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PHILOSOPHY 2019 –2020 edinburghuniversitypress.com PHILOSOPHY Contents Continental Philosophy 3 Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art 52 Deleuze & Guattari Studies 13 Film–Philosophy 56 Contemporary European Thought 21 Philosophy & Literature 60 History of Philosophy 29 Scottish Philosophy 64 Political Philosophy 33 Islamic & Middle Eastern Philosophy 68 Ethics & Moral Philosophy 44 Journals 69 Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law 49 How to Order 71 Letter from the team This year, we’ve decided that the world is not enough! We’re launching a host of new series and boldly going into new areas which we’re sure you will love, from worldlessness to future worlds, and from ancient philosophy to the people to come. Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche, led by Keith Ansell-Pearson and Daniel Conway, brings Nietzsche’s writings to life for students, teachers as well as scholars. You’ll find the 14 volumes on page 4. Contemporary Continental philosophy comes into conversation with the history of philosophy in our Cycles series edited by Andrew LaZella and Richard A. Lee. Adriel Trott’s book Aristotle on the Matter of Form launches the series on page 30. Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy (page 8), edited by Jeffrey Bell, Paul Livingston and James Williams, addresses key philosophical problems by drawing from work in both traditions. The series opens with Language and Process by Michael Halewood. And make sure you check out the call for proposals for Refractions, which brings together philosophy and art history (page 54). We have a groundbreaking reference volume for philosophers, literary theorists, critics and scholars of contemporary fiction: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature edited by David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin and Frida Beckman. Find out more on page 61. Other books not to be missed include Arjen Kleinherenbrink’s dynamite Against Continuity (page 23), the kaleidoscopic Fictioning by David Burrows and Simon O’Sullivan (page 53) and Roland Végső’s provocative Wordlessness After Heidegger (page 35). There is much to enjoy! Carol Kirsty Woods James Dale Rebecca Naomi Zuzana Macdonald Editorial Production Mackenzie Farmer Ihnatova Editorial Design Marketing Marketing Catalogue cover image: 1960s NASA drawing © akg-images / ClassicStock / H. Armstrong Roberts 2 edinburghuniversitypress.com PHILOSOPHY CONTINENTAL New in paperback Spinoza’s Philosophy Cosmo-nationalism of Ratio American, French and Edited by Beth Lord German Philosophy Oisín Keohane Pb, Hb & Ebook Pb, Hb & Ebook £19.99 | $29.95 £19.99 | $29.95 November 2019 August 2019 192 pages 224 pages 9781474455879 9781474431163 Gaston Bachelard: Lacan and Deleuze A Philosophy of the A Disjunctive Synthesis Surreal Laura McMahon Zbigniew Kotowicz Pb, Hb & Ebook Pb, Hb & Ebook £19.99 | $29.95 £19.99 | $29.95 2018 2018 224 pages 240 pages 9781474432238 9781474432276 Philosophy 3 SERIES Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche Series Editors: Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University, and Keith Ansell-Pearson, Warwick University https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/egn Guides you through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: one of modernity’s most independent, original and seminal minds The Edinburgh Critical Guides to Nietzsche series brings Nietzsche’s writings to life for students, teachers and scholars alike, with each text benefitting from its own dedicated book. Every guide features new research and reflects the most recent developments in Nietzsche scholarship. The authors unlock each work’s intricate structure, explore its specific mode of presentation and explain its importance. Whether you are working in contemporary philosophy, political theory, religious studies, psychology, psychoanalysis or literary theory, these guides will help you to fully appreciate Nietzsche’s enduring significance for contemporary thought. Publishing 2019 • Nietzsche’s Unfashionable Observations Publishing 2020 • Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human • Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil Publishing 2021 • Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra • Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ • Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music • Nietzsche’s The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche Contra Wagner • Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality Publishing later • Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols • Nietzsche’s The Gay Science • Nietzsche’s Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks • Nietzsche’s Late Notebooks • Nietzsche’s Dawn • Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo 4 edinburghuniversitypress.com CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Available in the series Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human Ruth Abbey, Swinburne University of Technology A critical introduction and guide to one of Nietzsche’s pivotal but lesser-known texts Human, All Too Human marks the beginning of what is often called Nietzsche’s middle or positivist period (which ends with the conclusion of Book IV of The Gay Science). It initiates some important features that become permanent in his work, such as his experiments in multiple writing styles within one work, his self-representation as a psychologist, his genealogical excavations of morality and his appeal to fellow Europeans to overcome the parochialism and antagonism of nationalism. • Devotes a chapter to each of Human, All Too Human’s 9 chapters, plus a chapter each on ‘Assorted Opinions and Maxims’ and ‘The Wanderer and Its Shadow’ – originally published as separate works • Assumes no prior knowledge or Nietzsche or Human, All Too Human • Includes a chronology of Nietzsche’s life and work, a glossary of key terms, an index of names and subjects and a guide to further reading Pb £19.99 | $29.95 January 2020 224 pages 9781474430821 Also available in Hb & Ebook Nietzsche’s Unfashionable Observations Jeffrey Church, University of Houston A companion for both students and scholars to deepen their understanding of the Unfashionable Observations ‘An excellent guide bringing out the unifying ethical and cultural themes that run through the work and setting them in the larger context of the 19th century. The clarity of Church’s writing will make this an especially useful volume for students new to Nietzsche’s thought.’ – Paul Franco, Bowdoin College • The first book-length treatment of the Observations as a whole • A companion for both students and scholars to deepen their understanding of the text • Contextualises the Unfashionable Observations in Nietzsche’s own life, as well as in 19th-century German philosophy and criticism • Includes a chronology of Nietzsche’s life and work, a glossary of key terms, an index of names and subjects and a guide to further reading Pb £19.99 | $29.95 January 2019 280 pages 9781474428286 Also available in Hb & Ebook Philosophy 5 SERIES New Perspectives in Ontology Series Editors: Peter Gratton, Southeastern Louisiana University Sean J. McGrath, Memorial University of Newfoundland edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/epnpio In the wake of speculative realism and new materialism, this series builds on the renewed interest in perennial metaphysical questions while opening up avenues of investigation long assumed to be closed. Working within the Continental tradition without being confined by it, the books in this series move beyond the linguistic turn and re-think the oldest questions in a contemporary context. Available in the series The 1801 Schelling–Eschenmayer Controversy Nature and Identity Benjamin Berger, Loyola University, Chicago, and Daniel Whistler, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität • A groundbreaking account of the first published controversy between Schelling and K. A. Eschenmayer Hb & Ebook • Includes explanatory notes, a contextualising £75 | $110 introduction and translations of Eschenmayer’s essays April 2020 and correspondence with Schelling 224 pages 9781474434393 • Argues that Schelling’s central concepts of identity, potency and abstraction were forged in this debate Heidegger’s Ontology of Events James Bahoh, University of Bonn • Critically reconstructs Heidegger’s concept of event – the most fundamental concept in his later philosophy • Defines event’s relation to Heidegger’s accounts of history, truth, difference, ground and time–space • Engages mainly with Heidegger’s Being and Time, Hb & Ebook ‘On the Essence of Truth’ and ‘Contributions to £75 | $110 Philosophy’ (1936–8) December 2019 256 pages 9781474443685 6 edinburghuniversitypress.com CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Available in the series Thinking Nature An Essay in Negative Ecology Sean J. McGrath, Memorial University of Newfoundland ‘A genuinely new contribution … McGrath avoids the real pitfalls into which so much contemporary discourse about the environment fall… McGrath argues for the recovery of a sense of humans as natural, Hb & Ebook £75 | $110 alongside other natural beings, but possessing a unique February 2019 responsibility and vocation.’ 192 pages – Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount University 9781474449267 2 b&w illustrations Schelling’s Naturalism Motion, Space and the Volition of Thought Ben Woodard, Leuphana University • Brings Schelling’s theory of nature into dialogue with Analytic and Continental philosophy • Shows how an expanded form of naturalism changes how we conceive of the division between thought and Hb & Ebook world, mathematics and motion, sense and dynamics, £75 | $110 experiment and materiality, as well as speculation and February 2019 pragmatism 256 pages • Contributes to the recent rehabilitation of Schelling as 9781474438179 a forgotten but important philosophical figure The Problem of Nature in Hegel’s Final System Wes Furlotte, University of Ottawa Reconsiders Hegel’s system from