Western Philosophy, from c 1900

The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-se...

Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the recept...

Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unify...

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian...

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin ...

If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle...

Peter Sloterdijk is one of the most challenging and contentious thinkers currently working within the European tradition. This is the first collect...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most pr...

John Rawls (1921-2002) is widely held to be amongst the most important political philosophers for over a century. This volume, which is the first w...

In The Ethics of Discernment, Patrick H. Byrne presents an approach to ethics that builds upon the cognitional theory and the philosophical method ...

Working from the premise that May 68 is a shorthand that delimits an intensive decade of global revolt, Jason Demers documents the cross-pollinatio...

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and with Fel...