Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Hilary Putnam’s unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable ...

Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical “pos...

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 Stephane Mallarme, one of modernity's most ingenious yet obscure poets, became an object of major political signif...

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...

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...

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

Deleuze and Guattari had extremely original things to say about race, and the politics of phenotype and origin is never far from any engaged consid...

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...

Julia Kristeva is an important and influential figure within contemporary Continental thought. This book is an engaging appraisal of the complex r...

This is a new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contemporaries. From the publication of "Deleuze: A Philosophy o...

This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical i...

Staging a fruitful dialogue between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions, while reflecting specifically on the work of Hegel, Merl...

Explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism a formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophyMore than any other...

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

Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals— understood as ideological— with...

In this new edition of his powerfully original work, Schuon covers an array of metaphysical, cosmological, and anthropological subjects. In the boo...