Juxtaposes five contemporary French poets, illuminating the philosophical elements of their work while making their sometimes difficult writing newly accessible.

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of affectivity in various forms of life.

Examines theological motifs in the work of Jan Patočka, drawing out their implications for contemporary theology and philosophy of religion.

A study of the significance of the visual arts in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics in relation to the work of five artists not known or discussed by him.

A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.

Examines the evolution of disappearance as a formal narrative and epistemological phenomenon in late twentieth-century Argentine fiction.

Highlights the extent to which the two thinkers share a common philosophical framework, while also demonstrating how Levinas shifts the orientation of philosophical thinking from truth to justice.

Drawing from philosophy and psychology, offers a clear and compelling interpretation of what it means to be an adult.

Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a “movement” rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Argues that symbolism is an important and unique element of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.

Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling.

Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.

An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.

Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.