Human Science / Philosophy / Criticism

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti & Ray Brassier

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to the intellectual blackmail that would oblige us to be eternally grateful for a 'gift' we never invited." -From...

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)

by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy & Mark Lilla

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu,...

Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence

by Lawrence Hatab

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly...

Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

by John Peterson

This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals. Defending the basis of Aquinas’ natural-law...

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues

by Brian Lightbody

The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental Perspectives, investigates how the term naturalism is defined and applied in the philosophic secondary literature from two often competing perspectives: analytic...

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Derrida on Deconstruction

by Barry Stocker

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida on Deconstruction introduces and assesses:

• Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy...

Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov

by David Kleinberg-Levin

This book offers a philosophical reflection on the nature of language by reading some exemplary works of literature. Drawing on the thought of philosophers—especially Plato, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Benjamin,...

Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

by Graham Harman

As Hölderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarmé to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers.

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

by John Christman

This accessible and user-friendly text will prove invaluable to any student coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of fundamental social and political questions...

James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

by Donald Capps & John M. Capps

Donald Capps and John Capps's James and Dewey on Belief and Experience juxtaposes the key writings of two philosophical superstars. As fathers of Pragmatism, America's unique contribution to world philosophy,...

Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology

by Ernst Bertram & Robert E. Norton

First published in 1918, Ernst Bertrams Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Societys first prize and was admired...

Ludwig Wittgenstein - A Cultural Point of View: Philosophy in the Darkness of this Time

by William J. DeAngelis

This book focuses on the fascinating connection between Wittgenstein and Oswald Spengler and in particular the acknowledged influence of Spengler's Decline of the West. His book shows in meticulous detail how...

Liberalism, Communitarianism and Education: Reclaiming Liberal Education

by Patrick Keeney

Communitarian thinkers have identified important deficiencies in liberal thought, in particular the limits of the account of justice given in liberal theories. Citing the work of John Rawls as the principal...

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion

by Edward W. Younkins

Celebrating the fiftieth year of Atlas Shrugged's publication, this companion is an exploration of this monumental work of literature. Contributions have been specially commissioned from a diversity of eminent...

Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates

by Gabriel Danzig

Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary...

Nietzsche's Zarathustra

by Kathleen Marie Higgins

Nietzsche's Zarathustra is a guide through the convoluted territory of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It shows the philosophical significance of the fictional format as a means to simultaneously propose...

Illuminations

by Walter Benjamin

　 Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and...

The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

by John Casey

First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary...

The Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People Are Rational

by Ray Percival

“It’s like talking to a brick wall” and “We’ll have to agree to disagree” are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach...

The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought

by Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel & Richard Lynch

Many philosophers have heralded the death of philosophy. Kant claimed responsibility for both its beginning and end, while Heidegger argued it concluded with Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, figures as diverse...