David Auerbach’s Books of the Year 2022: Philosophy
Waggish 2023-01-19
This is the final list for 2022. There is some seriously important work here, particularly the translation of Hans Blumenberg’s late masterpiece The Readability of the World, which is as mind-expanding as the best of his work. (I believe only Hoehlenausgaenge only remains to be translated of his big books.) Just as much are the two new volumes of Myles Burnyeat’s papers, particularly the third’s extensive treatment of the Republic, in particular the long “Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul,” which marshals the best explanation I’ve read for just why studying pure, unapplied mathematics was so important to Plato (and why it is still important today). It’s a brilliant essay. And Catherine Wilson’s book is one of the best on Kant I’ve read in some time and is as strong as the rest of her work.
The Readability of the World (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation) Blumenberg, Hans (Author), Savage, Robert (Translator), Roberts, David (Translator) Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy Wilson, Catherine (Author) OUP Oxford
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 3 Burnyeat, Myles (Author) Cambridge University Press
Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy: Volume 4 Burnyeat, Myles (Author) Cambridge University Press
Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation (Cambridge Source Books in Post-hellenistic Philosophy) Inwood, Brad (Author) Cambridge University Press
Plato's Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws Laks, André (Author) Princeton University Press
The Kingdom of Darkness: Bayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy Levitin, Dmitri (Author) Cambridge University Press
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed (Modern European Philosophy) Mooney, Timothy D. (Author) Cambridge University Press
What's the Use of Philosophy? Kitcher, Philip (Author) Oxford University Press
Johann Friedrich Herbart: Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy Beiser, Frederick C. (Author) OUP Oxford
Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt Nassar, Dalia (Author) Oxford University Press
Pico della Mirandola on Trial: Heresy, Freedom, and Philosophy Copenhaver, Brian (Author) Oxford University Press