674725799

Having the World in ViewEssays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars John McDowell

“I know of no contemporary philosopher whose work repays as hand-somely careful and repeated study, no philosopher more likely to shed original and yet fundamentally revealing light on a difficult subject.”

— Tim Thornton, Philosophers’ Magazine2013�304 pp.�$24.95 | £18.95�paper�9780674725805

The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher

★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title ★ Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence

“This book is philosophy of science at its most philosophically ambitious, using a broadly scientific worldview to engage big questions as to how we can make sense of moral reality and moral progress against the broad background of things we know about human natural history and human nature.”

— Ron Mallon, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews2014�2 tables�432 pp.�$24.95 | £18.95�paper�9780674284289

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Ethics After Aristotle Brad Inwood Carl Newell Jackson Lectures2014�160 pp.�$39.95 | £29.95�cloth�9780674731257

The Place of Prejudice A Case for Reasoning within the World Adam Adatto Sandel 2014�232 pp.�$45.00 | £33.95�cloth�9780674726840