Continental Philosophy

This outstanding volume assembles some of Marcuse’s most important work and presents for the first time his unique syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory. It includes a comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner, Tyson Lewis and Clayton Pierce, which places Marcuse’s ..

Post-Analytic Tractatus establishes Wittgenstein's early work in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as an invaluable source for exploring current debate on analytic philosophy in its origins, history, limits and relations with European philosophy. Drawing together new work from the leading figures i..

This reissue (1990) addresses the cultural phenomenon that is postmodernism. The first part raises some general theoretical questions about postmodernism. The second section attends to the various arts and the philosophical understanding of them: specific readings of architecture, painting, literatu..

This title was first published in 2001. Derrida's work testifies to the problematic state of contemporary thought. Questioning Derrida offers new explorations into Derrida's contribution to philosophy. Presenting contributions from prominent philosophers worldwide, this book explores many aspects of..

Questioning Ethics offers an unsurpassed overview of the state of ethical thinking today by some of the world's foremost philosophers, such as Habermas, MacIntyre, Ricoeur and Kristeva...

This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to twentieth century continental philosophy for students of philosophy and related disciplines. It includes a glossary of technical terms...

This collection examines dimensions of gender and sexuality insofar as they can either deepen or displace the traditional centrality of psychoanalysis in matters sexual. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities...

Guided by the contention that different conceptions of the political are committed to specific conceptions of subjectivity while different conceptions of subjectivity have different political implications, the essays in this collection explore these notions and their connection...

Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics perpetuate the mechanisms that subordinate women, and argues for a new ethics of sexual difference which better locates the mechanisms of discrimination and the means to subvert them...

This is a highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. It clearly explains and examines the central problem of the debate: whether the use of reason is an emancipatory or enslaving force...

This book is a genealogical study of confession. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault as well as the history of Western confessional writings from Ancient Greece to contemporary pop culture, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting..

This book is a genealogical study of confession. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault as well as the history of Western confessional writings from Ancient Greece to contemporary pop culture, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting..