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The Secular Contract seeks to defend the European Enlightenment's secularization of political philosophy by promoting an understanding of Enlightenment secular liberalism and extending it to contemporary issues.

George Berkeley was an idealist and an extraordinarily eloquent man of letters.

How do we write about magic?

In 1901 a rich collection of extracts from documents relating to witch beliefs and witch trials in the Middle Ages - Hexenwahns und der Hexenverfolgung in Mittelalter - was published in Bonn.

Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers.

Deleuze and the Diagram charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram.

Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself.

The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years.

"There are student-friendly introductions to Descartes' Meditations, but I know of none that match the student-friendliness of Richard Francks' Reader's Guide.

Continuum's Reader's Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy.

Jacques Derrida continues to be the world's single most influential philosophical and literary theorist.

Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'?

Machiavelli's influence on modern politics and the importance of his thought for the development of modern political ideas has long been universally acknowledged.

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging.

Covering all the key concepts of Nietzsche's work, Starting with Nietzsche provides an accessible introduction to the development of and motivation behind the ideas that are embodied in his key works.

Willard Van Orman Quine is one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Although Wittgenstein is often held co-responsible for the so-called death of man as it was pronounced in the course of the previous century, no detailed description of his alternative to the traditional or Cartesian account of human being has so far been available.

One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure.

101 Great Philosophers is a concise and accessible guide to 101 of the greatest minds that contributed to the legacy of western philosophy.

Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.

"Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body" is an exploration of a multimodal theory of cognitive science.

Machiavelli's influence on modern politics and the importance of his thought for the development of modern political ideas has long been universally acknowledged.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy.

Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today.

An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy.

Is there life after theory?

The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years.