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Philosophy 2019 Catalogue Philosophy 2019 press.princeton.edu NEW TITLES “With a vast sweep and elegant, lucid writing, this is a remarkable, erudite, and stylish book on an important and timely subject.”—Kieran Setiya, author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide Irrationality It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irratio- nality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal.” But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today—from the fifth-century bc murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump—Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite. From sex and music to religion and war, irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history. April 2019. 312 pages. 1 b/w illus. Hardback 9780691178677 $29.95 | £24.00 JUSTIN E. H. SMITH is professor of the history and phi- E-book 9780691189666 Audiobook 9780691193472 losophy of science at the University of Paris 7–Denis Diderot, and is an editor at large of Cabinet Magazine. “Wonderfully clear, absorbingly written, and ambitious, The Moral Nexus is an excellent book on a subject of the first importance in moral philosophy. Although it is unlikely that this book will put an end to arguments and debates about relational morality, it takes every aspect of those debates to a new, higher level. It will be a must-read for people working in moral, legal, and political philosophy.” —Arthur Ripstein, University of Toronto The Moral Nexus The Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpre- tation of morality—namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral demands are directed to other individuals, who have claims that the agent comply with these demands. Interpersonal morality, so conceived, is the domain of what we owe to each other, insofar as we are each persons with equal moral standing. 2019. 324 pages. 6 b/w + 349 color illus. 15 tables. Hardback 9780691172170 $39.95 | £30.00 R. JAY WALLACE is the Judy Chandler Webb Distin- E-book 9780691183923 guished Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series University of California, Berkeley. catalog cover art courtesy of iStock NEW TITLES “A superb book. Brennan clearly and convincingly defends the radical idea that ordinary citizens may use force against injustice perpetrated by government officials, just as they would against fellow citizens.” —Christopher Heath Wellman, Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis When All Else Fails The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their gov- ernments: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan argues that there is a fourth option. When governments violate our rights, we may resist. We may even have a moral duty to do so. The result is a provocative challenge to long-held beliefs about how citizens may respond when govern- ment officials behave unjustly or abuse their power. JASON BRENNAN is the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, 2018. 288 pages. 25 color illus. Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s Hardback 9780691181714 $27.95 | £22.00 E-book 9780691183886 McDonough School of Business. “[A] scholarly work that is urgently relevant to the current cultural moment.” —Meagan Garber, The Atlantic Perfect Me The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today’s visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrong- ly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before. HEATHER WIDDOWS is the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. 2018. 368 pages. 254 b/w illus. Hardback 9780691160078 $35.00 | £27.00 E-book 9781400889624 1 NEW TITLES “Midlife has a self-soothing quality.” —Joshua Rothman, New Yorker Midlife In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive. You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mor- tality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps. Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya’s own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life. 2018. 200 pages. 42 b/w illus. KIERAN SETIYA is professor of philosophy at the Massa- Paperback 9780691183282 $14.95 | £11.99 chusetts Institute of Technology. E-book 9781400888474 “[A]n alternative and altogether refreshing take on our favourite deadly sin.” —Sara Murdoch, Toronto Star Idleness For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We’re all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In Idleness, the first book to challenge modern philosophy’s portrayal of inactivity, Brian O’Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed—and that idle aimlessness may instead allow for the highest form of freedom. A thought-provoking reconsideration of productivity for the twenty-first century,Idleness shows that, from now on, no theory of what it means to have a free mind can exclude idleness from the conversation. 2018. 216 pages. 41 b/w illus. Hardback 9780691167527 $24.95 | £20.00 BRIAN O’CONNOR E-book 9781400889617 is professor of philosophy at Univer- sity College Dublin. 2 NEW TITLES “No one can write with more authority on Stoicism than A. A. Long. As a translator, he combines the knowledge of an influential scholar with the grace of a fine English stylist, and his accessible introduction distills a lifetime of learning. How to Be Free hits the mark beautifully.” —Brad Inwood, author of Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction How to Be Free Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55–135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison. In How to Be Free, A. A. Long provides a su- perb new edition of Epictetus’s celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in hisDiscourses . How to Be Free features new translations and the original Greek on facing pages, an introduction that sets Epictetus in context, and a glossary of key words. 2018. 232 pages. 95 color illus. A. A. LONG Hardback 9780691177717 $16.95 | £13.99 is professor emeritus of classics and E-book 9780691183909 affiliated professor of philosophy at the University of Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers California, Berkeley. “[T]his highly readable and erudite book . gives searching reflections on what the ascendancy of cute might reflect about our broader societal values and present historical moment.” —Andrew Huddleston, Birkbeck, University of London The Power of Cute Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons—all reflect its gathering power. But what does “cute” mean, as a sensibility and style? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on—in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers. The Power of Cute delves into a phenomenon that speaks with strange force to our age. SIMON MAY is visiting professor of philosophy at King’s College London. March 2019. 288 pages. 19 b/w illus. Hardback 9780691181813 $18.95 | £14.99 E-book 9780691185712 Audiobook 9780691193489 3 NEW TITLES “Luminous biography.”—Kirkus Walter Kaufmann Walter Kaufmann (1921–80) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some doz- en major books, all marked by breathtaking erudition and a provocative essayistic style. He single-handedly rehabilitated Nietzsche’s reputation after World War II and was enormously influential in introducing post- war American readers to existentialism. Until now, no book has examined his intellectual legacy. This original study, both appreciative and critical, is the definitive intellectual life of one of the twentieth century’s most engaging yet neglected thinkers. It will introduce Kaufmann to a new generation of readers and serves as a fitting tribute to a scholar’s incompara- ble libido sciendi, or lust for knowledge. 2018. 760 pages. 100 b/w illus. STANLEY CORNGOLD is professor emeritus of German Hardback 9780691165011 $39.95 | £30.00 E-book 9780691184067 and comparative literature at Princeton University. “Examining key aspects of German-Jewish thought in the twentieth century, this incisive and lucid book traces affinities and difference in the lives and work of intellectuals confronting the pressures of exile, statelessness, and migration.
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