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From Empedocles to Wittgenstein

Historical Essays in Philosophy

Anthony Kenny, University

of Oxford

From Empedocles to Wittgenstein

is a collection of fifteen

historical essays in

philosophy, written by Sir

Anthony Kenny in the early

years of the 21st century. In

the main they are concerned

with four of the great

philosophers whom he

most esteems, namely Plato,

Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein. The author is not

only one of the most respected historians of

philosophy, and possibly the widest-ranging, but also

one of the most successful at writing on the subject

for a broad readership. In this volume he presentsscholarly explorations of some themes which caught

his interest as he worked on his acclaimed four-

volumeNew History of Western Philosophy.

2008 | 230 pages

978-0-19-955082-1, HARDBACK 30.00/$60.00Kenny:From Empedoclesto Wittgenstein

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History of Philosophy

P u b l i s h e r &D i s t r i b u to r of the y e a r2005,2 0 0 6 , 2 0 0 7 , a n d2008 Awarded by the Academic, Specialist, and Professional Group of the UK Booksellers Association

BI O GR A PH Y

G. E. R. Lloyd

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, FBA, has been prominent in Cambridge intellectual life since

the 1960s. He has been Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, Master of

Darwin College, and Senior Scholar at the Needham Research Institute. His

influence has been worldwide and cross-disciplinary: he has published twenty

books on various aspects of the history of human thought, Eastern and Western,

ancient and modern, and these have been translated into seven European and

three Asian languages.

Disciplines in the Making

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

G. E. R. Lloyd, University of Cambridge (Emeritus)

The organisation of higher education across the world is one of several factors that

conspire to foster the assumption that our map of the intellectual disciplines is,

broadly speaking, valid cross-culturally.Disciplines in the Makingchallenges this in

relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy,

mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion and science. Lloyd focusesespecially on the historical and cross-cultural data that throw light on how these

disciplines were constituted and defined in various civilisations, especially ancient

Greece and China, on the roles, both positive and negative, of elites in those

processes, and on how and within what limits innovation occurred.

July 2009 | 224 pages | 5 line drawings and 1 halftone

978-0-19-956787-4, HARDBACK 25.00/$50.00

N EW I N PA PE R BAC K

A New History

of Western

Philosophy

Complete Four-VolumeSet

Anthony Kenny,

University of Oxford

In these four volumes Sir

Anthony Kenny unfolds a

magisterial new history

of Western philosophy. Specially written for a

broad popular readership, but serious and deep

enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great

philosophers, Kennys lucid and stimulating history

will become the definitive work for anyone interested

in the people and ideas that shaped the course ofWestern thought. These four volumes have been

designed to dovetail with each other: they offer a

unified overview of the entire development of

philosophy, allowing readers to trace themes through

the centuries, from antiquity to the present day. The

story is illuminated by a selection of intriguing and

beautiful illustrations.

New History of Western Philosophy

September 2009 | 1456 pages | 141 black-and-white

illustrations

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N EW IN PA PE R BAC K

Volume 1: Ancient Philosophy

200 6 | 368 pa ge s | 1 ma p | nume rous halftone s

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Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy

2007 | 352 pages | 35 black and white

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Volume 3: The Rise of Modern

Philosophy

2008 | 376 pages | 41 black and white illustrations

978-0-19-875276-9, PAPERBACK 9.99/$19.99


Volume 4: Philosophy in the Modern

World

2008 | 368 pages | 30 black and white illustrations

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M E DI EV A L

Averroes Physics

A Turning Point in Medieval Natural PhilosophyRuth Glasner, Hebrew

University

Ruth Glasner presents an

illuminating reappraisal of

the role played by the 12th-

century Andalusian Muslim

polymath Averroes in the

development of medieval

science and philosophy.

She reveals how Averroes

pioneered a bold new

atomistic physical theory,

and shows that he deserves at last to be recognized

as an original and sophisticated philosopher.

June 2009 | 240 pages

978-0-19-956773-7, HARDBACK 37.50/$75.00Glasner:Averroes Physics

Anselm on Freedom

Katherin Rogers, University of

Delaware

Can human beings be free and responsible if there is an

all-powerful God? Anselm of Canterbury (10331109),

the first Christian philosopher to propose that human

beings have a really robust free will, offers viable

answers to questions which have plagued religious

people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace

cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen

humanity, how can there be any decisive role for

individual free choice to play? If God knows today

what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when

tomorrow comes you have to choose what God

foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human

beings must have the option to choose between good

and evil in order to be morally responsible, must

God be able to choose evil? Anselm answers these

questions with a sophisticated theory of free will

which defends both human freedom and the

sovereignty and goodness of God.

200 8 | 240 p ag es

978-0-19-923167-6, HARDBACK 42.00/$80.00Rogers:Anselmon Freedom

Henry of Harclay

Ordinary Questions, I-XIV

Edited by Mark G. Henninger, Georgetown University

A complete critical edition of the later work of the

medieval philosopher and theologian Henry of Harclay

is here published for the first time, together with an

English translation prepared in collaboration with

Raymond Edwards. The Quaestiones Ordinariae introduce

students to the key problems of medieval philosophy,

as well as enabling scholars to deepen their knowledge

of the debates of this period.

Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi Vol. XVII

2008 | 738 pages | OUP/British Academy

978-0-19-726379-2, HARDBACK 65.00/$115.00Henninger:HenryofHarclay

Ordinary Questions, XV-XXIX

Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi Vol. XVIII

2008 | 492 pages | OUP/British Academy

978-0-19-726381-5, HARDBACK 65.00/$115.00Henninger:HenryofHarclay

The Old English Boethius

An Edition of the Old English Versions of BoethiussDe Consolatione Philosophiae

Edited byMalcolm Godden, Oxford University, and

Susan Irvine, University College London

Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophy, written in Latin

around 525 A.D., was to become one of the mostinfluential literary texts of the Middle Ages. The Old

English prose translation and adaptation which was

produced around 900 and claims to be by King Alfred

was one of the earliest signs of its importance and use,

and the subsequent rewriting of parts as verse show

an interest in rivalling the literary shape of the Latin

original. The introduction and commentary reveal

much about the history of the text and its composition.

April 2009 | 1,240 pages | 4 black-and-white halftones |

2 volume set

978-0-19-925966-3, HARDBACK 195.00/$365.00Goddenand Irvine:The OldEnglishBoethius

Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction

Fergus Kerr, University of

Edinburgh

Aquinas, one of the most

famous and highly thought

of Christian thinkers, was

a controversial figure whowas exposed and engaged

in conflict. This Very Short

Introduction looks at Aquinas

in an historical context, and

explores the Church and

culture into which Aquinas

was born. It also asks why

Aquinas matters now.

Very Short Introductions

November 2009 | 144 pages | 15 black-and-white halftones

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Anselm

Sandra Visser, Valparaiso

University, and Thomas

Williams, University of

Iowa

Sandra Visser and

Thomas Williams

offer an accessible

introduction to the

life and thought of St.

Anselm (c. 10331109).

Anselm, who was

Archbishop of Canterbury for the last 16 years

of his life, is unquestionably one of the foremost

philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages.

Great Medieval Thinkers

February 2009 | 320 pages | OUP USA

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John Buridan

Gyula Klima, Fordham

University

This is an introduction to the thought of the

philosopher John Buridan (ca. 12951361). Little is

known about Buridans life, most of which was spent

studying and then teaching at the University of Paris.

Buridans works are mostly by-products of his

teaching. They consist mainly of commentaries on

Aristotle, covering the whole extent of Aristotelian

philosophy, ranging from logic to metaphysics, to

natural science, to ethics and politics. Gyula Klima

argues that many of Buridans academic concerns

are strikingly similar to those of modern philosophyand his work sometimes quite directly addresses

modern philosophical questions.


200 8 | 368 p ag es | OUP U SA

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John Wyclif

Stephen Edmund Lahey,

Lemoyne College

John Wyclif (d.1384) is

remembered variously

as heretic, reactionary

philosopher, Bible

translator, and proto-

reformer. This survey

situates Wyclif in his

fourteenth-century

milieu in an attempt to

dispel the myths surrounding

his rich and complex

theological vision. Lahey

argues that Wyclifs linguistic

philosophy and his Scripture hermeneutic lie at the

base of the ideas that scandalized the fourteenth-

century Church.


Ma y 200 9 | 304 pa ges | OUP USA

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Hugh of Saint Victor

Paul Rorem, Princeton University

Hugh of Saint Victor (10961141) was an incredibly

influential philosopher and theologian in 10th

century Francehis eloquence and writing earning

him fame exceeding even that of St. Bernard. Yet

despite his medieval celebrity, Hugh remains

incredibly understudied in contemporary academia.

Paul Rorem offers a basic introduction to Hughs

theology, through a comprehensive survey of hisworks.


July 2009 | 256 pages | OUP USA

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G R E A T M E D I E V A L T H I N K E R S


3/11


Language in the Confessionsof

Augustine

Philip Burton, University

of Birmingham

Burtons book is a creative

addition to the scholarship

on the Confessions, well worth

reading... unusual, welcome,

and refreshing... a fine

example of what can result

from getting a different pair

of eyes with a different

methodology to work on a

renowned and overworked

canonical text.

Dan Uta Shanzer, American Journal of Philology

An exploration of Augustines treatment of language

in his Confessionsa major work of Western philosophy

and literature, with continuing intellectual

importance. Philip Burton traces the role of language in

Augustines career, up to his reinvention of himself as a

Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and

preaching to his flock.

February 2009 | 216 pages

978-0-19-955445-4, PAPERBACK 17.99/$36.00

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The Theological

Epistemology of

Augustines De Trinitate

Luigi Gioia, OSB, Abbey of

Maylis, France

Luigi Gioia provides a fresh

description and analysis of

Augustines monumental

treatise,De Trinitate, working

on a supposition of its unity

and its coherence from

structural, rhetorical, and

theological points of view.

Oxford Theological Monographs

2008 | 352 pages

978-0-19-955346-4, HARDBACK 65.00/$130.00Gioia,OSB:The TheologicalEpistemologyof AugustinesDeTrinitate

Epistles of the Brethren of Purity

The Ikhwan al-Safa and their Rasail

An Introduction

Edited by Nader El-Bizri, The

Institute of Ismaili Studies,

LondonIkhwan al-Safa (The Brethren

of Purity) were the adepts of

a tenth-century fraternity

based in Basra and Baghdad.

This brotherhood occupied

a prominent station in the

intellectual history of Islam

due to the wide reception of

their encyclopaedia:Rasail

Ikhwan al-Safa (The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity). This

compendium contained fifty-two treatises in

mathematics, logic, natural philosophy, psychology,

and metaphysics, in addition to didactic fables.

This present volume gathers studies by leading

philosophers, historians and scholars of Islamic

Studies, who are also preparing the first Arabic critical

editions and complete annotated English translationsof theRasail Ikhwan al-Safa, which will be published in

the OUP Series that this volume initiates. The chapters

explore the philosophical and scientific contents of the

Rasail, its classification and canonization of knowledge,

the authorship and dating of the corpus, and the

intellectual influence it exercised in the history of

ideas in Islam.

Epistles of the Brethren of Purity

2008 | 324 pages | OUP in association with the Institute of

Ismaili Studies

978-0-19-955724-0, HARDBACK 50.00/$100.00El-Bizri:EpistlesoftheBrethrenof Purity

Justin, Philosopher and Martyr:

Apologies

Edited by Denis Minns, Prior of St James Priory, Sydney,

and Paul Parvis, University of Edinburgh

A new text of theApologies of Justin Martyrwith

introduction, translation, and commentary. An

emphasis is placed on distinguishing the original text

from later edits and understanding the complex history

of the text in manuscript and print tradition. The

introduction explores the second-century socio-historic

context of the work.

Oxford Early Christian Texts

August 2009 | 384 pages

978-0-19-954250-5, HARDBACK 85.00/$170.00Minns and Parvis:Justin,Philosopher andMartyr:Apologies

Al- Ghazalis Philosophical Theology

Frank Griffel, Yale University

The Muslim theologian al-Ghazali, who was active at

the turn of the 12th century in Iran, Iraq, and Syria,

was one of the most influential theologians of Islam.

In this book, Frank Griffel will present the most

comprehensive examination to date of the life and

thought of this important figure. The book is divided

into two parts. In the first, Griffel gives an account of

what it known about al-Ghazalis life, offers brief

discussions of his major works, and examines the

legacy of his thought by tracing the lineage of his

students and followers. In the second part, he provides

a systematic exploration of al-Ghazalis theology.

He explicates al-Ghazalis views on epistemology,

cosmology, physical theory, creation, ethics, theodicy,

and a host of other topics. The result is the most

thorough available examination of a major thinker.

June 2009 | 480 pages | 11 black-and-white halftones |

1 line illustration | OUP USA

978-0-19-533162-2, HARDBACK 43.00/$74.00Griffel:Al- GhazalisPhilosophicalTheology

EA R LY MO D E R N

Oxford Studies in Early Modern

Philosophy Volume IV

Edited by Daniel Garber, Princeton University, and

Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual

series, presenting a selection of the best current work

in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses

on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesthe

extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that

begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his

contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes

papers on thinkers or movements outside of thatframework, provided they are important in

illuminating early modern thought.

Contributors: Carlos Fraenkel, Todd Stuart Ganson,

Sean Greenberg, Anja Jauernig, Eugene Marshall,

Donald Rutherford, Emanuela Scribano, Valtteri

Viljanen.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

2008 | 280 pages

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978-0-19-955040-1, HARDBACK 50.00/$100.00GarberandNadler:OxfordStudies inEarly ModernPhilosophyVolumeIV

Causation and Laws of Nature in Early

Modern Philosophy

Walter Ott, Virginia Tech

Causation and Laws of Naturein Early Modern Philosophy is

a study of one of the most

important debates in 17th-

and 18th-century philosophy:

the nature of causation. Ott

offers controversial readings

of such canonical figures as

Descartes, Locke, and Hume,

and explores related topics

such as intentionality,

necessity, and relations.

September 2009 | 269 pages

978-0-19-957043-0, HARDBACK 40.00/$74.00Ott:Causationand Lawsof NatureinEarly ModernPhilosophy

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Augustine of Hippo

A Life

The late Henry Chadwick, University of Cambridge

A biography of Augustines life, as interpreted by the acclaimed church historian,

the late Professor Henry Chadwick. Augustines intellectual development is

recounted with clarity and warmth, providing a characteristically rigorous yet

sympathetic narrative of this central figure in the history of Christian thought.


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1 7 TH CE NT U RY

Milton and the Ineffable

Noam Reisner, Tel Aviv University

Milton and the Ineffableoffers a comprehensive

reassessment of Miltons poetic oeuvre in light of the

literary and conceptual problem posed by the poets

attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and

beyond representation. Taking an interdisciplinary

philosophical-theological approach, Noam Reisner

sheds fresh light on many of the central critical debates

surrounding Miltons poetry by situating Miltonsemerging poetics of ineffability in the context of the

intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism

and Protestant theology.

Oxford English Monographs

November 2009 | 336 pages

978-0-19-957262-5, HARDBACK 60.00/$99.00Reisner:Miltonand theIneffable

Essays on Descartes

Paul Hoffman, University of California, Riverside

In these wide-ranging essays Paul Hoffman argues that

Descartes retains three Aristotelian doctrines: soul and

body are related as form to matter; an agents action is

the same as the patients passion; cognition is possible

because things that exist in the world can exist in the

soul in another way.

A pril 200 9 | 296 p ag es | OUP U SA

978-0-19-532110-4, HARDBACK 37.99/$65.00Hoffman:Essays onDescartes

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Descartes on Causation

Tad M. Schmaltz, Duke University

This book is a systematic study of

Descartes theory of causation and its relation to the

medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that

provides its proper historical context. This context is

brought to bear on his accounts of causation in physics,

psychology, and free human action.

2 008 | 25 6 pages | O UP USA

978-0-19-532794-6, HARDBACK 50.00/$85.00Schmaltz:Descartes onCausation




The Emergence of a Scientific Culture

Science and the Shaping of Modernity 12101685Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney

Gaukrogers book is a historical reconstruction that brackets historical context

(social, practical, political etc.) and offers a plethora of studies on intellectual

history on a variety of subjects that deserve attention in any investigation of

the emergence of the scientific culture of the West.

Wolfgang Lefvre, Isis

Gaukrogers grand beginning of an even grander five-volume narrative is an

exceptional book. Its structure of scientific authority, as it were, is certain to

stimulate long and lively discussions among academics of every stripe.

Michael H. Shank, Renaissance Quarterly

Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for

all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows that science was bitterly contested during the early

modern period. It did not distance itself from religion but rather entered into an alliance with it to provide

a comprehensive picture of the worldtransforming not just science but also religion in the process.

2008 | 576 pages | numerous figures978-0-19-955001-2, PAPERBACK 19.99/$39.95

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Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity

Catherine Wilson, City University of New York

This sensitive, engaging, and richly documented book

examines the Scientific Revolution and the formation of the

canon of early modern philosophy in light of the rediscovery and reworking of

the materialistic philosophy of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius. It is

written in a manner intended to be accessible to all readers, but it will be of special

interest to historians interested in seventeenth century science, philosophy,

politics, and morals; to philosophers interested in the origins of materialism, and

to classicists concerned with the reception of ancient doctrines in the modern

period.

2008 | 320 pages

978-0-19-923881-1, HARDBACK 37.00/$65.00


Thomas Hobbes: Writings on

Common Law and Hereditary Right

Edited byAlan Cromartie, University of Reading,

and Quentin Skinner, University of C ambridge

[A] careful and erudite edition.

Justin Champion, Journal of Early

Modern History

A critical edition of two great works by Thomas

Hobbes. The Dialogue of the Common Laws is his classic

critique of common law, essential reading for

anyone interested in English political thought or

legal theory. It is accompanied by Hobbess last

word on politics, a fragment in which he mounts

a robust defence of hereditary right.

Claredon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes200 8 | 272 pa ge s | 5 ha lftone s

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Thomas Hobbes:

Translations of

Homer

The Iliad and theOdyssey

Edited byEric Nelson,

Harvard University

We are lucky to

have the poems so

intelligently annotated

and eruditelyintroduced; Eric Nelsons edition is an impressive

achievement.

Henry Power, Times Literary Supplement

Hobbes translated the Homeric poems into English

verse during the course of the 1670s, when he was

already well into his eighties. These texts constitute

his most extensive single undertaking, as well as

his last major work. Yet, despite the explosion of

interest in Hobbes over the last fifty years, this is

the first modern critical edition of the Homer

translations. This edition will be fascinating

reading for anyone interested in early-modern

political philosophy, literature, and classical

studies.

Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes

200 8 | 8 48 pa ge s | 2 volume s

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Thomas Hobbes: Behemoth

Edited byPaul Seaward, Director, History of

Parliament

Behemoth is a history of the English Civil Wars and

Interregnum (164060) written by Englands most

famous philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. It covers the

events which were the background to his major

philosophical writings, especiallyLeviathan, and is

the only place where he discusses them directly.

This is the first scholarly edition of a text of great

importance for students of seventeenth century

history and political thought.

Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes

December 2009 | 420 pages

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W O R K S O F T H O M A S H O B B E S


5/11

An Essay Concerning

Human Understanding

John Locke

Edited by Pauline Phemister, University of Edinburgh

InAn Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it.

Locke shows how all our ideas, even the most abstract

and complex, are grounded in human experience and

attained by sensation of external things or reflectionupon our own mental activities.

Oxford Worlds Classics

200 8 | 576 p ag es

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John Locke: An Essay Concerning

Toleration

And Other Writings on Law and Politics, 16671683

Edited byJ. R. Milton, Kings College London, and

Philip Milton, University of Leicester

presented with stupendous scholarly care and

attention to detail... a marvellous aid for those teaching

and studying Lockes political thought.

Political Studies Review

J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition

of John LockesEssay Concerning Toleration, based on all

extant manuscripts, and a number of other writings

on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683.

With authoritative contextual guidance from the

editors, this will be an invaluable resource for all

historians of early modern philosophy, of legal,

political, and religious thought, and of 17th century

Britain.

October 2009 | 472 pages

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BI O GR A PH Y

Daniel Garber

Daniel Garber (PhD, Harvard, 1975) is Professor of Philosophy at PrincetonUniversity, and Associated Faculty in the Program in the History of Science and the

Department of Politics. Garber specializes in the history of philosophy and science

in the early-modern period, and is also interested in issues in epistemology and the

philosophy of science. In addition to numerous articles, Garber is the author of

Descartes Metaphysical Physics (1992),Descartes Embodied(2001), and is the co-editor

(with Michael Ayers) ofThe Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998).

Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad

Daniel Garber, Princeton University

Leibnizs metaphysics of monads, tiny minds that are supposed to be the ultimate

constituents of the world is very puzzling. In this book, Garber tries to bring

Leibniz down to earth by focusing on his conception of body. Beginning with his

earliest thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical

world lead him step by step to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a

world of monads.

July 2009 | 464 pages

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Enlightenment Contested

Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 16701752

Jonathan I. Israel, Princeton University

Brilliantly presented and dense with learning.

Simon Blackburn, Times Higher Education Supplement

Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western

Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling

Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the

eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer a groundbreaking

new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currentsin modern thought.

2008 | 1,008 pages | 16 pp plates | 3 in-text halftones

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6/11

Cogito?

Descartes and Thinkingthe World

Joseph Almog, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles

Descartes maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from hisMeditations)

is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression

ever coined. But how it can be that a thinking human

can be both part of the natural world and yet somehow

distinct and separate from it? Joseph Almog goes back

to theMeditations, and using Descartes own

methodologyand his naturalistic, scientific

worldviewtries to answer the question.

2 008 | 1 44 pa ge s | O UP USA

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Cartesian Reflections

Essays on Descartess Philosophy

John Cottingham, Universityof Reading

One of the worlds leading

Descartes scholars explores

central areas of his

philosophy, including his

views on the nature of

thought, the relationship

between mind and body, his

scientific worldview and its

influence on modern

thinking, the place of God

in his philosophical system, and his account of the

emotions and the good life.

200 8 | 352 p ag es

978-0-19-922697-9, HARDBACK 40.00/$80.00Cottingham:Cartesian Reflections

Bodies of Thought

Science, Religion, and the Soulin the Early Enlightenment

Ann Thomson, Universit Paris 8

Examining the development of a secular, purely

material conception of human beings in the early

Enlightenment, Bodies of Thoughtprovides a fresh

perspective on the intellectual culture of this period,

and challenges certain influential interpretations of

irreligious thought and the Radical Enlightenment.

2008 | 320 pages

978-0-19-923619-0, HARDBACK 60.00/$120.00Thomson:Bodies ofThought

The Philosophy of

John NorrisW. J. Mander, Harris Manchester,

Oxford

Best known today as one of the earliest critics of John

Locke, John Norris (16571711) incorporated ideas of

Augustine, Malebranche, Plato, the Cambridge

Platonists, and the scholastics into an original synthesis

that was highly influential on the philosophy and

theology of his day. W. J. Mander presents a much-

needed study of this unjustly neglected thinker, and

the different perspectives he offers on this seminal

period in philosophical history.

200 8 | 232 pa ge s

978-0-19-923030-3, HARDBACK 34.00/$65.00Mander:The PhilosophyofJohn Norris

1 8 TH CE NT U RY

Humes Skeptical Crisis

A Textual StudyRobert J. Fogelin, Dartmouth College (Emeritus)

Humes Skeptical Crisis is a textual study of the shifts in

perspective that unfold as Hume attempts to produce

a complete science of human nature. In the process,

Humes standpoint shifts from buoyant optimism to

profound skeptical melancholy and finally comes to

rest at a stable form of mitigated skepticism.

October 2009 | 192 pages | OUP USA

978-0-19-538739-1, HARDBACK 25.99/$45.00Fogelin:HumesSkeptical CrisisA TextualStudy

The Riddle of

Humes Treatise

Skepticism, Naturalism,and Irreligion

Paul Russell, University of British Columbia

The Riddle of Humes Treatise is a stimulating and

provocative piece of scholarship. The central question

it poses - how to understand all of the Treatise as part of

a single project? - is most certainly a question that still

needs to be asked. And Paul Russells way of answering

it, by means of a careful consideration of David Humes

intellectual context, is the only way.

James A. Harris, Times Literary Supplement

It is widely held that Humes Treatise has little or

nothing to do with problems of religion. Contrary to

this view, however, this book argues that it is irreligious

aims and objectives that are fundamental to the Treatise

and account for its underlying unity and coherence.

2008 | 440 pages | 7 black-and-white illustrations |

OUP USA

978-0-19-511033-3, HARDBACK 58.00/$99.00Russell:TheRiddleofHumesTreatise

Custom and Reason

in Hume

A Kantian Reading of theFirst Book of the Treatise

Henry E. Allison, University

of California

Allisons discussion of

Hume is philosophically

deep and thought-provoking

throughout. This is a book

every philosopher interested

in the relationship between

these two philosophers

should read, and readcarefully.

Karl Schafer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Custom and Reason in Hume is concerned with Humes

theory of knowledge, as it is contained in the first book

ofA Treatise of Human Nature. In addition to providing a

comprehensive and detailed critical analysis of Humes

views on the subject, which is informed by and engages

the recent literature, the books distinctive feature is an

extensive comparison with Kant on a range of issues,

including space and time, causation, existence,

induction, and the self. The differences between

the two thinkers on these topics are shown to be a

consequence of the differences in their underlying

views on the nature of cognition.

200 8 | 432 p ag es

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David Hume: A Dissertation on the

Passions; The Natural History of

Religion

Edited byTom Beauchamp, Georgetown University

Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly

edition of two famous works by David Hume, both

originally published in 1757. InA Dissertation on the

Passions Hume sets out his original view of the natureand central role of passion and emotion. The Natural

History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of

religion as a natural phenomenon. Authoritative

critical texts are accompanied by a full array of

editorial matter.


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Humes Morality

Feeling and Fabrication

Rachel Cohon, The University at

Albany, The State University of

New York

Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of theethical thinking of the eighteenth-century philosopher

David Hume. She focuses on two claims: that human

beings figure out what is good or evil by using our

feelings or emotions, and that some of the good traits

we recognize are produced by informal social

agreement and teaching.

2008 | 304 pages

978-0-19-926844-3, HARDBACK 37.50/$75.00Cohon:HumesMorality



N EW IN

PA PE R BAC K

David HumeMoral and PoliticalTheorist

Russell Hardin, New

York University

Russell Hardin

presents a new view of

the moral and political

theory of the great

eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume. By

placing Hume in the developing tradition of social

science, as a strong forerunner of his younger

friend Adam Smith, Hardin demonstrates Humes

strong strategic sense, his nascent utilitarianism,

his powerful theory of convention as a main

source of social and political order, and his

recognition of moral and political theory as a

single enterprise.


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7/11

The Postcolonial Enlightenment

Eighteenth-century Colonialism andPostcolonial Theory

Edited by Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland,

Galway, andLynn Festa, Rutgers University

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of

European imperial practices have transformed our

understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and

cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a

complex but often unacknowledged role in this

discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as

the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of

liberation. This book brings together eighteenth-

century studies and postcolonial theory to analyse the

role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of

early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial

interrogations of Western imperial projects and

aspirations.

February 2009 | 378 pages | 9 black-and-white halftones

978-0-19-922914-7, HARDBACK 55.00/$100.00Careyand Festa:PostcolonialEnlightenment


The Impartial Spectator

Adam Smiths Moral Philosophy

D. D. Raphael, Imperial

College, London (Emeritus)

Elegant and engaging.

Charlotte Brown, Notre

Dame Philosophical Review

remarkably

comprehensive... this

readable book is a welcome

study of a fascinating and

illuminating body of work.

Brian Feltham. Times

Literary Supplement

a gift to anyone interested in Adam Smith and the

history of British moral philosophy.

Sylvana Tomaselli, British Journal for the


D. D. Raphael examines the moral philosophy of Adam

Smith (172390), best known for his famous work on

economics, The Wealth of Nations, and shows that his

thought still has much to offer philosophers today.

Raphael gives particular attention to Smiths original

theory of conscience, with its emphasis on the role of

sympathy (shared feelings).

May 2009 | 160 pages

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978-0-19-921333-7, HARDBACK 25.00/$45.00Raphael:The ImpartialSpectator


Edmund Burke, Volume I

17301784

F. P. Lock, Queens University,

Canada

Edmund Burke (17301797)

was one of the most

profound, versatile, and

accomplished thinkers of

the eighteenth century. Born

and educated in Dublin, he

moved to London to study

law, but remained to make

a career in English politics,

completing A Philosophical

Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and

Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena.

A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his

speeches are still read and studied as classics of political

thought, and through his best-known work,Reflections

on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to

exercise a posthumous influence as the father of

conservatism.

2008 | 616 pages | 31 plates | 4 in-text illustrations

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Edmund Burke, Volume II

17841797

F. P. Lock, Queens University,

Canada

[A] meticulous and massive

biography... Helped by

the bedrock of collected

scholarly editions of

Burkes letters, writings and

speeches, he can raise thissplendid monument... this is

a study which will endure.

Toby Barnard, Times

Literary Supplement

Covering the most interesting years of Burkes life, the

leading themes are India and the French Revolution.

Burke was a key figure in shaping long-term British

attitudes to both.

March 2009 | 648 pages | 24pp plates

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The Pleasures of Benthamism

Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy

Kathleen Blake, University of Washington

A fresh look at the often-censured but imperfectly

understood traditions of Utilitarianism and political

economy in relation to Victorian literature and culture.

Setting the writings of Bentham, Smith, Malthus, Mill,

Dickens, Carlyle, Trollope, Eliot, Gaskell, and Tagore

in historical context, Blake widens awareness of

commonalities across the age.


978-0-19-956326-5, HARDBACK 50.00/$95.00Blake:The PleasuresofBenthamism


Utility and Democracy

The Political Thought ofJeremy Bentham

Philip Schofield, University College London

Utility and Democracy is the first comprehensive

historical account of the political thought of Jeremy

Bentham (17481832), the philosopher and reformer.

Philip Schofield draws on his extensive knowledge of

Benthams unpublished manuscripts and original

printed texts, and on the new, authoritative edition

ofThe Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. A compelling

narrative charts the way in which Bentham applied

his utilitarian philosophy to the rapidly changing

circumstances of his age.


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978-0-19-820856-3, HARDBACK 70.00/$125.00Schofield:Utility andDemocracy

Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the

Poor LawsVolume II

Edited by Philip Schofield and Michael Quinn, both

University College London

In the three works contained in this volume, written

in 17978, Bentham offers a detailed exposition of his

plan for the reform of the English poor laws.

The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham

November 2009 | 800 pages | 3 fold-out tables |

Clarendon Press

978-0-19-955963-3, HARDBACK 110.00/$220.00SchofieldandQuinn:WritingsonthePoorLaws

Jeremy Bentham: Of the Limits of the

Penal Branch of Jurisprudence

Edited by Philip Schofield, University College London

Of the Limits of the Penal Branch of Jurisprudence is part of

the introduction to the projected penal code on which

Bentham worked in the late 1770s and early 1780s. An

editorial introduction explains the provenance of the

work, which is fully annotated with textual and

historical notes.


September 2009 | 384 pages

978-0-19-957073-7, HARDBACK 85.00/$170.00Bentham:OftheLimitsofthePenalBranchofJurisprudence

166



Kants Theory of Action

Richard McCarty, East Carolina University

Students of Immanuel Kants ethical theory have had difficulty understandingbasic questions of his theory of action: What are the causes of our actions? How do

we act with free will? What makes an action virtuous? What is a good will? Richard

McCarty presents a well argued, unusual and controversial interpretation, based

on the historical context of Kants thought, and on ideas expressed in his lecture

notes on psychology and ethics.

June 2009 | 288 pages

978-0-19-956772-0, HARDBACK 37.50/$74.00


8/11

N EW ED ITION

Jeremy Bentham:A Commenton

the Commentaries and A Fragment

on Government

Edited byJ.H. Burnsand H.L.A Hart

General editor: Philip Schofield, University College

London

In the two related works in this volume, Bentham

offers a detailed critique of William Blackstones

Commentaries on the Laws of England (17659). In A

Comment on the Commentaries, on which Bentham began

work in 1774, he exposes the fallacies which he claims

to have detected in Blackstone, and criticizes the theory

of the Common Law. He goes on to provide important

reflections on the nature of law, and more particularly

on the nature of customary and of statute law, and on

judicial interpretation.


2008 | 632 pages | Clarendon Press

978-0-19-955347-1, HARDBACK 85.00/$170.00BurnsandHart:A Commentonthe CommentariesandA FragmentonGovernment

Rousseaus Theodicy

of Self-Love

Evil, Rationality, and the Drivefor Recognition

Frederick Neuhouser, Columbia University

This book is a lively and comprehensive study of

Rousseaus understanding of a type of self-love, amour

propre, that marks the central difference between

humans and the beasts.Amour propre is the passion

that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval,

admiration, or lovethe recognitionof their fellow

beings. This book explains what the drive for

recognition is, why it is so problematic, and how its

presence opens up far-reaching developmentalpossibilities for creatures that possess it.

2008 | 296 pages

978-0-19-954267-3, HARDBACK 35.00/$70.00Neuhouser:RousseausTheodicyof Self-Love


Schiller as Philosopher

A Re-Examination

Frederick Beiser, Syracuse

University

Beisers championing of

Schiller as a philosopher puts

much other critical literature

to shame. Its perspicacity and

its lucidity are verywelcome.

Paul Bishop, Seminar

Fred Beiser presents a

brilliant study of Friedrich

von Schiller (17591805), rehabilitating him as a

philosopher worthy of serious attention and showing

that Schillers engagement with Kant is far more subtle

and rewarding than is often portrayed. Compulsory

reading for anyone engaged with the key developments

of this fertile period.

2008 | 304 pages

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Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling,

and Kierkegaard

Michelle Kosch, Cornell University

Michelle Kosch examines the conceptions of free

will and the foundations of ethics in the work of Kant,

Schelling, and Kierkegaard. She seeks to understand

the history of German idealism better by looking at it

through the lens of these issues, and to understand

Kierkegaard better by placing his thought in this

context. Kosch argues for a new interpretation of

Kierkegaards theory of agency, that Schelling was a

major influence and Kant a major target of criticism,

and that both the theory and the criticisms are highly

relevant to contemporary debates.

December 2009 | 256 pages

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978-0-19-928911-0, HARDBACK 42.00/$96.00Kosch:Freedom andReasonin Kant,Schelling,and Kierkegaard

1 9 TH CE NT U RY

The Shadow of Enlightenment

Optical and Political Transparency in France17891848

Theresa Levitt, University of Mississippi

This work examines the intersection of science and

politics in the work of Franois Arago and Jean-Baptiste

Biot, the principle architects of the optical revolution of

early nineteenth-century France. Their disagreement

over the optical accessibility of the world played out

across a wide range of French culture.

January 2009 | 200 pages | 21 halftones

978-0-19-954470-7, HARDBACK 39.95/$70.00Levitt:The ShadowofEnlightenment


Nietzsches New Darwinism

John Richardson, New York University

Nietzsches New Darwinismexemplifies the virtues that

have long characterized Richardsons work and that

have over the last two decades increasingly

characterized the best scholarly work on Nietzsche:

it is meticulously organized and carefully argued.

Notre Dame Philosophical Review

Nietzsche and Darwin were rough contemporaries who

shared an interest in the origins of moral behaviour,

but whose views on the subject could not have been

further apart. Where Darwin saw selection in favour

of the strong and the fit, Nietzsche saw the triumph of

the will to power. Most of what Nietzsche said aboutDarwin was quite hostile; however, Richardson argues

that Nietzsche was far more deeply influenced by

Darwin than he ever acknowledged. The heart of

the book is Richardson showing how particularly

problematic Nietzschean issues benefit from a new

view of Nietzsches unspoken embrace of Darwinian

ideas and the natural sciences more generally.

December 2009 | 300 pages | OUP USA

978-0-19-538029-3, PAPERBACK 13.99/$24.95

978-0-19-517103-7, HARDBACK 36.00/$75.00Richardson:NietzschesNew Darwinism


Nietzsche and Morality

Edited byBrian Leiter,

University of Chicago, and

Neil Sinhababu, National

University of Singapore

this book will be

illuminating not only

for those interested in

Nietzsche, but also for

anyone with an interest in

moral philosophy... This

volume constitutes a

significant advance in the

Nietzsche literature. It is among a handful of volumes

that anyone with a serious interest in Nietzsche simply

must read.

Paul Katsafanas, Mind

In eleven new essays, leading philosophers aim both to

advance philosophical understanding of Nietzsches

ethical views and to make Nietzsche a live participant

in contemporary debates in ethics and related fields.

Contributors: Simon Blackburn, Maudemarie Clark,

David Dudrick, Thomas Hurka, Nadeem Hussain,

Christopher Janaway, Joshua Knobe, Brian Leiter, PeterPoellner, Bernard Reginster, Mathias Risse, Neil

Sinhababu, R. Jay Wallace.


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978-0-19-928593-8, HARDBACK 42.00/$75.00Leiterand Sinhababu:Nietzscheand Morality



Nietzsche on

Freedom and

AutonomyEdited byKen Gemes

and Simon May, both

Birkbeck College,

University of London

Nietzsche is a central

figure in our modern

understanding of the

individual as freely

determining his or her own values. These essays

by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what

this freedom really means: How free are we really?

What does it take to be free? It might be a right,

but it also needs to be earned.

Contributors:Maudemarie Clark, David

Dudrick, Sebastian Gardner, Ken Gemes,

Christopher Janaway, Brian Leiter, Simon May,

David Owen, Robert B. Pippin, John Richardson,

Peter Poellner, Aaron Ridley, Mathias Risse.


978-0-19-923156-0, HARDBACK 37.50/$75.00


9/11

Hegelian Metaphysics

Robert Stern, University of

Sheffield

These essays offer a coherentperspective on this central

area of Hegels thought,

while also shedding light

on his relation to his

predecessors (particularly

Aristotle and Kant) and on his

reception by later thinkers.

The volume as a whole

articulates the distinctive

position that Robert Stern has developed over several

years, and enables readers to see this body of work

together in one place, where the interconnection

between these themes become clear.


978-0-19-923910-8, HARDBACK 55.00/$110.00Stern:Hegelian Metaphysics

Outlines of the Philosophy of Right

G. W. F. Hegel

Translated by T. M. Knox

Revised, edited and introduced by Stephen Houlgate,University of Warwick

Hegels Outlines of the Philosophy of Rightis one of the

greatest works of moral, social, and political

philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice,

moral responsibility, family life, economic activity,

and the political structure of the stateall matters of

profound interest to us today. Hegels study remains

one of the most subtle and perceptive accounts of

freedom that we possess.


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168



BI O GR A PH Y

Christopher

JanawayChristopher Janaway

is Professor of

Philosophy at the

University of

Southampton, and

previously taught at Birkbeck, University of

London. His work falls chiefly in the areas of 19th

century German philosophy and aesthetics, and

previous publications include Schopenhauer: A Very

Short Introduction (2002),Images of Excellence: Platos

Critique of the Arts (1995), and Self and World in

Schopenhauers Philosophy (1989). He is the editor of

The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer(1999) and

Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsches

Educator(1998).


Beyond

Selflessness

Reading NietzschesGenealogy

Christopher Janaway,

University of

Southampton

Intelligent and

illuminating

Brian Leiter, Notre

Dame Philosophical

Review

a superb study... Janaway consistently offers fresh

insights and nuanced observations about the text,

its structure, the motives behind its composition,its argument and its philosophical methods, or

rather tactics.

Taylor Carman, Times Literary Supplement

Christopher Janaway presents a full commentary

on Nietzsches most studied work, On the Genealogy

of Morality, and combines close reading of key

passages with an exploration of Nietzsches wider

aims. Unlike other books on Nietzsche,Beyond

Selflessness situates Nietzsche against the work

of thinkers he considers his opponents,

Schopenhauer and Paul Re; emphasises the

significance of Nietzsches rhetorical methods as

an instrument of persuasion; and examines recent

analytical readings of Nietzsche as a philosophical

naturalist. Everyone who works on Nietzsche will

find this a richly rewarding book.


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Hegel: Lectures

on the Philosophy

of Religion

Translated and edited

byPeter C. Hodgson,

Vanderbilt University

TheLectures on the

Philosophy of Religion

represent the final and in

some ways the decisive element of Hegels entire

philosophical system. His conception and execution

of these crucial lectures differed so significantly on

each of the occasions he delivered themin 1821,

1824, 1827, and 1831that it is impossible, without

destroying the structural integrity of the lectures,

to conflate material from different years into aneditorially constructed text. These volumes establish

for the first time a critical edition, separating the

series of lectures and publishing them as

autonomous units on the basis of a complete

re-editing of the sources.

Volume I contains Hegels Introduction and Part I.

Volume II contains Hegels philosophical

interpretations of the history of religions in ancient

Europe and Asia.

Volume III contains Hegels philosophical

interpretation of Christianity.

Hegel Lectures

Volume I: Introduction and the Concept ofReligion

2008 | 494 pages

978-0-19-928353-8, PAPERBACK 29.00/$45.00

Volume II: Determinate Religion

2008 | 792 pages

978-0-19-928354-5, PAPERBACK 35.00/$70.00

Volume III: The Consummate Religion

200 8 | 424 p ag es

978-0-19-928355-2, PAPERBACK 29.00/$45.00

Hegel: Lectureson the History of

Philosophy

18256

Translated and edited by

Robert F. Brown,

University of Delaware

Series Editor: Peter C.

Hodgson

This new edition of

HegelsLectures on the History of Philosophy sets forth

clearly, for the first time for the English reader, what

Hegel actually said. These lectures challenged the

antiquarianism of Hegels contemporaries by boldly

contending that the history of philosophy is itself

philosophy, not just history. Volume I contains

Hegels discussion of the history of Chinese and

Indian philosophy, and it also sets out the significant

changes that Hegel made to his stage-setting

introduction to the lectures.

Volume 3 covers the medieval and modern periods,

and includes fascinating discussion of scholastic,

Renaissance, and Reformation philosophy, and of

such great modern thinkers as Descartes, Locke,

Leibniz, and especially Kant.

Hegel Lectures

Volume I: Introduction and Oriental Philosophy


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Volume III: Medieval and Modern Philosophy

R EV IS ED EDIT I ON


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H E G E L L E C T U R E S


10/11

Repetition andPhilosophical Crumbs

Sren Kierkegaard

Translated by M. G. Piety,

Drexel University, with an

Introduction by Edward F.

Mooney, Syracuse University

These two complementary

works give the reader a

unique insight into the

breadth and substance of

Kierkegaards thought.



978-0-19-921419-8, PAPERBACK 8.99/$15.95Kierkegaard:Repetition and PhilosophicalCrumbs

Kierkegaard

Thinking Christianly in an

Existential Mode

Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University

Kierkegaard was a Christian thinker perhaps best

known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or

the established order of his time. Sylvia Walsh explores

his understanding of Christianity and the existential

mode of thinking theologically appropriate to it in the

context of the intellectual, cultural, and socio-political

milieu of his time.

Christian Theology in Context

200 8 | 248 p ag es

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978-0-19-920835-7, HARDBACK 50.00/$100.00Walsh:Kierkegaard

The Invention of Altruism

Making Moral Meanings in Victorian BritainThomas Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London

The Invention of Altruism is ambitious in scope, and full of

suggestive discussion of important themes.

Jose Harris, London Review of Books

Altruism was coined by the French sociologist Auguste

Comte in the early 1850s as a theoretical term in his

cerebral theory and as the central ideal of his atheistic

Religion of Humanity. In The Invention of Altruism,

Thomas Dixon traces this new language of altruism

as it spread through British culture between the 1850s

and the 1900s, and in doing so provides a new portrait

of Victorian moral thought.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs

2008 | 436 pages | 26 halftones | OUP/British Academy

978-0-19-726426-3, HARDBACK 65.00/$80.00Dixon:The InventionofAltruism

The Riddle of the World

A Reconsideration of Schopenhauers Philosophy

Barbara Hannan, University of New Mexico

This book is an introduction to the philosophy of

Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal

style. Hannan connects Schopenhauers thought

with ongoing debates in philosophy, arguing that

Schopenhauers ideas in metaphysics, ethics, and

aesthetics possess contemporary relevance.

June 2009 | 176 pages | OUP USA

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2 0 TH CE NT U RY


Wittgenstein, Finitism, and theFoundations of Mathematics

Mathieu Marion, University of Quebec

Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed

study of Wittgensteins philosophy of mathematics.

This area of his work has frequently been undervalued

by Wittgenstein specialists and philosophers of

mathematics alike; but the surprising fact that he

wrote more on this subject than any other indicates

its centrality in his thought. Marion traces the

development of Wittgensteins thinking from the

1920s through to the 1950s, in the context of the

mathematical and philosophical work of the times, to

make coherent sense of ideas that have too often been

misunderstood because they have been presented in a

disjointed and incomplete way. He shows that study of

Wittgensteins writings on mathematics is essential toa proper understanding of his philosophy, and also that

it can do much to illuminate current debates about the

foundations of mathematics.

2008 | 280 pages

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978-0-19-823516-3, HARDBACK 63.00/$154.99Marion:Wittgenstein,Finitism, andthe FoundationsofMathematics


Wittgensteins

Private Language

Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination inPhilosophical Investigations, 243315

Stephen Mulhall, New

College, Oxford

This is an extremely

important book, written

in a style at once subtle and

nuanced as well as strikingly

compelling

Steven Hall, Philosophical

Investigations

it is hard to imagine a more

subtle, searching or sensitive

exploration of Wittgensteins

remarks on private language

Quassim Cassam, Times Literary Supplement

Stephen Mulhall offers a new way of interpreting

one of the most famous and contested texts in modern

philosophy: remarks on private language in

WittgensteinsPhilosophical Investigations. He sheds

new light on a central controversy concerning

Wittgensteins early work by showing its relevance

to a proper understanding of the later work.

2008 | 160 pages

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978-0-19-920854-8, HARDBACK 26.00/$45.00Mulhall:WittgensteinsPrivate Language

Describing Ourselves

Wittgenstein andAutobiographicalConsciousness

Garry Hagberg, University of East Anglia

Garry Hagberg presents an original philosophical

investigation of self-description. He explores the

profound implications that Wittgensteins later work

has for our understanding of the human condition, andoffers philosophical interpretations of a fascinating

range of autobiographical writings, by Goethe,

Dostoevsky, Iris Murdoch, and others. The topics

covered include competing conceptions of the human

self, of the nature of introspection, of self-observation

and perception, and of the self-defining role of memory

and retrospective change in self-understanding.

Throughout, a therapeutic, rather than a theory-

building, conception of philosophical progress is

both elucidated and employed in the interest of the

clarification of fundamental issues of the self and

self-understanding.

2008 | 288 pages

978-0-19-923422-6, HARDBACK 37.00/$70.00Hagberg:DescribingOurselves


Thoughts Footing

A Theme in WittgensteinsPhilosophical Investigations

Charles Travis, Kings College London

A stimulating and provocative book.

Alexander Miller, Mind

Thoughts Footingis an enquiry into the relationship

between the ways things are and the way we think and

talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgensteins

Philosophical Investigations.

March 2009 | 240 pages

978-0-19-956237-4, PAPERBACK 16.99/$35.00

978-0-19-929146-5, HARDBACK 36.00/$65.00Travis:ThoughtsFooting



Wittgensteins

Notes on Logic

Michael Potter,Cambridge University

This is the first book-

length study of

Wittgensteins first

philosophical work,

The Notes on Logic. Since

Wittgenstein is one of

the most important

figures in the history

of philosophy, and one of the

few who attracts the interest

of non-philosophers, the

book is likely to be of

unusually wide interest. Using a challenging

blend of biography and philosophy, it draws new

conclusions about the nature of the Notes, about

the genesis of the Tractatus (which draws onmaterial from them), and about Wittgensteins

highly individualistic working methods.

January 2009 | 336 pages

978-0-19-921583-6, HARDBACK 35.00/$70.00

suitable asa student text


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The God of MetaphysicsT. L. S. Sprigge, University of

Edinburgh (Emeritus)

this book offers a vast,

sprawling metaphysical

world in which to immerse

oneself. For all its disciplined

density of argumentation,

austerity of abstraction and

masterly intellectual control

it is vitally, passionately

personal and, curiously, both

diffident and breathtakingly

ambitious in what it

advocates.

Philosophy

Can philosophy offer reasonable grounds for theexistence of a God (or Absolute) possessing genuine

(even if not orthodox) religious significance and not

proposed simply as the solution to a purely intellectual

philosophical problem? Timothy Sprigge offers a

fascinating exploration of the metaphysical systems

of a diverse range of philosophers, from Spinoza and

Hegel to T. H. Green and Josiah Royce, testing

objections to what might be called metaphysical

religion against the systems of these distinguished

thinkers. In the process, Sprigge offers a compelling

new defence of a highly unfashionable Idealist

worldview.

2008 | 608 pages

978-0-19-954929-0, PAPERBACK 25.00/$50.00

978-0-19-928304-0, HARDBACK 68.00/$125.00Sprigge:TheGodofMetaphysics


Paradox and Platitudein Wittgensteins

Philosophy

David Pears, University of

Oxford (Emeritus)

This book is a subtle and

scholarly work. Any student

of Wittgenstein can expect

to profit from a careful

study of it.

Arif Ahmed, Mind

[A] masterly account

Quassim Cassam, Times

Literary Supplement

Paradox and Platitude in Wittgensteins Philosophy is a

concise and readable study of five intertwined themesat the heart of Wittgensteins thought, written by one

of his most eminent interpreters. David Pears offers

penetrating investigations and lucid explications of

some of the most influential and yet puzzling writings

of twentieth-century philosophy. He focuses on the idea

of language as a picture of the world; the phenomenon

of linguistic regularity; the famous private language

argument; logical necessity; and ego and the self.

200 8 | 152 p ag es

978-0-19-955050-0, PAPERBACK 10.99/$22.95

978-0-19-924770-7, HARDBACK 29.00/$45.00Pears:Paradoxand Platitudein WittgensteinsPhilosophy


Elucidating the Tractatus

Wittgensteins Early Philosophy

of Logic and Language

Marie McGinn, University of York

Not only did I learn a great deal from this book, but

reading it was also a pleasure.

Oskari Kuusela, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Marie McGinn provides a clear, comprehensive, and

original interpretation of Wittgensteins Tractatus

and of its relation to Wittgensteins later work. The

Tractatus is one of the most famous works of early

analytic philosophy, the interpretation of which has

always been a matter for controversy and is currently

the focus for an important philosophical debate.


978-0-19-956824-6, PAPERBACK 18.99/$40.00

978-0-19-924444-7, HARDBACK 44.00/$99.00McGinn:Elucidatingthe Tractatus


Propositions, Functions, and Analysis

Selected Essays on Russells Philosophy

Peter Hylton, University of Illinois, Chicago

The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence

on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its

subsequent development. The prize-winning Russell

scholar Peter Hylton presents here some of his most

celebrated essays from the last two decades, all of

which strive to recapture and articulate Russells

monumental vision. Relating his work to that of other

philosophers, particularly Frege and Wittgenstein, and

featuring a previously unpublished essay and a helpful

new introduction, the volume will be essential for

anyone engaged with the history of twentieth-century

ideas.

2008 | 240 pages

978-0-19-954362-5, PAPERBACK 17.99/$35.00

978-0-19-928635-5, HARDBACK 44.00/$75.00Hylton:Propositions,Functions, andAnalysis


An Essay on Philosophical Method

R EV IS ED EDIT I ON

R. G. Collingwood

Edited byJames Connelly, Sothampton Solent

University, and Giuseppina DOro, Keele University

This extremely handsome and well-produced new

edition of theEssay on Philosophical Method is a welcome

and very worthy addition to the series of books ofCollingwoods writings currently being published by

Oxford University Press.

Rex Martin, Collingwood and British

Idealism Studies

James Connelly and Giuseppina DOro present a new

edition of R. G. Collingwoods classic work of 1933,

supplementing the original text with important related

writings from Collingwoods manuscripts which

appear here for the first time. The editors also

contribute a substantial new introduction. The volume

will be welcomed by all historians of twentieth-century

philosophy.

2008 | 496 pages

978-0-19-954493-6, PAPERBACK 26.00/$50.00

978-0-19-928087-2, HARDBACK 75.00/$145.00Collingwood:An Essayon PhilosophicalMethod

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The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe

Roger Teichmann, St Hildas College, Oxford

The book is the first major study of the philosophy ofElizabeth Anscombe (19192001), who as well as being a

friend and student of Wittgensteins (and his main English translator) was an

extremely important philosopher in her own right, of international standing. She

wrote over a wide range of topics, and the book reflects this, aiming to present a

unified overview of her substantial oeuvre, and in particular bringing out the

interconnections among her ideas. Anscombe wrote two monographs and

numerous articles, including many classics; the most famous of these are

discussed, but so are a number of less well known pieces.

200 8 | 256 p ag es

978-0-19-929933-1, HARDBACK 47.00/$90.00

Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy

Essays for P. M. S. Hacker

Edited byHans-Johann Glock, University of Zurich, andJohn Hyman, Universityof Oxford

Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgensteins work,

a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a

distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. Thirteen leading philosophers

and Wittgenstein scholars offer specially written essays in honour of Hacker.

Their contributions deal with a variety of themes associated with Wittgenstein.

Contributors:John Canfield, John Cottingham, Jonathan Dancy, John Dupr,

Anthony Kenny, Wolfgang Knne, Avishai Margalit, Stephen Mulhall, Bede Rundle,

Severin Schroeder, Joachim Schulte, David Wiggins.


978-0-19-921323-8, HARDBACK 40.00/$85.00

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