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Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography

by Brent Adkins

The debate between faith and reason has been a dominant feature of Western thought for more than two millennia. This book takes up the problem of the relation between philosophy and theology and proposes that...


Social Media and the Value of Truth

by Berrin Beasley & Mitchell Haney

This volume will be of special interest to anyone concerned with modern applied ethical issues, particularly those in the areas of philosophy, communication, media studies, and journalism. This volume brings...


Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics

by Alexander Groeschner & Colin Koopman

Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary...


Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World

by Bernard-Henri Levy & Michel Houellebecq

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.

 

In one corner,...


Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought

by Gregory Claeys

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Thought provides essential information on, and a critical interpretation of, nineteenth-century thought and nineteenth-century thinkers. The project takes as its temporal boundary...


Marx and Marxism

by Peter Worsley

Karl Marx probably had more influence on the political course of the last century than any other social thinker. There are many different kinds of Marxism, and the Twentieth Century saw two huge Marxist states...


The Constitution of England

by Jean Louis De Lolme

The Constitution of England is one of the most distinguished eighteenth-century treatises on English political liberty. In the vein of Charles Louis Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) and William Blackstone’s...


Derrida in 90 Minutes: Philosophers in 90 Minutes

by Paul Strathern

In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes...


Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze

by Patricia Pisters

This volume assembles some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Deleuze studies in order to provide both an accessible introduction to key concepts in Deleuze's thought and to test them in view...


Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought

by Colby Dickinson

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin,...


Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy

by Giuseppe Bianco & Tzuchien Tho

Between 1965 and 1968, the celebrated French philosopher Alain Badiou hosted a televised series in which he interviewed some of the most influential contemporary philosophers of the period, including Michel...


Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

by Will Buckingham

The telling of tales is always a troubling business. In telling stories about ourselves and about others, we are always at risk of betraying ethics. Troubled Tales explores the troubling nature of storytelling...


Militant Modernism

by Owen Hatherley

Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture - and pursues the notion of an evolved modernism that simply refuses to...


Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works

by Heidi Bickis & Rob Shields

By focusing on key concepts and themes from his later texts, such as affect, aesthetics, Andre Malraux, St Paul, nihilism, infancy, space and writing, Rereading Jean-François Lyotard: Essays on His Later Works...


What Nietzsche Really Said

by Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen M. Higgins

What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.

Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence,...


Unpopular Essays

by , Bertrand Russell

This early work by Bertrand Russell is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on the ideologies and philosophies that drove early twentieth century thought....


Hitler's Philosophers

by Yvonne Sherratt

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this...


The Treasure of the Humble

by , Maurice Maeterlinck

Originally published in 1907, this little volume presents M. Maeterlinck in a new character, not as a dramatist, but as a philosopher and an aesthetician. It is some sort of an 'apology' for his theatre. He...


Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria

by Francis Hutcheson

This Liberty Fund publication of Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria is a parallel edition of the English and Latin versions of a book designed by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General Editor...


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich

by William H.F. Altman

By subjecting Nietzsche to a Platonic critique, Altman punctures his “pose of untimeliness” while making use of Nietzsche’s own aphoristic style of presentation. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for...