Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic distributions of the sensible, wh...

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplato...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in t...

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that...

Why does Gilles Deleuze write about the cinema to address specific philosophical problems? Deleuze turns to the cinema precisely because its formal...

This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they c...

Jrgen Habermas has come to be viewed as the unofficial philosopher laureate of the European Union. But why have his contributions to contemporary p...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in w...

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in w...

Feminism and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy share a commitment to reinvention and infinite variation, to follow the paths of individual vicissit...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in whic...

Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as two of the twentieth centurys greatest proponents of open society. However, over the years, H...

For many years now debates over America hegemony and its supposed decline have circulated academic circles. The neo-Gramscians have greatly enriche...

The more complex a human action is, the greater the need to formulate a plan of action, devise a method of implementation, and evaluate its executi...

Pragmatism is rooted in the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to pra...

Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, o...

With his An Interpretation of Nietzsches On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life, Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsches second U...

What does Lyotard's thought offer contemporary theory? By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, And...