Western philosophy from c 1800

Logic as a Positive Science represents the fruit of more than two decades of the philosophical work of Galvano Della Volpe.

This momentous study of Benjamin's critical practice marks a sea change in Eagleton's thought.

The renowned postmodernist philosopher's tour-de-force contemplation of sex, technology, politics and disease in Western culture after the revolutionary 'orgy' of the 1960s.

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work.

An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines.

With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly and in detail.

This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971.

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly.

Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America.

This third book in the Cool Memories series is culled from Baudrillard's notebooks in the period when he was composing The Illusion of the End and The Perfect Crime.

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age.

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential French philosophers of the last century.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Georges Bataille was a philosopher, writer, librarian, pornographer and a founder of the influential journals Critique and Ac,phale.

In this major new reading of Sartre's life and work, Paige Arthur traces the relationship between the philosopher's decades-long commitment to decolonization and his intellectual positions.

Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968.

Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same eccentricity.

In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society.

Experimental Dining examines the work of four of the world's leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat Duck and Alinea.

Experimental Dining examines the work of four of the world's leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat Duck and Alinea.

This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience).

This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience).

IDEAS THAT SHAPE OUR LIVESThis book is a clear, comprehensive guide to the philosophic and religious concepts of the world's outstanding philosophers.

In this present volume, the author of Man the Unknown makes clear why civilisation is on the edge of an abyss and propounds three basic laws of nature in which, he believes, lies mankind's only salvation: Effects of Chemical Factors, Effects of Physical Factors, and Effects of Physiological Habits.

A brief yet informative book by one of the founders of analytic philosophy in which he introduces the reader to various analytic movements throughout the 20th century-Philosophy, Logicism, and Mathematics-and their application.

"e;Many people today adopt an instinctively derogatory attitude to reason.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism.

The first book-length study of the work of Alphonso Lingis' philosophical works.

Challenges the contemporary materialist and post-truth world view and provides a challenging alternative.

An exploration of the occult, esoteric, imaginative and creative speculations that have resonated around the UFO phenomenon.

A proposed alternative to the failing job system.

Embodied in this compact volume is a journey of discovery through Jungian thoughtscapes never before revealed with the depth, force and scholarly rigor you are about to encounter.

Engages the myriad dimensions of Night in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark.

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society.

Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines think so differently.

With the translation of Lefebvre's philosophical writings, his stature in the English-speaking world continues to grow.

The System of Objects is a tour de force-a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day-offering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.

The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most influential figures in the Western Marxist tradition.

But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world?

The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "e;French moment"e; in contemporary thought.

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the 21st century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics.

Between mass participation in two world wars and mass participation in Communist parties, in the 20th century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'.

Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "e;linguistic turn"e; in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "e;antiphilosophy"e; of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Crisis dominates the present historical moment.

Who was Jacques Derrida?

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality.

A compelling reevaluation of the Enlightenment from one of its leading historiansIn this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period.

This is the first of Lucio Colletti's books to be translated into English, in which he considers the scientific character of Marxism.

Adorno, Foucault, and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period in our history.

Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory.