Western philosophy from c 1800

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy.

This is the first comparative study of the pioneering work on language of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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

Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy.

Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy.

The Gadamer Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Much has been written about Heidegger's reappropriation of Aristotle, but little has been said about the philosophical import and theoretical context of this element of Heidegger's work.

Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents Fran ois Laruelle's mature philosophy.

Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty's later ontology of language in the light of his “figured philosophy,” which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation.

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.

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

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

Deleuze's relationship with theology is a complex one.

The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

Weimar cultural critics and intellectuals have repeatedly linked the dynamic movement of the cinema to discourses of life and animation.

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings.

Derrida's work is controversial, its interpretation hotly contested.

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

Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, as its main source.

In this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differences between analytic and continental philosophy.

From Ricoeur to Action engages with the thinking of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) in order to propose innovative responses to 21st-century problems actively contributing to global conflict.

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

Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus presents fifteen original essays by an international team of expert contributors that together represent a cross-section of Husserl Studies today.

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.

Jürgen Habermas' work ranges across critical theory, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of science, citizenship and democracy, religion and psychoanalysis, forging new paradigms and engaging with other key thinkers.

Our era is profoundly marked by the phenomenon of exile and it is has become increasingly urgent to rethink the concept of exile and our stance towards it.

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced.

Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger.

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.

The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk.

Slavoj Š ZiŠzek is not alone in thinking that Alain Badiou's recent work is "the event of contemporary philosophy.

Merleau-Ponty and the Paradoxes of Expression offers a comprehensive reading of the philosophical work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a central figure in 20th-century continental philosophy.

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

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

The Continuum Companion to Pragmatism offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

This book offers an overview of Putnam's ideas, his key writings and his contributions to the various fields of philosophy.