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

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

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

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

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

Examines tragedy in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.

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

Reflections on the enigma and secret of “literature.”

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

Explores the conceptual schema underlying our understanding of reproductive technologies.

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

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

An analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy of technology.

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

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

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

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

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

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

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

Engages contemporary European thought on a variety of philosophical topics.

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

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

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

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