Western philosophy from c 1800

Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy.

Philosophy After Deleuze provides a concise and accessible introduction to Deleuze in relation to philosophical inquiry.

The first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of Roads of Freedom, exploring themes central to Sartrean existentialism.

Philippa Foot (1920-2010) is widely regarded as one of the most important Anglophone moral philosophers of the 20th century.

Over the past twenty years, Roger Scruton has been developing a conservative view of human beings, society and culture.

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness is an entertaining philosophical guide to life, love, hate, freedom, sex, anxiety, God and death; a guide to everything and nothing.

This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, Fran ois Laruelle.

What is Philosophy?

Gilles Deleuze is without question one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted.

What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin?

The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences.

American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.

Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time.

Cinema After Deleuze offers a clear and lucid introduction to Deleuze's writings on cinema which will appeal both to undergraduates and specialists in film studies and philosophy.

This volume assembles some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Deleuze studies in order to provide both an accessible introduction to key concepts in Deleuze's thought and to test them in view of the issue of normativity.

This is a comparative study of Benjamin's and Barthes' writings on photography in the context of twentieth-century critical theory.

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.

Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state.

Richard Rorty is one of the most oft-cited yet least understood philosophers of the twentieth century.

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study.

Contemporary capabilities-based approaches to social justice, inspired by the Aristotelian emphasis on human well-being, have tended to separate and even oppose identity-based or recognitive justice from resource-based or redistributive justice.

From his initial writings on imagination and memory, to his recent studies of the glance and the edge, the work of American philosopher Edward S.

This original study offers a timely reconsiderationof the work of French philosopher Jean-Fran ois Lyotard in relation to art,performance and writing.

In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture.

Nietzsche is not difficult to read, but he is famously difficult to understand.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is probably his most famous work.

This book brings Aquinas and Heidegger into dialogue and offers an original and comprehensive rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry.

Deleuze's fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought.

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific and influential French philosophers of the Twentieth Century.

Gilles Deleuze's engagements with mathematics, replete in his work, rely upon the construction of alternative lineages in the history of mathematics, which challenge some of the self imposed limits that regulate the canonical concepts of the discipline.

American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.

There has been a significant renewal of interest in the British Idealists in recent years.

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

Continental philosophy has traditionally seen philosophy as historical, claiming that there are no new beginnings in the discipline, and that we must revisit the work of earlier thinkers again and again.

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers.

Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body.

What do we mean when we talk about philosophy today?

Ludwig Wittgenstein was arguably the most important and influential philosopher of the twentieth century.

Music After Deleuze explores how Deleuzian concepts offer interesting ways of thinking about a wide range of musics.

The question of community is central to our daily life: where do we belong to, what do we share with each other?