New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Rechtsphilosophie
im 20. Jahrhundert
100 Jahre Archiv für
Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie
edited by Annette Brockmöller
and Eric Hilgendorf
There is hardly any time period that was
characterized as much by technological,
political and philosophical changes as the
100 years prior to the millennium - from the
German Empire to global society and from
idealism to moral relativism. This volume is intended to provide an overview of this
period from the perspective of legal philosophy, offer a link to its great achievements
in the past and help in finding solutions to present and future problems.
German text.
207p, 1 tbl, paperback, 9783515092852, $71.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, July 2009,
Beihefte des Archivs für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 116.
Conversazioni a Firenze
by Franco Fortini, Eugenio Garin, Mario Luzi,
Ferruccio Masini, Giorgio Spini, edited by Andrea Spini
Der universale Leibniz
Denker, Forscher, Erfinder
edited by Thomas A C Reydon, Helmut Heit and Paul Hoyningen-Huene
An interdisciplinary survey on the importance of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the famous
polymath from Hanover, Germany, reveals that he was a major contributor to many
scholarly fields. This volume introduces the reader to the wide variety of Leibniz’ interests
and talents by presenting essays on his importance to the following disciplines: History,
Theology, Philosophy, Legal Studies, Political Counseling, Insurance Practice, Mathematics,
Engineering, and Linguistics. German text.
189p, 24 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515090728, $52.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, May 2009.
This collection of interviews conducted towards the end of the 1980s and
beginning of the 1990s explores the relationship between intellectuals and
power in twentieth-century Florence. These biographies bring to light the
frustrations, hopes and drama of lives suspended between obedience and
refusal of an established order such as fascism or materialism. The responses
to these problems show the moral dissimulation characteristic of Italian culture’s
attitude towards authority since the seventeenth century. Italian text.
144p, paperback, 9788856400335, $15.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa,
December 2008, Le ragioni dell’Occidente 3.
culture & philosophy
Epigonism and the
Dynamic of Culture
edited by S Berger and I E Zwiep
The articles collected in this volume were originally presented at a summer colloquium
in Oxford in 2004. The ‘epigone’ is generally believed to be an imitator,
deprived of an independent, original talent. He necessarily follows in someone
else’s footsteps, a source of inspiration that can (or indeed must) be identified. The
epigone can operate only after a certain span of time, during which he has studied
his example and learned how to follow in his master’s footsteps. The epigone is, per
definition, second rate. Rather than continuing to view epigonism as a natural, if
regrettable, part of the cultural process, an inevitable secondary stage within the
development of any corpus, the essays in this volume approach the phenomenon
from a perspective that is at once more neutral and more positive. They do so not
by rehabilitating the quality of the epigone’s output, but by redefining his role
within the cultural process per se.
295p, paperback, 9789042920323, $97.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Studia Rosenthaliana 40.
Qui sommes-nous?
Chemins phénoménologiques
vers l’homme
by J Greisch
This book studies the transformation of phenomenology
from the Kantian question of “what is
man?” to the more Heideggerian “who are we?”
Philosophical anthropology reflects this change
towards a kind of “hermeneutic of self,” differently
presented in the works of various specialists in the field over the course of the century.
The comparative analysis of the “phenomenological paths towards man” concludes with
a discussion of the discipline’s “anti-anthropological phobia.” French text.
537p, paperback, 9789042920927, $93.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009,
Bibliothèque Philosophique de Louvain 75.
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