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Israelis and Palestinians From the Cycle of Violence to the Conversation of Mankind JONATHAN GLOVER King’s College London ‘What singles this book out from all others about the conflict are two features: a sympathetic recognition of the traumas on both sides, but more importantly a deeper attempt to unravel and suggest ways to overcome the underlying and by-now self-feeding psychological forces that make peace today improbable. This is not a narrative that offers us a ready template for a “solution” in the classical sense: it is a call for what needs to be done in order to make what is now an improbable solution a possible one. For me, it was an eye-opener!’ Sari Nusseibeh, President Emeritus, Al-Quds University ‘Israelis and Palestinians is a book about a land and its tormented politics, but it is first and foremost about people. Jonathan Glover’s humanist perspective avoids the common pitfalls of assigning blame or proposing “out-of-the-box“ solutions to the indefatigable conflict. His empathetic account of the social and psychological barriers to peace is indispensable for anyone interested in understanding the conflict, let alone solving it.’ Assaf Sharon, Molad, The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy 216 x 138mm • 192 pages • UK January 2024, US February 2024 HB • 978-1-5095-5978-7 • £20.00 / $25.00 / €24.90 ebook available
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Seeing Double RAYMOND GEUSS University of Cambridge ‘This is a wonderful collection of essays covering a broad range of important topics. The title Seeing Double refers to a recurring theme in the essays: the need for multiple perspectives. The first essay gives not only a fascinating account of Montaigne’s invention of the genre of the essay, but also important insight into Geuss’s own model of the genre. Six further essays discuss the following topics: Rabelais’ works especially in relation to issues of language, interpretation, and translation; Nietzsche’s ethnological, or anthropological, observations; the valorizing of vision and of hearing in different traditions of Western thought; the origins of the notion of normative grammar and its problems; complications pertaining to the concept of success; and the value, or lack of it, of hope. The essays all display Geuss’s hallmark combination of originality, boldness, insight, clarity of argument, erudition, and stylistic elegance. It would be hard to praise this collection too strongly.’ Michael N. Forster, Bonn University ‘In these essays, Geuss invites his readers to converse with an eccentric tradition of European thinkers who refused to indulge the belief in a single standpoint from which the world must make sense. His collection is an invitation to us to wean themselves from optimism and to cultivate recognition of the plurality and conflict of our embodied, social and world-dependent existence as a first step toward a liveable future.’ Katherine Harloe, School of Advanced Study, University of London 216 x 138mm • 216 pages • UK April 2024, US June 2024 HB • 978-1-5095-6087-5 • £50.00 / $64.95 / €61.90 PB • 978-1-5095-6088-2 • £15.99 / $22.95 / €19.90 ebook available
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Trans Figured On being a transgender person in a cisgender world SOPHIE GRACE CHAPPELL The Open University ‘Public controversy about the status of people who have changed their gender identification has been mostly characterized by both muddle and verbal violence. This book, in contrast, is a model of what a serious philosopher can bring to the discussion – and also of how to philosophize about moral questions in general. Clear, witty, moving, realistic and patient, it is a profoundly welcome contribution, urging us to beware of distorted generalizations, and to spend the time needed to listen to the arguments and the narratives of those most directly affected by the debate.’ Rowan Williams, theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury ‘With both analytic clarity and personal transparency, Chappell invites her reader to join in on a pressing philosophical conversation about the costs and contradictions of anti-trans rhetoric, and what transgender experience can teach us all about being human.’ Robin Dembroff, Yale University 229 x 152mm • 240 pages • UK April 2024, US June 2024 HB • 978-1-5095-6150-6 • £25.00 / $35.00 / €30.90 ebook available
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Trouble with Gender Sex Facts, Gender Fictions ALEX BYRNE MIT ‘A refreshingly clarifying and forthright take on the philosophy of gender activism, cutting through the noise with incisiveness and wit. Anyone interested in the gender wars needs to read it.’ Kathleen Stock, author of Material Girls ‘Alex Byrne masterfully does what philosophers are supposed to do: clarify words and concepts, identify which ideas follow from which other ones, and distinguish what is from what ought to be. And despite the now-incendiary subject matter, he accomplishes all this with a light touch and an appealing voice.’ Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Rationality 229 x 152mm • 320 pages • UK October 2023, US January 2024 HB • 978-1-5095-6001-1 • £25.00 / $29.95 / €30.90 ebook available
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Left Is Not Woke SUSAN NEIMAN Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany ‘[I]ncisive … crucial to the future of the left.’ Vancouver Sun ‘Provocative, insightful, sure to stir controversy.’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘Illuminating and thought-provoking.’ The Irish Times ‘Neiman’s short, punchy, and brilliantly articulated argument is essentially a call for those who regard themselves as being on the left to remember the distinction between skepticism and cynicism.’ New York Review of Books 216 x 138mm • 208 pages • HB 2023, PB May 2024 HB • 978-1-5095-5830-8 • £20.00 / $25.00 / €24.90 PB • 978-1-5095-6410-1 • £12.99 / $14.95 / €15.90 ebook available
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