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CONTENTS

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS 1

PAUL DRY BOOKS 2

LIBERTY FUND 2

HACKETT PUBLISHING 3

PARMENIDES 4

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS 5

EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE 5

SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS 6

AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS 7

CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS 8

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS

A THEOLOGY OF POLITICAL VOCATIONChristian Life and Public OfficeJohn E. Senior

Power, money, endless competition. A zero-sum game. Politics as usual. Only the hearty or cravenneed apply. The political actors have lost sight of the politics of a common good.

A Theology of Political Vocation takes up the question of public life precisely where mostdiscussions end. Proving that moral ambiguity does not exclude moral possibility, author JohnSenior crafts a theology of political vocation not satisfied simply by theologies of sin and grace andphilosophical theories of power. For Senior, political theology moves beyond merely staking aclaim within a public conversation, a move that prizes discursive skills and aims at consensusconcerning shared norms and values. Political theology must offer an account of a politicalvocation.

Senior connects political deliberation to moral judgment, explores use and consequence of power,analyzes political conflict and competition, and limns the ethics of negotiation and compromise.In light of this richer understanding of political vocation, Senior develops theological resourcesappropriate to a variety of ecologies - ordinary citizens, political activists, and elected officials. ATheology of Political Vocation shows how Christian politicians can work faithfully within the moralambiguity of political life to orient their work - and indeed, their very selves - toward the commongood.

HB 9781481300353 £41.99 September 2015 Baylor University Press 229 pages


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PAUL DRY BOOKS

THEN & NOWThe World's Center & the Soul's DemesneEva Brann

These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which EvaBrann gets at the roots of our thinking - without tearing things apart.

In the first, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus’s The History (The PersianWars). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians andthe peoples who constituted their empire - and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the“Greek center”) - Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and theGreeks. This difference Brann calls Athens’ “elusive essence,” its freedom contrasting with theslavery upon which the Persian empire depended.

In the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition

toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in

“the conservatory of the imagination.” To uncover the meanings and consequences of this union

- this imaginative conservatism - and the type of soul to which it applies, Brann offers twelve

perspectives, starting with “Temperamental Disposition,” and ending with “Eccentric Centrality,”

(without ever explicitly focusing on politics). Join her and you’ll find both delight and education.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Eva Brann is a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College

in Annapolis, Maryland, where she has taught for fifty-seven years. She is a recipient of theNational Humanities Medal. Her other books include The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling OurFeelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets / Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic, andHomeric Moments.

PB 9781589881013 £12.50 July 2015 Paul Dry Books 138 pages

LIBERTY FUND

COMMENTARY ON FILANGIERI'S WORKBenjamin Constant

Commentary on Filangieri's addresses the principal political and social questions that BenjaminConstant, one of the most important liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century, ever discussed.This translation will help give the work its deserved importance in political theory.

Commentary is founded on the view that government should maintain a strictly limited role in

society; "The functions of government are purely negative. It should repress disorder, eliminateobstacles, in a word, prevent evil from arising. Thereafter one can leave it to individuals to findthe good."

HB 9780865978829 £19.95 July 2015 Liberty Fund 496 pagesPB 9780865978836 £10.95 July 2015 Liberty Fund 496 pages


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A WORKBOOK FOR ARGUMENTS (Second Edition)A Complete Course in Critical ThinkingDavid R. Morrow, Anthony Weston

A Workbook for Arguments builds on Anthony Weston's A Rulebook for Arguments to provide acomplete textbook for a course in critical thinking or informal logic.

The second edition adds:

Updated and improved homework exercises - nearly one third are new - to ensure thatthe examples continue to resonate with students.

Increased coverage of scientific reasoning, demonstrating how scientific reasoningdovetails with critical thinking more generally.

Two new activities in which students analyze arguments in their original form, asprovided in brief selections from the original texts.

This edition continues to include:

The entire text of Rulebook, supplemented with extensive explanations and exercises.

Homework exercises adapted from a wide range of arguments in a wide variety ofsources.

Practical advice to help students succeed.

Model answers to odd-numbered problems, including commentaries on the strengthsand weaknesses of selected sample answers and further discussion of some of thesubstantive intellectual, philosophical, or ethical issues they raise.

Detailed instructions for in-class activities and take-home assignments.

An appendix on mapping arguments, giving students a solid introduction to this vitalskill in constructing complex and multi-step arguments and evaluating them.

REVIEWS: "Quite simply, one of the best critical-thinking texts I have read. Unlike many

critical-thinking books, there is a particular and efficacious focus on helping the reader write anargumentative essay. . . . There are over sixty exercise sets, not one of which is frivolous. Themodel responses are typically excellent, some providing both weak and strong examples foranswers, and the answers are often followed by commentary. . . . The expository clarity is asgood as it gets."Chris Jackson, Teaching Philosophy

PB 9781624664274 £24.50 November 2015 Hackett Publishing 520 pages

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PARMENIDES

PLOTINUS, ENNEAD V.1On the Three Primary Levels of RealityEric D. Perl

Plotinus’ Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritualand metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to hisphilosophy. It addresses in condensed form a great many topics to which Plotinus elsewheredevotes extended discussion, including the problem of the multiple self; eternity and time; theunity-in-duality of intellect and the intelligible; and the derivation of intelligible being from theOne. Above all, it shows that the so-called “three hypostases” - soul, intellect, and the One - arebest understood not as a sequence of three things additional to one another, but as three levelsof possession of the same content, so that each lower level - soul in relation to intellect andintellect in relation to the One - is an “image” and “expression” of its superior.

Plotinus exhorts the human soul to overcome its alienation from its own true nature and its divineorigin by first recognizing itself as superior to the body and the same in kind as the animatingprinciple of the entire cosmos, and then discovering within itself the still higher levels of realityfrom which it derives: intellect and, ultimately, the One or Good, the supreme first principle ofall things. To do so the soul must redirect its attention inward and upward to become aware ofthe divinity which is always within it but from which it is distracted by the clamor of the senses.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Eric D. Perl is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount

University in Los Angeles. He is the author ofTheophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysiusthe Areopagite (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2007), and Thinking Being:Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition (Brill Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism,and the Platonic Tradition Series, 2014), as well as numerous articles on Plato, Plotinus, and otherfigures in the Platonic philosophical tradition.

PB 9781930972919 £34.99 December 2015 Parmenides 234 pages

PLOTINUS, ENNEAD II.5On What is Potentially & What ActuallyCinzia Arruzza

The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it waswith Aristotle that it acquired, together with energeia (actuality), the strong technical meaningthat the two terms have maintained, with variations, throughout subsequent philosophicaltradition.

The significance of the notions of actuality and potentiality in Plotinus’ thought can hardly beoverstated. Throughout the Enneads, they are crucial to understanding the specific causality ofintelligible realities and the relation of participation between intelligible and sensible realms.

In Ennead II.5, Plotinus for the first time provides a systematic clarification of his peculiar use ofthese terms, through a sustained revision of Aristotle’s own elaboration of the topic and of histerminology. The treatise discusses the different meanings of potentiality and actuality as wellas the way each of them applies or does not apply to the sensible realm, to the intelligible realm,and to matter.

While the structure of the text unfolds in a coherent and cohesive manner, Plotinus’ writing inthis treatise is dense and at times dry in its technicality. The detailed commentary guides thereader step by step, making an otherwise particularly difficult text accessible.

PB 9781930972636 £30.99 July 2015 Parmenides 212 pages


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DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

RHETORIC & THE GIFTAncient Rhetorical Theory & Contemporary CommunicationMari Lee Mifsud

Rhetoric and the Gift, taking as its starting point the Homeric idea of the gift and Aristotle’srelated rhetorical theory, explores rhetoric not only at the level of the artful response but at thelevel of the call and response. Mari Lee Mifsud takes up a number of questions crucial to thinkingabout contemporary communication: What does it mean that communication is a system ofexchange with others? How are we to deal with questions of ethics in an economic system ofpower and authority? Can exchange ever be truly generous, and can communication, then, everbe free? Is there a more ethical way of relating and communicating, and might there be adifferent self-other relationship more conducive to a free people?

As a historian of ancient Greek rhetorical theory, Mifsud examines these questions ofcontemporary significance by turning first to Aristotle’s many citations of and references toHomer in order to discern the emergence of a system of exchange thought to be appropriate fora democratic polis. As she elucidates, the Homeric system of exchange — gift-giving — was usedby Aristotle as a metaphor for rhetoric’s function, as he distinguished the gift as a system ofexchange within the functioning of the polis, operating between individuals and society to bindpeople to people and cultures to cultures. These ancient ideas are shown to relate directly to ourmodern arguments concerning exception and exceptionalism as they play out in politics, law, andculture.

Such questions of exchange, thus, are shown to reverberate and continue to circulate throughconversations in philosophy and communication, ranging across a great deal of recent study.Mifsud’s discussion of a variety of contemporary thinkers, together with her historical andtheoretical approach, offers rich possibilities for new trajectories of relating the self and other,providing the critical, hermeneutical, and theoretical resources for thinking otherwise aboutrhetorical conceptions of relational ethics in communication, on both a personal and politicallevel.

PB 9780820704852 £20.99 June 2015 Duquesne University Press 220 pages

EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE

THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEINGA Synthesis of MetaphysicsLouis de Raeymaeker

The choice of the basis of metaphysics is of capital importance. This basis ought to guarantee thevery existence and the validity of metaphysics, while given this science at the same time itsformal object and a solid foundation. But if metaphysics is bound up with the study of a universalunity or of the totality of things, and if then, our inquiry ought to be concerned with the whole,how can we determine the choice of a point of departure?

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Louis de Raeymaeker was Professor of Philosophy at Louvain

University and the president of the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie.

HB 9783868385595 £103.50 June 2015 Editiones Scholasticae 360 pages


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THOMISTIC METAPHYSICSAn Inquiry into the Act of ExistingCharles Hart

One of the major objectives of this book is to make Thomistic metaphysics -- an inquiry into theact of existing, the act of to be, exercised by all beings to some degree -- more understandableto the man of ordinary intellectual training. Therefore, the various problems of metaphysics andtheir solutions are presented in the simplest terms possible, with special emphasis on theirsignificance for the contemporary mind.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Charles Hart was professor of Philosophy at The Catholic

University of America, Washington, D.C.

HB 9783868385588 £103.50 June 2015 Editiones Scholasticae 412 pages

SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS

DECONSTRUCTION AFTER ALLReflections & Conversations by Christopher NorrisChristopher Norris Edited by David Jonathan Y Bayot

This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’svigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard,Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. AlongsideNorris’s uncompromising critiques there emerge passages of close and careful reading of JacquesDerrida’s texts, as he cites and reiterates Derrida’s philosophical contexts in the works ofImmanuel Kant, Gaston Bachelard, and Georges Canguilhem, and in the current discursive fieldsof epistemology and philosophy of science. The book also offers a coda of essays on FrankKermode, Terry Eagleton, and Terence Hawkes. This collection, prefaced with the author’s ownacademic memoir, provides an accessible and provocative introduction to Norris’s criticalthought, and highlights the wide range of his interests and philosophical engagements.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor of

Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales and the author of many books about literary theory,philosophy of language, epistemology, and music, with a particular interest in deconstruction.His The Cardinal’s Dog and Other Poems (2nd edn) is co-published by the De La Salle UniversityPublishing House.

David Jonathan Y. Bayot is Associate Professor of Literature at De La Salle University in Manila,Philippines. He is general editor of the Critics in Conversation series (DLSU Publishing), and alsoof the Critical Voices series published by Sussex Academic Press.

PB 9781845197735 £29.95 October 2015 Sussex Academic Press 340 pages


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AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS

N. F. S. GRUNDTVIGAn Introduction to his Life & WorkA. M. Allchin

N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) was a prominent preacher, poet, scholar and politician, who playeda crucial role in the life of nineteenth-century Denmark. His sermons and hymns, and hiseducational and historical writings, gave birth to a national and spiritual awakening, which stillstrongly affects Danish life and thought today.

This book is an introduction to Grundtvig to the English speaking world. It begins with anoverview of Grundtvig's long and varied life, concentrating on a number of critical moments inhis intellectual and spiritual development. He was a man of irrepressible energy and a volcanictemperament, and his life was not without moments of high drama. The second part of the booklooks at vital aspects of his presentation of the Christian faith, beginning from his vision of theChurch as a living sacramental and historical reality. It centres on the deeply Trinitarian natureof his thinking: for him faith in God as Trinity has its outworking in the whole of daily life, socialand political, as well as personal. The third section of the book follows Grundtvig's exposition ofthe faith through the festivals of the Christian year.

Grundtvig was a man firmly rooted in his own time and place. But his thoughts often have aprophetic ring to them. They have still much to say about the underlying unity of the Christiantradition, about questions of national identity and national interdependence, and about the wayin which we may come to a new understanding of the creation itself as made in God's image andlikeness.

HB 9788771249491 £35.00 November 2015 Aarhus University Press 338 pages

THE POWER OF BEAUTYOn the Aesthetics of Homer, Plato & CiceroInga R. Gammel

The fascination of beauty gave rise to a long-standing European philosophical tradition on theidea of beauty, the beginnings of which link back to ancient Greek mythology. Above all, beautywas associated with light and brilliance. In other words: beauty is shining, a phrase used eventoday. However, from the dawn of Modernity the discourse on beauty slowly began to dissapearfrom theory and philosophy. While classical tradition dealt with the beauty of cosmos and livingbeings down to the beauty of rhetoric, life style, and education, modern theory trivialized thesignificance of beauty and finally abondoned the topic.

The Power of Beauty is an attempt to put beauty on the agenda again by reviewing the very originof this ancient idea. Refelctions on beauty and the ugly are present already in Homer'smythology, and later developed and refined in Plato's philosophy. Also Cicero's philosophical andrhetorical works are inspired by the Greek legacy.

Far from being outmoded, the ancient sources not only reveal the profound knowledge andcounsel present in ancient thinking, but also its elegance, charm, and wit. In this way the ancientlegacy constitutes a sound challenge to the arrogrance of modern thinking.

PB 9788771247718 £20.00 November 2015 Aarhus University Press 178 pages


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CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS

BIOETHICS IN CANADASecond EDITIONCarol Collier, Rachel Haliburton

Every day bioethical conflicts arise in Canadian hospitals and courtrooms; they are debated innewspaper columns and argued in private. This updated edition of Bioethics in Canada providesan accessible introduction to the philosophical, historical, and medical concepts shaping thesecontemporary, and very contentious, debates.

Bioethics in Canada opens with an introduction to moral theory and bioethical principles. Thesetheoretical conceptions are then applied to practical ethical conflicts involving abortion,distributive justice, genetics, reproductive technology, and other vital topics. A landmark caseopens each chapter, illuminating the many issues involved in these debates, as well as thephilosophical assumptions that shape them. This highly usable text features excerpts ofsignificant bioethical writings, as well as recommended websites, suggestions forfurther reading, and original case studies for students to analyze.

With new information on emerging topics such as transplant tourism and multiculturalchallenges in pluralistic societies; updated research, recommended reading lists, and webresources; and new cases of interest, this second edition will be a valuable resource for manyclasses in the disciplines of Philosophy, Health Studies, Medicine, and Nursing, providing a strongethical foundation in a field whose technical frontiers are ever shifting.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Carol Collier is an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the

University of Sudbury-Laurentian University.Rachel Haliburton is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury-Laurentian University.

PB 9781551307237 £57.50 August 2015 Canadian Scholars' Press 570 pages


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