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| Hackett Publishing Company | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hackett Publishing Company |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | William B. Eerdmans? |
| Country | United States |
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Publications | Books |
| Topics | Philosophy, Classics, Political Philosophy |
Hackett Publishing Company is an American independent publisher specializing in scholarly editions and affordable texts in philosophy, classics, and political philosophy. Founded in the early 1970s, the press became known for producing critical texts, translations, and affordable reprints that serve students and scholars associated with institutions such as University of Chicago, Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University. Its catalog and editorial approach intersect with the work of scholars linked to Oxford University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, Stanford University, and research libraries like the Library of Congress.
The company emerged during a period of expansion in academic publishing alongside presses such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Penguin Books, and Random House. Early connections and comparisons invoked editorial standards established by Loeb Classical Library, Ithaca Press, University of California Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and Princeton University Press. Over decades the publisher navigated shifts in academic curricula influenced by debates at institutions including McGill University, University of Toronto, Australian National University, and National University of Singapore. Leadership and acquisitions in the sector involved contemporaries like Continuum International Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Bloomsbury Publishing.
The imprint centers on texts in ancient Rome, ancient Greece, medieval philosophy, and modern political thought with editions comparable to series from Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Penguin Classics, and Norton Critical Editions. Series choices reflect canonical figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Homer, Virgil, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant. The press also produces introductions and anthologies used alongside materials from Routledge Handbook volumes, Blackwell Companions, and Oxford Readings in Philosophy.
Editorial practice emphasizes reliable texts, clear translations, and scholarly apparatus comparable to standards at Bryn Mawr Classical Review, American Philological Association, Society for Classical Studies, International Plato Society, and editorial committees connected to The Classical Quarterly. The company commissions translators and commentators affiliated with departments at University of Pennsylvania, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Notre Dame, and Brown University. Its critical apparatus—introductions, annotations, indices—supports teaching in programs at City University of New York, University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley, and Duke University.
Distribution channels include academic wholesalers, campus bookstores, and library suppliers that also distribute works for Gale (publisher), ProQuest, EBSCO Information Services, Ingram Content Group, and Baker & Taylor. Pricing strategy aims to provide low-cost editions comparable to paperback ranges from Penguin Classics and Modern Library while maintaining rights and contracts with scholars connected to agencies such as Authors Guild and literary agents represented in markets including Frankfurt Book Fair and London Book Fair. Sales and licensing engage with consortia at OhioLINK, HathiTrust, JSTOR, and university presses.
Notable titles include editions and translations of canonical works by Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Virgil, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epicurus, Diogenes Laërtius, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, and modern theorists such as John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Karl Popper. Contributors and translators have affiliations with Columbia University, New York University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Oxford, and Yale University. Many titles are used in courses listed in catalogs from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and University of Texas at Austin.
Scholars cite the press in reviews in venues such as Classical Philology, Journal of Hellenic Studies, Gnomon, Classical Quarterly, and Mnemosyne for providing accessible texts that supplement more extensive critical editions from Teubner, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, and Editiones Principes. Instructors at King's College London, University College London, University of Sydney, Trinity College Dublin, and University of Edinburgh often pair its translations with secondary literature from Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.
While the company itself is not typically the recipient of awards reserved for scholarly societies like the British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Modern Language Association, or Society for Classical Studies, individual authors and translators associated with its editions have received honors such as prizes from the American Philological Association, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and appointments at institutions including Harvard University and Princeton University.
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