History of Western Philosophy

How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philos...

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) ...

This book includes essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy. This collection of 15 essays ...

Does love command an ineffability that remains inaccessible to the philosopher?Thinking About Love considers the nature and experience of love thro...

This dictionary is dedicated to the work of Gilles Deleuze, providing an in-depth introduction to a leading figure in continental philosophy. It de...

This title presents a range of critical engagements with the work of Alain Badiou. This collection of 13 essays directly addresses the work of Alai...

Kant's category of reality is an often overlooked element of his Critique of Pure Reason. Tal Glezer shows that it nevertheless belongs at the core...

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philo...

In the Eastern Aegean lies an island of forested hills and olive groves, with streams, marshes and a lagoon that nearly cuts the land in two. It wa...

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig ...

Although indisputably one of the most important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition, Rousseau's actual place within that tradition, and ...

A new philosophical reflection on the secret and its importance to our contemporary political experienceThe Snowden Affair, Wikileaks, the 'lone wo...

While he is more commonly known for his Trinitiarian works and theology, this study assesses mid-fourth-century bishop Hilary of Poitiers' view of ...

In the fifth century BCE, Melissus of Samos developed wildly counterintuitive claims against plurality, change, and the reliability of the senses. ...

Alex Tissandier argues that an understanding of Deleuze's relationship to Leibniz is essential for a full understanding of his philosophy. Througho...

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and lingu...

Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with la...

Peter Sloterdijk''s essay on Friedrich Nietzsche and the benefits and dangers of narcissistic jubilation. For Peter Sloterdijk, Friedrich Nietz...

Medieval semantic theories develop out of Aristotles On Interpretation, in which he notes that Spoken sounds are symbols of affections in the soul,...

After a period of neglect, the idealist and romantic philosophies that emerged in the wake of Kants revolutionary writings have once more become im...