Continental Philosophy
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.
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.
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.
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason
Using Ricoeur's ethicomoral position, advances an alternative, more viable ethics than that of deconstruction.
Identifying Selfhood
Traces the decentered formulation of self at the heart of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy from his earliest works to his most recent.
Chiasms
Leading scholars explore the later thought of Merleau-Ponty and its central role in the modernism-postmodernism debate.
Before Logic
Argues that there is an undeniable and essentially historical dimension to logic.
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.
Interrogating the Tradition
Constitutes a thoughtful survey of contemporary hermeneutics in its historical context.
Derrida and the Future of Literature
Confirms the importance of literature in Derrida’s development of a postmodern ethics.
Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World
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.
Heidegger toward the Turn
Leading figures in Heidegger scholarship critically reflect on the dominant topics of Heidegger's thought during the 1930s.
The Weight of Finitude
Suggests that a full acceptance of the finitude of existence can lead to the affirmation of God.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness
Presents a new translation with commentary of chapter IV (“Self-Consciousness”) of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.
Death and Responsibility
Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, the author argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death.
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.
Modernity's Pretenses
Undermines modernity's authority through a cultural and historical examination of texts and thinkers from the Enlightenment to post-Stalinist Europe.
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.
For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife
This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought.
The Actuality of Adorno
Brings together some of the most prominent and influential contemporary interpreters of Adorno's work in a wide-ranging collection of essays that explores Adorno's relation to themes and problems in postmodern thought.
Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other
Elucidates the major components of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics found in his later work.
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.
Critique and Totality
Presents an original and rigorous reading of the entire project of Kantian critique, demonstrating the essential role that cosmology plays in Kant and those he influenced.
Posts
An innovative study of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy, relating the ethical to the problematic of the text as a post or a sending in the work of Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan, Kristeva, and Foucault, and phrasing the ethical as the questions of how to read and write after.
Deconstructive Subjectivities
Explores the meanings of subjectivity in continental philosophy in the wake of post-structuralism and critical theory.
The Modern Subject
Provides a thorough background study of the postmodern assault on the standpoint of the subject as a foundation for philosophy, and assesses what remains today of the philosophy of subjectivity.
On Bataille
Essays on the French writer and critic Georges Bataille, that examine his thought in relation to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida.
Semiological Reductionism
This critical interpretation shows Derridian thought to be permeated by a semiology that reduces all meaning to the signification of signs thus challenging the philosophy of deconstruction at its roots.
Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities
This is a critique of Nietzsche's theory of culture that proposes an alternative paradigm allowing a defense of the humanities against such Nietzschians as Leo Strauss and Derrida.
Double Truth
This is an anthology of deconstructive writings on the doubly difficult theme of truth by the foremost American philosopher of postmodernity.
Heidegger from Metaphysics to Thought
Janicaud clarifies the project of “overcoming” metaphysics, a project that Heidegger himself recognized as open to innumerable misunderstandings, and Mattei inquires into the major Heideggerian texts produced between 1935 and 1969 to detect the cosmic figure of the Geviert, the initial Fourfold where “earth and sky, the divine ones and the mortals” gather.
Reading Heidegger from the Start
Devoted to the rediscovery of Heidegger’s earliest thought leading up to his magnum opus of 1927, Being and Time.
Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness
Proposes to rethink the ontological and ethical dimensions of language by rereading Heidegger’s work and by engaging Levinas’ ethics and contemporary poetics.
The Play of the Self
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first ...
Immanuel Kant
In this book, Hoffe gives a clear, understandable description of Kant's philosophical development and influence, and he sets forth Kant's main ideas from the Critique of Pure Reason and the ethics to ...
Transitions in Continental Philosophy
This book challenges and renews the discussions that have historically characterized the tradition of continental thought in the areas of ethics, feminism, aesthetics, and political theory. The classical ...
Philosophical Papers
Philosophical Papers is useful for readers interested in the story of twentieth century continental philosophy. The book leads the reader throughout the shifts and turns in the often serpentine development ...
Discipline and Critique
Andrew Cutrofello demonstrates that in light of Michel Foucault's genealogical criticisms of the juridical model of power, it is possible to develop a postjuridical model of Kantian critique. Recasting ...
Idealism and the Endgame of Theory
Three seminal philosophical texts by F. W. J. Schelling, arguably the most complex representations of German Idealism, are clearly presented here for the first time in English.
Injustice and Restitution
This book addresses the nature and injustice of authority, retracing the ideas of reason and law from ancient Greece to the present, pursuing a line of thought begun with Anaximander, who speaks of the ...
The Sense of Appropriateness
Günther's book demonstrates that most objections to moral and legal principles are directed not against the validity of principles but against the manner of their application. If one distinguishes between ...
Heidegger and the Essence of Man
Michel Haar argues that Heidegger went too far in transferring all traditional properties of man to being. Haar examines what is left, after this displacement, not only of human identity, but perhaps ...
Remaining in Light
This is the first sustained, critical examination of the work of Edward Hopper, a major twentieth-century American painter. It is a sequence of meditations on his painting "A Woman in the Sun." Each meditation, ...
A Postmodern Reader
These readings are organized into four sections. The first explores the wellsprings of the debates in the relationship between the postmodern and the enterprise it both continues and contravenes: modernism. ...
Dialectic and Narrative
Dialectic and narrative reflect the respective inclinations of philosophy and literature as disciplines that fix one another in a Sartrean gaze, admixing envy with suspicion. Ever since Plato and Aristotle ...
Towards a Phenomenological Ethics
This book investigates the possibility of a contemporary ethics of compassion based upon the experience of human mortality. During an age in which the traditional metaphysical guarantors of order, transcendent ...
New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion
Hegel's ideas about the nature of religion, its history, and its relation to philosophy have had great influence on his friends and foes alike. Relying on the new critical edition of Hegel's separate ...
Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy
This is the first full-length study of the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings on the thought of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Focusing on the notion of genealogy in the thought of both Nietzsche ...
The Renewal of the Heidegger Kant Dialogue
Brings Heidegger’s perspective to bear on questions of ethics, moral freedom, and its social implications, rooting much of Heidegger in his joining with or rejoinders to Kant.
The Process of Democratization
Georg Lukacs's The Process of Democratization provides indispensable reading for an understanding of the revolution that swept Russia and Eastern Europe during 1989-1990. Lukacs, a spokesman for anti-Bolshevik ...
Matrix and line
A comprehensive attempt to assess the politics of deconstruction and the deconstruction of modernist politics.
Beyond Hegel and Dialectic
This book is a defense of speculative philosophy in the wake of Hegel. In a number of wide-ranging, meditative essays, Desmond deals with the criticism of speculative thought in post-Hegelian thinking. ...
The Ring of Representation
This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.
Ethics and Danger
Ethics and Danger examines Heidegger's association with German National Socialism and attempts to understand both the question of politics in Heidegger's thought and the thought that gives rise to that ...
Alcyone
Shapiro explores an interrelated series of themes that contest and offer alternatives to some of the traditional concepts of metaphysics. The notion of gift giving and related ideas are seen to play fundamental ...
Merleau-Ponty Vivant
Situates Merleau-Ponty’s thinking in the last decade of the twentieth century, both with regard to general context and specific themes.
Festivals of Interpretation
This book engages and clarifies concepts crucial to Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, including the concepts of effective-history, tradition, dialogue, and language. Festivals of Interpretation ...
Dialogue and Deconstruction
Text of and reflection on the 1981 encounter between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, which featured a dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France.
System and History in Philosophy
The book begins with the problem of the relationship between systematic philosophy and the history of philosophy. Why does philosophy attach so much importance to history? Consideration of this question ...