Continental Philosophy

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Existence and Heritage

Explores overlapping concerns and themes in African(a) and continental philosophy.

Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence

A reappraisal of deconstruction from one of its leading commentators, focusing on the themes of force and violence.

The Question of the Other

Introduces the phenomenology of the Other, taking into account the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Schutz, and Derrida, but mostly going back to things themselves.

Complicated Presence

A synthetic assessment of Heidegger’s entire path of thinking as a radical attempt to thematize and rethink the fundamental notions of unity dominating the Western metaphysical tradition.

Naturalizing Heidegger

Explores the evolution of Heidegger’s thinking about nature and its relevance for environmental ethics.

Sparks Will Fly

Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.

The Origin of Time

A critical examination of the relationship between the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson, focusing on the central issue of time.

Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition

An examination of the philosophical notion of sacrifice from Kant to Nietzsche.

A Man of Little Faith

By Michel Deguy
Edited and translated by Christopher Elson
Introduction by Christopher Elson
Contributions by Jean-Luc Nancy
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought

A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.

Apropos of Nothing

Everything you wanted to know about the Lacanian critique of deconstruction, but were afraid to ask the Coen Brothers.

Between Levinas and Heidegger

Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.

Phantoms of the Other

Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy.

Nihilism and Metaphysics

An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.

Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Moments of Disruption

By Kris Sealey
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

Emplotting Virtue

A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.

Hegel's Theory of Imagination

A comprehensive account of the role of the imagination in Hegel's philosophy.

Wonder and Generosity

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice

A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.

Ontological Humility

Explores ontological humility in the history of philosophy, from Descartes to contemporary gender and race theory.

Derrida and Joyce

All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.

Weak Thought

Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.

Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.

A Propos, Levinas

Rejects Levinas’s argument for the preeminence of ethics in philosophy.

The Intercorporeal Self

An original interpretation of Merleau-Ponty on subjectivity, drawing from and challenging both the continental and analytic traditions.

Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary

Examines how violence has been conceptually and rhetorically put to use in continental social theory.

The Call to Radical Theology

The major death-of-God theologian explores the meaning and purpose of radical theology.

David Hume

An original, rigorous, and daring reappraisal and recategorization of David Hume.

Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation

A critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and nineteenth-century German idealist G. W. F. Hegel.

Utopia of Understanding

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

The William Desmond Reader

Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

Mimesis and Reason

Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas’s communicative action.

The Heidegger Change

Elaborates the author’s conception of plasticity by proposing a new way of thinking through Heidegger’s writings on change.

The Possible Present

A practical hermeneutics of time.

Ontotheological Turnings?

Explores and critiques the so-called “decentering of the subject” in French phenomenology.

Experimental Phenomenology, Second Edition

By Don Ihde
Subjects: Philosophy

Expanded new edition of the landmark book demonstrating the practice of phenomenology through visual illusions and ambiguous drawings

The Unconcept

Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).

Rereading Freud

Edited by Jon Mills
Subjects: Psychology

Continental philosophers examine Freud’s metapsychology.

Reading Kant's Geography

Perspectives on Kant's teachings on geography and how they relate his understanding of the world.

Objectivity

Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.

An Unprecedented Deformation

Philosophical interpretation of Proust based on the work of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.

Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language

Explores why American Romantic writers and contemporary continental thinkers turn to art when writing about ethics.

Whose Antigone?

By Tina Chanter
Subjects: Philosophy

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

Other Others

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Convergences

Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy in dialogue.

Heidegger's Neglect of the Body

Challenges conventional understandings of Heidegger’s account of the body.

Being and Time

A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.

Radicalizing Levinas

Levinas ahead of his time--and himself--on politics, postcolonialism and globalization, animals and the environment, and science and technology.

Rewriting Difference

A transdisciplinary reader on Luce Irigaray's reading and re-writing of Ancient Greek texts.

Sense and Finitude

Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.

If Creation Is a Gift

Brings an ecotheological perspective to postmodern gift theory.

The Obsessions of Georges Bataille

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.

Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language

Aims to transform logic into a reflection on the nature of language.

Intertwinings

Edited by Gail Weiss
Subjects: Philosophy

Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.

The Death of Empedocles

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

Schelling's Dialogical Freedom Essay

Explores Schelling’s Essay on Human Freedom, focusing on the themes of freedom, evil, and love, and the relationship between his ideas and those of Plato and Kant.

Onto-Ethologies

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

Jacques Derrida's Ghost

A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.

Bergson-Deleuze Encounters

Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.

The Signifying Body

Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film.

Bearing Witness to Epiphany

Makes the novel argument that erotic life is the real sphere of human freedom.

Imagining Law

Essays consider Drucilla Cornell’s contributions to philosophy, political theory, and legal studies.

Overcoming Modernity

These last writings by Japanese philosopher Yuasa engage both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity and offer an alternative, more holistic paradigm.

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy

The first English translation of Schelling’s final “existential system.”

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative

Looks at Ricoeur’s writings on love and justice, prominent toward the end of his life, and how these serve as an interpretive key to his thought as a whole.

Adorno

Examines the role of experience within Adorno’s philosophy of language and epistemology.

The Comedy of Philosophy

Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Signifiers and Acts

Situates Lacan’s theory of the subject within contemporary philosophical debates over freedom and agency.

Sartre and Adorno

Systematic comparison of Sartre and Adorno that focuses on their theories of the subject.

Sarah Kofman's Corpus

Draws connections between the life and writings of philosopher Sarah Kofman.

Nietzsche and Paradox

Translated from the French, this book analyzes the paradoxes that fundamentally characterize Nietzsche’s philosophy and texts.

Tragedies of Spirit

Examines tragedy in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Edited and translated by Silvia Benso
Edited by Brian Schroeder
Subjects: Philosophy
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy

Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.

A Voice from Elsewhere

Reflections on the enigma and secret of “literature.”

Unquiet Understanding

Argues that Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.

Copula

Explores the conceptual schema underlying our understanding of reproductive technologies.

Troubling Play

By Kelsey Wood
Subjects: Philosophy

This new interpretation of Plato's Parmenides emphasizes its treatment of time and language—insights especially relevant for those working in the Continental tradition.

Heidegger and Aristotle

Interprets Heidegger’s phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s philosophy.

The Gods and Technology

An analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology.

Madness and Death in Philosophy

Demonstrates the significance of the concepts of madness and death for the history of philosophy.

The Step Back

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

Lyrical and Ethical Subjects

A wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.

Alain Badiou

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

Petrified Intelligence

A critical introduction to Hegel's metaphysics and philosophy of nature.

Platonic Legacies

Demonstrates how archaic Platonism has a profound significance for contemporary thought.

Questioning Platonism

Explores interpretations of Plato by Heidegger, Derrida, Irigaray, Cavarero, and Gadamer.

Convergence amidst Difference

Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.

Julia Kristeva

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

The Ethics of Ontology

A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle.

Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Twenty-three of the most important writings by contemporary continental thinkers on the work of Hegel.

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy

Demonstrates that the divisions between analytic and continental philosophy are being replaced by a transcontinental desire to address common problems in a common idiom.

Deleuze's Wake

Focuses on Deleuze's style, his conception of the self, and his understanding of philosophy's relationship to the arts.

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature.

Idealism without Absolutes

Extends the boundaries of Romantic culture from its pre-Kantian past to contemporary theory and beyond.

The Book of Love and Pain

Addresses the limits in treating pain psychoanalytically, and offers a phenomenological description of psychic pain, particularly the pain of a lost loved one.

Understanding Understanding

A study of the scope and limits of understanding.

Human Experience

Proposes that philosophy is the proper cure for neurosis.

Ricoeur's Critical Theory

The first book-length treatment of Paul Ricoeur's conception of philosophy as critical theory.

The Sunday of the Negative

A comprehensive philosophical introduction to the thought of Georges Bataille.