Western Philosophy, from c 1900

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim people as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the i...

In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film character. Ordinary Unh...

This collection features eleven original essays, divided into three thematic sections, which explore the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to oth...

Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a humans interaction w...

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. Th...

Philosophical Chemistry furthers Manuel DeLandas revolutionary intervention in the philosophy of science and science studies. Against a monadic and...

José L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of r...

Modes of address are forms of signification that we direct at living beings, things, and places, and they at us and at each other. Seeing is a form...

Slavoj ieks critical engagement with Christian theology goes much further than his seminal The Fragile Absolute (2000), or his The Puppet and the D...

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Ka...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the ...

The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic,...

Naturalisms Philosophy of the Sacred: Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana offers an interpretation of the sacred based on the ordina...

Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Becketts library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosophers relevance to the Nobel laureates work i...

Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what...

On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the l...

In this volume, Savas L. Tsohatzidis brings together a team of leading experts to provide up-to-date perspectives on the work of J. L. Austin, a ma...

Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interview...

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 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...