Western philosophy from c 1800

Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy.

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today.

This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science.

Peter Sloterdijk s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s.

This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issues raised by the relation between women and philosophy.

On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality.

Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times.

“From meditations on human nature to strategic advice for the Trump era, Chomsky remains the thinker who shaped a generation, a beacon of hope” (Sarah Jaffe, host of Belabored)   This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Time  as “arguably the most important intellectual alive.

The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial.

The French philosopher Jacques Ranci re is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality.

This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world a vulnerable, tormented man who, throughout his life, continued to see himself as unwelcome in the French university system.

In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity.

This volume presents a series of essays which investigate the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates.

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and the problems of modernity.

An atheist's analysis of the Founding Father's document on deism and the philosophy of Jesus.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East, fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political.

The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember.