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Collections_advert_2.indd 1 19/07/2017 08:52 Contents Philosophy Biblical Studies Primary Philosophy ��������������������������������������������������������2 Biblical Studies General ������������������������������������������������ 35 Continental Philosophy ��������������������������������������������������6 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ���������������������������������������� 36 Continental Philosophy: Social & Political ������������������������ 13 The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ���������� 37 Analytic Philosophy ���������������������������������������������������� 14 Early Jewish Writings & History �������������������������������������� 40 Analytic Philosophy: Epistemology & Metaphysics �������������� 16 New Testament ���������������������������������������������������������� 41 Philosophy of Religion �������������������������������������������������� 17 The Library of New Testament Studies ���������������������������� 43 Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics �������������������������������������� 21 Religious Studies Asian Philosophy �������������������������������������������������������� 23 Religion & Popular Culture �������������������������������������������� 49 History of Western Philosophy & Modern Philosophy ���������� 25 Asian Religions ������������������������������������������������������������ 50 Theology Islam ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 53 Philosophical Theology ������������������������������������������������ 27 Religious Studies: Theory & Method �������������������������������� 55 Political Theology �������������������������������������������������������� 27 Sociology of Religion ���������������������������������������������������� 58 Theological Ethics ������������������������������������������������������ 28 Anthropology of Religion ���������������������������������������������� 59 Systematic Theology ���������������������������������������������������� 29 Major Reference Works 60 Catholic Theology �������������������������������������������������������� 31 Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 62 Reformed Theology ���������������������������������������������������� 32 Representatives, Agents & Distributors ���������������������������� 67 Contemporary Theology ������������������������������������������������ 32 Editorial Contacts ������������������������������������������������������ 68 Church History & Historical Theology ������������������������������ 33
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Alienation and Freedom The Pornographic Age Frantz Fanon Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, France Edited by Jean Khalfa Translated by A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens, Translated by Steven Corcoran University of Melbourne Never before published in English, Alienation and A philosophical call to arms, Alain Badiou offers a Freedom is a rare opportunity to read the last compelling indictment of our contemporary society. writings of a major 20th-century philosopher, whose Through a close analysis of Genet's play The disruptive and moving work continues to shape how Balcony, this is a searing critique of the current age we look at the world. and its democratic systems of power. Badiou argues that true radical Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial politics must begin by dismantling the obscene or pornographic Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an relations of parliamentary capitalism. objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its Accompanied by critical commentary from Badiou translators and subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book scholars A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens, he asks us to confront the
PRIMARY PHILOSOPHY PRIMARY furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, debasement of the political realities of the present, to galvanize race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary, ourselves to action. psychiatric and journalistic theories. UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 208 pages UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 416 pages PB 9781350014794 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350014787 • £55.00 / $74.00 HB 9781474250214 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781350014800 • £17.99 / $18.99 Individual eBook 9781474250245 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350014770 Library eBook 9781474250221 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic World English World English
Glimpse of Light How to Be a Marxist in New Meditations on First Philosophy Philosophy Stephen Mumford, Durham University, UK Louis Althusser, 16 October 1918 – 22 October This lively challenge to Descartes, written in the 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. style of Descartes' Meditations, presents a new Translated by G. M. Goshgarian way of understanding reality. Philosopher Benedict With a superb introduction from translator Chilwell faces a crisis of confidence and hopes to and Althusser archivist G.M. Goshgarian, this resolve it in a self-imposed exile, far away in the provocative, and often controversial book re- north of Norway. From his cabin, he begins his meditations, pondering inspires contemporary Marxist thought and reinvigorates our notions the mysteries of philosophy in the dark Arctic winter. In six days of what political activism can be. approaching the return of the light, Benedict discovers a basis for certainty and tries his best to convince his hosts. Through doubts, In this first ever English translation, one of the most famous Marxist questions and reasoning, Chilwell inadvertently follows in Descartes’ philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means footsteps. to be a forceful and fruitful political thinker.
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Judged Kafka Why No One Will Truly Understand You In Light of the Accident Ziyad Marar, Deputy Managing Director and Howard Caygill, Kingston University, UK Executive Vice President Global Publishing at The author of the bestselling On Resistance provides SAGE Publications us with a radical way of reading Kafka: via the Everyone fears being judged. One foolish tweet can pivotal theme of the accident. destroy a career, one careless image can damage a Caygill reveals how Kafka’s legacy was governed life. by a series of accidents, such as Max Brod’s We cannot be social beings without participating in acts of posthumous publication of the novels, or the misguided correction judgement; our increasing preoccupation with online 'selves' and of ‘misprints’. Focusing on the accident casts light on the role of our reputations intensifies this experience. Marar's provocative ‘media’ in Kafka’s work, particularly visual media and photography. exploration of our contemporary world responds to the fragility Overturning notions of the ‘kafkaesque’, Kafka’s work becomes a of reputation and our determination to judge at every available narration of defiance which affirms, often comically, the role of opportunity. error and contingency in historical struggle, with emphasis on radical Tracing our judgemental journeys using examples from the everyday Judaism, European socialist and feminist movements, and subaltern and popular culture including ‘Breaking Bad’, Shakespeare and Philip histories. Roth, Marar questions whether, in the end, our reputations are as important as we think they are. UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 264 pages HB 9781472595423 • £20.00 / $28.00 Individual eBook 9781472595430 • £19.99 / $21.99 UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 208 pages Library eBook 9781472595447 PB 9781474298636 • £14.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781474298339 • £50.00 / $68.00 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781474298346 • £16.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781474298322 Bloomsbury Academic
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Wittgenstein's Family Letters Our Country Corresponding with Ludwig Britain, Resolution and Resolve Edited by Brian McGuinness Roger Scruton Translated by Peter Winslow In this bracingly controversial book, Roger Scruton Translated into English for the first time, these revisits the foundations of our national experience, letters between Ludwig and his siblings reveal a surveying the British legacy – social, cultural, legal side of Wittgenstein few would have known. Their and political – and animating the sentiments that intimacy offers new insights into his relationships attach us to it. He asks to what are our duties and groundbreaking ideas. owed, and why? How do we respond to the pull of globalisation, to mass migration, to the rise of Islam and to the decline of Christian Using a different tone for each of his siblings, he creates distinct belief? Do we accept these things as inevitable, or do we resist? And portraits. The open tone to Hermine, a mother figure; the if we resist, on what basis do we build? An invitation to join, rather practical, joking tone to Paul; the loving and witty tone to Helene than an attempt to condemn, Our Country is also a summary of Salzer. Spanning fifty years, the letters collected here illuminate Scruton’s life’s work as a writer and philosopher. Wittgenstein as never before. UK November 2017 • US January 2018 • 224 pages • No illustrations UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 256 pages HB 9781472947888 • £16.99 / $18.00 HB 9781474298131 • £20.00 / $28.00 Individual eBook 9781472947871 • £14.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781474298148 • £20.00 Library eBook 9781472947864 Library eBook 9781474298117 Bloomsbury Continuum Bloomsbury Academic World English
Dissenting Words The Existentialist's Guide Interviews with Jacques Rancière to Death, the Universe and Jacques Rancière, University of Paris VIII, France Nothingness Edited and translated by Emiliano Battista Gary Cox, University of Birmingham, UK Through these dialogues Jacques Rancière offers us ‘Here the bestselling author of How to Be an an incisive overview of his philosophical project, Existentialist delivers a crunchier, more technical from its beginnings during the ‘Red Years’ in France reading of the views of Sartre, De Beauvoir, to its most recent formulations. It supplements Heidegger and others ... Cox leads the reader well Rancière's scholarly and theoretical works with his reflections on through vivid examples’ - The Guardian the continuities, turns, ruptures and deviations in his thought. In a An entertaining philosophical guide to life, love, hate, freedom, sex, conversational style brimming with informative asides into current anxiety, God and death; a guide to everything and nothing. events, Dissenting Words draws upon examples ranging from the history of the workers' struggle to literature, cinema and the arts - all Taking us on a journey which fascinates, provokes and inspires, Cox of which we have learned to associate with Rancière. explores existentialism's uncompromising view of human reality. Addressing the challenge of living honestly and authentically, he sets UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 384 pages the wisdom of the existentialist philosophers alongside the wit of PB 9781350024700 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781623566197 • £65.00 / $88.00 great musicians and comedians. Individual eBook 9781623568818 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781623565039 Bloomsbury Academic UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 192 pages World English PB 9781350029729 • £9.99 / $13.95 Previously published in HB 9781441107831 Individual eBook 9781441157379 • £9.99 / $10.99 Library eBook 9781441189967 Bloomsbury Academic
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Logics of Worlds Neither Man nor Beast Being and Event II Feminism and the Defense of Animals Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, France Carol J. Adams, Activist and Freelance Author, Translated by Alberto Toscano USA Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's In this landmark work of animal rights activism, masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the Carol Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and PRIMARY PHILOSOPHY PRIMARY questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the common causes of feminism and the defense of process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between being with a daring and complex theory of the worlds in which cultural attitudes to women and animals in modern Western culture truths and subjects make their mark - what he calls a materialist that have enabled the systematic exploitation of both. A vivid work dialectic. Drawing on his most ambitious philosophical predecessors - that takes in environmental ethics, theological perspectives and Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lacan, Deleuze – Badiou ends this feminist theory, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new important later work with an impassioned call to 'live for an Idea'. foreword by the author and new images illustrating the continuing relevance of the book today.
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Roots for Radicals Francis Bacon Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice The Logic of Sensation Edward T. Chambers Gilles Deleuze The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, In this landmark text by one of the most influential Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles and practices that have guided community Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as organizations throughout the US and the world. his object of his study. The book presents a deep Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of on these fundamental principles of community activism: how, as art. Deleuze analyzes the distinctive innovations that came to mark public citizens, we can navigate the gap between the world as it is Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violation deformations and as it should be, between self-interest and self-sacrifice and in of the flesh, the complex use of color, the method of chance, and the doing so create lasting change for our communities. use of the triptych form. In the face of the increasingly turbulent politics of the 21st-century, UK October 2017 • 168 pages Chambers’s book has never been more relevant. PB 9781350040823 • £15.99 Individual eBook 9781350040830 • £15.99 UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 192 pages Library eBook 9781350040847 PB 9781350043121 • £12.99 / $17.95 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781350043138 • £12.99 / $13.99 World All Languages (excluding USA/Canada) Library eBook 9781350043145 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic
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Key Writings Beyond the Chains of Illusion Henri Lefebvre My Encounter with Marx and Freud Edited by Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas & Erich Fromm Eleonore Kofman First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the is Fromm’s landmark book about Marx and Freud. most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Here he delivers original readings of these hugely Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new and the production of space have become hugely ways of understanding the individual and society. influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography and Perhaps even more revealing than these readings is the insight we Architecture. Key Writings presents the full range of Lefebvre's get into Fromm’s own thought and the political and social contexts in thought in a single volume. The selection of essays spanning 1933 to which he formed his ideas. Including a foreword by Fromm’s Literary 1990, reinforce the relevance of Lefebvre's work to current debates Executor, Rainer Funk, this is unique introduction to Marx and Freud in social theory, politics and philosophy. and also to Fromm’s life and thought.
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Entre Nous Can't We Make Moral Emmanuel Levinas Judgements? Entre Nous is a major collection of essays Mary Midgley representing the culmination of Emmanuel Levinas's In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher philosophy. Bringing together his most important Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular work in a single volume the book reveals the stance in society that we should not make moral development of his thought over nearly forty years judgements on others. She interrogates our of committed inquiry. Here he engages with issues scepticism about making moral judgements and of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human shows how the question of whether or not we can make them must rights, and legal theory and each issue is discussed in relation to inevitably affect our attitudes to the law, its institutions and events the ethical dimensions of otherness. Like much of his work this text that occur in our daily lives. Calling upon Nietzsche and Sartre, P.D. bridges several major gaps in the evolution of Continental philosophy, James and the Bhagavad Gita, she suggests our mistrust of moral between modernism and postmodernism, phenomenology and judgements may be making life even harder for us than it should be. poststructuralism, ethics and ontology.
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Evolution and Conversion The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic Dialogues on the Origins of Culture Philosophies of Desire in the Modern René Girard World Presented as a series of conversations, Evolution Mario Perniola and Conversion is a thorough discussion of the In The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic, Mario Perniola major tenets of Girard's thought. One of the most puts forth the radical argument that we are shifting brilliant intellectuals of the 20th century, this away from organic sexuality, based on desire and book examines his theory on the imitative nature pleasure, and moving towards a more neutral of desire; the violent origin of culture; and his consideration of an inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but evolutionary perspective to explain the emergence of culture and indifferent to beauty, age or form. Perniola takes the reader on institutions. In the final chapters his provocative re-reading of the a tour of Western philosophy, from Descartes, Kant and Hegel to Biblical texts reveals an enduring process of historical awareness of Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre, to reframe our understanding of the presence and function of collective violence in our world. personal experience and the aesthetic world around us.
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The Continental Philosophy of Badiou and His Interlocutors Film Reader Lectures, Interviews and Responses Edited by Joseph Westfall, University of Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, France Houston-Downtown, USA Edited by A.J. Bartlett, Monash University, The first collection of its kind, this is the essential Australia & Justin Clemens, University of anthology of writings by continental philosophers on Melbourne cinema. With material by Badiou previously unpublished in The last century of film-making and thinking about English this unique critical collection presents a film, as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought valuable overview of his recent philosophical theories. It includes two are represented: phenomenology and existentialism, Marxism original lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, and critical theory, feminist and gender theory, psychoanalysis, cinema and theatre, and two extensive interviews with Badiou – and postmodernism. Included here are not only the classic texts one on the contemporary political situation and one wide ranging in continental philosophy of film, but also the earliest works of interview on his work. It also contains six original interventions by Continental philosophy of film, from thinkers such as Bergson and established scholars in the field, addressing his concept of history, Lukács, to little-read gems by philosophical giants such as Sartre and Lacan, Cinema, poetry, and feminism; and four original essays by Beauvoir. young and established scholars on the key concerns of Badiou’s 2015 visit to Australia and New Zealand. UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 608 pages • 33 illustrations CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CONTINENTAL PB 9781474275736 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781474275699 • £120.00 / $162.00 UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 240 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781350026667 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350026650 • £65.00 / $88.00 World English Individual eBook 9781350026643 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781350026636 Bloomsbury Academic
Enduring Time Philosophies of Difference Lisa Baraitser, Birkbeck, University of London, A Critical Introduction to Non-philosophy UK Francois Laruelle, Université de Paris X, Permanent debt, violent conflict, climate Nanterre, France change, economic instability, and widening social A crucial text in Laruelle's oeuvre and an excellent inequalities have led to dramatic changes in the starting point for understanding his broader project, ways we imagine and experience time. How do Philosophies of Difference offers a theoretical and we go on when we seem to be living in the ‘end critical analysis of the philosophers of difference times’, trapped in a state of ‘non-stop inertia’? after Hegel and Nietzsche, introducing a new theoretical practice of Enduring Time proposes some alternative relations of time which non-philosophical thought. provide hopeful alternatives to the dominating models of oppression, limitation and exploitation. Rather than presenting a narrative historical overview, Laruelle provides a series of rigorous critiques of the interpretations of A strikingly original philosophy of time which also provides a rigorous difference in Hegel, Nietzsche and Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida. and detailed survey of contemporary theories of time, Enduring Time From Laruelle's innovative theoretical perspective, the forms of is an indispensable read for those attempting to live meaningfully. philosophical difference that emerge as variations upon a unique, highly abstract structure of philosophical decision, the self-posing UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 224 pages PB 9781350008113 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350008120 • £65.00 / $88.00 and self-legitimating essence of philosophy itself. Individual eBook 9781350008144 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350008137 UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 256 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781350030299 • £15.99 / $21.95 Previously published in HB 9780826436634 Individual eBook 9781441105950 • £19.99 / $21.99 Bloomsbury Academic World English
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Movies with Meaning The Withholding Power Existentialism through Film An Essay on Political Theology Daniel Shaw, Lock Haven University, USA Massimo Cacciari Film is filled with philosophy. What can Blade Translated by Edi Pucci Runner show us about Heidegger? What does The first English translation of Massimo Cacciari’s Revolutionary Road reveal about Beauvoir? work The Witholding Power announces a prominent Shaw demonstrates existential philosophies in and provocative figure in Italian philosophy and action with close readings of classic writings from political thought. A notoriously complex thinker, the thought of the most significant existentialist thinkers, illustrated this title offers a starting point for entering into the very heart of through cult and popular cinema that reveal striking parallels. his philosophy, providing a comprehensive and synthetic insight into his interpretation of Christian political theology and leftist Italian Individual chapters include useful excerpts from the original texts political theory more generally. being discussed and illustrated. Organized chronologically, like most existentialism anthologies, this is ideal as a textbook for an With an introduction by Howard Caygill contextualizing the work intermediate level existentialism course, or as a companion to a within the history of Italian thought, this title will offer those coming selection of primary texts. to Cacciari for the first time a searing insight into his political, theological and philosophical milieu. UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 280 pages • 14 b&w PB 9781474299305 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474299299 • £65.00 / $88.00 UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 224 pages Individual eBook 9781474299312 • £21.99 / $23.99 PB 9781350046443 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781472580481 • £65.00 / $88.00 Library eBook 9781474299282 Individual eBook 9781472580504 • £19.99 / $21.99 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781472580498 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Posthuman Glossary General Ecology Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University, The The New Ecological Paradigm Netherlands & Maria Hlavajova Edited by Erich Hörl, Leuphana University of We are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; Lüneburg, Germany the combination of global capitalism, migration, Ecology has become one of the most urgent and technological advances, environmental destruction, lively fields in the humanities and sciences. In a and war on terror, with a troublesome reiteration of dramatic widening of scope beyond its original old, unresolved socio-political problems means the concern with the coexistence of living organisms concept of the human as we knew it has undergone within a natural environment, it is now recognized there is a dramatic transformations. Posthuman Glossary outlines the critical proliferation of ecologies across the social, technological, and terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. psychological. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, ecosophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and In this ambitious and radical new volume of writings, some of the the inhuman. A completely original and unique work, it bridges most exciting contemporary thinkers reveal and theorize the extent disciplines, terminologies, and critical communities, unlocking the of the ecologization of existence as the effect of our contemporary terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike. socio-technological condition: together, they bring out the complexity and urgency of the challenge of ecological thought. UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 496 pages PB 9781350030251 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350030244 • £85.00 / $114.00 UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 400 pages Individual eBook 9781350030268 • £26.99 / $28.99 PB 9781350014695 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350014701 • £75.00 / $102.00 Library eBook 9781350030237 Individual eBook 9781350014718 • £23.99 / $25.99 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350014688 Bloomsbury Academic
Badiou and Indifferent Being Character A Critical Introduction to Being and Event Jay R. Elliott, Bard College, USA William Watkin Why do people do evil? How can we do better? Philosophers in the tradition of 'virtue ethics' argue ‘Watkin’s is a very important book. It returns that we act badly due to failures in our character, us to what is most gripping about Badiou: his and by practicing courage, honesty, and fairness stark, courageous and deeply uncontemporary we can improve ourselves. However 'situationist' asceticism.’ philosophers argue that our situation matters more Andrew Gibson, former Research Professor of than our character. Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, This book critically examines the arguments and evidence on UK each side of the debate, with a special focus on the connections This is the first systematic account of Badiou’s Being and Event since between the philosophical issues and related topics in experimental the dramatic modifications he made to his philosophy in Logics of psychology. Character also includes a guide to further reading that Worlds, published twenty years later. Uniquely, it also draws out the will help students deepen their understanding of contemporary category of indifference as a central component of Badiou’s ontology. ethics. It is a seminal source text for all Badiou readers. UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 200 pages UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 296 pages HB 9781472574244 • £85.00 / $114.00 PB 9781350015678 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350015661 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781472574268 • £84.99 / $91.99 Individual eBook 9781350015685 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781472574251 Library eBook 9781350015654 Series: Bloomsbury Ethics • Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
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Series Editors: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Jersey City University, Gilles Deleuze, Postcolonial USA & Lucian Stone, The University of North Dakota, USA This series interrupts standardized discourses involving the Middle Theory, and the Philosophy of East and the Islamicate world by introducing emerging ideas. The Limit incisive works included in this series provide a counterpoint to the Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University, USA reigning canons of theory, theology, philosophy, literature, and criticism through investigations of vast experiential typologies - such Réda Bensmaïa is one of the most important voices as violence, mourning, vulnerability, tension, and humour - in light in the study of Gilles Deleuze. This volume is a of contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought. remarkable experiment, bringing Deleuze’s thought into that other territory which Bensmaïa has so impressively travelled, postcolonial theory. Bensmaïa shows how Deleuze’s philosophical and political cartography can be used to chart paths through postcolonial theory,
demonstrating that any attempt to think through the questions raised Transgression and the Inexistent by postcolonial theory will have to take at least some of its bearings using Deleuze’s writings. A Philosophical Vocabulary Mehdi Belhaj Kacem UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 192 pages
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philosophical system: it is the most complete and synthetic book of his philosophical work, as well as being one of the most provocative in its claims. As a Francophone author engaging with contemporary Möbian Nights world thought, he is able to develop novel philosophical perspectives Reading Literature and Darkness that reach beyond the Middle East or the Continental, and the East/ Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University, USA West binary. Challenging customary aesthetic assumptions that UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 272 pages • 1 illus we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart PB 9781350021433 • £19.99 / $26.95 suggests (with Kafka) we write to die. Drawing Previously published in HB 9781472534934 upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Individual eBook 9781472528629 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781472526021 Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights proposes that all literature works Bloomsbury Academic “autobiographically”, which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo “I died; therefore, I am”; and for which the language of topology (for example, the “Möbius strip”") offers a vocabulary for naming the “deep structure” of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics.
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For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA Deleuze and Ancient Greek Poetry and Revelation is the first study of religious Physics poetry through a phenomenological lens, one that works with the distinction between manifestation The Image of Nature (in which everything is made manifest) and Michael James Bennett revelation (in which the mystery is re-veiled as well Providing critical analysis of Deleuze's readings of as revealed). Stoicism, Aristotle, and Epicurus, this book shows Providing a phenomenological investigation of a wide range of that it is Deleuze's interpretations of ancient Greek “religious poems”, some medieval, some modern; some written in physics that present the key to understanding his English, others written in European languages; some from America, conception of nature. Using the works of Aristotle, Plato, Chrysippus, some from Britain, and some from Australia, Kevin Hart provides a and Epicurus, Bennett traces the development of Deleuze’s key unique new way of thinking about religious poetry and the nature of concepts of event, difference, and problem. Arguing that it is revelation itself. difficult, if not impossible, to fully understand these ideas without an appreciation of Deleuze's Hellenistic influences. Deleuze and Ancient UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 344 pages Greek Physics is a valuable resource for anyone interested in ancient HB 9781472598318 • £85.00 / $114.00 Greek philosophy, Deleuze’s philosophical project or his methodology Individual eBook 9781472598332 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781472598325 in the history of philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic UK July 2017 • US July 2017 • 288 pages HB 9781474284677 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781474284684 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781474284691 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic
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Phenomenology and the Social Deleuze and Becoming Context of Psychiatry Samantha Bankston, Sierra Nevada College, USA Social Relations, Psychopathology, and Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming’ provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet he Husserl's Philosophy never systematized it. Bankston tracks both the Edited by Magnus Englander, Malmö University, concept across Deleuze’s writings and its underlying Sweden ontological and temporal processes, arguing that Finding a common language between psychiatrists, expressions of becoming(s) appear in one of two anti-psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, this is an inter- temporal registers: an appropriation of Nietzsche’s disciplinary volume which establishes the essence and foundations of concept of eternal return, and Bergsonian duration. phenomenological philosophy as it relates to psychiatry and the social Overturning the criticisms launched by Žižek and Badiou, with world. conceptual encounters between Bergson, Nietzsche, Leibniz, Using Husserl as a point of departure, empathy, interpersonal Borges, Klossowski, and Proust, the newly charted concept of double understanding, we-intentionality, ethics, citizenship, and social becoming provides a roadmap to the totality of Deleuze’s philosophy. inclusion are investigated in relation to psychopathology, nosology, UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 208 pages • 5 black and white and clinical research. Drawing upon the rich classical and HB 9781474233569 • £85.00 / $114.00 contemporary phenomenological tradition, it touches on a broad Individual eBook 9781474233576 • £84.99 / $91.99 range of thinkers such as Deleuze, Levinas, and R.D. Laing. Library eBook 9781474233552 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic
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Heidegger, History and the Language and Being Holocaust Heidegger's Linguistics Mahon O'Brien, University of Sussex, UK Duane Williams, Liverpool Hope University, UK This book is an important contribution to the 'In this sustained and intensely focused exposition longstanding debate concerning Martin Heidegger's of what Heidegger can teach us about language association with some of the most significant Williams not only helps Heidegger beginners and and terrible events of the 20th century: National sceptics to see that something important is going Socialism and the Holocaust. on in these texts, but also offers new insight to This is a difficulty topic, but this book moves the entire debate on established Heidegger readers. Williams is especially attentive to the 'Heidegger and the Political' forward. This is a genuinely philosophical proximity of Heideggerian thinking to mystical and East Asian thought approach to the 'Heidegger problem' and a much-needed historical as well as to its poetic dimension. He shows how Heidegger can assist re-examination of his ideas, influences and issues. us in reflecting on human beings' spiritual needs in a time threatened by the seemingly unstoppable reduction of communication to
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Lacanian Realism The Philosophy of Ontological Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis Lateness Duane Rousselle Merleau-Ponty and the Tasks of Thinking This book reconstructs Lacanian dogma from the Keith Whitmoyer, New York City College of ground up: Technology, USA 1) by unearthing a new reading of the Lacanian This book argues that at play in the thought of category of the real Merleau-Ponty is a philosophy of “ontological 2) by demonstrating the political and cultural ingenuity of Lacan’s lateness”: the manner in which philosophical concept of the real, and by positioning this against the more reflection is fated to lag behind its objects and, therefore, an reductive analyses of the concept by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Saul absolute grasp on being remains beyond its reach. Newman, Todd May, Joan Copjec, Jacques Rancière, and others Merleau-Ponty articulates this philosophy against the backdrop 3) by arguing that the subject exists intimately within the real. of what he calls “cruel thought”, a style of reflecting that seeks resolution by limiting, circumscribing, and arresting its object. By UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 192 pages contrast, the philosophy of ontological lateness seeks no such final HB 9781350003569 • £85.00 / $114.00 unveiling but is characterized by its ability to accept the veiling of Individual eBook 9781350003576 • £84.99 / $91.99 being and its own constitutive lack of punctuality. Library eBook 9781350003552 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic
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James Luchte, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of the Humanities, China Jean-Paul Sartre's Anarchist Mortal Thought seeks to illustrate the artistic and philosophical contexts for Hölderlin’s poetic Philosophy thought and to trace his profound impact upon William L. Remley, Saint Peter’s University, USA subsequent philosophy. Beginning with the point In this landmark study, William L. Remley sheds new of departure of Hölderlin in Kant and Fichte, this book outlines the light on the crucial role of anarchism in Sartre’s novel philosophical innovations of Hölderlin, and their influence upon writing, arguing that it fundamentally underpins philosophy from the 19th century to the present day. the body of his political work. Sartre’s political Mortal Thought lays out a concise, comprehensive account of the philosophy has been infrequently studied and emergence of Hölderlin as philosopher and poet, of his influence upon neglected in recent years. Introducing newly translated material the four dominant strands of Continental philosophy – Nietzsche, from his early oeuvre, as well as providing a fresh perspective on Heidegger, Critical Theory and Poet-structuralism – and of his his colossal Critique of Dialectical Reason, this book is a timely re- continuing relevance to philosophical research today. invigoration of this topic.
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Hegel and Resistance Egalitarian Moments: From History, Politics and Dialectics Descartes to Rancière Edited by Bart Zantvoort, Nexus Institute, Devin Zane Shaw, University of Ottawa, Canada Netherlands & Rebecca Comay, University of Jacques Rancière’s work has challenged many Toronto, Canada of the assumptions of contemporary continental The concept of resistance has always been central philosophy by placing equality at the forefront to the reception of Hegel’s philosophy. of emancipatory politics. Drawing on the claim that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates This book brings together established and new elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, voices in this field to touch firstly upon the political: is there a place, Devin Zane Shaw argues that Rancière also provides an opportunity to according to Hegel, for political resistance, or must we submit to the reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question power of the state? Secondly, what is the role of resistance in history, of equality. and in to relation to historical progress? And finally, does his system allow for moments of resistance or new insights? From engaging debates about political subjectivity from Descartes to Sartre, to delineating the egalitarian stakes in aesthetics from Modern philosophy can be viewed as thinking in the wake of Hegel, Schiller to Badiou, this book presents a concise tour through but the question of how to resist Hegel – and whether he needs to be egalitarian moments found within histories of modern philosophy. resisted – remains crucial. UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 224 pages • 1 illus UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 208 pages PB 9781350037878 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350003644 • £85.00 / $114.00 Previously published in HB 9781472505446 Individual eBook 9781350003651 • £84.99 / $91.99 Individual eBook 9781472508218 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781350003637 Library eBook 9781472509673 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic
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Towards the Critique of Violence Desire in Ashes Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Edited by Brendan Moran, University of Calgary, Philosophy Canada & Carlo Salzani, Monash University, Edited by Simon Morgan Wortham, Kingston, Australia University London, UK & Chiara Alfano 'The articles in this volume take up the challenge This collection considers: how best to recall of rereading Benjamin after Agamben, and deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object do so with the utmost seriousness, erudition, of historical importance or memory, these essays argumentativeness and incisiveness. Clarifying without simplifying, analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; and extending without falsification, this collection will be provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', indispensable not only for students and scholars of Benjamin and nor unproblematically defended as alive and well. Agamben, but for its critical discussions concerning the relations between myth, law, violence nand justice.' Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still Justin Clemens, Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia to ashes.
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Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality Space After Deleuze Susi Ferrarello, Loyola University, USA Arun Saldanha, University of Minnesota, USA Husserl's 20th-century phenomenological project ‘A brilliant and lucid account of the spatial remains the cornerstone of modern European thought of Gilles Deleuze and his sidekick Félix philosophy. The place of ethics is of importance to Guattari, that will delight and inspire geographers the ongoing legacy and study of phenomenology and philosophers alike. By channelling the geo- itself. communist spirit of Deleuze and Guattari, Arun Husserl's Ethics and Practical Intentionality constitutes one of Saldanha maps out a thinking space that is truly the major new interventions in this burgeoning field of Husserl worthy of life on earth – a revolutionary geo- scholarship, and offers an unrivaled perspective on the question of philosophy fit for the Anthropocene. ethics in Husserl's philosophy, through a focus on volumes not yet Whereas Michel Foucault once quipped that “perhaps one day, this translated into English. century will be known as Deleuzian” Arun Saldanha stunningly shows why the whole millennium will have been Deleuzian.’ UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 272 pages PB 9781350039650 • £28.99 / $39.95 Marcus A. Doel, Professor of Human Geography, College of Science, Previously published in HB 9781472573735 Swansea University, UK Individual eBook 9781472573759 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781472573742 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 232 pages HB 9781441111883 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781441179838 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781441192134 Series: Deleuze Encounters • Bloomsbury Academic
The Philosophy of Science Fiction
Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick Art, Politics and Rancière James Burton, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Broken Perceptions Berlin, Germany Tina Chanter, Kingston University, UK 'In a brilliant act of superimposition, Burton Providing an account of how works of art can, brings Henri Bergson’s evolutionary mysticism to bear on the divine but do not necessarily, interrupt dominant invasions—in fiction and in life—of writer Philip K. Dick. The vision narratives, Tina Chanter presents a rigorous of “immanent soteriology” that emerges, in which transcendent critique of Rancière's story of aesthetics, paying fictions jam the engines of necessity, not only illuminates the method close attention to gender and race. Along with behind Dick’s madness but reveals the crucial emancipatory role that the relationship between the unconscious and the political, identity fabulation can and does play within posthuman thought. With clear politics, and perception are key themes throughout. It features thinking and graceful writing, Burton boldly indicates a “perturbation discussions of Rancière, Heidegger and Levinas as well as informed in the reality field” of contemporary materialism.' accounts of artists Phillip Noyce, Ingrid Pollard, and Gillian Wearing. Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 208 pages HB 9781472510563 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781472510945 • £84.99 / $91.99 UK May 2017 • US May 2017 • 248 pages • 5 bw illus Library eBook 9781472511676 PB 9781350028272 • £21.99 / $29.95 Bloomsbury Academic Previously published in HB 9781474227667 Individual eBook 9781474227681 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781474227674 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 11
Foucault and Nietzsche The Politics and Pedagogy of A Critical Encounter Mourning Edited by Joseph Westfall, University of Houston-Downtown, USA & Alan Rosenberg, The On Responsibility in Eulogy City University of New York, USA Timothy Secret, University of Winchester, UK The first of its kind, presenting the relationship ‘Erudite, well written and argued, conceptually between these two thinkers on elements of strong and original, it sheds a completely new light contemporary culture that they shared interests in. on a decisive moment of contemporary philosophy. Including the nature of life in the modern world, philosophy as a way There is little doubt that it will form an important of life, the book discusses the ways in which we ought to read and contribution to debates about the work of the philosopher Jacques write about other philosophers. Derrida, but also the relationship between ethics, politics, ontology, The editors and contributing authors are leading figures in Foucault psychoanalysis, and it’s designated “object”, the existential and and Nietzsche studies, and their contributions reflect the diversity of moral phenomenon of mourning.’ approaches possible in coming to terms with the Foucault-Nietzsche - Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature, relationship. School of Humanities, UC Irvine, USA UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 240 pages UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 296 pages HB 9781474247399 • £85.00 / $114.00 CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CONTINENTAL PB 9781350050938 • £28.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781474247405 • £84.99 / $91.99 Previously published in HB 9781472575142 Library eBook 9781474247382 Individual eBook 9781472575159 • £28.99 / $30.99 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781472575166 Bloomsbury Academic
Nihilism and Truth in Philosophy Dialectic of the Ladder Gideon Baker, Griffith University, Australia Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and The question of nihilism is always a question of Modernism truth. When truth is taken as the measure of Ben Ware, School of Advanced Study, University existence, the crisis of truth becomes an experience of London, UK of the nothingness of existence. How, then, did truth become this measure? The short answer is: ‘Ben Ware’s superb study does not only offer a lucid philosophy. and original reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus; it also situate it with admirable skill in the context The philosophical will to truth opens the door to nihilism since it of literary modernism and in doing so casts radical new light on this both makes truth the utmost thing and continually calls truth into notoriously difficult philosophical text.’ - Terry Eagleton question. Considering the crisis of truth and the loss of world that occurs within nihilistic thought to be inseparable, Baker develops his A new and challenging exploration of the Wittgenstein’s work’s central insight in a wide-ranging study from antiquity to the present, ethical dimension, Ware also casts new light upon the cultural, from ancient Cynics, St Paul, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein’s writing, Agamben, and Badiou. revealing affinities with philosophers including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka. UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 240 pages HB 9781350035188 • £85.00 / $114.00 UK April 2017 • US April 2017 • 240 pages Individual eBook 9781350035195 • £84.99 / $91.99 PB 9781350050921 • £28.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781350035171 Previously published in HB 9781472591401 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781472591418 • £28.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781472591425 Bloomsbury Academic
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Misanthropy On Freedom The Critique of Humanity Technology, Capital, Medium Andrew Gibson, Royal Holloway, University of Peter Trawny, Bergische University, Germany London, UK Translated by Richard Lambert ‘Misanthropy is elegant, irresistibly humorous, How do we challenge the structures of late and genuinely informative, on a subject which capitalism if all possible media through which to do has a most fascinating history and, as Gibson this is inescapably capitalist? shows, is also pressingly relevant for the here and now. Accessibly written and eminently readable Gibson’s is a This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major mature critical voice, learned, intelligent and lucid, provoking and new work. The notion of personal or societal freedom has never been enlightening the reader at every turn.’ - Jonathan Dollimore more controversial or, seemingly, more far from our grasp. Trawny builds an almost Utopian vision of how to break out of the mediums Gibson moves deftly from discussing misanthropy in relation in which we operate and experience a new kind of freedom. An to internal sin, social alienation, and comic performativity, to ambitious, lively yet completely rigorous work, this book offers a consumerist culture and the horrors of colonialism. Through Moliere, fascinating philosophical vision of how to live and live well. Swift, Beckett, Twain, and Woolf, Gibson addresses with affection and empathy whether a philosophy of the misanthrope is possible, UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 208 pages and ultimately explores what kind of creature the human really is. PB 9781474273039 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781474273022 • £55.00 / $74.00 Individual eBook 9781474273053 • £17.99 / $18.99 Library eBook 9781474273046 UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 288 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781474293174 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474293167 • £65.00 / $88.00 World English Individual eBook 9781474293181 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781474293150 Bloomsbury Academic
Spinoza’s Authority Volume I How to Sleep Resistance and Power in Ethics The Art, Biology and Culture of Edited by A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester Unconsciousness College, USA & Dimitris Vardoulakis, University Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of of Western Sydney, Australia London, UK Spinoza’s political thought has been subject to Humans spend around a third of their lives asleep. a significant revival of interest in recent years, However is one that is relatively unattended to in helping scholars reinterpret and rethink the terms of cultural, political, or aesthetic thought. political present. Spinoza’s Authority makes a significant contribution Drawing on the history and findings of sleep science How to Sleep to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza’s political argues that sleep is a complex vital phenomena with a dynamic thought, and takes the 1670 text, Theologico-Political Treatise, as a aesthetic and biological consistency, and complements biopolitical primary focal point. Featuring internationally established theorists accounts of sleep: a space of recuperative passivity disrupted and of Spinoza’s work and taking the concept of authority as an original capitalised upon by media systems, work and commodification. framework, this books asks: How is authority related to ethics, and Arguing through examples drawn from contemporary, modern and what are the social, historical and representational processes that renaissance art, literature, film and computational media cultures, produce authority and resistance? this book argues for a complex interplay between biology and culture. UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781472593207 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781472593214 • £84.99 / $91.99 UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 240 pages Library eBook 9781472593221 PB 9781474288705 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781474288712 • £65.00 / $88.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781474288736 • £17.99 / $18.99 Library eBook 9781474288729 Series: Lines • Bloomsbury Academic
Spinoza's Authority Volume II The Political Philosophy of G. A. Cohen Resistance and Power in the Political Treatises Back to Socialist Basics Edited by A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester Nicholas Vrousalis, University of Cambridge, UK College, USA & Dimitris Vardoulakis, University The first full-length study on the unity of Cohen's of Western Sydney, Australia political thought. It proceeds thematically, studying a range of fundamental concepts such as Spinoza’s political thought has been subject to materialism, freedom, equality, fraternity and the a significant revival of interest in recent years, market, all the while revisiting Cohen’s seminal treatment of Marx, helping scholars reinterpret and rethink the political present. Nozick, Dworkin, Rawls and Sen. Nicholas Vrousalis brings together Spinoza’s Authority makes a significant contribution to this ongoing the diverse strands of argument in Cohen's thought and critically reception and utilization of Spinoza’s political thought, and takes the reconstructs them in the context of contemporary debates in social 1670 text, Theologico-Political Treatise, as a primary focal point. and political theory. This reconstruction highlights common threads Featuring internationally established theorists of Spinoza’s work running through Cohen's numerous contributions to contemporary and taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this philosophy, without underrating the inevitable tensions between books asks: How is authority related to law, memory, and conflict in them. Spinoza’s political thought? And what are the social and historical processes that produce authority, power and resistance? UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 176 pages PB 9781350028333 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 224 pages Previously published in HB 9781472528285 HB 9781350011069 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781472534378 • £84.99 / $91.99 Individual eBook 9781350011052 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781472532701 Library eBook 9781350011045 Series: Bloomsbury Research in Political Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 13
The History and Philosophy of Introduction to Applied Ethics Science: A Reader Robert L. Holmes, University of Rochester, USA Edited by Daniel J. McKaughan, Boston College, Few people make moral judgments by taking theory USA & Holly VandeWall, Boston College, USA first and then “applying” it. This ethics textbook, purpose built for undergraduates in mind, works With seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the in the same way as we do when we begin thinking 19th century accessible in one volume for the first ethically – by encountering practical moral problems time, this reader covers major classical, medieval and then introducing the theory for understanding and modern texts and figures from the natural and interrogating the issues. sciences, such as including Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Darwin and Faraday. Readings are grouped by topic to clarify Holmes presents real examples of recognizable ethical problems, the development of methods and the unification of theories. Each from widely resolved judgements around racism and sexism, to section includes an introduction, further reading suggestions and controversial debates such as assisted suicide, with supportive discussion questions, allowing students to develop the skills needed philosophical source material. We are encouraged not to accept to read, interpret, and critically engage with central problems and uncritically what anyone says; the mission of the book is to foster ideas from the history and philosophy of science. informed, independent critical thinking. ANALYTIC ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
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Getting Science Wrong Radical Skepticism and the Paul Dicken, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Shadow of Doubt Getting Science Wrong discusses some of the most popular A Philosophical Dialogue misconceptions about science, and their continuing role in the public imagination. Drawing upon the history and philosophy of science it Eli Hirsch, Brandeis University, USA challenges wide-spread assumptions and misunderstandings, from Using the imagined dialogue between three aging creationism and climate change to the use of statistics and computer philosophy professors, Eli Hirsch simplifies the modeling. The result is an engaging introduction to contentious issues complex subject of radical skepticism by bringing in the philosophy of science and a new way of looking at the role of to life the problem of whether or not we can ever science in society. have any knowledge of the world around us. Hirsch’s three characters make the decision to clear up matters concerning skepticism UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 224 pages once and for all. They are differentiated not merely by their PB 9781350007284 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350007277 • £50.00 / $68.00 different views but also by their pointedly contrasting philosophical Individual eBook 9781350007291 • £16.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781350007307 sensibilities. As they continue to discuss, debate and breakdown the Bloomsbury Academic problem, they introduce the reader to ideas and thinkers at the very World English heart of philosophy.
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The Bloomsbury Companion to The Selected Writings of Maurice Bertrand Russell O’Connor Drury Edited by Russell Wahl, Idaho State University, On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Religion and USA Psychiatry Bringing new insights into Russell’s relationship Maurice O’Connor Drury with his contemporaries, a team of experts explore his life-long battles with important philosophical Edited by John Hayes, University of Limerick, issues. They consider how he influenced thinkers Ireland and schools of thought, from Schröder, Frege and Meinong to Drury, among Wittgenstein’s first students, was enormously influenced Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, while also covering his impact on by his teacher. Featuring previously unpublished archival sources, individual issues in epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of a new biography of Drury, lectures, conversations, and letters on mind, philosophy of language, and political philosophy. Importantly philosophy, religion and medicine, this collection also includes this companion discusses often overlooked topics. Focusing on the Danger of Words, described by Ray Monk as 'the most truly Russell’s later views, including his moral philosophy and his politics, Wittgensteinian book published by any of Wittgenstein's students'. reveals that Russell did make significant contributions to ethics - both Each piece reveals the impact of Wittgenstein, shedding light on the theoretical and practical - in the course of his career. friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 320 pages HB 9781474278058 • £100.00 / $136.00 UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 472 pages • 2 b/w illustrations Individual eBook 9781474278065 • £99.99 / $107.99 HB 9781474256360 • £130.00 / $176.00 Library eBook 9781474278072 Individual eBook 9781474256377 • £129.00 / $140.00 Series: Bloomsbury Companions • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781474256384 Bloomsbury Academic
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Science and Hypothesis Logic of the Digital The Complete Text Aden Evens, Dartmouth College, USA Henri Poincaré Starting with the digital's technical characteristics, captured by the binary code, this study asks how Edited by David J. Stump, University of San Francisco, USA & the digital domain of abstract logic encounters Mélanie Frappier, University of King's College, Canada the human world. Focusing on formal code and Translated by Mélanie Frappier, University of King's College, the elements of creative production, it shows how Canada, Andrea Smith & David J. Stump, University of San encounters between the actual and the digital Francisco, USA must cross an ontological divide: the gap between the productive materiality of the human world and the reductive “This updated and corrected translation of Science and Hypothesis abstraction of binary code. is an essential addition to both personal and institutional libraries. Scholars who prefer to read Poincaré in English, as well as general Constructing a map of digital ontology, exploring the potentials of readers of philosophy of science, will appreciate this version. In programming and using gaming as the ideal test of the ontology, addition to corrections, the volume includes an additional chapter it guides future practices and shapes academic research in digital 14 not included in any prior English translations.” Janet Folina, technologies. Professor of Philosophy, Macalester College, USA UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 192 pages UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 208 pages PB 9781350027473 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350026773 • £85.00 / $114.00 Previously published in HB 9781472566737 Individual eBook 9781350026766 • £84.99 / $91.99 Individual eBook 9781472566751 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781350026759 Library eBook 9781472566744 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
Frank Cioffi: The Philosopher in Contemporary Perspectives on Shirt-Sleeves C.S. Lewis' 'The Abolition of Man' David Ellis, University of Kent, UK & Nicholas History, Philosophy, Education, and Bunnin, University of Oxford, UK Science Frank Cioffi gained a considerable public reputation Edited by Timothy M. Mosteller & Gayne John in Freudian and Wittgensteinian circles. This is an Anacker, California Baptist University, USA. account of his conversation, capturing the sharp "A welcome addition to the scholarly literature intelligence Cioffi was able to bring to bear on life's on Lewis’s influential defence of objective value. The perspectives biggest problems. are penetrating, illuminating, weighty without being ponderous. Tackling subjects such as art, science, understanding others and A collection that immediately establishes itself as the ‘go to’ book depression, David Ellis vividly describes how a philosopher who was for anyone wanting to understand Lewis the philosopher at his profoundly influenced by Wittgenstein dealt with life. Followed by a most succinct, challenging, and telling." Michael Ward, Fellow of post-script in which Nicholas Bunnin situates him in a more strictly Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, UK academic context, this is a mixture of personal portrait and academic introduction that provides an elegant and enjoyable tribute to Cioffi UK February 2017 • US April 2017 • 184 pages as both man and philosopher. HB 9781474296441 • £70.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474296458 • £69.99 / $75.99 Library eBook 9781474296472 UK August 2017 • US August 2017 • 208 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781472590121 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472590114 Individual eBook 9781472590138 • £59.99 / $64.99
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A Speculative Ontology of Language, Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Thinking, and the Brain Physics Armen Avanessian, Free University Berlin, Germany & Anke Hennig, Free University Berlin, Twenty-First-Century Perspectives Germany Edited by Jan Faye, University of Copenhagen, To see the world in a new light is to accept that our Denmark & Henry Folse, Loyola University New thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is Orleans, USA that possible? Is it merely an intellectual process without any impact This collection examines the work, influences and on the world outside our brains? legacy of the Nobel Prize physicist and philosopher of experiment To tackle these questions, this innovative book mobilizes discussions Niels Bohr. Covering Bohr's groundbreaking contribution to quantum from linguistics, literary theory, analytic philosophy of language, and mechanics, it reveals the philosophers who influenced his work. cognitive science. Metanoia— meaning literally a change of mind or a Linking him to the pragmatist C.I. Lewis and the Danish philosopher conversion—rearticulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the Harald Høffding, it draws strong similarities between Bohr’s poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of philosophy and the Kantian way of thinking. Balancing historical language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us themes with contemporary ideas, Niels Bohrs and Philosophy of as well. Physics reveals Bohr’s on-going contribution to the philosophy of science and confirms his place in the history of philosophy. UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 224 pages HB 9781350004726 • £85.00 / $114.00 UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 368 pages Individual eBook 9781350004740 • £84.99 / $91.99 HB 9781350035119 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9781350004719 Individual eBook 9781350035133 • £84.99 / $91.99 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350035126 World English Bloomsbury Academic
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Metaphysics Science and Religion in An Introduction Wittgenstein's Fly-Bottle Jonathan Tallant, University of Nottingham, UK Tim Labron, Concordia University, Canada "Tallant offers an innovative way into a variety Wittgenstein’s philosophy can help us to untie of foundational questions about the world the knots in our understanding of the relationship around us. The textbook is an exciting and between science and religion. The common clear introduction to topics in contemporary perspectives—for or against religion—are based metaphysics that are the focus of active debate on the same question, 'Do religion and science fit among experts, and Tallant is a first-rate guide to this shifting together or not?' This book steps out of the polemical arguments and difficult terrain." Daniel Nolan, McMahon-Hank Professor of to focus on the unique natures of science and religion—without Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA discrediting or endorsing either perspective. As Wittgenstein would say, we need to show the fly out of the bottle. We need to trace UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 296 pages the arguments backwards to the fly bottle’s exit. The knotted PB 9781350006706 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350006713 • £65.00 / $88.00 perspectives stuck in the fly bottle are, in particular, religious Individual eBook 9781350006744 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350006720 fundamentalism and scientific atheism. Surprisingly, integration can Bloomsbury Academic also be stuck in the fly bottle when it ignores differences and blurs similarities within the fly bottle.
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A Critical Introduction to Free Will and Epistemology Knowledge How A Defence of the Transcendental J. Adam Carter & Ted Poston, University of Argument for Freedom South Alabama, USA Robert Lockie, University of West London, UK Assessing whether knowledge-how and knowledge- In the first in-depth study of the transcendental that have the same epistemic properties, Carter argument for decades, Robert Lockie defends and Poston introduce and explore a range of recent a modern version of the famous transcendental debates in epistemology, including: cognitive argument for free will: that we could not be achievement, epistemic luck, knowledge of language, epistemic justified in undermining a strong notion of free will, as a strong value, and social epistemology. Situating discussions in prominent notion of free will is required for any such process of undermining debates in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and logic and providing to be itself epistemically justified. By arguing for a conception a thorough understanding of some core issues in contemporary of internalism that goes back to the early days of the internalist- epistemology, the authors present the main arguments of this externalist debates, he draws on work by Richard Foley, William important and thriving debate. Alston and Alvin Plantinga to explain the importance of epistemic deontology and its role in the transcendental argument.
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction Giorgio Lando, University of L'Aquila, Italy Providing discussions of examples analysed from different viewpoints, this study focuses on language - words as parts of sentences, characters as parts of words - and biological organisms – the relations of constitution between cells, tissues and organs. By discussing the contemporary reinstatements of past conceptions of parthood, particularly from ancient philosophy, current debates BLOOMSBURY COLLECTIONS are better understood through past conceptions. Presenting a well- organized comprehensive discussion of parthood and related notions, Get access to over 6,000 ebooks! Mereology: The Relation of Being Part contributes to a better understanding a subject at the centre of analytic metaphysics. Look for this flash to discover more about available titles UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 248 pages HB 9781472583666 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781472583673 • £84.99 / $91.99 Library eBook 9781472583680 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsburycollections.com World English
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Experimental Metaphysics Advances in Experimental Edited by David Rose, Rutgers University, USA Philosophy and Philosophical Metaphysics, almost entirely neglected by Methodology experimental philosophers, is the central focus of Advances in Experimental Metaphysics. Opening up Edited by Jennifer Nado, Lingnan University, the discussion for the first time, it systematically Hong Kong addresses the question of how cognitive science "Experimental philosophy is changing fast. Nado might be relevant to metaphysics. brings together contributions right at the cutting With contributions from cognitive scientists and philosophers, edge, from among the leaders and leading chapters focus on theoretical issues involving the role of cognitive critics of the field. This will be required reading for anyone who science in metaphysics. Alongside free will, objects and causation, wants to keep up to date with the evolving controversies." Eric they look at empirical developments on folk thinking about Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, metaphysical issues, raising doubts about whether the indicated Riverside, USA theories of composition are beholden to folk judgments in the first UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 192 pages • 1 b/w illustration place and reviewing the evidence for purpose-based thinking. PB 9781350048577 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474223218 UK June 2017 • US June 2017 • 256 pages Individual eBook 9781474223201 • £84.99 / $91.99 HB 9781474278621 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9781474223225 Individual eBook 9781474278614 • £84.99 / $91.99 Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781474278638 Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic
Advances in Religion, Cognitive Truth, Time and History: A Science, and Experimental Philosophical Inquiry Philosophy Sophie Botros, University of London, UK Edited by Helen De Cruz, University of Oxford, Breaking impasses within the narrower analytic UK & Ryan Nichols, California State University, debates concerning the semantic anti-realists and USA the truth value link realists, this original study adopts a broader approach to understand the extent While experimental philosophy has blossomed to which the past exists independently. It draws on into a variety of philosophical fields, very little the work of Dummet, Smart and Prior as well as historians such as experimental research has been done in the domain of philosophy Collingwood and Oakeshot and reveals underlying links between the of religion. Helen De Cruz brings together scholars who have made realist/anti-realist debate. By combining insights from analytic and important contributions to interdisciplinary research on religion continental philosophy and history to show how the legitimacy of in the last decade and provides new ways of approaching core discourse about the past can be sustained, it presents a convincing philosophical and psychological problems. argument for the unreality of the past, and its inherence in the present. UK July 2017 • US July 2017 • 232 pages PB 9781350041561 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474223843 UK September 2017 • US September 2017 • 288 pages Individual eBook 9781474223836 • £28.99 / $30.99 HB 9781350027312 • £85.00 / $114.00 Library eBook 9781474223829 Individual eBook 9781350027329 • £84.99 / $91.99 Series: Advances in Experimental Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350027336 Bloomsbury Academic
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Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy Errant Affirmations On the Middle Writings On the Philosophical Meaning of Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, UK Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses ‘[Keith Ansell-Pearson is] Admirably wide-ranging David J. Kangas ...manages to recreate something of the profound In this interpretation of Kierkegaard's understudied strangeness and excitement of Nietzsche's work religious discourses, Errant Affirmations not while remaining coolly judicious’ only opens up a new reading of Kierkegaard but Terry Eagleton, New Statesman elucidates his 'religious' texts and places them organically within his philosophy as a whole. Through close and Renowned Nietzsche scholar Keith Ansell-Pearson introduces and clear readings, David Kangas argues that contemporary philosophical explores core aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy 'as a way of life'. themes - gift, temporality, language, death, nothingness, economy Ansell-Pearson creatively links Nietzsche's search for a life-giving and selfhood- are evident in these 'religious' works. The book argues philosophy with ancient philosophical traditions and provides us with that Kierkegaard’s “ontology,” fully emerges only in these discourses, stunning and original insights into both Nietzsche's philosophy and his which are organized around an “errant” kind of affirmation: an relationship to ancient thought. affirmation of existence that is without conditions, capable of affirming life even amidst its finitude and suffering. UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 240 pages PB 9781474254700 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474254694 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474254724 • £21.99 / $23.99 UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 224 pages Library eBook 9781474254717 HB 9781350020054 • £85.00 / $114.00 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781350020061 • £64.99 / $69.99 Library eBook 9781350020047 Bloomsbury Academic
The Kalam Cosmological The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1 Argument, Volume 2 Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of of the Past the Universe Edited by Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic Edited by Paul Copan, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA & William Lane Craig, Houston University, USA & William Lane Craig, Houston Baptist University, USA Baptist University, USA This anthology on the philosophical arguments for the finitude of the The kalam cosmological argument—perhaps the most discussed past asks: Is an infinite series of past events metaphysically possible? philosophical argument for God’s existence in recent decades— Should actual infinites be restricted to theoretical mathematics, maintains that whatever begins to exist must have a cause. And since or can an actual infinite exist in the concrete world? These essays the universe began to exist, there must be a transcendent cause of by kalam proponents and detractors engage in lively debate about its beginning, a conclusion which is confirmatory of theism. So this the nature of infinity and its conundrums; about frequently-used medieval argument for the finitude of the past has received fresh kalam argument paradoxes of Tristram Shandy, the Grim Reaper, and wind in its sails from recent scientific discoveries. Hilbert’s Hotel; and about the infinity of the future. This collection reviews and assesses the merits of the latest scientific evidences for the universe’s beginning. It ends with the kalam UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 304 pages HB 9781501330797 • £96.00 / $120.00 argument’s conclusion that the universe has a cause—a personal Individual eBook 9781501330803 • £86.99 / $107.99 cause with properties of theological significance. Library eBook 9781501330810 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic UK November 2017 • US November 2017 • 304 pages HB 9781501335877 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501335884 • £86.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501335891 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic
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The Religious Philosophy of Idealism and Christian Philosophy Roger Scruton Idealism and Christianity Volume 2 Edited by James Bryson, McGill, Canada Edited by Steven B. Cowan, Louisiana College, Although a religious sensibility ties together his USA & James S. Spiegel, Taylor University in astonishingly prodigious and dynamic output as a Indiana, USA philosopher, poet and composer, Scruton’s recent Such thinkers as George Berkeley and Jonathan exploration of religious and theological themes from Edwards believed that Idealism is especially a philosophical point of view has excited a fresh amenable to a Christian perspective, both because response from scholars. This collection of writings addresses Scruton’s it provides a plausible way of conceptualizing the world from a challenging and subtle philosophy of religion for the first time. theistic standpoint and because it effectively addresses skeptical Including contributions from specialists in the philosophy of religion, challenges to the Christian faith. The contributors to this volume the history of thought and culture, aesthetics, and church history, explore a variety of ways in which the case can be made for this this volume is a unique and fascinating collection of writings that claim, including potential solutions to philosophical problems related sheds light on this hitherto unexplored aspect of Roger Scruton's to the nature of time, the ontology of physical objects, the mind- philosophy. body problem, and the nature of science.
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Idealism and Christian Theology The Political Dialogue of Nature Idealism and Christianity Volume 1 and Grace Edited by Joshua R. Farris, University of Bristol, Toward a Phenomenology of Chaste UK, S. Mark Hamilton, University of Bristol, UK Anarchism & James S. Spiegel, Taylor University in Indiana, USA Caitlin Smith Gilson, University of Holy Cross, USA In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which favorably portray Idealism as a “This is a singular book whose author has an plausible philosophical view of the world. Considerably less has been insightful philosophical voice and an engaging theological voice. written about Idealism as a viable framework for doing theology. Caitlin Smith Gilson is intellectually passionate and existentially Idealism and Christian Theology is an effort to re-introduce Idealism engaged with themes that spill over the normal academic divisions to contemporary Christian theology, and to retrieve ideas and between theology, politics, philosophy and poetics. More than arguments from its most significant modern exponents (especially just a scholarly report on research done by others, it a serious George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its first-order engagement with the matter itself. There is something value for present and future theological construction. As a piece poetic, rhapsodic, inspired even about this work. Caitlin Smith of constructive philosophical-theology itself, this volume considers Gilson’s voice should be heard. Warmly recommended.” the explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary William Desmond, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Villanova University, USA Christian theology. UK March 2017 • US March 2017 • 328 pages UK August 2017 • US August 2017 • 256 pages PB 9781501330667 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781501335853 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501308185 Previously published in HB 9781628924022 Individual eBook 9781501308192 • £27.99 / $34.99 Individual eBook 9781628924039 • £27.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781501308208 Library eBook 9781628924046 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
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