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philosophy FEATURED TITLE FEATURED TITLE and the city Classic to Contemporary Writings Linguistic PHILOSOPHY Philosophy LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE CITY The Central Story The Central Story Classic to GARTH L. HALLETT Contemporary Writings Explores the role language SHARON M. MEAGHER, EDITOR plays in the relationship The defi nitive source book between reality and utterance. on philosophy and the city. Garth L. Hallett EDITED BY sharon m. meagher ow much authority should language, the medium of sing philosophical works H communication, be accorded from ancient to U as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? contemporary times, Philosophy and the City demonstrates Garth L. Hallett argues that, although never explicitly debated, both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter this is the most signifi cant issue of linguistic philosophy. to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain Here, for the fi rst time, he traces the issue’s story. Starting with central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, representative thinkers—Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Frege, and the What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? early Wittgenstein—who contested language’s authority, the By bringing various perspectives together, Sharon M. Meagher narrative then focuses on thinkers such as Carnap, Tarski, provides readers the opportunity to better understand key the later Wittgenstein, Flew, Russell, Malcolm, Austin, Kripke, philosophical debates concerning not only social and political Putnam, Strawson, Quine, and Habermas who, in different philosophy but also place and identity formation, aesthetics, ways and to varying degrees, accorded language more authority. philosophy of race and diversity, and environmental philosophy. Implicit in this account is a challenge to philosophy as still widely practiced. “Cities matter. Philosophy matters. In this groundbreaking anthology, Sharon Meagher brings together for the fi rst time “Hallett’s treatment combines impressive philosophical erudition a rich collection of readings on the nature and importance of with penetrating and insightful analysis.” — William H. Brenner, urban life. In so doing, she provides a unique opportunity for author of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations students new to philosophy to discover the nature and impor- tance of philosophical refl ection as they engage in inquiry about “This book is a highly enlightening introduction to and survey of a topic that is central to their lives. linguistic philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries. At the same time, Meagher offers CONTRIBUTORS The work is accessible to readers without a strong background in Susan Bickford a valuable resource for seasoned philosophy, and leads them through a wide range of UNC, Chapel Hill philosophers and for anyone who and philosophies. This is not a mere survey, for the author James Conlon cares passionately about our cities Mount Mary Coll. develops his own position in the course of working through the and about those who live in them.” David Fine views of other philosophers, and engages the reader in his project SUNY Stony Brook — Sean P. O’Connell, author of of understanding and defending the authority of language.” William Gavin Outspeak: Narrating Identities — John T. Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution Portland, ME That Matter Robert Gooding-Williams to a Problem Inherited from Descartes Northwestern U. Joseph Grange SHARON M. MEAGHER is GARTH L. HALLETT is Dean of the College of Philosophy and Portland, ME Professor of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University and the author of many books, Elizabeth Grosz Director of Women’s Studies at the Rutgers U., New Brunswick including Essentialism: A Wittgensteinian Critique, also University of Scranton. She is the bell hooks published by SUNY Press. Berea, KY coeditor (with Patrice DiQuinzio) Daniel Kemmis of Women and Children First: A volume in the SUNY series in Philosophy U. of MT Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Andrew Light George R. Lucas Jr., editor U. of WA, Seattle Policy, also published by Sharon M. Meagher SUNY Press. MARCH • 240 pp. U. of Scranton $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7362-7 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7361-0 Eduardo Mendieta JANUARY • 320 pp. SUNY Stony Brook $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7308-5 Gail Weiss $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7307-8 George Washington U. Sales restricted to the U.S. Cornel West Princeton U.

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FEATURED TITLE IMAGINING LAW On Drucilla Cornell imagining law ENÉE EBERLE AND Overcoming OVERCOMING R J. H Synchronicity and Image-Thinking MODERNITY BENJAMIN PRYOR, EDITORS Synchronicity and Image-Thinking on drucilla cornell Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to YUASA YASUO philosophy, political theory, TRANSLATED BY and legal studies.

YUASA Yasuo SHIGENORI NAGATOMO AND edited by renée j. heberle and benjamin pryor Translated by Shigenori Nagatomo & John W. M. Krummel with an introduction by Shigenori Nagatomo JOHN W. M. KRUMMEL rucilla Cornell’s contribu- tion to legal thought and WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D philosophy is unique in its SHIGENORI NAGATOMO attention to diverse traditions and the possibilities of dialogue among them. Renée J. Heberle and Benjamin Pryor bring These last writings by Japanese Yuasa engage together scholars from a range of disciplines who refl ect on both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity Cornell’s infl uence and importance to contemporary social and and offer an alternative, more holistic paradigm. political theory and critically engage with ideas and arguments central to her published work. The fi nal chapter is Cornell’s own n Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings response to the contributors’ views, establishing a record of Ifrom Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the a critical exchange among top scholars from across disciplines. modern Western paradigm of thinking and in its place proposes a more holistic worldview. A wide range of topics are examined, “This book combines exegesis and critical assessment of a including the relationships between language, being, psychology, major thinker. Cornell is a prolifi c writer responding to major— and logic; Jung’s concept of synchronicity; the Yijing (Book of and dead—philosophers, as well as many contemporary voices. Changes); paranormal phenomena; physics and ; Her interdisciplinary writing on ideals such as ‘justice’ and ‘dignity’ mind and body; and teleology. Through these explorations, is distinguished from other ‘postmodern’ writings because of her engaging a wide range of Western and East Asian thought, insistence in reconstructing liberalism in the wake of post-. Yuasa offers an alternative to the scientifi c worldview inherited The contributors force Cornell, for the fi rst time, to account for from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new aspects of her work, including her disinterestedness in Nietzsche paradigm involves the integration of space-and-time and and Foucault and her liberal reading of Levinas.” mind-and-body, thematics brought together through what — Marinos Diamantides, author of Levinas, Law, Politics Yuasa calls “image-thinking,” a mode of thinking that incorporates image-experience. “The contributors’ essays offer very CONTRIBUTORS insightful and clarifying analyses “This is an outstanding piece of scholarship that breaks new Roger Berkowitz of some of the most important ground in philosophy, science, religion, psychology, and ethics. Bard Coll. aspects of Drucilla Cornell’s work Rather than treating these areas singly, Yuasa offers a theory Richard J. Bernstein and point to the breadth and depth that unifi es all of them in one brilliant paradigm that establishes The New School for Social Research, NY, NY of her infl uence in many fi elds.” a new way of looking at ourselves and our world. Only a superior Pheng Cheah — Christine Keating, The Ohio scholar and thinker like Yuasa could provide such an original U. of CA, Berkeley State University perspective. This book stands alone as an innovative synthesis Drucilla Cornell of East/West theory and practice.” — Robert E. Carter, author of Rutgers U., New Brunswick Carolin Emcke RENÉE J. HEBERLE is Associate The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation Der Spiegel, Berlin, Germany Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Grosz at the University of Toledo. YUASA YASUO (1925–2005) was Professor Emeritus at Obirin Rutgers U., New Brunswick BENJAMIN PRYOR is Associate University in Japan and the author of several books, including Renée J. Heberle U. of Toledo Professor of Philosophy and The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy and The Body: Martin J. Beck Matustík Codirector of the Program Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, both also published by Purdue U. in Law and Social Thought SUNY Press. At Temple University, SHIGENORI NAGATOMO is Sara Murphy at the University of Toledo. Associate Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian NYU Benjamin Pryor Buddhism and JOHN W. M. KRUMMEL teaches religion. U. of Toledo A volume in the SUNY series in Gender Theory Adam Thurschwell Tina Chanter, editor MARCH • 256 pp. Cleveland State U. 8 fi gures Karin Van Marle APRIL • 272 pp. $75.00 hc 978-0-7914-7401-3 U. of Pretoria, S. Africa $75.00 hc 978-0-9714-7415-0

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WHY DEMOCRACY? LACAN, LANGUAGE, russell grigg PAUL FAIRFIELD AND PHILOSOPHY Lacan, Language, and Philosophy RUSSELL GRIGG Reexamines the normative justifi cation for democratic Clinical and philosophical Why Democracy? politics. perspectives on key issues Paul Fairfield and debates in Lacanian hile much of the world . W now embraces the democratic idea—that the people acan, Language, and must rule—the philosophical LPhilosophy explores the case for democracy has yet linguistic turn in psychoanalysis to be made convincingly. taken by . Why Democracy? not only Russell Grigg provides lively reexamines the current debates in normative democratic theory, and accessible readings of Lacan and Freud that are grounded but also challenges popular conceptions that tend toward an in clinical experience and informed by a background in analytic uncritical idealization of popular rule. It is not enough to call for philosophy. He addresses key issues in Lacanian psychoanalysis, more extensive public deliberation, or for greater participation from the clinical (how psychosis results from the foreclosure and inclusion in the democratic process, or for a radical extension of the signifi er the Name-of-the Father; the father as a symbolic of the scope of the process. Making the case for democracy function; the place of ) to the philosophical requires examining its imaginative and rhetorical dimensions (the logic of the “pas-tout”; the link between the superego as well. The democratic idea of “rule by the people” must be and Kant’s categorical imperative; a critique of Žižek’s account understood less as a defi nition than as an aspiration, a trope, of radical change). Grigg’s expertise and knowledge of psycho- and the beginning of a narrative that includes, while extending analysis produce a major contribution to contemporary beyond, the domain of government. philosophical and psychoanalytic debates.

“This book is well written, polemically forthright, and lucid. “This is an excellent, well-written, and important book by a I like how the author places participatory and deliberative major scholar. Grigg is unique, indeed famous, in the fi eld for his theories in the context of confl ict. He is part of a trend that is combination of clarity, philosophical acumen, and scholarliness. interested less in the analytic rigor of political theories than in His readings show the benefi ts of a combination of clinical their function either as political or as moves within experience, a scholarly eye, and a philosophical mindset.” an irresolvable confl ict over power.” — Peter Breiner, author of — Henry Krips, author of Fetish: An Erotics of Culture Max Weber and Democratic Politics “Grigg presents exceptional articulations of crucial ideas within PAUL FAIRFIELD teaches philosophy at Queen’s University the Lacanian fi eld. Some of these issues have been dealt with before in Ontario and is the author of several books, including by other Lacanians, but Grigg brings his own style, erudition, Moral Selfhood in the Liberal Tradition: The Politics of and grace to these questions.” — Kareen Ror Malone, coeditor of Individuality; Public/Private; and The Ways of Power: The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Social Criticism. RUSSELL GRIGG is Associate Professor of Philosophy and JANUARY • 148 pp. Psychoanalytic Studies at Deakin University in Australia. He is $60.00 hc 978-0-7914-7315-3 the translator of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book III: The Psychoses, 1955–1956 and The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis.

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THE SIGNIFYING BODY BETWEEN ATHENS the signifying body Toward an Ethics AND JERUSALEM of Sexual and Philosophy, Prophecy, Racial Difference and Politics PENELOPE INGRAM BETWEEN ATHENS in Leo Strauss’s AND JERUSALEM PHILOSOPHY, PROPHECY, AND POLITICS IN LEO STRAUSS’S EARLY THOUGHT Early Thought Applies the ideas of toward an ethics of sexual DAVID JANSSENS and racial difference Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and fi lm. Examines the early works

penelope ingram of German-Jewish political ow do we live ethically? DAVID JANSSENS philosopher Leo Strauss HWhat role do sex and race (1899–1973). play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ? Can literature play a role in ethical raised as a major political thinker of the twentieth being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, century and vilifi ed as the putative godfather of contemporary Frantz Fanon, and , Penelope Ingram argues P neoconservatism, Leo Strauss (1899–1973) has been the object that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones. of heated controversy both in the United States and abroad. It is only when sexual and racial difference are viewed This book offers a more balanced appraisal by focusing on Strauss’s at an ontological level that ethics is truly possible. She examines early writings. By means of a close and comprehensive study of a number of twentieth-century fi lm and literary texts, including these texts, David Janssens reconstructs the genesis of Strauss’s Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game, J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, thought from its earliest beginnings until his emigration to the Toni Morrison’s Paradise, and Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist, United States in 1937. He discusses the fi rst stages in Strauss’s to demonstrate that language and the literary text are crucial grappling with the “theological-political problem,” from his to our experience of living authentically and achieving an ethical doctoral dissertation on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi to his contri- relation with the Other. By attending closely to Heidegger’s, butions to Zionist periodicals, from his groundbreaking study of Irigaray’s, and Fanon’s positions on language, this original work Spinoza’s critique of religion to his research on Moses Mendelssohn, concludes that the literary text is indispensable for understanding and from his rediscovery of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy ontology and ethics. to his research on Hobbes. Throughout, Janssens traces Strauss’s rediscovery of the Socratic way of life as a viable alternative to both “The topic of this book is signifi cant and important. First, there modern philosophy and revealed religion. needs to be more work that explores the intersection of race and gender in , and this book is a valuable “In revising and enlarging a book that was originally written example of such work. Second, the author bridges the gap and published in Dutch for Europeans, the author has done between studies of Fanon and discussions of gender and sexual a good job of addressing himself and his account to Americans. identity in continental philosophy. She also brings together This is a major and serious scholarly contribution to the vibrant Fanon, Heidegger, and Irigaray in a manner that pushes the ongoing study and interpretation of Strauss’s thought. It adds a scholarship on all three fi gures. Finally, the author’s attempt whole new dimension to the discussion of Strauss and will greatly to theorize the ethical encounter of the racial, sexual, and deepen and broaden the understanding of him in the English- gendered Other is intriguing and should help to further speaking world.” — Thomas L. Pangle, author of Leo Strauss: the debate on that issue.” — Ronald Sundstrom, An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy University of San Francisco “An extremely helpful introduction to the major themes of PENELOPE INGRAM is Associate Professor of English at the Strauss’s thought for both students and scholars, as well as a University of Texas at Arlington. compelling demonstration of the light his early European work sheds on the themes of his more familiar American work.” A volume in the SUNY series in Gender Theory Tina Chanter, editor — Nathan Tarcov, author of Locke’s Education for Liberty

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THE ENDS RETHINKING FACTICITY Max Pensky OF SOLIDARITY Edited by FRANÇOIS RAFFOUL AND François Raffoul and Discourse Theory Eric Sean Nelson ERIC SEAN NELSON, EDITORS in Ethics and Politics Examines the historical MAX PENSKY The context and contemporary relevance of facticity. Ends of An in-depth look at the theory Solidarity of solidarity of German Rethinking Discourse Theory in philosopher Jürgen Habermas, he concept of facticity has Ethics and Politics Facticity serving also as a comprehen- Tundergone crucial transfor- A VOLUME IN THE SUNY SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY sive introduction to his work. A VOLUME IN THE SUNY SERIES IN CONTEMPORARY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY mations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenome- nology, but it has not yet received ürgen Habermas’s discourse the attention that it warrants. theory demands that human J Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not beings see themselves in relations of solidarity that cross about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent national, racial, and religious divides. While his theory has philosophers examine the signifi cance of facticity in its historical won adherents across a spectrum of contemporary debates, context and refl ect on its contemporary relevance. Focusing on the required vision of solidarity has remained largely unexplored. the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, In The Ends of Solidarity, Max Pensky fi lls this void by examining and Fanon, among others, they trace its signifi cance from life- Habermas’s theory of solidarity, while also providing a compre- philosophy to contemporary European thought and explore hensive introduction to the German philosopher’s work. its philosophical implications. The following questions are Pensky explores the impact of Habermasian discourse theory addressed: What thoughts of experience, of subjectivity, of on a range of contemporary debates in politics and ethics, including fi nitude, of nature, of the body, of racial and sexual difference the prospect of a cosmopolitan democracy across national borders; does facticity provoke? What thinking of language, of history, the solidarity demanded by the integration process in the of birth and death, of our ethical being-in-the-world does it European Union; the demands that immigration dynamics make mobilize? Exploring these questions, the contributors offer new on inclusive democratic societies; the divisive or unifying effects interpretations of facticity. of religion in Western democracies; and the current controversies in genetic technology. “Rarely have I read a collection so rich CONTRIBUTORS in implicit intersection and contesta- “This book is extremely well written and well argued. Giorgio Agamben tion, and thus so able to stimulate Pensky creatively weaves together several strands in U. of Verona, Italy fresh thought.” — John T. Lysaker, contemporary social theory, ethics, and politics.” Robert Bernasconi U. of Memphis author of You Must Change Your Life: — Seyla Benhabib, author of The Rights of Others: Ed Casey Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth Aliens, Residents, and Citizens SUNY, Stony Brook of Sense Bernard Flynn “Pensky provides the best available treatment of Habermas’s most SUNY, Empire State Coll. Namita Goswami FRANÇOIS RAFFOUL is Associate recent works on globalization, ethics, and democracy. There is DePaul U. Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana no comparable book on this aspect of Habermas’s work, Patricia Huntington State University. His many books especially timely given current debates in .” Loyola U., Chicago include Heidegger and Practical Phi- — James Bohman, author of Democracy across Borders: Theodore Kisiel Northern IL U. losophy (coedited with David Pettigrew), From Dêmos to Dêmoi Jean-Luc Nancy also published by SUNY Press. Strasbourg, France ERIC SEAN NELSON is Assistant MAX PENSKY is Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, Eric Sean Nelson Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York. He is the author of Melancholy U. of MA, Lowell David Pettigrew University of Massachusetts at Lowell : Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning; Southern CT State U. and coeditor (with Antje Kapust and editor of The Actuality of Adorno: Critical Essays on Adorno François Raffoul Kent Still) of Addressing Levinas. and the Postmodern, also published by SUNY Press; and translator LA State U. and editor of Habermas’s The Past as Future: Vergangenheit Jacob Rogozinski U. of Strasbourg, France A volume in the SUNY series in als Zukunft. Gregory Schufreider Contemporary Continental Philosophy LA State U. Dennis J. Schmidt, editor A volume in the SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Anthony J. Steinbock Dennis J. Schmidt, editor Southern IL U., Carbondale MARCH • 368 pp. Rudi Visker 1 table MARCH • 288 pp. Catholic U., Leuven, $90.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7365-8 $85.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7363-4 Belgium

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DANTE AND DERRIDA AN ONTOLOGY OF TRASH Face to Face An The Disposable DANTE FRANCIS J. AMBROSIO Ontology and Its Problematic Nature AND GREG KENNEDY Discusses Derrida as a religious thinker, of Trash DERRIDA reading Dante’s Commedia and Derrida’s A philosophical exploration of the religious writings together. The Disposable and its problematic nature of the disposable. Face to Face Problematic Nature Reading Dante’s Commedia alongside Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, Francis J. Ambrosio Jacques Derrida’s later religious writings, Greg Kennedy razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes … Francis J. Ambrosio explores what these What makes a thing disposable? Which of its works reveal about religion as a fundamen- properties allows us to treat it as if it did tal dynamic of human existence, about freedom and responsibility, and not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects about the signifi cance of writing itself. Ambrosio argues that both the appear to us as nothing more than brief fl ashes between checkout-line many telling differences between them and the powerful bonds that unite and landfi ll? them across centuries show that Dante and Derrida share an identity as religious writers that arises from the human experiences of faith, hope, In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of and love in response to the divine mystery of being human. For both disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. Dante and Derrida, Ambrosio contends, “scriptural religion” reveals that He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled the paradoxical tension of freedom and absolute responsibility must lead relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcen- to the mystery of forgiveness, a secret that these two share and faithfully dence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical keep by surrendering to its necessity to die so as always to begin again anew. presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. “…an unusual combination of historical erudition and philosophical Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of insight into one of the most provocative thinkers of our time and an salutary change. outstanding contribution to continental philosophy of religion.” — John D. Caputo, author of The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event “This book is written gracefully and engagingly. Trash is a surprisingly revealing lens on contemporary culture. Kennedy’s approach is incisive JANUARY • 240 pp. without being zealous and critical without being negative.” $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7006-0 — Albert Borgmann, author of Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country WHITEHEAD’S WHITEHEAD’S RADICALLY DIFFERENT RADICALLY POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY “I particularly liked the discussion of fast food, Heidegger, embodiment, DIFFERENT An Argument for and the city. There is much that is swift and brilliant in the matters POSTMODERN Its Contemporary Relevance covered, telling and insightful in the multileveled critique of modernity.” PHILOSOPHY DAVID RAY GRIFFIN AN ARGUMENT FOR ITS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE — Drew Leder, author of Sparks of the Divine: Finding Inspiration Examines the postmodern implications in Our Everyday World of Whitehead’s metaphysical system. JANUARY • 218 pp. $21.95 pb 978-0-7914-6994-1 DAVID RAY GRIFFIN “Those who are unfamiliar with Griffi n’s recent books will be grateful for this clear, readable, and thorough introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy as constructive (rather than deconstructive) and postmodern. However, those who are well versed in Griffi n’s previous books will also benefi t from his expanded use of the theory of hard-core common sense, his defense of theological ethics, and his detailed exami- nation of Whitehead’s reformed subjectivist principle. In short, this is an excellent book that could be read with profi t by philosophers and theolo- gians generally.” — Daniel A. Dombrowski, author of Rawls and Religion: The Case for Political Liberalism

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FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL PLOTINUS AND THE PRESOCRATICS Friedrich Schlegel AND THE EMERGENCE A Philosophical Study of Presocratic and the OF ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY Infl uences in Plotinus’ Enneads Emergence of Romantic ELIZABETH MILLÁN-ZAIBERT GIANNIS STAMATELLOS Philosophy The origins of early German Romanticism The fi rst book-length philosophical and the philosophical contributions of the study on the Presocratic infl uences movement’s most important philosopher. in Plotinus’ Enneads.

Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert This book addresses the philosophical recep- Filling the void in the current scholarship, tion of early German Romanticism and offers Giannis Stamatellos provides the fi rst book- the fi rst in-depth study in English of the length study of the Presocratic infl uences movement’s most important philosopher, Friedrich Schlegel, presenting in Plotinus’ Enneads. Widely regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism, his philosophy against the background of the controversies that shaped Plotinus (204–270 AD) assimilated eight centuries of Greek thought its emergence. Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert begins by distinguishing early into his work. In this book Stamatellos focuses on eminent Presocratic German Romanticism from classical German Idealism, under which thinkers who are signifi cant in Plotinus’ thought, including Heraclitus, it has all too often been subsumed, and then explores Schlegel’s Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the early Pythagoreans, and the romantic philosophy (and his rejection of fi rst principles) by showing early Atomists. The Presocratic references found in the Enneads are how he responded to three central fi gures of the post-Kantian period studied in connection with Plotinus’ fundamental theories of the One and in Germany—Jacobi, Reinhold, and Fichte—as well as to Kant himself. the unity of being, intellect and the structure of the intelligible world, She concludes with a comprehensive critique of the aesthetic and the nature of eternity and time, the formation of the material world, and epistemological consequences of Schlegel’s thought, with special the nature of the ensouled body. Stamatellos concludes that, contrary to attention paid to his use of irony. modern scholarship’s dismissal of Presocratic infl uence in the Enneads, Presocratic philosophy is in fact an important source for Plotinus, “Millán-Zaibert makes a convincing argument that Schlegel has a very which he recognized as valuable in its own right and adapted for key sensible and relevant philosophical position, and that it has been gener- topics in his thought. ally misunderstood and underappreciated. I believe everyone working in the fi eld will be indebted to this volume and will work with it regularly.” “This book is destined to become the enduring classic in this aspect of — Karl Ameriks, coeditor of The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self ancient philosophy, with many topics of interest for scholars in modern in Classical German Philosophy philosophy and religion.” — M. R. Wright, editor of Empedocles: The Extant Fragments JANUARY • 256 pp. $25.95 pb 978-0-7914-7084-8 JANUARY • 270 pp. 4 tables $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7062-6

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