Philosophy

An in-depth comparison of Wittgenstein and Heidegger shows how the views of both philosophers emerge from a fundamental attempt to dispense with the transcendent.

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves.

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

Few philosophers have garnered as much attention globally as Michel Foucault.

Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.

A proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation.

An overview of the latest interdisciplinary research on human morality, capturing moral sensibility as a sophisticated integration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational mechanisms.

Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the "e;first"e; world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language.

Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.

A prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention.

The volume is inspired by Gilles Deleuze's philosophical project, which builds on the critique of European Humanism and opens up inspiring new perspectives for the renewal of the field.

In its early modern form, philosophy gave a decisive impetus to the science and technology that have transformed the planet and brought on the so-called Anthropocene.

What is philosophy?

This volume is a guide to the legacy of the philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion.

Does disgust guide moral behavior, or does it hamper it?

A Materialist Theory of Justice offers an innovative (re)reading of justice that draws from diverse theoretical currents, tracing in the process an age-old tradition of critical thought.

This book argues that a renewed consideration of artistic value should both critique contemporary bureaucratic misunderstandings of what art is and address the complexities and questions of contemporary philosophers in new and provocative ways.

This volume critically explore and extend Hayek's Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness from the disciplines of law, economics, philosophy, anthropology, political science, and history.

Derrida and Foucault offers a major contribution to the interpretation of these two highly influential thinkers.

The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world's most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.

The emotional exchange between so-called "e;humans"e; and more-than-human creatures is an overlooked phenomenon in societies characterized by the ubiquitous deaths of animals.

Sound Pressure reveals how speaker systems mounted in public, employment, military and entertainment environments have played a pivotal role in the way that humans have been physiologically and psychologically organised and disciplined throughout the past century.

Adorno's writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that 'he didn't listen to the right jazz' or 'he was a snob'.

Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked.

Contexts of Suffering draws on Martin Heidegger's phenomenology and his analysis of human existence to challenge core assumptions in contemporary psychiatry by contextualizing mental illness and illuminating its existential and experiential qualities.

How does the theme of the other--as person, experience or alternative conceptual scheme-allow us to reassess the role of the self in literary texts?

The eye roll, the smirk, the unilateral lip curl.

Many technologies and practices that define the Internet today date back to the 1990s - such as user-generated content, participatory platforms and social media.

Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni.

This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation.

In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations.

Empathy is a term used increasingly both in moral theory and animal ethics, with the suggestion that empathy enhances our moral ability and agency.

In this important volume, French philosopher and poet J.

If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other.

When, if ever, is it permissible to afford special consideration to friends and family?

This edited collection addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of connectivity in time.

Gathering researchers from or towards Global South epistemologies, this book enriches the debate on crucial questions for liberation in the South and the improvement of South relations.

One of the most important French philosophers working today, Francois Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than twenty books.

Is time a natural reality that social symbols such as clocks and calendars merely contingently represent?

There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics.

How can we articulate a philosophy of love?

The notion of technological power is fast becoming an object of both academic and policy discourses.

New military technologies are animated by fantasies of perfect knowledge, lawfulness, and vision that contrast sharply with the very real limits of human understanding, law, and vision.

This important new book argues that Jacques Derrida's work can be treated as the basis for a distinctive historiography.

On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization?

What does pregnancy mean when it does not lead to the birth of a child?

The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnes is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism.