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| ABORTION [Ian Shapiro] Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart, this volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion -- as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality opinions -- carefully edited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of disciplines. In his introductory essay, Shapiro sets these cases in political, historical, and philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the main issues in the constitutional law of abortion are likely to be in the future. { 296pp, 140x215mm, December 2007; HB, £29.95, 0872209040:9780872209046 / PB, £11.95, 0872209032:9780872209039 , Hippocrene Books } |
| ABORTION : A Dialogue [Selmer Bringsjord] At a coffe-house near the United States Supreme Court, a male lawyer ('pro-choice'), a female pediatrician ('pro-life'), and a moderator who calls himself a 'proselytising agnostic' embark on an extensive exploration of issues central to the abortion debate. Vigorously demonstrating the relevance of reasoning to important moral problems, the participants resist the temptations of strident emotional appeal in an effort to present the most honourable and intellectually sophisticated sides to their arguments. This effort leads them to consideration of antebellum slavery, to a comparison of the notions of absolute truth in ethics versus mathematics, and to constructive discussions of genetics, artificial intelligence, euthanasia, personal identity, human sexuality, and Roe v Wade. A perfect primer or literary supplement for courses involving topical ethics, and a potent stimulant for classroom discussion. { 74pp, 135x215mm, November 1997; PB, £4.45, 0872203662:9780872203662 / HB, £19.95, 0872203670:9780872203679 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ABOUT LOVE : Reinventing Romance for Our Times [Robert C Solomon] A reprint of the 1994 Rowman & Littlefield edition. 'About Love' is a refreshingly reasonable and engagingly readable study of the phenomenon of romantic love. Offering insightful observations from a broad range of sources -- literary, historical, and personal -- Robert Solomon explores the crucial ingredients of time and sex in contemporary relationships and discusses whether love 'at first sight' is possible, and whether love that lasts a lifetime is probable. { 352pp, 140x215mm, October 2006; PB, £12.95, 0872208575:9780872208575 / HB, £32.00, 0872208583:9780872208582 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ACCOUNT, MUCH ABBREVIATED, OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES WITH RELATED TEXTS [Bartolome de las Casas] Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonisation of it. Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically foreshortens that 500 years by reversing the usual priority of a translation; rather than bring the Brevísima Relación to the reader, it brings the reader to the Brevísima Relación -- not as it is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of Related Readings offer further aids to a fresh appreciation of this foundational historical and literary work of the New World and European engagement with it. { 129pp, 140x215mm, November 2003; PB, £7.95, 0872206254:9780872206250 / HB, £24.95, 0872206262:9780872206267 , Hackett Publishing } |
| AENEID [Virgil; Translated by Stanley Lombardo] A classicist best known for his translations of Homer, Sappho, Hesiod, and Callimachus returns to Roman poetry, offering a resonant new Aeneid. { 355pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; PB, £7.95, 0872207315:9780872207318 / HB, £24.95, 0872207323:9780872207325 , Hackett Publishing } |
| AGAINST THE ACADEMICIANS & THE TEACHER [Augustine; Translated by Peter King] These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience in mind, and the first to be translated by a scholar with expertise in both modern epistemology and philosophy of language. { 208pp, 150x210mm, November 1995; PB, £9.95, 0872202127:9780872202122 / HB, £24.95, 0872202135:9780872202139 , Hackett Publishing } |
| AGRICOLA, GERMANY, & THE DIALOGUE OF ORATORS [Tacitus; Translated by Herbert W Benario] A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1991. Eminent scholar and translator, Herbert W Benario, provides a faithful, readable translation of these works, introductory essays, chapter summaries, and notes. A bibliography, maps, and an index are included. { 136pp, 155x230mm, April 2006; PB, £7.95, 0872208117:9780872208117 / HB, £24.95, 0872208125:9780872208124 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ALCESTIS, MEDEA, HIPPOLYTUS [Euripides; Translated by Diane A Svarlien] This volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes. { 206pp, 140x215mm, October 2007; PB, £6.95, 0872208222:9780872208223 / HB, £27.95, 0872208230:9780872208230 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ALEXANDER THE GREAT : Selections from Diodorous, Plutarch, Quintius Curtius, & Arrian [James Romm (ed); Translated by Pamela Mensch & James Romm] Comprised of relevant selections from the writings of four ancient historians, this volume provides a complete narrative of the important events in the life of Alexander the Great. The Introduction sets these works in historical context, from the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War through Alexander's conquest of Asia, and provides an assessment of Alexander's historical importance, as well as a survey of the central controversies surrounding his personality, aims and intentions. Includes a timeline, maps, bibliography, glossary, and index. { 193pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; PB, £7.95, 0872207277:9780872207271 / HB, £27.95, 0872207285:9780872207288 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANALECTS : With Selections From Traditional Commentaries [Edward Slingerland] This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entrée into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student edition, this volume also includes a general introduction, notes, multiple appendices -- including a glossary of technical terms, references to modern Western scholarship that point the way for further study, and an annotated bibliography. { 279pp, 155x230mm, October 2003; PB, £9.95, 0872206351:9780872206359 / HB, £27.95, 087220636X:9780872206366 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANAXIMANDER & THE ORIGINS OF GREEK COSMOLOGY [Charles H Kahn] In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with an inquiry into 'the nature of things' which included a theory of how the world order arose, how the heavens and earth were formed, and how human beings came into existence. Anaximander was the first thinker to propose a geometric model to explain the movement of the heavenly bodies; the cosmological ideas of his school provided the background for all ancient Greek views of the natural world. This new printing of the corrected Centrum printing of 1985 makes available again a work of value for students in classics, philosophy, literature, and the history of science. { January 1994; PB, £14.95, 0872202550:9780872202559 / HB, £29.95, 0872202569:9780872202566 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANNALS [Tacitus; Translated by A J Woodman] Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, and the principles of translation that have shaped this rendering. Includes extensive notes; political, military, and geographical appendices; imperial family trees; suggested further readings; maps; and index. { 412pp, 155x230mm, October 2004; PB, £10.95, 0872205584:9780872205581 / HB, £32.00, 0872205592:9780872205598 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANOTHER PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY & SELECTED POLITICAL WRITINGS [Johann Gottfried Herde; Translated with Introduction & Notes by Ioannis D Evrigenis & Daniel Pellerin] Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable translation of Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit, supplemented by some of Herder's other important writings on politics and history. The editors' insightful Introduction traces the role of Herder's thought in the evolution of nationalism and highlights its influence on fields such as history, anthropology, and politics. The volume is designed to give English-speaking readers more ready access to the thinker whom Isaiah Berlin called "the father of the related notions of nationalism, historicism, and Volksgeist." REVIEW: "The translation... is beautiful, precise, and eminently readable... I found the notes extremely helpful..." -- Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College, Columbia University. { 166pp, 140x215mm, March 2004; PB, £12.95, 0872207153:9780872207158 / HB, £32.00, 0872207161:9780872207165 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANTHOLOGY OF CLASSICAL MYTH : Primary Sources in Translation [Edited, with Introductions & Notes, by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R Scott Smith & Stephen Brunet] This volume is designed as a companion to the standard undergraduate mythology textbooks or, when assigned alongside the central Greek and Roman works, as a source-based alternative to those textbooks. In addition to the complete texts of the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony, this collection provides generous selections from over 50 texts composed between the Archaic Age and the fourth century AD. Ancient interpretation of myth is represented here in selections from the allegorists Heraclitus, Cornutus and Fulgentius, the rationalists Palaephatus and Diodorus of Sicily, and the philosophers and historians Plato, Herodotus and Thucydides. Appendices treat evidence from inscriptions, papyri and Linear B tablets and include a thematic index, a mythological dictionary, and genealogies. A thoughtful Introduction supports students working with the primary sources and the other resources offered here; an extensive note to instructors offers suggestions on how to incorporate this book into their courses. REVIEW: "This book is a treasure-trove. It will be hugely useful to instructors teaching any level of mythology course. Not only does it provide, under one cover, good translations of the two complete books essential to every course (Theogony; Homeric Hymns), it also offers hundreds of pages of additional primary material... No other book in English offers such a wide range of well-translated and important sources..." – Richard Martin, Stanford University. "I am astonished by the simplicity of the idea, and, at the same time, the complexity of the effort, that joined to produce this outstanding work... the organization is impeccable and the selection is provocative..." – Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico. { 517pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £12.95, 0872207218:9780872207219 / HB, £32.00, 0872207226:9780872207226 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ANTIGONE [Sophocles; Translated, with Introduction & Notes by Paul Woodruff] ''I would call the register 'restrained colloquial'. The language ranges between the straightforward and the genuinely poetic, its dominant characteristic being freshness. This is not the usual dull translationese, which reads as if the original were not in a language people once spoke and wrote and created art with... One of the most effective styles I have seen in a translation.'' -- Reader's report. Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. { 128pp, 135x215mm, October 2001; PB, £4.45, 0872205711:9780872205710 / HB, £19.95, 087220572X:9780872205727 , Hackett Publishing } |
| APOLLODORUS' LIBRARY & HYGINUS' FABULAE : Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology [Apollodorus & Hyginus; Translated by Stephen Trzaskoma & R Scott Smith] By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae -- the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography -- this volume enables readers to compare the two’s versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included. { 247pp, 155x230mm, April 2007; PB, £8.95, 0872208206:9780872208209 / HB, £27.95, 0872208214:9780872208216 , Hackett Publishing } |
| APOLOGY FOR RAYMOND SEBOND [Montaigne; Translated by Roger Ariew & Marjorie Grene] Under the pretence of defending an obscure treatise by a Catalan theologian, Montaigne attacks the philosophers who attempt rational explanations of the universe and argues for a sceptical Christianity based squarely on faith rather than reason. The result is the Apology for Raymond Sebond, a classic of Counter-Reformation thought and a masterpiece of Renaissance literature. This new translation achieves both accuracy and fluency, conveying at once the nuances of Montaigne's arguments and his distinctive literary style. { 164pp, 140x215mm, October 2003; PB, £7.95, 0872206793:9780872206793 / HB, £24.95, 0872206807:9780872206809 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ARTHUR MERVYN; OR, MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR 1793 : With Related Texts [Charles Brockden Brown; Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Barnard & Stephen Shapiro] An influential classic of American gothic and urban literature, Charles Brockden Brown's "Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793" (1799-1800) memorialises the epic Philadelphia Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 and connects it to the upheavals of the revolutionary era and the murderous financial networks of Atlantic slavery. This edition of Brown's widely-read novel offers selections from key contemporary texts -- including Richard Allen and Absalom Jones' Narrative (1794) defending the city's Free Black community, Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768), 1790s abolitionist tracts by members of Brown's circle, and popular poetry on the slave trade and imperial commerce -- as well as excerpts from Brown's own writings on slavery, race, and the uses of history in fiction. { 442pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; HB, £35.00, 0872209229:9780872209220 / PB, £12.95, 0872209210:9780872209213 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BACCHAE [Euripides; Translated by Paul Woodruff] This translation is intended primarily for classroom use. It is aimed first of all at being clear and true to the basic meaning of the text. After that Paul Woodruff has tried to bring across some of the beauty of poetry given the chorus as well as the rhetorical power and cleverness of the dialogue and speeches. The translation of this play through manuscript is unusually troublesome; many lines seem to have fallen out during copying and storage over the centuries and many errors have been introduced Although the author has supplied a few lines to fill small gaps where the meaning is obvious, he has not devised speeches to make up for the lost passages at the end; instead the author has included an appendix with the main evidence that pertains to them. { 82pp, 140x215mm, November 1998; PB, £4.45, 0872203921:9780872203921 / HB, £19.95, 087220393X:9780872203938 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BASIC WRITINGS [Anselm. Translated by Thomas Williams] Ranging from his early treatises, the Monologion (a work written to show his monks how to meditate on the divine essence) and the Proslogion (best known for its advancement of the so-called ontological argument for the existence of God), to his three philosophical dialogues on metaphysical topics such as the relationship between freedom and sin, and late treatises on the Incarnation and salvation, this collection of Anselm's essential writings will be a boon to students of the history of philosophy and theology as well as to anyone interested in examining what Anselm calls "the reason of faith". { 428pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £9.95, 0872208958:9780872208957 / HB, £29.00, 0872208966:9780872208964 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BASIC WRITINGS OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS, 2-VOLUME SET [Anton C Pegis (ed)] The two volumes that comprise this set may also be purchased separately: please see their individual listings. Includes the whole of the First Part of the Summa Theologica and substantial selections from the Second Part and the Summa Contra Gentiles. Pegis' revision and correction of the English Dominican Translation renders Aquinas' technical terminology consistently as it conveys the directness and simplicity of Aquinas' writing; the introduction, notes, and index aim at giving the text its proper historical setting, and the reader the means of studying St Thomas within that setting. { 145x215mm, January 1997; PB, £57.00, 0872203840:9780872203846 / HB, £115.00, 0872203859:9780872203853 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BASIC WRITINGS OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS, VOLUME 1 [Anton C Pegis (ed)] This volume is part one of a two-volume set. It may be purchased separately or in conjunction with volume two. Includes the whole of the First Part of the Summa Theologica. Pegis's revision and correction of the English Dominican Translation renders Aquinas' technical terminology consistently as it conveys the directness and simplicity of Aquinas' writing; the Introduction, notes, and index aim at giving the text its proper historical setting, and the reader the means of studying St Thomas within that setting. { 151pp, 145x215mm, November 1997; PB, £29.95, 0872203808:9780872203808 / HB, £60.00, 0872203816:9780872203815 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BASIC WRITINGS OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS, VOLUME 2 [Anton C Pegis (ed)] This volume is part two of a two-volume set. It may be purchased separately or in conjunction with volume one. Includes substantial selections from the Second Part of the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. Pegis's revision and correction of the English Dominican Translation renders Aquinas' technical terminology consistently as it conveys the directness and simplicity of Aquinas' writing; the Introduction, notes, and index aim at giving the text its proper historical setting, and the reader the means of studying St. Thomas within that setting. { 211pp, 145x215mm, November 1997; PB, £29.95, 0872203824:9780872203822 / HB, £60.00, 0872203832:9780872203839 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BEFORE & AFTER HEGEL : A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought [Tom Rockmore] In this engaging and accessible introduction to Hegel's theory of knowledge, Tom Rockmore presents the philosopher's ideas the way Hegel himself saw them: as coming to grips with, even competing with, prior philosophical positions. Carefully laying out the philosophical tradition of German idealism, he concisely explicates the theories of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling, essential to an understanding of Hegel's thought. Rockmore shows how Hegel first formulates his own position in relation to the philosophical discussion of his own historical moment, before extending the discussion, in a second phase, to the entire historical tradition. The Hegelian system, according to Rockmore, remains an essentially modern conception of knowledge, surprisingly relevant to our contemporary intellectual situation. Rockmore's remarkably lucid book will interest general readers as well as students of philosophy, intellectual history, politics, culture, and society. { 212pp, 140x215mm, March 2003; PB, £9.95, 0872206475:9780872206472 / HB, £29.95, 0872206483:9780872206489 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BEOWULF : A New Translation for Oral Delivery [Translated by Dick Ringler] This new translation of 'Beowulf' captures the rhythm and movement of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid Modern English style and relatively simple vocabulary. The resulting text provides an approximation of the acoustic features -- and power -- of the original and is suitable for reading either silently or aloud. This edition also includes a substantial Introduction and translations of three shorter Old English poems that shed light on 'Beowulf'. { 188pp, 140x215mm, October 2007; PB, £6.95, 0872208931:9780872208933 / HB, £24.95, 087220894X:9780872208940 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BETWEEN KANT & HEGEL : Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism [Translated by George di Giovanni & H S Harris] This volume fills a lamentable gap in the philosophical literature by providing a collection of writings from the pivotal generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. It includes some of Hegel's earliest critical writings -- which reveals much about his thinking before the first mature exposition of his position in 1807 -- as well as Schelling's justification of the new philosophy of nature against sceptical and religious attack. This edition contains George di Giovanni's extensive corrections, new preface, and updated bibliography. { 456pp, 135x215mm, April 2000; PB, £14.95, 0872205045:9780872205048 / HB, £32.00, 0872205053:9780872205055 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BEYOND FREEDOM & DIGNITY [B F Skinner] In this profound and profoundly controversial work, a landmark of 20th-century thought originally published in 1971, B F Skinner makes his definitive statement about humankind and society. The book urges us to re-examine the ideals we have taken for granted and to consider the possibility of a radically behaviourist approach to human problems -- one that has appeared to some incompatible with those ideals, but which envisions the building of a world in which humankind can attain its greatest possible achievements. { 234pp, 140x215mm, April 2002; PB, £6.95, 0872206270:9780872206274 / HB, £24.95, 0872206289:9780872206281 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BOOK OF DOCTRINES & BELIEFS [Saadya Gaon] Saadya ben Joseph al-Fayyumi (882-942), gaon (head) of the rabbinic academy at Sura and one of the pre-eminent Jewish thinkers of the medieval period, attempted to create a complete statement of Jewish religious philosophy in which all strands of philosophical thought were to be knit into a unified system. In 'The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs', Saadya sought to rescue believers from 'a sea of doubt and the waters of confusion' into which they had been cast by Christianity, Islam, and other faiths. By employing philosophical -- or kalamic -- argumentation to examine and defend traditional Jewish beliefs, Saadya hoped to turn blind faith into conviction based on rational understanding. First published in 1946, and reprinted here without alteration, Alexander Altmann's judicious abridgement of his own translation has remained the standard edition of this influential work. A new Introduction by Daniel Frank sets Saadya's work in its broader historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts. { 194pp, 140x215mm, September 2002; PB, £9.95, 0872206394:9780872206397 / HB, £27.95, 0872206408:9780872206403 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BOOK OF HER LIFE [Teresa of Avila; Translated, with Notes, by Kieran Kavanaugh OCD & Otilio Rodriguez OCD] "The Book of Her Life" is the spiritual autobiography of a Counter Reformation mystic and monastic reformer of sixteenth century Spain. Introduction by Jodi Bilinkoff. { 368pp, April 2008; PB, £7.95, 0872209075:9780872209077 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BUTTERFLY MOTHER : Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China [Translated by Mark Bender; Compiled by Jin Dan & Ma Xueliang] A collection of epics from the Miao (Hmong) ethnic group of southwest China. The poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of the world and the peoples and creatures in it. One of the major figures in one series of the songs is Butterfly Mother (Mai Bang), a personified butterfly who lays the eggs that eventually lead to the creation of the local peoples. Rich in cultural lore, these mythic narratives are virtual encyclopedias of traditional myths, legends, and folk customs of the Miao people. { 214pp, 140x215mm, October 2006; PB, £9.95, 0872208494:9780872208490 / HB, £29.95, 0872208508:9780872208506 , Hackett Publishing } |
| BYZANTINE PHILOSOPHY [Nicholas Moutafakis] Tatakis's classic historical account, which traces the evolution of Byzantine thought from the early sixth century to the fourteenth century, is the only work of its kind available in English. In addition to Tatakis's bibliographies, this edition includes a new thematic bibliography, a general bibliography of relevant works through the present, a name index, and a subject index. An invaluable resource for scholars and an accessible text for students, theologians, and anyone interested in the evolution of Eastern European thought. Translated from the 1940 French edition of Presses Universitaires de France. { 480pp, January 2003; HB, £49.00, 0872205630:9780872205635 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CANDIDE : And Related Writings [Voltaire; Translated by David Wootton] This lively new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding -- Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche -- and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was written, and of its place in Enlightenment though, than does any other edition. { 120pp, 150x210mm, September 2000; PB, £4.45, 0872205460:9780872205468 / HB, £19.95, 0872205479:9780872205475 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CANTERBURY TALES IN MODERN VERSE [Geoffrey Chaucer; Translated by Joe Glaser] This daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical. An Introduction treats Chaucer's works, influences, life, learning, and the world of 14th-century London. Includes a glossary. { 348pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £6.95, 0872207544:9780872207547 / HB, £22.95, 0872207552:9780872207554 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CARDINAL VIRTUES : Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, & Temperance [Thomas Aquinas; Translated & Edited, with Introduction, by Richard J Regan SJ] This newly translated and streamlined compilation of the texts on prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance from the Summa Theologica II-II follows the question-and-answer format of the original while omitting almost all appeals to authority. Minor objections and replies have also been omitted. A general Introduction to the moral thought of Thomas Aquinas, introductory notes on the texts, an extensive glossary of key terms, and a selective bibliography supplement the texts. { 172pp, 140x215mm, October 2005; PB, £7.95, 0872207455:9780872207455 / HB, £24.95, 0872207463:9780872207462 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CASTLE RACKRENT [Maria Edgeworth; Edited by Susan Kubica Howard] An edition of Maria Edgeworth's first novel, 'Castle Rackrent', originally published in 1800, with annotations, an Introduction and a bibliography. 'Castle Rackrent' tells the story of three generations of the Rackrent family from the perspective of their servant, Thady Quirk, during the middle of the eighteenth century in Ireland. { 87pp, 140x215mm, April 2007; PB, £5.95, 087220877X:9780872208773 / HB, £24.95, 0872208788:9780872208780 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CHINA : A History of the One of the World's Oldest Civilizations [Harold M Tanner] A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index. { ca448pp, April 2009; HB, £39.00, 0872209164:9780872209169 / PB, £17.95, 0872209156:9780872209152 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CICERO PRO CAELIO : Text in Latin, Commentary in English [Walter Englert] Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. The volumes in the series are modestly priced and remain in print indefinitely. The text in each volume is in either the original Greek or Latin, with grammatical and lexical commentary in English. { 80pp, 140x210mm, January 1990; PB, £8.50, 0929524659:9780929524658 , Hackett Publishing (Bryn Mawr Commentaries) } |
| CLASSICAL ARABIC PHILOSOPHY : An Anthology of Sources [Edited & Translated by Jon McGinnis & David C Reisman] This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields -- including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics -- to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included. REVIEW: "This book will make a major impact on the study, and especially the teaching, of Arabic philosophy. A major difficulty with this field has been the lack of any adequate textbook of sources... Reisman and McGinnis not only provide here a rich selection of texts that could be the basis for even a full-year course on Arabic thought, but also manage to translate several important works for the first time; they also include some standards that would probably be missed were they not here. It will no doubt become the standard anthology used in courses on Arabic philosophy, and I will use it this way myself. The team of McGinnis and Reisman is an ideal one... All in all, this project is to be greeted with immense enthusiasm." -- Peter Adamson, King's College London. "This is a very fine, well conceived collection of philosophical materials that display the intellectual rigor, power, and insights of the thinkers of the Arabic tradition... The Introduction is written at a level appropriate for undergraduates and graduate students... Teachers not expert in the area will find it valuable as a guide for their students... far superior to anything currently available. It is suitable for adoption not only for courses in Arabic philosophy but also for any general courses in medieval philosophy." -- Richard C Taylor, Marquette University. { 426pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £19.95, 0872208710:9780872208711 / HB, £45.00, 0872208729:9780872208728 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CLASSICAL UTILITARIANS [Jeremy Bentham & John Stuart Mill; Edited & with an Introduction by John Troyer] This volume includes the complete texts of two of John Stuart Mill's most important works, UTILITARIANISM and ON LIBERTY, and selections from his other writings, including the complete text of his REMARKS ON BENTHAM'S PHILOSOPHY. The selection from Mill's A SYSTEM OF LOGIC is of special relevance to the debate between those who read Mill as an Act-Utilitarian and those who interpret him as a Rule-Utilitarian. Also included are selections from the writings of Jeremy Bentham, founder of modern Utilitarianism and mentor (together with James Mill) of John Stuart Mill. Bentham's PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION had important effects on political and legal reform in his own time and continues to provide insights for political theorists and philosophers of law. Seven chapters of Bentham's Principles are here in their entirety, together with a number of shorter selections, including one in which Bentham repudiates the slogan often used to characterise his philosophy: THE GREATEST HAPPINESS OF THE GREATEST NUMBER. John Troyer's Introduction presents the central themes and arguments of Bentham and Mill and assesses their relevance to current discussions of Utilitarianism. The volume also provides indexes, a glossary, and notes. { 281pp, 140x215mm, March 2003; PB, £7.95, 0872206491:9780872206496 / HB, £24.95, 0872206505:9780872206502 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CLASSICS OF MORAL & POLITICAL THEORY, 4TH EDITION [Michael L Morgan (ed)] This 4th edition widens the breadth, depth, and appeal of this collection by featuring Paul Woodruff’s translation of Sophocles’ 'Antigone', Rodney Livingstone’s translation of Weber’s 'Politics as a Vocation', and selections from Mill’s 'The Subjection of Women'; in addition Reeve’s new translations of Plato’s 'Republic' (rendered into direct dialogue), 'Apology', 'Crito', and the death scene from the 'Phaedo' replace the translations of these works currently in use. { 1249pp, 190x235mm, February 2006; PB, £25.95, 0872207765:9780872207769 / HB, £42.00, 0872207773:9780872207776 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CLASSICS OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, 7TH EDITION [Steven M Cahn (ed)] The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' Enneads, Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, Husserl's Paris Lectures, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and a new selection from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Selections from Aristotle's Metaphysics and On the Soul have been expanded, while Aristotle's Physics and Nicomachean Ethics, Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Mill's On Liberty, and Russell's The Problem of Philosophy have been further abridged. In all, the new edition presents complete texts or substantial selections from fifty-six philosophical masterpieces, in pre-eminent and thoughtfully annotated translations and editions, with introductions by a team of distinguished scholars including Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Richard Bett, Steven Cahn, Charles Guignon, Kathleen Higgins, Patricia Kitcher, Philip W. Kitcher, William Mann, Derek Pereboom, Ruth Anna Putnam, Israel Scheffler, David Shatz, George Sher, David Sherman, Jonathan Vogel, Meredith Williams, and Michael Williams. { 1237pp, 185x235mm, July 2007; PB, £26.95, 0872208591:9780872208599 / HB, £52.00, 0872208605:9780872208605 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CLOUDS [Aristophanes; Translated by Peter Meineck] This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguished this edition of a play famous for its caricature of Socrates and of the 'new learning'. { 160pp, 135x215mm, April 2000; PB, £5.45, 0872205169:9780872205161 / HB, £14.95, 0872205177:9780872205178 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CLOUDS, WASPS, BIRDS, VOLUME 1 [Aristophanes; Translated by Peter Meineck] Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his Clouds "The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere." and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps as "Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny." A general introduction, introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history, religious practice and myth combine to make this a remarkably useful teaching text. { 417pp, 135x215mm, December 1998; PB, £8.95, 0872203603:9780872203600 / HB, £29.95, 0872203611:9780872203617 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COLOR FOR PHILOSOPHERS : Unweaving the Rainbow [C L Hardin; Foreword by Arthur Danto] Awarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This expanded edition of C L Hardin's ground-breaking work on colour features a new chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision, and brings to bear new data on individual variability in colour perception. { 244pp, 150x230mm, January 1988; PB, £12.95, 0872200396:9780872200395 / HB, £27.95, 087220040X:9780872200401 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COMEDIES OF MACHIAVELLI : The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia (Bilingual Edition) [Niccolo Machiavelli; Edited & translated by David Sices & James B Atkinson] This volume of sparkling translations -- 'The Woman From Andros', Machiavelli's version of Terence's classic comedy; 'The Mandrake', the earliest and perhaps greatest Italian theatrical classic of all; and 'Clizia', a work inspired by Plautus' 'Casin' -- brings to life in English plays whose racy vernacular language, subtle characterisation, and innovative dramatic construction preceded Shakespeare's establishment of English-speaking theatrical comedy by more than a half century. { 408pp, 140x215mm, October 2007; PB, £12.95, 0872209016:9780872209015 / HB, £34.00, 0872209024:9780872209022 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S POLITICS [Thomas Aquinas; Translated, with a Preface by Richard J Regan] The first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas unfinished commentary on Aristotle's Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and moreover reproduces in English those passages of William of Moerbeke's famously accurate yet elliptical translation of the Politics from which Aquinas worked. Bekker numbers have been added to passages from Moerbeke's translation for easy reference. { 214pp, 140x215mm, April 2007; PB, £12.95, 0872208699:9780872208698 / HB, £38.00, 0872208702:9780872208704 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COMPANION TO PLATO'S REPUBLIC [Nicholas White] In a passage-by-passage analysis of the complete Republic, White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the interconnections among its elements, and the train of thought that motivates its philosophical reasoning. He summarises each of its ten books and provides explanatory and interpretative notes. { 283pp, 150x210mm, January 1979; PB, £8.95, 0915144921:9780915144921 / HB, £24.95, 0915144565:9780915144563 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COMPLETE POEMS & MAJOR PROSE [John Milton & Merritt Y Hughes (ed)] First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. { 1059pp, 155x230mm, July 2003; HB, £43.00, 0872206785:9780872206786 , Hackett Publishing } |
| COMPLETE WORKS [Plato; Edited by John M Cooper] Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars -- many commissioned especially for this volume -- are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and offers guidance on approaching the reading and study of Plato's works. Also included are concise introductions to each translation, meticulous annotation designed to serve both scholar and general reader, and a comprehensive index. This handsome volume offers fine paper and a high-quality Smyth-sewn cloth binding in a sturdy elegant edition. { 1808pp, 160x235mm, May 1997; HB, £33.00, 0872203492:9780872203495 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CONFESSIONS, 2ND EDITION [Augustine; Translated by F J Sheed; Introduction by Peter Brown; Notes by Michael Foley] The second Hackett edition of the Sheed translation, a classic in its own right, offers a wealth of notes on philosophical, theological, historical, and liturgical issues raised by the Confessions, as well as paragraph numbers of the Latin critical edition, and a thorough index. { 345pp, 155x230mm, February 2007; PB, £6.95, 0872208168:9780872208162 / HB, £19.95, 0872208176:9780872208179 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CONFUCIAN MORAL SELF CULTIVATION : Second Edition [Philip J Ivanhoe] A revision of the Peter Lang edition of 1993. A concise and accessible introduction to the evolution of the concept of moral self-cultivation in the Chinese Confucian tradition, this volume begins with an explanation of the pre-philosophical development of ideas central to this concept, followed by an examination of the specific treatment of self cultivation in the philosophy of Kongzi ('Confucius'), Mengzi ('Mencius'), Xunzi, Zhu Xi, Wang Yangmig, Yan Yuan and Dai Zhen. In addition to providing a survey of fundamental importance to the tradition, Ivanhoe also relates their concern with moral self-cultivation to a number of topics in the Western ethical tradition. Bibliography and index are included. { 152pp, 135x215mm, April 2000; PB, £8.50, 0872205088:9780872205086 / HB, £27.95, 0872205096:9780872205093 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CAUSES OF THE GREATNESS OF THE ROMANS & THEIR DECLINE [Montesquieu; Translated by David Lowenthal] REVIEW: "It is wonderful to have David Lowenthal's splendid translation of Montesquieu's Considerations on the Causes of The Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline back in print. This neglected masterpiece deserves attention from all who are concerned with self-government -- whether their focus is on its history or on its prospects in our own time." -- Paul A Rahe, Jay P Walker Professor of History, University of Tulsa. { 243pp, 135x215mm, November 1999; PB, £11.95, 0872204960:9780872204966 / HB, £29.95, 0872204979:9780872204973 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY [Boethius; Translated by Joel Relihan] REVIEW: "A strongly literary approach that other translations have tended to obscure or ignore..." -- Practical Philosophy, Spring 2002. ''Entirely faithful to Boethius' Latin; it makes the philosophy of the Consolation intelligible to students; it gives equal weight to the poetry -- in fact, Relihan's metrical translation of Boethius' metra are themselves contributions of the first moment to Boethian studies. Boethius finally has a translator equal to his prodigious talents and his manifold vision.''-- Joseph Pucci, Brown University. { 240pp, 135x215mm, October 2001; PB, £9.95, 0872205835:9780872205833 / HB, £29.95, 0872205843:9780872205840 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CORRESPONDENCE [G W Leibniz & Samuel Clarke; Edited by Roger Ariew] For this new edition, Roger Ariew has adapted Samuel Clarke's edition of 1717, modernising it to reflect contemporary English usage. Ariew's introduction places the correspondence in historical context and discusses the vibrant philosophical climate of the times. Appendices provide those selections from the works of Newton that Clarke frequently refers to in the correspondence. { 112pp, 150x210mm, March 2000; PB, £7.95, 087220524X:9780872205246 / HB, £22.95, 0872205258:9780872205253 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CRATYLUS [Plato; Translated by C D C Reeve] The Cratylus, Plato's sole dialogue devoted to the relation between language and reality, is acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces. But owing to its often enigmatic content no more than a handful of passages from it have played a part in the global evaluation of Plato's philosophy. This new English translation by C D C Reeve is the first since 1926, and incomparably the most helpful and accessible now available. It opens up the Cratylus to all philosophically interested readers, as well as to cultural historians and to those whose primary concern is the history of linguistics. The full and lucid introduction does much to illuminate the internal dynamic of this important text and to explain its place within Plato's oeuvre. { 160pp, 150x210mm, November 1998; PB, £10.95, 0872204162:9780872204164 / HB, £24.95, 0872204170:9780872204171 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT [Immanuel Kant; Translated by Werner S Pluhar; Foreword by Mary J Gregor] In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain natural phenomena as beautiful, says Kant, when we recognise in nature a harmonious order that satisfies the mind's own need for order. The second half of the critique concentrates on the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms. Kant argues that our minds are inclined to see purpose and order in nature and this is the main principle underlying all of our judgements. Although this might imply a super sensible Designer, Kant insists that we cannot prove a supernatural dimension or the existence of God. Such considerations are beyond reason and are solely the province of faith. { 576pp, 160x235mm, January 1987; PB, £15.95, 0872200256:9780872200258 / HB, £34.95, 0872200264:9780872200265 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON [Werner S Pluhar] With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the standards set in his widely respected translations of the Critique of Judgement (1987) and the Critique of Pure Reason (1996). { 284pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; PB, £10.95, 0872206173:9780872206175 / HB, £29.95, 0872206181:9780872206182 , Hackett Publishing } |
| CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON [Immanuel Kant] Eric Watkin's abridgement of Werner Pluhar's masterful translation makes an ideal introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Key selections include the Preface in B, the introduction, the Transcendental Aesthetic, the Second Analogy, the Refutation of Idealism, the first three Antinomies, the Transcendental Deduction in B, and the Canin of Pure Reason. A concise introduction provides biographical information and describes the nature of Kant's projects and the contribution of each major section of the Critique to it. { 229pp, 135x215mm, April 1999; PB, £8.50, 0872204480:9780872204485 / HB, £27.95, 0872204499:9780872204492 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DAILY LIFE IN THE INCA EMPIRE ((Daily Life Through History Series)) [Michael Malpass] Every aspect of life in complex historical eras -- cultural, social, religious, political -- is here described and explained in a clear, accessible way, with copious details on such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting. { 176pp, October 2008; PB, £10.95, 0872209326:9780872209329 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DAILY LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD ((Daily Life Through History Series)) [James Lindsay] Every aspect of life in complex historical eras -- cultural, social, religious, political -- is here described and explained in a clear, accessible way, with copious details on such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting. { 304pp, October 2008; PB, £10.95, 0872209342:9780872209343 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DAILY LIFE OF THE AZTECS : People of the Sun & Earth ((Daily Life Through History Series)) [David Carrasco & Scott Sessions] Every aspect of life in complex historical eras -- cultural, social, religious, political -- is here described and explained in a clear, accessible way, with copious details on such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting. { 288pp, October 2008; PB, £10.95, 0872209334:9780872209336 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DAODEJING OF LAOZI [Philip J Ivanhoe] A Daoist classic that has had a profound influence on Chinese thought, the Laozi or Daodejing, evolved into its present form sometime around the third century BCE and continues to enjoy great popularity throughout East Asia and beyond. Philip J Ivanhoe's lucid and philosophically-minded interpretation and commentary offer fresh insights into this classic work. In the substantial introduction and numerous notes, Ivanhoe draws attention to the issues at play in the text, often relating them to contemporary philosophical discussions and directing the reader to related passages within the Daodejing and to other works of the period. The Language Appendix, unique to this edition, offers eight translations of the opening passage by well-known and influential scholars and explains, line-by-line, how each might have reached his particular interpretation. { 125pp, 140x215mm, January 2002; PB, £9.95, 0872207013:9780872207011 / HB, £19.95, 0872207021:9780872207028 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DEBATE ON JEWISH EMANCIPATION & CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY IN OLD BERLIN [David Friedländer, Friedrich Schleiermacher & Wilhelm Abraham Teller; Edited & Translated by Richard Crouter & Julie Klassen] When wealthy Jewish industrialist David Friedländer proposed in 1799 that Berlin's Jews undergo a sham conversion to Christianity in return for full German citizenship, he touched off a political and theological debate that would continue to define the relation between Jewish and German identity for more than a century. In the series of provocative letters collected here, Friedländer, Protestant leader Wilhelm Abraham Teller, and young Christian theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher debate Friedländer's radical proposal. In so doing, they grapple with many of the thorny problems -- such as citizenship, religious tolerance, and assimilation -- that continue to vex world political leaders today. Richard Crouter's Introduction provides the cultural, religious, and historical context for this compelling exchange; a postscript by Julie Klassen reveals the ways in which Germany's minorities continue to be marginalised more than two hundred years after Friedländer made his passionate appeal for political liberty and human rights. REVIEW: "One of the most fascinating and, indeed, seminal debates in the protracted struggle of German Jewry to gain full citizenship and civic equality. As the translators make clear in their learned and generally lucid Introduction, this debate illuminates the enduring difficulty of modern nation states to establish a civic society that is, if not religiously neutral, at least inclusive... It will surely enter the canon of standard works in the study of modern Jewish history..." -- Paul Mendes-Flohr, Hebrew University. { 177pp, 140x215mm, October 2004; PB, £9.95, 0872207196:9780872207196 / HB, £29.95, 087220720X:9780872207202 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DEDUCTIVE LOGIC [Warren Goldfarb] This text provides a straightforward, lively but rigorous, introduction to truth-functional and predicate logic, complete with lucid examples and incisive exercises, for which Warren Goldfarb is renowned. { 292pp, 155x230mm, October 2003; HB, £24.95, 0872206602:9780872206601 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA [Tocqueville] This new abridged translation of Democracy in America reflects the rich Tocqueville scholarship of the past forty years, and restores chapters central to Tocqueville's analysis absent from previous abridgments -- including his discussions of enlightened self-interest and the public's influence on ethical standards. Judicious notes and a thoughtful introduction offer aids to the understanding of a masterpiece of nineteenth-century social thought that continues in our own day to illuminate debates about the roles of liberty and equality in American life. { 368pp, 135x215mm, March 2000; PB, £6.95, 0872204944:9780872204942 / HB, £27.95, 0872204952:9780872204959 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DESCARTES [Marjorie Grene] This essential work is made up of eight interrelated essays grouped to elucidate two major themes -- Descartes's role in the dilemma of modern philosophy, and the relation of his thought to that of his contemporaries. REVIEW: "...Grene has cut through the usual distinction between history of philosophy (with the emphasis on philosophy) and history of ideas (with the emphasis on history) and produced a book that is at the same time genuinely historical... Her sense of Descartes's historical context and the full programme in which he was involved allows her to ask the right questions of the texts and to provide illumination on the arguments that a less historical approach cannot... it stands out as a worthy and original contribution to the literature on Descartes in any language." -- Daniel Garber, University of Chicago. { 225pp, 135x215mm, April 1998; PB, £12.95, 0872204049:9780872204041 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DIALOGUE ON GOOD, EVIL & THE EXISTENCE OF GOD [John Perry] The author revisits the cast of characters of his well-known Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality in this lively and absorbing dialogue on good, evil, and the existence of God. Does evil in the world present a problem to those who believe in the perfection of God? What is the nature of human evil? Can fully rational actions be intentionally evil? Gretchen Weirob and her friends tackle these questions and more in a dialogue that exemplifies the subtleties and intricacies of philosophical reflection. Once again, Perry's ability to get to the heart of matters combines with his mastery of the dialogue form. { 71pp, 135x215mm, November 1999; PB, £3.95, 087220460X:9780872204607 / HB, £19.95, 0872204618:9780872204614 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DISCOURSE ON METAPHYSICS & OTHER ESSAYS : Discourse on Metaphysics / On the Ultimate Origination of Things / Preface to the New Essays / The Monadology [G W Leibniz; Translated by Daniel Garber & Roger Ariew] Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introduction to Leibniz's complete thought: 'Discourse on Metaphysics', a short course in his metaphysics, written in 1686 at the time his mature thought was just crystalising and 'Monadology' of 1714, a summary of Leibniz's mature metaphysics, written late in his long career. These are supplemented with two essays of special interest to the student of modern philosophy, 'On the Ultimate Origination of Things' of 1697, which deals clearly with Leibniz's celebrated doctrine of contingency and creation, and the Preface to his New Essays of 1703-1705, which presents a brief and coherent overview of his epistemological position, particularly as it relates to the empiricism of Locke. { 84pp, 135x215mm, February 1992; PB, £5.45, 0872201325:9780872201323 / HB, £19.95, 0872201333:9780872201330 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DISCOURSE ON METHOD & MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY : Fourth Edition [René Descartes] This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition. { 103pp, 140x215mm, November 1998; PB, £6.50, 0872204200:9780872204201 / HB, £19.95, 0872204219:9780872204218 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DISCOURSE ON METHOD, OPTICS, GEOMETRY, & METEOROLOGY [Paul J Olscamp] This volume preserves the format in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes's writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his introduction, Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these three works, which sheds new light on Descartes's method. Includes an updated bibliography. A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1965. { 388pp, 145x220mm, May 2001; PB, £12.95, 0872205673:9780872205673 / HB, £32.00, 0872205681:9780872205680 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DISPUTED QUESTIONS ON VIRTUE [Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Jeffrey Hause & Claudia Eisen Murphy] Introduction and Commentary by Jeffrey Hause. { 224pp, October 2008; PB, £12.95, 0872209253:9780872209251 / HB, £35.00, 0872209261:9780872209268 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT & SELECTIONS FROM THE DISCOURSE [Calhoun] Now, as in his own time, Calhoun's voice resonates to fundamental concerns of American democratic polity: the nature of man, the obligations of government, and -- most keenly -- how best to safeguard the interest of a minority against the will of democratic majorities. His doctrine of concurrent majority and a minority veto -- although employed to defend the South's commitment to slavery in pre-bellum 19th Century America -- strikes an enduring question of how a diverse, and sometimes divided, society can maintain its integrity while honouring the interests of all its citizens. { 104pp, 135x215mm, October 1995; PB, £7.95, 0872202933:9780872202931 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DIVINE RIGHT & DEMOCRACY : An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England [David Wootton (ed)] An anthology of political thought drawn from England's 'century of revolution' that focuses on the writings of those English theorists, essayists, speech writers, tract writers, and pamphleteers to whom Hobbes and Locke were immediately responding in their respective masterpieces of political theory. { 512pp, 140x215mm, March 2003; PB, £12.95, 087220653X:9780872206533 / HB, £29.95, 0872206548:9780872206540 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DOCTOR FAUSTUS [Christopher Marlowe; Edited by David Wootton] This edition of the 'A' text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe's 'atheism', and passages from the 'B' text, offers a startling new context in which to understand this play, its comedy, and its tawdry representation of demonic magic. In this light, argues Wootton, Marlowe's Faustus both reflects the centrality of comedy to the Faust legend and plays an ambiguous role in a crucial intellectual debate of the playwright's time. { 154pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £5.95, 0872207293:9780872207295 / HB, £19.95, 0872207307:9780872207301 , Hackett Publishing } |
| DOES GOD EXIST? A DIALOGUE [Todd Moody] Moody maps the spectrum of philosophical arguments and counterarguments for the existence of God. By structuring the participants' colloquial conversations along classical lines. Moody presents an accessible and concrete display of the concerns central to theist and atheist thinking, including consecutive discussions on the burden of proof, the first cause, a necessary being, the natural order, suffering, miracles, experience as knowledge, and rationality without proof. { 112pp, 150x210mm, November 1996; PB, £4.45, 0872203433:9780872203433 / HB, £19.95, 0872203441:9780872203440 , Hackett Publishing } |
| EARLY BUDDHIST DISCOURSES [John J Holder (ed)] This anthology of discourses from the Pali Canon -- the only student edition of such works available -- provides an account of Buddhist teachings directly from the earliest primary sources. Seventeen discourses are provided, including those most essential to the study and teaching of early Buddhism. Substantial introductions to each discourse highlight the main themes and set the ideas presented in the context of wider philosophical and religious issues. The general Introduction discusses the structure and language of the Pali Canon -- its importance within the Buddhist tradition, and the historical context in which it developed -- and gives an overview of the basic doctrines of early Buddhism. Additional support materials include helpful footnotes, a select bibliography, and a glossary of key terms. { 216pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £9.95, 0872207927:9780872207929 / HB, £27.95, 0872207935:9780872207936 , Hackett Publishing } |
| EDGAR HUNTLY; OR, MEMOIRS OF A SLEEP-WALKER, WITH RELATED TEXTS [Charles Brockden Brown; Edited by Philip Barnard & Stephen Shapiro] In addition to the definitive UVA text of Brown's seminal novel, this edition includes an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and intellectual contexts. Selections from William Godwin's 'Inquiry Concerning Political Justice' (1793), Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life' (1794), Benjamin Franklin's 'A Narrative of the Late Massacres' (1764), and Thomas Barton's 'The conduct of the Paxton-men' (1764) are included here, as are several of Brown's lesser-known but revealing writings on such subjects as somnambulism and the uses of history in fiction. { 267pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; PB, £9.95, 0872208532:9780872208537 / HB, £27.95, 0872208540:9780872208544 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ENGAGING PHILOSOPHY : A Brief Introduction [Mitchell S Green] This brief, elegant book introduces students and general readers to philosophy through core questions and topics -- particularly those involving ethics, the existence of God, free will, the relation of mind and body, and what it is to be a person. It also features a chapter on reasoning, both theoretical and practical, that develops an account of both cogent logical reasoning and rational decision-making. Throughout, the emphasis is on initiating newcomers to philosophy through rigorous yet lively consideration of some of the most fundamental questions a thinking person can ask. { 160pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £7.95, 087220796X:9780872207967 / HB, £24.95, 0872207978:9780872207974 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING : Second Edition [E Steinberg] A landmark of enlightenment though, HUme's An Enquiry Concerning Human understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentlemen to His Friend in Edinburgh, hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of advocating extreme scepticism, and of undermining the foundations of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of HUman Nature, which anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry. In his concise Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book 1 of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. { 142pp, 140x215mm, December 1993; PB, £4.45, 0872202291:9780872202290 / HB, £15.95, 0872202305:9780872202306 , Hackett Publishing } |
| EPICURUS READER : Selected Writings & Testimonia [Epicurus. Translated & Edited by Brad Inwood & L P Gerson] A total philosophy of life, death, religion, science, ethics, and culture promising liberation from the obstacles that stand in the way of our happiness, the teachings of Epicurus claimed many thousand committed followers all over the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. From the first years of its development, however, Epicureanism faced hostile opposition, and, as a result, much of our evidence for the content of this teaching is unhelpful and even misleading. "The Epicurus Reader" fills the need for a reliable selection and translation of the main surviving evidence, some of it never previously translated into English. Included here, with the exception of Lucretius De Rerum Natura, are the most important surviving ancient texts of a system of thought that even today remains a powerful living philosophy. "The Epicurus Reader" will be greatly welcomed by anybody who teaches Hellenistic Philosophy, or Epicureanism in particular, at any level. It offers a judicious and ample selection of texts, including the only extant writings by Epicurus. More importantly it provides a reliable, often admirably accurate translation of these sometimes difficult texts. Finally, there is an introduction the general reader or the undergraduate will find very helpful." - Michael Frede, Keble College, Oxford { 112pp, 140x215mm, October 1994; HB, £15.95, 0872202429:9780872202429 / PB, £5.95, 0872202410:9780872202412 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSAYS ON THE MORAL PHILOSOPHY OF MENGZI [Xiusheng Liu & Philip J Ivanhoe (eds)] Mengzi (Mencius) is known for his sophisticated views on human nature and moral psychology. These essays explore a range of philosophical ideas at the core of his moral philosophy and relate them to both traditional Chinese and current Western philosophical concerns. The introduction provides historical background and philosophical context, and discusses each of the selections alongside Mengzi's work as a whole. { 249pp, 140x215mm, November 2002; PB, £12.95, 0872206238:9780872206236 / HB, £29.95, 0872206246:9780872206243 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL AENEID [Virgil; Edited & Translated by Stanley Lombardo; Introduction by W R Johnson] This ample abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of Virgil's 'Aeneid' will be ideal for use in such courses as those surveys of Roman history or classical mythology in which time may not permit a reading of the epic in its entirety. W R Johnson's generous Introduction brilliantly illuminates the place of the 'Aeneid' in Roman mythology, history, and literature. { 212pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £4.95, 0872207900:9780872207905 / HB, £15.95, 0872207919:9780872207912 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL ANALECTS : Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary [Confucius; Translated by Edward Slingerland] The ideal edition for a survey course or a course in which the Analects is one of several works studied, this volume provides a representative selection from Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages covering all major themes. An appendix of selected traditional commentaries keyed to each passage provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also included are a concise general Introduction, bibliography, notes, and three additional appendices: Traditional Chinese Commentators Cited; Disciples of Confucius; and Glossary of Terms. { 164pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £6.95, 0872207722:9780872207721 / HB, £24.95, 0872207730:9780872207738 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL AUGUSTINE [Augustine; Edited by Vernon J Bourke] { 268pp, January 1974; PB, £7.95, 0915144077:9780915144075 / HB, £24.95, 0915144085:9780915144082 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL FEDERALIST & ANTI-FEDERALIST PAPERS [David Wooton (ed)] Through a judicious selection of the classic essays from 1787-1788 by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay in defence of the new federal Constitution -- together with key writings by the Anti-Federalists -- Wootton captures the essentials of the 18th-century American debate on federalism in this modernised edition and frames it with a brilliant and engaging Introduction. Includes the U. S. Constitution. { 343pp, 140x215mm, October 2003; PB, £7.95, 0872206556:9780872206557 / HB, £19.95, 0872206564:9780872206564 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL GALILEO [Galileo. Maurice A Finocchiaro (editor and translator)] Spanning Galileo's entire career, this new collection presents an annotated translation of Galileo's most important writings as judged by their historical impact from the seventeenth century to the present. It thus presents not only those writings that bear most closely on key developments in physics, astronomy, epistemology, and scientific methodology, but those most relevant to general culture as well, including writings on the relationship between science and religion. { 288pp, October 2008; PB, £7.95, 0872209377:9780872209374 / HB, £24.95, 0872209385:9780872209381 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL HOMER [Translated & Edited by Stanley Lombardo] Selections from both the Iliad and the Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology. { 532pp, 140x215mm, September 2000; PB, £9.95, 0872205401:9780872205406 / HB, £29.95, 087220541X:9780872205413 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL ILIAD [Homer; Translated & Edited by Stanley Lombardo] While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgment highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys. { 168pp, 140x215mm, September 2000; PB, £5.45, 0872205428:9780872205420 / HB, £24.95, 0872205436:9780872205437 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL JEFFERSON [Thomas Jefferson; Edited, with Introduction by Jean Yarbrough] In substantial selections from his earliest writings, the Notes on Virginia, his public papers, and his personal correspondence, this volume traces the development of Jefferson's thinking on such fundamental issues as republicanism, constitutionalism, political parties, and the separation of religion from politics. His proposals for the education of women, the emancipation of slaves, and the expatriation of Native Americans are included, along with a number of intimate letters illustrating the range of Jefferson's interests and offering a peek into his private life. Drawing on the best Jeffersonian scholarship of the last thirty years, Yarbrough's Introduction sets Jefferson's life and writing in context and illuminates the ways in which his understanding of human nature influenced his political views. A brief headnote introduces each selection and provides crucial background information; footnotes offer concise biographies of Jefferson's correspondents and identify other important figures and events. An index and select bibliography are also included. REVIEW: "Historians and political scientists alike will welcome publication of Jean Yarbrough's excellent new documentary edition. Yarbrough's fine Introduction combines a good brief account of Jefferson's life and career with an astute and persuasive overview of Jefferson's political theory..." -- Peter S Onuf, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. { 288pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £9.95, 0872207471:9780872207479 / HB, £29.95, 087220748X:9780872207486 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL ODYSSEY [Homer. Translated & Edited by Stanley Lombardo. Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan] This generous abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey" offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus. { 264pp, 140x215mm, October 2007; PB, £6.00, 0872208990:9780872208995 / HB, £24.95, 0872209008:9780872209008 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL PLOTINUS [Plotinus; Translated by Elmer O'Brien] REVIEW: "The Essential Plotinus is a lifesaver. For many years my students in Greek and Roman Religion have depended on it to understand the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The translation is crisp and clear, and the excerpts are just right for an introduction to Plotinus' many-layered view of the world and humankind's place in it." -- F E Romer, University of Arizona. { 223pp, January 1975; PB, £6.95, 0915144093:9780915144099 / HB, £15.95, 0915144107:9780915144105 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ESSENTIAL SPINOZA : Ethics & Related Writings [Baruch Spinoza; Edited by Michael L Morgan; Translated by Samuel Shirley] Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's 'Ethics', this anthology includes the Ethics in its entirety, and Spinoza's related writings -- complete or in relevant abridgment -- along with two appendices: List of the Propositions from the 'Ethics', which helps the reader trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the 'Ethics', together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs -- thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it. { 336pp, 155x230mm, April 2006; PB, £12.95, 0872208036:9780872208032 / HB, £32.00, 0872208044:9780872208049 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY [Immanuel Kant] This expanded edition of James Ellington's pre-eminent translation of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue includes his new translation of Kant's essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns', in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory, as presented in the main text of Grounding, that it requires us to tell the truth even in the face of harmful consequences. { 178pp, 135x215mm, September 1995; PB, £7.95, 0872203204:9780872203204 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ETHICAL WRITINGS [Peter Abelard] Abelard's major ethical writings -- Ethics, or 'Know Yourself', and Dialogue between a philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and index. REVIEW: "The best translation of these two treatises available in any language: accurate, lively, and readable..." -- Peter King, The Ohio State University. { 208pp, 140x220mm, November 1995; PB, £8.50, 0872203220:9780872203228 / HB, £27.95, 0872203239:9780872203235 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ETHICS : Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect & Selected Letters [Baruch Spinoza; Translated by Samuel Shirley] Since their publications in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought. { 297pp, 135x215mm, August 1992; PB, £8.50, 0872201309:9780872201309 / HB, £24.95, 0872201317:9780872201316 , Hackett Publishing } |
| ETHICS IN THE CONFUCIAN TRADITION, 2ND EDITION : The Thoughts of Mencius & Wang Yangming [Philip J Ivanhoe] This volume serves both as an introduction to the thought of Mengzi (Mencius) and Wang Yangming, and as a comparison of their views. By examining issues held in common and central to both thinkers, Ivanhoe illustrates how the Confucian tradition was both continued and transformed by Wang Yangming, and shows the extent to which he was influenced by Buddhism. Topics explored are: the nature of morality; human nature; the nature and origin of wickedness; self cultivation; and sagehood. In addition to revised versions of each of these original chapters, Ivanhoe also includes a new chapter on Confucius' view of the Way, a new Conclusion, bibliography, and index. A revision of the Scholars Press edition of 1990. { 243pp, 135x215mm, April 2002; PB, £9.95, 0872205975:9780872205970 / HB, £29.95, 0872205983:9780872205987 , Hackett Publishing } |
| EURIPIDES' HIPPOLYTUS : Text in Greek, Commentary in English [Richard Hamilton] Two book set : individual Commentary and Text. Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation. The volumes in the series are modestly priced and remain in print indefinitely. The text in each volume is in either the original Greek or Latin, with grammatical and lexical commentary in English. { 108pp, 140x215mm, August 2001; PB, £10.95, 0929524101:9780929524108 , Hackett Publishing (Bryn Mawr Commentaries) } |
| EVERYDAY LIFE IN EARLY IMPERIAL CHINA [Michael Loewe] This book considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social structures that would characterise imperial China. { 208pp, 140x215mm, April 2005; PB, £6.95, 0872207587:9780872207585 / HB, £21.95, 0872207595:9780872207592 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FABLE OF THE BEES & OTHER WRITINGS [Bernard Mandeville; Edited by E J Hundert] This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville's most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist Pierre Nicole. Hundert's introduction places Mandeville in a number of eighteenth-century debates -- particularly that of the nature and morality of commercial modernity -- and underscores the degree to which his work stood as a central problem, not only for his immediate English contemporaries, but for such philosophers as Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. The selections are substantive enough to faithfully represent Mandeville the social theorist, and compact enough to be used in courses that can afford to spend no more than a week on his work. { 260pp, 150x210mm, November 1997; PB, £8.95, 0872203743:9780872203747 / HB, £27.95, 0872203751:9780872203754 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAERIE QUEENE : Book 6 & the Mutabilitie Cantos [Edmund Spenser; Edited by Andrew Hadfield & Abraham Stoll] Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of "The Faerie Queene" are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser inflecting his narrative with an ever more personal note, and becoming an ever more desperate and anxious author, worried that things were falling apart as Queen Elizabeth failed in health and the Irish crisis became ever more terrifying. The moral confusion and uncertainty that Calidore, the Knight of Courtesy, has to confront are symptomatic of the lack of control that Spenser saw everywhere around him. Yet, within such a troubling and disturbing work there are moments of great beauty and harmony, such as the famous dance of the Graces that Colin Clout, the rustic alter ego of the poet himself, conjures up with his pipe. Book Seven, the "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie", is among the finest of Spenser's poetic works, in which he explains the mythical origins of his world, as the gods debate on the hill opposite his Irish house. Whether order or chaos triumphs in the end has been the subject of most subsequent critical debate. { 240pp, 140x215mm, October 2007; PB, £7.95, 0872208915:9780872208919 / HB, £29.95, 0872208923:9780872208926 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 1 [Edmund Spenser; Edited by Carol Kaske] Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume. { 222pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £6.95, 0872208079:9780872208070 / HB, £24.95, 0872208087:9780872208087 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 2 [Edmund Spenser; Edited by Erik Gray] Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume. { 244pp, 140x215mm, October 2006; PB, £7.95, 0872208478:9780872208476 / HB, £24.95, 0872208486:9780872208483 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAERIE QUEENE, BOOK 5 [Edmund Spenser; Edited by Abraham Stoll] Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume. { 192pp, 140x215mm, April 2006; PB, £6.95, 087220801X:9780872208018 / HB, £24.95, 0872208028:9780872208025 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAERIE QUEENE, BOOKS 3 & 4 [Edmund Spenser; Edited by Dorothy Stephens] Part of a series of Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own general introduction, annotation, note on the text, bibliography, glossary, and an index of characters; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh and a short Life of Spenser appear in every volume. { 480pp, 155x230mm, December 2006; PB, £9.95, 0872208559:9780872208551 / HB, £29.95, 0872208567:9780872208568 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FAITH, MYTH, & REASON IN HAN CHINA [Michael Loewe] In his classic study of the cultural history of Han China, Michael Loewe uses both archaeological discoveries and written records to sketch the conceptual background of various artefacts of the Han period, and shows how ancient Chinese thought is as much informed by mythology as it is dependent on reason. Originally published as Chinese Ideas of Life and Death: Faith, Myth and Reason in the Han Period (202BC-AD220), this edition includes a new Preface that discusses relevant discoveries made since the first publication and an updated list of other works on relevant topics. { 226pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £11.95, 0872207560:9780872207561 / HB, £32.00, 0872207579:9780872207578 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FEDERALIST [Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay; Edited by J R Pole] By identifying all the historical references and literary allusions by which the Founders sought to amplify their arguments and convince their readers -- and by clarifying those important concepts (such as sovereignty, contract, separation of powers) which influenced the thinking of both the Founders and their opponents -- renowned historian J R Pole here sets the Federalist Papers in the intellectual world inhabited by Hamilton, Madison and Jay. In reading Pole's annotation alongside the main text, students and scholars alike will gain a deeper understanding of the papers -- and of the time, needs, and circumstances that shaped them. Pole's Introduction, a thematic index, a chronology of politically significant events from 1688 to 1791, and the inclusion of The Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution further distinguish an edition priced for classroom use. REVIEW: "This edition will surely replace existing editions. The quality, accuracy and thoroughness of the annotation is quite impressive. Many notes are nice little essays in themselves. This edition will make a significant contribution to the scholarship on The Federalist. I always thought it a splendid idea and the execution shows off Professor Pole's erudition with subtlety and grace..." -- Joyce Appleby, UCLA. "This is a well-edited, interesting version of The Federalist that certainly makes a contribution to Federalist scholarship. The editing is very well done -- and well-written..." -- Ralph Ketcham, Syracuse University. { 512pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; PB, £9.95, 0872207110:9780872207110 / HB, £25.95, 0872207129:9780872207127 , Hackett Publishing } |
| FIRST NEW CHRONICLE & BOOK OF GOOD GOVERNMENT, ABRIDGED [Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala; Edited & Translated by David Frye] Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, an indigenous Peruvian serving in the colonial Spanish government, wrote his 'First New Chronicle and Book of Good Government' between the years 1600 and 1616. In this monumental work he recorded the history of Peru from the beginning of time up to the Spanish conquest (1532-1572); he also portrayed pre-colonial Inca society in remarkably vivid detail and proposed his own remedies to the abuses of the corrupt Spanish administration. David Frye's skillful translation simultaneously captures the Biblical-to-legal flavours of Guaman Poma's manuscript and renders this notoriously difficult text into accessible, idiomatic English. Frye's Introduction places Guaman Poma and his narrative in the context of colonial Peruvian history and discusses the author's literary and linguistic innovations. A generous selection of Guaman Poma's ink drawings, |