Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Contemporary critical theory has customarily been dominated by French and German thought. However, a new wave of Italian thinkers has broken ground...

At the beginning of his magnum opus, Process and Reality (1929), Whitehead lists a series of beliefs which he thinks are widely held by contemporar...

The place of music in Ranciere's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Ranciere and Music responds to this absence with a collectio...

Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist ...

Throughout Deleuze's work, we find two opposing characterisations of Leibniz. On the one hand, Deleuze presents Leibniz as a conservative theologia...

Robert Boncardo investigates how Stphane Mallarm, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political signific...

This is the first dictionary dedicated to the work of Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007). It explains and contextualises more than a hundred key concepts...

Gilles Deleuze is perhaps best known for his influential works in philosophical interpretation, (Nietzsche and Philosophy, Expression in Philosophy...

Why do philosophers read literature? How do they read it? Does their philosophy derive from their reading of literature? If so, to what extent? Any...

Bernard Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is `invented through technics rather ...

In recent years Agamben's work has gained prominence for its incisive critique of the Western political tradition. Yet this has often resulted in ...

More than any other thinker, Giorgio Agamben shows us that philosophy is also a matter of style, and politics a matter of poetics. This book explo...

The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- in particular the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (pub. 1922) and the Philosophical Investigati...

The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- in particular the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (pub. 1922) and the Philosophical Investigati...

Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le don' (1923--4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (a...

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his collaborator Félix Guattari provided new concepts of how humans are differentiated, through processes...

This is a glossary of words associated with Jacques Derrida accommodating the far-reaching implications of his work. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) wa...

12 new essays evaluating Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosoph...

Examines Deleuze's psychoanalytic and philosophical engagement with the Lacanian SchoolGuillaume Collett questions to what extent we can locate Del...