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2020
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition

A Noble but Flawed Ideal
Martha C. Nussbaum
“Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum
deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers.”
—Globe and Mail

“At a time of growing national chauvinism, Nussbaum’s excellent

restatement of the cosmopolitan tradition is a welcome and much-
needed contribution...Illuminating and thought-provoking.”
—Lior Erez,Times Higher Education
Belknap Press 320 pp. $27.95 • £22.95 cloth 9780674052499

Reconstructing Democracy
How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up
Charles Taylor • Patrizia Nanz • Madeleine Beaubien Taylor
“This is an urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic
belonging in our troubled times. In their theorizing of democracy
as a resonant dynamic of local engagements, civic practices,
and forms of collective agency, Charles Taylor, Patrizia Nanz,
and Madeleine Beaubien Taylor offer robust philosophical and
empirical solutions to the deep need for reestablishing a sense
of trust in citizen participation and solidarity.”
—Davide Panagia, author of The Political Life of Sensation
120 pp. $14.95 • £11.95 cloth 9780674244627

Magic and the Dignity of Man

Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory
Brian P. Copenhaver
“Erudite, original, and eloquent...The book reinterprets one of
the most prominent thinkers of the Italian Renaissance in ways
that will be widely discussed. No future interpretation of Pico’s
life or work, no future reading of Renaissance philosophy, will be
able to avoid engaging with it.”
—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

“A must-read for anyone, especially historians of philosophy

and intellectual historians, interested in the larger significance
of the Renaissance.”
—James Hankins, Harvard University
Belknap Press 22 illus. 704 pp.
$55.00 • £44.95 cloth 9780674238268

Cover art: ©Juj Winn/Getty Images

Who Needs a World View?

Raymond Geuss
“Geuss has undertaken in recent years to resuscitate the
genre of the classical philosophical essay, and he has by
now made himself an absolute master of it. This is abundantly
evident in his new collection of essays, which takes us on a
vertiginous and often exhilarating journey that easily passes
from Homer to the present in pursuit of his leading question,
‘Who needs a world view?’”
—Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley
3 illus. 208 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674245938

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The Logical Alien

Conant and His Critics
Edited by Sofia Miguens
“An exceptionally interesting and original work—one that is not so
much an outstanding contribution to some ‘field’ within philosophy
as a work capable of reshaping what one takes philosophy to be.”
—Cora Diamond, author of Reading Wittgenstein
with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics

“These pages are filled with nuances in conceptual clarification,

a wealth of philosophical distinctions, and a level of rigor in
philosophical reflection that is rarely found on our philosophical
planet. This book will hold a singular place in the contemporary
philosophical landscape.”
—Andrea Kern, author of Sources of Knowledge
1080 pp. $59.95 • £47.95 cloth 9780674335905

Theory of the Gimmick

Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
Sianne Ngai
“A masterpiece...It is a major advance in aesthetic theory, and Marxist
theory in particular, one that could help us all get over our Frankfurt
melancholy and down to the garrulous work of actually naming the
dynamics that produce art and artistic judgment under capitalism.”
—Christopher Nealon, author of The Matter of Capital
Belknap Press 38 photos, 4 illus. 416 pp.
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674984547

Automation and Utopia

Human Flourishing in a World without Work
John Danaher
“This is philosophy of technology at its best! Exquisitely clear,
unflinchingly fair, and refreshingly original, Automation and
Utopia is especially timely and important.”
—Evan Selinger, Rochester Institute of Technology

“With the precision of analytical philosophy and accessible, confident

prose, Automation and Utopia demonstrates yet again why Danaher is
one of our most important pathfinders to a flourishing future.”
—James Hughes, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
13 illus., 2 tables 336 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 cloth 9780674984240

A Spirit of Trust
A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology
Robert B. Brandom
“Aspires to do for Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit what
Strawson’s The Bounds of Sense did for Kant’s The Critique
of Pure Reason: to transpose a seminal work of German Idealism
into the terminological idiom and argumentative key of
anglophone analytic philosophy—not only to render a past
classic newly available to the present, but to transform the
philosophical present through such a re-inheritance of its past.”
—James Conant, University of Chicago
Belknap Press 18 illus., 3 tables 856 pp.
$45.00 • £36.95 cloth 9780674976818

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On the Shoulders of Giants

Umberto Eco
translated by Alastair McEwen

“Like a collection of TED talks on philosophy and literary history,

these 12 dazzling texts explore grand themes of intellectual curiosity
such as beauty, secrecy, the invisible, and the sacred.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Delightful…Eco’s remarks on such broad topics as ‘Beauty’ and

‘Ugliness,’ ‘Some Revelations on Secrecy,’ and ‘Representations
of the Sacred’ reveal his astonishingly wide range of interests.”
—Publishers Weekly
Belknap Press 336 pp.
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On Not Being Someone Else

Tales of Our Unled Lives
Andrew H. Miller
“Miller is charming company, both humanly and intellectually. He
is onto something: the theme of unled lives, and the fascinating
idea that fiction intensifies the sense of provisionality that attends
all lives. An extremely attractive book.”
—James Wood

“Reminds us just how alluring and confounding our singularity is

and how, through literature, we make sense of being ourselves.
To be someone—to be anyone—is about being someone and not
being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly
compelling about this, and about so much else.”
—Adam Phillips, author of One Way and Another
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Home in America
On Loss and Retrieval
Thomas Dumm
“Thomas Dumm has endowed new intellectual life in the politics of
location. This is a wise, sensitive, poetic, and relentlessly thought-
ful inquiry into the meanings of being at home today. Among other
things, it offers a convincing and elaborate answer to Adorno’s old
assertion that the highest form of morality involves systematic es-
trangement from the possibility of feeling at home in your own home.”
—Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic
Belknap Press 320 pp. $35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674057715

Smellosophy
What the Nose Tells the Mind
A. S. Barwich
“This is the book on perception we have been waiting for: a
scientifically-informed and philosophically astute treatment
of our elusive sense of smell. A. S. Barwich skillfully guides
us through the history of its study, recent discoveries, and
philosophical theorizing about smell, and, in doing so, makes
a significant contribution to all three.”
—Barry C. Smith, Centre for the Study of the Senses,
University of London
8 photos, 9 illus., 1 table 384 pp.
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674983694

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The Theology of Liberalism

Political Philosophy and the Justice of God
Eric Nelson
★ An American Interest Favorite Book of the Year

“[One] of the best treatments imaginable of the context and

meaning of Rawls’s epoch-making book…Illuminating and original.”
—Samuel Moyn, Commonweal

“An excellent work, magnificently well done and provocative in

all the right ways.”
—Christopher Brooke, University of Cambridge
Belknap Press 232 pp. $29.95 • £23.95 cloth 9780674240940

Legitimacy
The Right to Rule in a Wanton World
Arthur Isak Applbaum
“Few words are more important in politics than ‘legitimacy,’ and few
are so flagrantly misused. Arthur Applbaum sets us straight, with an
exemplary display of philosophical clarity, passion, and insight. Once
you’ve read him, you will never misuse the word again.”
—Michael Ignatieff, President, Central European University
7 tables 304 pp. $39.95 • £31.95 cloth 9780674983465

N E W I N PA P E R

Mere Civility
Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
Teresa M. Bejan
★ A New Statesman Best Book of the Year
★ A Church Times Book of the Year

“Penetrating and sophisticated.”

—New York Times Book Review

“A deeply admirable book: original, persuasive, witty, and eloquent.

It is also admirably, bracingly, skeptical, in the best sense: the kind
of liberal skepticism that we associate in political theory with Judith
Shklar, Bernard Williams, and George Kateb.”
—Jacob T. Levy, Review of Politics
288 pp. $22.00 • £17.95 paper 9780674241640

N E W I N PA P E R

To Shape a New World

Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
edited by Tommie Shelby • Brandon M. Terry
“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us
through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most
enduring legacy.”
—New York Review of Books

“A compelling work of philosophy, all the more so because it treats

King seriously without inoculating him from the kind of critique
important to both his theory and practice.”
—Shivani Radhakrishnan, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Firmly situates Dr. King in the canon of American political thought...

This is a must-read in our time.”
—Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University
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The Enigma of Reason
Hugo Mercier • Dan Sperber
“Brilliant…Turns reason’s weaknesses into
strengths, arguing that its supposed flaws
are actually design features that work
remarkably well…Timely and necessary.”
—Julian Baggini, Financial Times
“Especially timely as we struggle to make
sense of how it is that individuals and
communities persist in holding beliefs
that have been thoroughly discredited.”
—Science
10 photos, 7 illus., 2 tables 408 pp.
$18.95 North America only paper 9780674237827
The Limits of Blame
Rethinking Punishment and Responsibility
Erin I. Kelly
“Gives us a philosopher’s take on the concept
of criminal ‘guilt,’ on how easily we miss the
larger social context in which crime takes place,
and how we need to broaden our blame in order
to adjust our justice.”
—New Yorker
“This book has an elegant humanity that is missing
in many discussions of punishment...The Limits
of Blame is a model for philosophers who aim to
engage with the criminal justice system.”
—Victor Tadros, University of Warwick
1 photo 240 pp.
$35.00 • £28.95 cloth 9780674980778
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Critique of Forms of Life
Rahel Jaeggi
translated by Ciaran Cronin
“Jaeggi combines…phenomenological attention to
lived experience and an eye for social detail… She
binds that together with a shrewd grasp of critical
theory and the philosophical landscape of the pres-
ent. Her footnotes alone would make a good book.”
—Terry Pinkard, European Journal of Philosophy
Belknap Press 1 table 416 pp.
$45.00 • £36.95 cloth 9780674737754
Thinking and Being
Irad Kimhi
“To his admirers, Kimhi is a hidden giant, a profound
thinker…Strives to do a lot in a short space, aiming
to overthrow views about logic and metaphysics
that have prevailed in philosophy for a century.”
—New York Times Book Review
“This book is the most rewarding text by a
living author that I have read in years. Kimhi
is a philosopher of the highest caliber.”
—Sebastian Rödl, University of Leipzig
2 tables 176 pp.
$41.00 • £32.95 cloth 9780674967892
As If
Idealization and Ideals
Kwame Anthony Appiah
“Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable
range… [He] has packed into this short book
an impressive amount of original reflection…
A rich and illuminating book.”
—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of Books
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also a first-rate analytic philosopher.”
—Thomas Kelly, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
240 pp. $12.95 • £10.95 paper 9780674237711
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What We Owe to Each Other

T. M. Scanlon
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What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Pierre Hadot
translated by Michael Chase

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Intention Self and Soul Changing the Subject The Consolation

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A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
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The Ethics of The Language Our Aesthetic How to Do Things

Authenticity Animal Categories with Words
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A Theory of Justice
Original Edition
John Rawls
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“The most substantial and interesting contribution to moral philosophy

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