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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.

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.

Nihilism and Metaphysics

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

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.

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.

Wonder and Generosity

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

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.

A Propos, Levinas

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

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.

The Intercorporeal Self

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

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.

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.

Utopia of Understanding

A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.

The William Desmond Reader

Career-spanning selections from the writings of William Desmond.

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.

Mimesis and Reason

Excavates the experiential structure of Habermas’s communicative action.

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

Rereading Freud

Edited by Jon Mills
Subjects: Philosophy

Continental philosophers examine Freud’s metapsychology.

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.).

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.

Whose Antigone?

By Tina Chanter
Subjects: Philosophy

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

Feminist Readings of Antigone

New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.

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.

Rewriting Difference

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

Radicalizing Levinas

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

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.

Bergson-Deleuze Encounters

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

Jacques Derrida's Ghost

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

Onto-Ethologies

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

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.

The Signifying Body

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

Imagining Law

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

Bearing Witness to Epiphany

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

Adorno

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

Signifiers and Acts

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

The Comedy of Philosophy

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

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.

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.

Epochal Discordance

Examines the German poet Hölderlin’s philosophical insights into tragedy.

Unquiet Understanding

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

Copula

Explores the conceptual schema underlying our understanding of reproductive technologies.

Madness and Death in Philosophy

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

Alain Badiou

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

Convergence amidst Difference

Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.

Hegel and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

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

Deleuze's Wake

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

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.

Ricoeur's Critical Theory

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

Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age

The first full exploration of the political thought of Jan Patocka, student of Husserl and Heidegger and mentor to Václav Havel.

Clara

Part novella, part philosophy, Clara was Schelling's most popular work during his lifetime, and appears here in English for the first time.

Heidegger and Practical Philosophy

Leading scholars address the ethical and practical dimensions of Heidegger's thought.

Belief and Its Neutralization

The definitive commentary on Husserl's Ideas I.

What is Knowledge?

Appearing in English for the first time, this book comprises two of Ortega's most important works, ¿Qué es conocimiento? and the essay "Ideas y creencias. " This is Ortega's attempt to systematically ...

Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion

Presents a radically anti-foundationalist reading of Nietzsche's philosophy of religion.

The Theory of Difference

Key readings by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Derrida and Irigaray.

Sensibility and Singularity

Establishes the importance of Husserl's phenomenology for Levinas's ethics.

The Gift of Property

Explores the human propensity for owning and having.

A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

An indispensable guide to the major work of one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers.

Chiasms

Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate.

The Face of Things

Engages Levinas and Heidegger on the provocative issue of an ethics of things.

Thinking in the Light of Time

Translated from the Dutch, this book offers a systematic interpretation of Heidegger's thought, focusing particularly on recently published works.

The Ages of the World

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator.

Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World

Edited by Dorothea Olkowski & James Morley
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores Merleau-Ponty's approach of taking the phenomenon of the body out of the dualistic constraints of interior and exterior, and the consequences thereof.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness

Presents a new translation with commentary of chapter IV (“Self-Consciousness”) of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

Nietzsche and Depth Psychology

Explores the psychological aspects of Nietzsche's thought and his influence on psychological thinkers such as Freud, Jung, and Adler.

Levinas and Lacan

Draws attention to the enigmatic missed encounter between Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Lacan, and articulates the theoretical stakes and practical consequences of such a disjunctive encounter for ethics.

Metaphysics to Metafictions

Examines the key role played by Nietzsche in the undoing of the Hegelian system of totality.

Reinterpreting the Political

Rereads classical figures in continental thought, takes up current topics in the legacy of political theory, and analyzes and evaluates Foucault's work as a prime manifestation of the complicated modern interface between truth and power, institution and liberation.

Kenosis and Feminist Theology

Using a perspective derived from the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, Frascati-Lochhead explores the response of feminist theology to postmodern theory.

Isolated Experiences

Traversing the genres of philosophy and literature, this book elaborates Deleuze's notion of difference, conceives certain individuals as embodying difference, and applies these conceptions to their writings.

The Thracian Maid and the Professional Thinker

Argues that Hannah Arendt's two major philosophical works, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind, reveal not a dependency upon Heidegger, but rather a constant and increasing ironic debate with him.

Hegel's Transcendental Induction

Challenges the orthodox account of Hegelian phenomenology as hyper-rationalism, arguing that Hegel's insistence on the primacy of experience in the development of scientific knowledge amounts to a kind of empiricism, or inductive epistemology.

Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other

Elucidates the major components of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics found in his later work.

Novalis

Edited and translated by Margaret Mahony Stoljar
Subjects: Philosophy

This first scholarly edition in English of the philosophical writings of Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), the German Romantic poet, philosopher, and mining engineer, includes two collections of fragments published in 1798, Miscellaneous Observations

Figuring the Self

Provides a systematic overview of the topic of self in classical German philosophy, focusing on the period around 1800 and covering Kant, Fichte, Holderlin, Novalis, Schelling, Schleiermacher, and Hegel.

Waking to Wonder

The central claim of this book is that, early and late, Wittgenstein modelled his approach to existential meaning on his account of linguistic meaning. A reading of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy sets ...