Western Philosophy, from c 1900

All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher François Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruel...

What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-tra...

Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a passion for the possible expressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sediment...

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed the brightest man in Europe by George Santayana, Simmel addressed...

Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potenti...

Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture...

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What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-v...

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, ...

In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themescommunity, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics...

This exciting new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the contemporary state of the field in feminist philosophy. The editors' introduction...

How could Hannah Arendt, a German Jew who fled Germany in 1931, have reconciled with Martin Heidegger, whom she knew had joined and actively partic...

This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendishs most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Nat...

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought....

We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vaud...

This book features fourteen original essays that critically engage the philosophy of Richard Rorty, with an emphasis on his ethics, epistemology, a...

Americans are more divided today than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not merely moral and political, but philosophical, and e...

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

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought....

Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first sys...

In this second volume of The Sparks of Randomness, Henri Atlan pursues his investigation of human life, which he grounds in a distinctive interming...

This work focuses on humanity's first technology--language--by placing the views of two of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century in direct ...

A Unified Treatment of Moore's Paradox is the culmination of a decades-long engagement with Moore's paradox by the world's leading authority on the...