Continental 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 Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues
A provocative close reading revealing a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates.
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
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
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.