Western Philosophy, from c 1900

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

While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical an...

Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philo...

Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life What mig...

Ethics, or the systematized set of inquiries and responses to the question “what should I do?” has infused the history of human narrative for more ...

Bernard Berofsky formulates a concept of determinism in terms that will be constructive for the continuing libertarian-determinist debate. His disc...

What are the blissful islands? And where are they? This book takes as its starting-point the chapter called ‘On the Blissful Islands’ in Part Two o...

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book offers a strong alternative to the way that the philosopher'...

The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand p...

James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern so...

Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philo...

The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening globa...

The philosophy of Henry Bugbee defies traditional academic categorization. Though inspired by Heidegger and American Transcendentalism, he was also...

This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger’s most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek t...

Bernard Berofsky formulates a concept of determinism in terms that will be constructive for the continuing libertarian-determinist debate. His disc...

Italian philosophical and political thought has been receiving ever-growing attention in international debates. This has mainly been driven by the ...

Italian philosophical and political thought has been receiving ever-growing attention in international debates. This has mainly been driven by the ...

In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and c...

Critical Theory is an interdisciplinary framework of analysis that was founded by a group of intellectuals working at the Institute for Social Rese...

We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vaud...

Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to cult...

Nietzsche, Tension, and the Tragic Disposition exposes the role of tension in Nietzsche’s recovery, in his mature thought, of the Greek tragic disp...

Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy: Beautiful and Diseased explains Friedrich Nietzsche’s ambivalence toward Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. ...

Rationality and Cultural Interpretivism: A Critical Assessment of Failed Solutions critically assesses cultural interpretivism by scrutinizing five...

Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and de...

This volume is composed of extended versions of selected papers presented at an international conference held in June 2011 at Opole University—the ...

Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with c...

What are the implications of philosophical pragmatism for international relations theory and foreign policy practice? According to John Ryder, “a f...

Moral and political convictions never stand alone. They are always connected to an underlying view of mankind. Liberalism, which currently predomin...

The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that...

When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s plac...