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C.H.BECK Foreign Rights News Spring 2007 HARDCOVER NONFICTION HARDCOVER LITERATURE 2 Morality and the Art of Living by Otfried Höffe 21 Among Couples by Thomas Lang 4 Anthropology instead of Metaphysics 22 Sobriety Prohibited by Hans Pleschinski by Ernst Tugendhat 23 Memories of Czernowitz by Zvi Yavetz 5 The Fish That Came from Primordial Times by Hans Fricke 24 Green Angel, Blue Land by Dagmar Leupold 6 Helmuth James von Moltke by Günter Brakelmann 25 Psalms by SAID 7 Hamas by Joseph Croitoru 26 Overnight by Sabine Gruber 8 The Art of Desire by Niklaus Largier 9 Creative Coincidence by Klaus Mainzer 10 To Rome on Foot by Christian Jostmann 11 The Image of the Beloved by Ingeborg Walter and Roberto Zapperi 12 The Social History of Europe by Helmut Kaelble Contents 13 The Cold War by Bernd Stöver 14 Lessing in Hamburg by Jan Philipp Reemtsma 15 On the Art of Raising Children with Love by Eva Kessler 16 The Future of Aging ed. by Peter Gruss 17 Brain and Genome by Wolfgang Wieser 18 Why Didn’t Plato Write the “Unwritten Doctrines”? by Rafael Ferber 19 The Other View by Werner von Koppenfels 20 Late Antiquity by Alexander Demandt Cover: Leonardo da Vinci,Ginevra Benci,Washington, National Gallery of Art,Alisa Melton Bruce Fund. © akg Translation: Philip Schmitz lsche beckreihe PAPERBACKS PAPERBACKS Contents 27 The Art of the Renaissance by Andreas Tönnesmann 36 The Day of the White Chrysanthemums by Julia Onken 27 Greek Art by Tonio Hölscher 38 Leading a Healthy Life – It’s Actually Simple by Hanno D. Schmidt 28 Roman Art by Paul Zanker 39 The Fear-of-Aging Complex by Herrad Schenk 28 The Peloponnesian War by Bruno Bleckmann 40 Kids, Kitchen and Conferences 29 Ancient Rome by Frank Kolb by Claudia Quaiser-Pohl and Barbara Reichle 29 Constantinople by Peter Schreiner 41 Hungry Times by Annika Fechner 30 Burgundy by Hermann Kamp 42 Childhood Fears by Reinmar du Bois 30 Moorish Spain by Georg Bossong 43 The 101 Most Important Questions: Islam 31 Christian Mysticism by Volker Leppin by Ursula Spuler-Stegemann 31 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Wolfgang Benz 44 The 101 Most Important Questions: Goethe by Gero von Wilpert 32 History of School by Franz-Michael Konrad 45 Notes on German History by Hans-Ulrich Wehler 33 What Is Biodiversity? by Bruno Streit 46 Concise Dictionary of Politics 33 Bio-Weather by Angela Schuh ed. by Dieter Nohlen and Florian Grotz 34 Haydn’s Symphonies by Michael Walter 47 Dictionary of Europe 34 Peter Paul Rubens by Nils Büttner by Wolf D. Gruner and Wichard Woyke 35 History of Bavaria by Wilhelm Volkert 48 Federalism and Regional Awareness by Klaus von Beyme 35 History of Baden-Württemberg by Hans-Georg Wehling and Reinhold Weber 49 The End of Modesty ed. by Ludger Heidbrink and Harald Welzer 50 Jerusalem by Gil Yaron 51 History of Astrology by Kocku von Stuckrad 52 The Forgotten Iconography of Christian Art by Heinrich and Margarete Schmidt 53 The Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Alexander Demandt 54 The Terrible Pope by Volker Reinhardt 55 Theodor Mommsen by Stefan Rebenich 56 Jürgen Habermas by Alessandro Pinzani 2 C.H.BECK Otfried Höffe Lebenskunst und Moral oder macht Tugend glücklich? Morality and the Art of Living Or, Will Virtue Make You Happy? In this book Otfried Höffe presents his foundational work on philosophical ethics. Within the field of tension between happiness (eudemonia) and liberty (autonomy) he sounds out the feasibility of leading a successful life. For happiness and morality, which are contradictory at first sight, can complement each other. Leading a happy life can imply living in accordance with morality. Is it possible to lead a happy life and still live in accordance with morality? This question already arises in daily life. At the same time it raises the question of the worldly wisdom of ancient cultures and above all of philosophy. As long as one interprets happiness as well-being in a purely subjective sense, it will at best accord with morality by coincidence. But if one uses “happiness” to mean the quality of a successful life, i.e., that one’s own existence is successful, then that implies attitudes that undoubtedly have a moral character and can be termed virtues. In the three major sections of this book Otfried Höffe guides the reader through the questions of philosophical ethics. Using lucid and generally understandable language he lays out definitions of happiness and freedom. He points out not only the aberrations in the history of philosophy but also the difficulties owing to the questions themselves. Does the good take precedence over that which is correct, or is it the other way around? Does freedom always mean anarchy, and is it conceivable that freedom could be increased through morality? Is morality just a nicer word for stupidity? Do people have a good or a bad character? Does evil exist? Although Otfried Höffe’s philosophically enlightening thoughts offer a fundamental orientation, they are not a set of instructions. But then, a person who leads an autonomous life would also refuse to tolerate instructions of any kind. Philosophy Otfried Höffe is professor of philosophy and director of the Research Center for Political Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. Most recently C. H. Beck published his “Kleine Geschichte der Philosophie” (“Short History of Philosophy”) Turkish translation rights sold to: INKILAP KITABEVI YAYIN, Spanish translation rights sold to: Ediciones Peninsula, Chinese translation rights sold to: Edition Center of Jiangsu Boya, Korean translation rights sold to: Hangilsa Publishing Co., Polish translation rights sold to: Polish Scientific Publishers. “Lesebuch zur Ethik. Philosophische Texte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart” (“Readings in Ethics. Philosophical Texts from Antiquity to the Present”) “Gerechtigkeit” (“Justice”), Korean translation rights sold to: EJ Books, Portuguese rights sold to: Universitätsverlag PUCRS, Russian translation rights sold to: Praxis Publishers, Japanese translation rights sold to: Juristische Fakultät der Kyoto Universität. “Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Die Grundlegung der modernen Philosophie” (“Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.The Cornerstone of Modern Philosophy”: 2004) Polish translation rights sold to: Polish Scientific Publishers, Chinese translation rights sold to: People’s Publishing House. He is editor of the “Denker” series. 380 pages, hardcover, EUR 24.90 C.H.BECK 3 Further publications by Otfried Höffe include: Demokratie im Zeitalter der Globalisierung Democracy in the Age of Globalization Ukrainian translation rights sold to: Ukrainian Philosophical Foundation, Italian translation rights sold to: Società Editrice Il Mulino, Chinese translation rights sold to: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, Portuguese translation rights sold to: Livraria Martins Fontes, Korean translation rights sold to: Bada Publishing Co. 476 pages, clothbound, EUR 19.90 and Wirtschaftsbürger. Staatsbürger. Weltbürger Politische Ethik im Zeitalter der Globalisierung Economic Citizen. National Citizen. World Citizen Philosophy Political Ethics in the Age of Globalization Spanish translation rights sold to: Katz Editores, Chinese translation rights sold to: Shanghai Translation Publishing House. 309 pages, softcover, EUR 22.90 4 C.H.BECK Ernst Tugendhat Anthropologie statt Metaphysik Anthropology instead of Metaphysics The pieces collected here take up trains of thought that Ernst Tugendhat elaborated in his last book, “Egozentrizität und Mystik” (“Egocentricity and Mysticism”: 2003). A long article on intellectual integrity attempts to shed light on this posture from various historical and systematic perspectives. Religion, which enjoyed only a marginal existence alongside mysticism in his previous book, now also comes to the fore. Tugendhat’s theory holds that religion is a fundamental human need but that it founders on the question of intellectual integrity. According to the proposition put forward in this book, whatever “metaphysics” may entail it can be reduced to anthropology because all metaphysical topics turn out to be elements of human under- standing. Following that, Ernst Tugendhat arrives at yet another explanation for the primacy of anthropology. Everything historical loses its validity for us if it can be substantiated only through the concept of tradition. Thus, if everything that belongs only to tradition is pulled aside like a curtain, what remains is the question of mankind’s being. But what is philosophical anthropology and how does it differ from empirical anthropology? Ernst Tugendhat’s book examines questions such as these and additionally devotes itself to individual anthropological topics such as free will, intellectual integrity, morality, religion and our relationship to death. Ernst Tugendhat was born in Brünn in 1930 and currently resides in Tübingen. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Berlin. C. H. Beck published his “Egozentrizität und Mystik. Philosophy Eine anthropologische Studie” (“Egocentricity and Mysticism.An Anthropological Study”: 2004) and “Ernst Tugendhats Ethik” (“Ernst Tugendhat’s Ethics,” edited by N. Scarano and M. Suárez: 2006). 176 pages, hardcover, EUR 19.90 C.H.BECK 5 Hans Fricke Der Fisch, der aus der Urzeit kam Die Jagd nach dem Quastenflosser The Fish That Came from Primordial Times The Hunt for the Lobe-Finned Fish This book has two protagonists: a fish that is over 400 million years old, and a scientist who has devoted himself entirely to uncovering its secrets. Both of them, the primordial fish and its stalker, have achieved global renown: Hans Fricke as a scientist, filmmaker and author, and the lobe-finned fish as a “living fossil” that is an ancient and distant predecessor of mankind. Even as a young man, biologist Hans Fricke dreamed of tracking down the enigmatic lobe-finned fish and investigating its life under water. With the help of two submersibles, “Geo” and “Jago,” which he financed from his own resources, his research dream was finally fulfilled. Fricke and his crew pursued “Quasti,” as they had meanwhile lovingly nicknamed the fish, down to great depths and came ever closer to the secret of this dinosaur among sea dwellers.