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independent thinking from polity politybooks.com Decolonial Ecology Thinking from the Caribbean World Malcom Ferdinand “Malcom Ferdinand brilliantly breaks away from the spider web of canonical ecological narratives and arguments. The wrongdoing of modernity is diagnosed from the decolonial Caribbean experience of coloniality. Decolonial Ecology reveals – through the power of storytelling – that the sacralization of reason, statistics, and mega-data has prevented us from realizing that ecological and colonial problems cannot be solved within the blindness of the Western modernity that created the problems.” Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations PB 9781509546237 | £17.99 | November 2021 The Summer of Theory History of a Rebellion, 1960–1990 Philipp Felsch “A vivid, wry portrait of West Germany in the 1960s and ‘70s, when terrorists in their prison cells requested the complete works of Hegel, when train stations sold copies of Adorno and Habermas, when members of anticapitalist cells rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of theory, and when reading was a more intense experience than drugs, sex, and rock n’ roll. Philipp Felsch has an unerring eye for where the earnest meets the absurd, and his account of the strange passion for theory is unforgettable.” Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin HB 9781509539857 | £25.00 | October 2021 Affluence and Freedom An Environmental History of Political Ideas Pierre Charbonnier “Because he speaks the language of political philosophy and not that of environmentalism, Charbonnier manages, paradoxically, to bring questions of the material conditions of existence much closer to what those who pursue the modern ideals of freedom and prosperity need in order to realize them. He might succeed in rendering political ecology mainstream.” Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris PB 9781509543724 | £19.99 | July 2021 Philosophy and Sociology 1960 Theodor W. Adorno In this series of lectures from 1960, Adorno addresses the relationship between the two disciplines of philosophy and sociology and attempts to dispel the common presumption that their fields of interest and methodology were incompatible. By focusing on the problem of truth, Adorno seeks to show that philosophy and sociology share much more in common than many of their practitioners are inclined to assume. PB 9780745679426 | £18.99 | December 2021 Order your copies at www.politybooks.com @politybooks facebook.com/politybooks
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Issue Winter 2022, Vol.110, No.1 Website thephilosopher1923.org Twitter @philosopher1923 Email thephilosopher1923@gmail.com Editor Anthony Morgan Editorial board Jana Bacevic, Darren Chetty, Alexander Douglas, Brian D. Earp, Adam Ferner, Moya Mapps, Alexis Papazoglou, Chiara Ricciardone, John Robinson, Andrés Saenz De Sicilia, Lauren Slater, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Lani Watson, Peter West Website, social media, and more Olive Richardson, Keren Bester, Emil Kunna, Joanna Ciafone Design William Eckersley Cover Nick Halliday (hallidaybooks.com) Art consultant Joanna Borkowska Over four issues to be published in 2022, The New Basics will consider 50 “keywords” on four themes: 1) Planet, 2) Society, 3) Person, and 4) Philosophy, providing a provocative introduction to central concepts, one that excavates the seismic intellectual and social changes of the past half-century. The keyword entries will emphasize the shifting and conditional nature of the vocabularies we are generating, eschewing the individualistic “brain in a vat” search for universal, ahistorical truths. They will retain the open-ended quest for meaning specific to the best of the philosophical tradition. This opening issue on “Planet” offers new possibilities for thinking through and living in the “Anthropocene” – the term that is increasingly used to define a new planetary era in which humans have become a planet-changing force through inflicting geologic intrusions, biological disturbances, or climatic alterations. The short, accessible essays in this issue offer powerful snapshots of what it means to live in a time of seismic change. To adapt a quotation from Travis Holloway’s new book, they are all “a response to the end of the world as we know it against the spectre of catastrophic climate change”. Planetary questions are richly philosophical ones. The essays that follow cover ontology, ethics, political theory, feminist philosophy, and decolonial philosophy, as well as branching out into history, economics, and physics. In the opening essay, Jeff Sebo asks: “If our treatment of animals is worsening global health and environmental threats, how are we to treat them?” Alexander Douglas asks: “We are told that capitalism is destroying the planet, but what is capitalism?” Malcom Ferdinand asks: “Upon which stories of the Earth do we rely when we talk about the ecological crisis?” Michael Marder asks: “What does the emerging ethical ideal of connectedness do to actual and possible relations?” Erin R. Pineda asks: “In a world on fire, is there time for disobedience?” Simona Capisani asks: “How is the right to being in a livable space hindered by a shifting human climate niche?” Thomas Nail asks: “What are the planetary consequences of philosophy’s preference for stasis over movement?” Pierre Charbonnier asks: “What are we to do now that our traditional political categories are no longer fit for purpose?” Romy Opperman asks: “Do planetary ethics require us to reappraise the concept of racism?” Nancy Tuana asks: “What are the sensibilities we need to cultivate in order to change our ways of living?” Simone M. Müller asks: “What kind of collectivity is possible in an age of the toxic commons?” Finally, Travis Holloway asks: “Are stories about catastrophic weather contributing to a reinvention of epic or grand narrative?” Other highlights in this issue include: Jana Bacevic explores lived experience via Simone de Beauvoir and Sara Ahmed; Donovan Irven enters into the debate over free will from an Existentialist perspective; Paul C. Taylor discusses the evolution of race-thinking; and Jason Blakely is none too impressed by Steven’s Pinker’s Rationality. It has been a great honour to work with artist Blane De St. Croix and I am grateful to him for permission to use his stunning images in this issue. Anthony Morgan, Editor 1

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independent thinking from polity politybooks.com

Decolonial Ecology Thinking from the Caribbean World

Malcom Ferdinand “Malcom Ferdinand brilliantly breaks away from the spider web of canonical ecological narratives and arguments. The wrongdoing of modernity is diagnosed from the decolonial Caribbean experience of coloniality. Decolonial Ecology reveals – through the power of storytelling – that the sacralization of reason, statistics, and mega-data has prevented us from realizing that ecological and colonial problems cannot be solved within the blindness of the Western modernity that created the problems.” Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

PB 9781509546237 | £17.99 | November 2021

The Summer of Theory History of a Rebellion, 1960–1990

Philipp Felsch “A vivid, wry portrait of West Germany in the 1960s and ‘70s, when terrorists in their prison cells requested the complete works of Hegel, when train stations sold copies of Adorno and Habermas, when members of anticapitalist cells rolled up their sleeves to do the dirty work of theory, and when reading was a more intense experience than drugs, sex, and rock n’ roll. Philipp Felsch has an unerring eye for where the earnest meets the absurd, and his account of the strange passion for theory is unforgettable.” Lorraine Daston, Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

HB 9781509539857 | £25.00 | October 2021

Affluence and Freedom An Environmental History of Political Ideas

Pierre Charbonnier “Because he speaks the language of political philosophy and not that of environmentalism, Charbonnier manages, paradoxically, to bring questions of the material conditions of existence much closer to what those who pursue the modern ideals of freedom and prosperity need in order to realize them. He might succeed in rendering political ecology mainstream.” Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris

PB 9781509543724 | £19.99 | July 2021

Philosophy and Sociology 1960

Theodor W. Adorno In this series of lectures from 1960, Adorno addresses the relationship between the two disciplines of philosophy and sociology and attempts to dispel the common presumption that their fields of interest and methodology were incompatible. By focusing on the problem of truth, Adorno seeks to show that philosophy and sociology share much more in common than many of their practitioners are inclined to assume.

PB 9780745679426 | £18.99 | December 2021

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