Winner of a 2015 Outstanding Reference Sources Award, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Hari Kunzru
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by David Wootton
One of The Times Higher Education Supplement’s Books of the Year 2014, chosen by Robert S. C. Gordon
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
[W]hat may be the weirdest book the twenty-first century has so far produced. . . . [T]his is a considerable and entertaining book, full of odd words beautifully, at times owlishly, annotated.---Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
[An] extraordinary book. . . . Many of the entries are illuminating, but what is most fascinating about the book is its partial vision of a fragment of European culture, through the dissection of its philosophical vocabulary.---Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement
[A] cornucopia of lexical trajectories and semantic adventures across a wide variety of languages and histories. . . . As for the achievement of Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra and Michael Wood in orchestrating the English edition, that qualifies as heroic . . . this book is another valuable reminder that a philosophy that ignores its own history, that pretends to operate as if it had no history, is self-impoverishing.---Christopher Prendergast, London Review of Books
Praise for the French edition: "This dictionary's great idea is to address European philosophy from the point of view of translation. . . . [It] attains its goal by putting this principle to work: one cannot always translate a foreign concept in one word, but one can always explain it. And when one has grasped the explanation, one has acquired the concept."---Le Figaro Littéraire,
Praise from the French edition: "A dictionary cannot be summarized. One great lesson, nevertheless, which can be distilled from this one (it can be gathered in the masterworks of the entries 'Traduire' ['Translate'] and 'Langues et traditions' ['Languages and traditions']), is that no language is born a philosophical one. It becomes philosophical, as it engages in exchanges with other languages. Philosophical language is impure language, and a national philosophy cannot, therefore, exist. This conviction can perhaps be one of the meanings of the unity of Europe, to which the Vocabulaire renders homage, and service."---Vincent Aubin, Le Figaro
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