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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bo...

How To Read Wittgenstein

A unique series, originally launching with these six titles, which provides the reader with a personal master-class in reading, bringing ...

Aesthetics and Politics

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German cul...

The Politics of Friendship

Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of frien...

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

Analysis of the current global crisis arguing that the financial meltdown signals the end of the idea of global capitalism.

The Courage of Hopelessness - Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightis...

Grand Hotel Abyss - The Lives of the Frankfurt School

In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain...

What We Owe the Future

In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the di...

Capital Hates Everyone - Fascism or Revolution

Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism. We are living in apocalyptic times. In Cap...

Illuminations - Essays and Reflections

A selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century-as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a...

Discipline and Punish - The Birth of the Prison

'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centur...

The Need for Roots - Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being

French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, ...

The Last Man Takes LSD - Foucault and the End of Revolution

How Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected

Dialectic of Enlightenment

A classic of 20th century thought in a fresh new design.

Hegel in A Wired Brain

Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study ...

God, Human, Animal, Machine - Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and D...

Capitalism - A Conversation in Critical Theory

A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers

What World Is This? - A Pandemic Phenomenology

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences¿political, social, ecological, economic¿challenge us to develop a new account o...

They Call It Love - The Politics of Emotional Life

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions

The Murder of Professor Schlick - The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dar...

Becoming Beauvoir - A Life

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relat...

Subversive Simone Weil - A Life in Five Ideas

"Simone Weil is one of the most challenging and yet beguiling thinkers of the twentieth century. There is a highly charged mystical curre...

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the 20th century, "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" captures the imagination of a...

Journey to the Edge of Reason - The Life of Kurt Gödel

Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are...

The Human Condition

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes t...

Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth

This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his patern...

One-Dimensional Man - Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional socie...

Sontag - Her Life and Work

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named...

First Life - An Existential Revolt Against Euclidean Man

First Life opposes the 'Euclidean' view of man put forward by many - such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett - that modern science sho...

Transclasses - A Theory of Social Non-reproduction

How people become "class traitors"

Immanent Critiques - The Frankfurt School under Pressure

The Frankfurt School's own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they ...

Zizek Responds!

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek have been, like Zizek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on t...

Wege interkultureller Philosophie heute

Zahlreich und vielfältig sind die Wege, die die Interkulturelle Philosophie heute weltweit geht, wie ihre Geschichte und Entwicklung zeig...

The New Leviathans - Thoughts After Liberalism

'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas ...

Martin Heidegger: Holzwege

Martin Heideggers Holzwege erschien 1950 und präsentierte dem Publikum seine Überlegungen zum "Ursprung des Kunstwerkes", zur "Zeit des W...

Why Philosophy?

Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each...

Philosophy of Psychology: Causality and Psychological Subject - New Reflections on James Woodward¿s Contribution

Contemporary philosophy of science analyzes psychology as a science with special features, because this discipline includes some specific...

Francis Bacon - The Logic of Sensation

In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis...

Selected Exaggerations - Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012

Peter Sloterdijk's reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of o...

Between Gaia and Ground - Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indig...

Brutalism

Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and product...

To Have or to Be?

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and ...

The Three Ecologies

Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Eco...

Cinema I - The Movement-Image

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, well known for his works on the philosophy of art...

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Diminished Faculties - A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history ...

Postmodernity and Its Discontents

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the con...

The Life and Work of Günther Anders - Émigré, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Man of Letters

Günther Anders (1902, Breslau - 1992, Vienna) studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger in Freiburg in the 1920s. Married to Hannah A...

Difference and Repetition

Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contempo...

The Five Senses - A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolut...

Key Writings

The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new...

A Discourse On Method

Descartes is universally acknowledged as the father of modern Western philosophy. It is to the writings of Descartes, above all others th...

Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-century Revolution

Empirical Ecocriticism - Environmental Narratives for Social Change

"Part manifesto, part toolkit, part proof of concept, and part dialogue, Empirical Ecocriticism studies the influence of environmental st...

A Time for Critique

In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sou...

Meeting the Universe Halfway - Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social scie...

Habermas - A Biography

'Jürgen Habermas', wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker's eightieth birthday, 'is ...

Less Than Nothing - Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

Subtitled, "Hegel & The Shadow Of Dialectical Materialism".

Narrating Experiences of Alzheimer's Through the Arts - Phenomenological and Existentialist Descriptions of the Living Body

While Alzheimer's might be associated with a difficulty to express oneself, Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann addresses this topic by examining ...

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Culture - Husserl and Cassirer

Edmund Husserl and Ernst Cassirer rank among the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Despite the differences between their p...