Western Philosophy, from c 1900

Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a passion for the possible expressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sediment...

This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weim...

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he co...

Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: Whiteheads philosophy of the event, Deleuzes philosophy of ...

Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the...

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridas thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published semina...

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derridas thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published semina...

As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound...

While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, ...

The current international financial system has created a huge gap between the wealthy and the rest. Grounded and straightforward in his approach, B...

Deleuze and Beckett is a collection of essays on specific aspects of the Deleuze and Beckett interface. Some of the world's leading Beckett and Del...

In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger. Schalow takes up the question: Why should a philosophe...

The two essays in the volume follow a long tradition in critical discourse that turns to Art's domain as a source of inspiration, instruction, and ...

Bringing together active neuroscientists, neurophilosophers, and scholars this volume considers the prospects of a neuroscientifically-informed pra...

Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ric...

For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepan...

Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in the pragmatist turn in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve younger critics in a livel...

Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of...

The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (18851977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (...