Contents Index Order Form CONTENTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS of PUBLISHING, 1905–2005 General Interest 1 in 2005 We Mark Our 100Th Anniversary As a University Press
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contents index order form CONTENTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF PUBLISHING, 1905–2005 General Interest 1 In 2005 we mark our 100th anniversary as a university press. Over the Princeton Monographs past century, Princeton University Press has had the honor and privilege in Philosophy 10 to publish a great many influential books across a broad spectrum of Søren Kierkegaard 12 disciplines that have enriched the cultural, academic, and scientific land- scape. We are proud that our books have made and continue to make Wilhelm Dilthey 13 a meaningful contribution to readers in the United States and abroad. Philosophy Now 14 To celebrate our centenary, the Press has assembled a publication called A Century in Books. Rather than focusing on a history of the Press, Political Philosophy 15 we have chosen to highlight the books themselves, selecting 100 books, Ethics and Aesthetics 19 of the nearly 8,000 we have published, to represent the history of our Ancient Philosophy 20 publishing program. With this approach to our anniversary, we are underscoring the fact that, in the end, the measure of a publisher is the Isaiah Berlin 21 books it has published. History of Philosophy 22 As part of our centennial celebration, we are posting A Century in Books on our Web site, at pup.princeton.edu, and we will also be pub- Mind, Knowledge, lishing a hardcover edition. In addition to featuring descriptions of the and Language 23 100 titles, this book includes essays by Daniel Kevles on Einstein, New French Thought 24 Michael Wood on the impact of European refugee intellectuals, Anthony Grafton on history and politics, Lord Robert May on math and Philosophy of Science 25 science, and Sylvia Nasar on economics. These essays, read in conjunc- Related Interest 25 tion with the individual title entries, will allow readers to appreciate how the history of Princeton University Press reflects much of the richness of Centenary Books 27 twentieth-century intellectual life. Index / Order Form 28 We hope that you take the opportunity to read our centennial publi- cation and join us in this celebration of 100 years of publishing. NEW NEW ON BULLSHIT THE ETHICS OF HARRY G. IDENTITY FRANKFURT KWAME “One of the most enjoy- ANTHONY able and humanly illumi- APPIAH nating short pieces of phi- losophy produced in the “Appiah has written a past fifty years.” remarkably impressive • Raymond Geuss, book, one that makes a number of important ad- University of vances on the existing liter- Cambridge ature and stands as an One of the most salient important contribution to features of our culture is that there is so much bull- political and moral philosophy and moral psychology.” shit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his • Jacob Levy, University of Chicago share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual- We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, ity: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. attention has been paid to such collective identities. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, “we have no They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes theory.” Frankfurt, one of the world’s most influential at the expense of other things we value. But to what moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our here. With his characteristic combination of philo- ability to make an individual life, and to what extent sophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, do they enable our individuality? In this beautifully Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the written work, renowned philosopher and African related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. Studies scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on Harry G. Frankfurt is Professor of Philosophy thinkers through the ages and across the globe to Emeritus at Princeton University. explore such questions. 2005. 80 pages. Kwame Anthony Appiah is Laurance S. Rockefeller Cl: 0-691-12294-6 $9.95T | £6.50 University Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. ALSO BY HARRY G. FRANKFURT 2005. 384 pages. NEW Cl: 0-691-12036-6 $29.95T | £18.95 THE REASONS OF LOVE See page 4 for description. index order form General Interest 1 NEW SØREN KIERKEGAARD A Biography JOAKIM GARFF Translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse Praise for the original, Danish edition: “Joakim Garff’s book about Søren Kierkegaard is not just a biography. It is a well thought-out synthesis of Kierkegaard’s life and writings so exceptional, . so concrete and rich with perspectives, that it has no equal in literature.” • Weekendavisen “The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life—the intrigu- ing secret of all the machinery—will be studied and studied.” Søren Kierkegaard’s remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair, if arrogant, pre- diction. But Kierkegaard’s life has been notoriously hard to study, so complex was the web of fact and fiction in his work. Joakim Garff’s biography of Kierkegaard is thus a landmark achieve- ment. A seamless blend of history, philosophy, and psychological insight, all conveyed with novelistic verve, this is the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet written of the life and works of the enigmatic Dane who changed the course of intellectual history. Garff portrays Kierkegaard not as the all-controlling impresario behind some of the most important works of modern philosophy and religious thought, but rather as a man whose writings came to control him. Garff explores the events and relationships that formed Kierkegaard, including his guilt-ridden relationship with his father, his rivalry with his brother, and his famously tortured relationship with his fiancée Regine Olsen. He recreates the squalor and splendor of Golden Age Copenhagen and the intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard found himself increasingly embattled and mercilessly caricatured. Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this book, here presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard’s life for years to come. Joakim Garff is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. Bruce H. Kirmmse is Professor of History at Connecticut College. 2005. 896 pages. 31 halftones. 5 line illus. 1 table. 3 maps. Cl: 0-691-09165-X $35.00T | £22.95 FORTHCOMING PHYSICALISM, OR SOMETHING NEAR ENOUGH JAEGWON KIM “This is a fine volume that clarifies, defends, and moves beyond the views that Kim presented in Mind in a Physical World. Chapter by chapter, it is philosophically inter- esting and engagingly written.” • Karen Bennett, Princeton University Contemporary discussions in philosophy of mind have been shaped by physical- ism, the doctrine that all phenomena are ultimately physical. Here, Jaegwon Kim presents the most comprehensive and systematic presentation yet of his influential ideas on the mind-body problem. He begins by laying out mental causation and consciousness as the two principal challenges to contemporary physicalism. How can minds exercise their causal powers in a physical world? Is a physicalist account of consciousness possible? Jaegwon Kim is William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. Princeton Monographs in Philosophy May 2005. 200 pages. 3 line illus. Cl: 0-691-11375-0 $26.95 | £17.50 contents index order form 2 General Interest NEW FORTHCOMING WITTGENSTEIN ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL MYTHS OF THE ARBITRARINESS OF GRAMMAR FALL MICHAEL N. FORSTER STEPHEN MULHALL “Nuanced and convinc- “This book is extremely intelligent, genuinely orig- ingly supported, Forster’s inal, and very well written. Mulhall’s suggestion that work reaches conclusions Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein ‘want to of great intrinsic interest.” preserve a recognizable version of the Christian con- • Paul Horwich, ception of human nature’ is very intriguing indeed, University College, and he develops it splendidly.” London and City • Richard Rorty, Stanford University University of New York In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall What is the nature of a identifies and evaluates a surprising ethical-religious conceptual scheme? Are dimension in the work of three highly influential there alternative concep- philosophers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. tual schemes? If so, are He asks: Is the Christian idea of humanity as structural- some more justifiable or ly flawed something that these three thinkers aim sim- correct than others? The ply to criticise? Or do they, rather, end up by reproduc- later Wittgenstein already ing secular variants of the same mythology? addresses these fundamental philosophical ques- Mulhall argues that each, in different ways, devel- tions under the general rubric of “grammar” and the ops a conception of human beings as in need of question of its “arbitrariness”—and does so with redemption: in their work, we appear to be not so great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein’s much capable of or prone to error and fantasy, but views on these questions. rather as structurally perverse, living in untruth. In this Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a gen- respect, their work is more closely aligned to the eralized (and otherwise modified) version of Kant’s Christian perspective than to the mainstream of the transcendental idealist solution to a puzzle about Enlightenment. However, all three thinkers explicitly necessity. It also seeks to reconcile Wittgenstein’s reject any religious understanding of human perversi- seemingly inconsistent answers to the question of ty; indeed, they regard the very understanding of whether or not grammar is arbitrary by showing that human beings as originally sinful as central to that he believed grammar to be arbitrary in one sense and from which we must be redeemed. And yet each also non-arbitrary in another.