Western philosophy from c 1800

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?

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.

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French thinker best known for his work on 'autonomy' and 'human creation'.

The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes associated with the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought.

Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview.

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

This is an introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy.

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century.

A key development in Wittgenstein Studies over recent years has been the advancement of a resolutely therapeutic reading of the Tractatus.

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a Greek-French thinker best known for his work on 'autonomy' and 'human creation'.

Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading thinkers and scholars: Robert Bernasconi, Peter Eli Gordon, Marion Heinz, Theodore Kisiel and Slavoj i ek.

S ren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential thinkers of the nineteenth century.

In our contemporary age aesthetics seems to crumble and no longer be reducible to a coherent image.

Heidegger, Ethics and the Practice of Ontology presents an important new examination of ethics and ontology in Heidegger.

MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years.

Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology offers an important new reading of Heidegger's middle and later thought.

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

The Ethics of Community initiates a conversation between continental philosophy and cultural/literary studies that is long overdue.

Adorno's Poetics of Critique is a critical study of the Marxist culture-critic Theodor W.

Kevin Hermberg's book fills an important gap in previous Husserl scholarship by focusing on intersubjectivity and empathy (i.

The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years.

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.

Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century.

The Heidegger Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Martin Heidegger, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the twentieth century.

Written by an experienced drummer and philosopher, Groove is a vivid and exciting study of one of music's most central and relatively unexplored aspects.

Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution.

Foucault's Legacy brings together the work of eight Foucault specialists in an important collection of essays marking the 25th anniversary of Foucault's death.

At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and the most controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy.

By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger's history of being and Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and Foucault significantly expand the notions of knowledge and thought.

This is the first comparative study of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and the psychoanalayst Jacques Lacan.

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

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

Surveying the history, latest developments and potential future directions of contemporary analytic philosophy, this is an essential one-volume reference guide for all those working in the field.

A Thousand Plateaus is the engaging and influential second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the remarkable collaborative project written by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari.

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.

The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy examines three generations of analytic philosophers, who between them founded the modern discipline of analytic philosophy in Britain.

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

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