Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Bertrand Russell (18721970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth centurys most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocaly...

The first philosophers of the Frankfurt School famously turned to the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud to supplement their Marxist analyses...

Written by one of the foremost Italian philosophers of the 20th century, Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores the metaphysica...

Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American FoundationAlain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationshi...

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he co...

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know throug...

Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title!The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, tha...

Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pag...

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast...

John Locke's theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves - yet it is widely thought to be wrong...

In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audienc...

Philosopher John Lachs observes that humans today live lives of comfort but also sees that these comfortable lives come at a cost: our increasing u...

Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the most recent developments in European thought. Fro...

Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the most recent developments in European thought. Fro...

Postmodernism is an important part of the cultural landscape which continues to evolve, yet the ideas and theories surrounding the subject can be d...