PHILOSOPHY 2020 Contents Philosophy Recent Publications : Aesthetics ................................................................... 1 Epistemology ............................................................... 2 Ethics & Moral ............................................................. 5 General Philosophy . 8 History of Philosophy ................................................... 9 Philosophy & Religion ................................................ 11 Philosophy of Logic .................................................... 11 Philosophy of Mind .................................................... 12 Psychology ................................................................ 13 Social & Political Philosophy . 14 Selected Series : History and Philosophy of Science. Heresy, Crossroads, and Intersections ....................................................... 16 Philosophy and Cultural Studies Revisited / Historisch-genetische Studien zur Philosophie und Kulturgeschichte . 17 Polish Contemporary Philosophy and Philosophical Humanities ............................................................... 18 Spectrum Slovakia ..................................................... 19 Studia philosophica et historica .................................. 20 Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas ..................................................................... 21 Complete Series List .................................................. 22 Journals : Cultura ...................................................................... 24 Index ........................................................................ 26 Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers .......... 27 Our Representatives – Print ...................................... 28 Our Representatives – eBooks ................................... 29 To order, visit our website at www.peterlang.com or send your order directly to [email protected]. Sub-ClassificationAesthetics 1 Ilona Błocian • Dmitry Prokudin (eds.) los puentes teóricos necesarios para acercar la obra de Deleuze a la es- tética y los problemas actuales de la filosofía del arte, tomando como Imagination – Art, Science and Social World hilo conductor sus consideraciones en torno a la música. A menudo la especificidad del vocabulario deleuziano oscurece los puntos de diá- Berlin, 2020. 208 pp. logo que la obra del autor tiene con cierto clima de época. Este trabajo Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas. Vol. 25 logra saldar esta desconexión, y al mismo tiempo acercar ciertos temas hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-80092-8 que parecen ser problemas estrictamente ligados a la ontología deleu- CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 ziana a otros ámbitos, como la cuestión de lo inorgánico, el cristal y una eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-80807-8 deriva antihumanista en el abordaje del arte. CHF 58.– / €D 49.95 / €A 51.40 / € 46.70 / £ 38.– / US-$ 56.95 The book contains analyses and inter- pretations of multidimensional per- Martin Ebeling • Morgana Petrik (Hrsg.) spectives in philosophical, economi- Harmonie – musikalisch, philosophisch, cal and psychological research on im- psychologisch, neurologisch agination. The authors analyse Russian (N. Bierdiajew) and French philosophy Berlin, 2019. 162 pp., 6 colour ill., 43 b/w ill., 7 b/w tables. and anthropology (G. Bachelard, G. Schriftenreihe der Carl Stumpf Gesellschaft. Bd. 7 Durand), German conceptions (I. Kant’s, F. Baader’s, F. Schiller ‘s or Heideggerian geb. • ISBN 978-3-631-77200-3 interpretations) of the role of imagi- CHF 50.– / €D 42.95 / €A 44.20 / € 40.20 / £ 33.– / US-$ 48.95 nation in art, science and sociopoliti- eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-77201-0 cal domains. Image and imagination CHF 50.– / €D 43.– / €A 44.20 / € 40.20 / £ 33.– / US-$ 48.95 play the main role in the contempo- rary social world. It is investigated by Der Begriff «Harmonie» stammt aus der altgriechischen Musiktheorie psychology, sociology and political und bezeichnete ursprünglich das Intervall der Oktave. Das Oktavphä- sciences, and many subdisciplines of nomen mit der neurophysiologisch begründbaren einheitlichen Wir- philosophy have their own traditions in approaches to image and im- kung beider Oktavtöne hat für das Hören und den Aufbau der Tonsys- agination problem. The authors try to integrate the results of these re- teme seit der Antike zusammen mit zahlenspekulativen Idealisierun- search efforts. gen zu einer philosophisch-mythologischen Überhöhung des Harmoniebegriffs geführt. Weil alle konsonanten Intervalle eine mehr oder weniger einheitliche Klangwirkung zeigen, wurde der Harmonie- begriff von der Oktave auf alle konsonanten Klänge übertragen und Guadalupe Lucero letztendlich im übertragenen Sinne zum Synonym für Wohlgeordnet- heit. Componer Fuerzas Motivos musicales de la estética deleuziana New York, 2019. XII, 234 p. Güven Özdoyran Estudios culturales críticos con perspectiva latinoamericana. Tomo 3 An Inquiry into the nature of aesthetic theory enc. • ISBN 978-1-4331-5933-6 in its relation to theory of knowledge CHF 103.– / €D 89.15 / €A 91.65 / € 83.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 99.95 in Kant’s critical philosophy eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-4331-5934-3 CHF 103.– / €D 89.15 / €A 91.65 / € 83.30 / £ 67.– / US-$ 99.95 Berlin, 2020. 240 pp. pb. • ISBN 978-3-631-81751-3 Este libro permite pensar la estética CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 deleuziana a través del contacto con eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-82298-2 debates y prácticas artísticas concre- CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 tas. Los problemas esenciales de la composición artística, expresados a The primary objective of An Inquiry menudo en los escritos e intervencio- into the Nature of Aesthetic Theory in nes de los artistas, constituyen el eje Its Relation to Theory of Knowledge in de las reflexiones deleuzianas, así como Kant’s Critical Philosophy is to inves- también, el proceso interno de la pro- tigate Kant’s aesthetic theory and its ducción de las obras. Deleuze traza así problematic relation to theory of un gesto poco usual, aquel en el que knowledge in his transcendental phi- el filósofo toma seriamente las con- losophy. In the Critique of Judgment, ceptualizaciones de los artistas, y ex- Kant constructs his aesthetic theory trae de ellos elementos para conjugar by arguing that the aesthetic experi- en su propia teoría. La vocación de la ence is based on a certain type of feel- estética deleuziana no es en absoluto ing, namely, the feeling of pleasure, la de una estética programática o normativa, tampoco la de un trabajo rather than a concept. He grounds such de diagnóstico. Es una apuesta por el encuentro entre heterogéneos a feeling on the aesthetic judgment of cuyo fruto siempre es dispar y asimétrico. El libro cumple un doble ob- reflection. In spite of its nonconcep- jetivo: constituye una intervención en el campo de los estudios deleu- tual and subjective characteristic, an zianos con un lenguaje afable y accesible para no expertos; construye aesthetic reflective judgment still has 2 Aesthetics Epistemology a claim to be universally valid. Here, the feeling of pleasure in beauti- Carlos Blanco ful is produced by the free harmonious relation between the imagina- The Integration of Knowledge tion and the understanding. Judgment, in its reflective employment, does not determine its object but determines the feeling of pleasure in New York, 2020. XX, 520 pp. the judging subject. On the other hand, the categories, as pure concepts History and Philosophy of Science. Heresy, Crossroads, and Intersections. Vol. 9 of the understanding, carry nearly all the weight in his theory of knowl- edge presented in the Critique of Pure Reason. The imagination, in this hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-6714-0 case, is strictly bound up by the rules that are imposed by the concepts CHF 123.– / €D 107.95 / €A 110.– / € 100.– / £ 80.– / US-$ 119.95 of the understanding. By this way, judgment, as a cognitive faculty, de- eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-4331-6719-5 termines its object and gains its objective validity. In this context, this CHF 123.– / €D 118.95 / €A 120.– / € 100.– / £ 80.– / US-$ 119.95 book discusses the nature of Kant’s aesthetic theory and the compo- nents that constitute a pure aesthetic judgment of reflection and at- The Integration of Knowledge explores tempts to clarify its proper place in critical philosophy regarding his a theory of human knowledge through theory of knowledge. a model of rationality combined with some fundamental logical, mathemat- ical, physical and neuroscientific con- siderations. Its ultimate goal is to pre- Kejun Xia sent a philosophical system of inte- grated knowledge, in which the Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics different domains of human under- Unthought of Empty standing are unified by common con- ceptual structures, such that tradi- New York, 2020. XII, 116 pp., 7 b/w ill. tional metaphysical and epistemolog- ical questions may be addressed in hb. • ISBN 978-1-4331-6451-4 light of these categories. Philosophy CHF 93.– / €D 80.95 / €A 82.50 / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95 thus becomes a “synthesizer” of hu- eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-1-4331-6452-1 man knowledge, through the imagi- CHF 93.– / €D 89.95 / €A 90.– / € 75.– / £ 60.– / US-$ 89.95 native construction of categories and questions that may reproduce and even expand the conceptual chain followed by nature and thought, The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and in an effort to organize the results of the different branches