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Nietzsche und der französische Existenzialismus

Das Verhältnis zwischen Nietzsche und dem französischen Existenzialismus ist seit Jahrzehnten in der Forschung umstritten. Manche betrach...

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...

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...

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...

German Philosophy Since Kant

Twenty essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture series on modern major German thinkers.

Wege interkultureller Philosophie heute

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

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...

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...

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...

Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

Transclasses - A Theory of Social Non-reproduction

How people become "class traitors"

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...

The Postmodern Predicament - Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the inter...

God is not Great

"God Is Not Great" is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchen...

Victor Burgin - Gradiva

Nietzsches Naturen

Ist Nietzsches Denken für aktuelle globale Herausforderungen rund um den Naturbegriff noch aktuell? Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der Rel...

The Power of Narrative - Self-knowledge, Self-narrative and Hupomnemata

Telling a story changes the way we think about an event and makes us understand it differently. The very power of storytelling lies in th...

Habermas and Feminism - Critical Reflections on Normativity

In this volume, Taine Duncan offers a critique of Jürgen Habermas inspired by ethical and political feminist philosophy. She argues for a...

Die Neue Sachlichkeit - Ein Jahrhundertjubiläum

Der Epochenbegriff "Neue Sachlichkeit" wurde zu einem Synonym für den kulturellen Aufbruch der 1920er-Jahre und die in der Kunst, aber au...

Irreversible Noise

A detailed critical examination of the concept of noise, its significance in scientific disciplines, and its use and misuse in the humani...

The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman - Émilie Du Châtelet and the Making of Modern Philosophy

Just as the Enlightenment was gaining momentum throughout Europe, philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet broke through the many barriers facing w...

Spinoza in Germany - Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays examining the legacy and influence of Spinoza on German thought in the long...

The Philosophy of Drama

The Philosophy of Drama provides an in-depth and erudite exploration of human existence as a dramatic existence, interpreted in terms of ...

Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy

Examines the historical background and philosophical content of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Elements of First Practical Philosophy an...

A Companion to Wittgenstein

A COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned...

Castoriadis Against Heidegger - Time and Existence

The life and politics of Martin Heidegger raise a serious question: How was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth centu...

Kantian Dignity and Its Difficulties

Karl Ameriks defends Kant's doctrine that all human beings have a moral capacity that gives them unconditional dignity, and explains how ...

Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity

Philosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as ignorance, fals...

Sentimental Empiricism - Politics, Philosophy, and Criticism in Postwar France

¿This stunning book reveals the tradition of `sentimental empiricism¿ in postwar French theory, which makes reading practices and percept...

The Memory of the World - Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology

"Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate f...

Rudolf Carnap: Studies in Semantics - The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 7

Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap presents Studies in Semantics, which comprises three interlocking books: Introduction to...

The Skeptical Roots of Critique - Hume's Attack on Theology and the Origin of Kant's Antinomy

In The Skeptical Roots of Critique, Abraham Anderson shows that Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is the heir to Hume's skepticism about met...

The Ruse of Techne - Heidegger's Magical Materialism

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger's entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instr...

Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought - Critique, Politics, Philosophy

Exploring the critical potential of place in continental philosophy, this volume focuses on socio-political and historical context to cha...

Debates, Controversies, and Prizes - Philosophy in the German Enlightenment

"This collection brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on the most significant controversies and prize essay contests of the G...

Order and the Virtual - The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

Relates the work of Gilles Deleuze to contemporary science

Threshold Phenomena - Derrida and the Question of Hospitality

Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-publi...

America - The Troubled Continent of Thought

What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the ...

Seeing More - Kant's Theory of Imagination

There is a long-standing tradition in philosophy that defines imagination as engaging with things that are not real or present; as a kind...

The Biopolitical Animal

Explores the intersection of biopolitics and the animal question, pushing the debate in new directions The two issues around which this c...

Nietzsche Pursued - Toward a Philosophy for the Future

"In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche announced his project to develop a philosophy of the future that would equip philosophers t...

Memory Assemblages - Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition

Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest ...

Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting - The Aesthetic Gulf in Either/Or I

The Concept of the Interesting portrays the artistic theories and life-view of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous aesthete, known as A--one...

Phenomenology in a Co-Creative Workplace

This book introduces phenomenology to reveal how the atmosphere and relationships in the workplace are generated and how this affects cre...

Predicted Humans - Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking

This book reflects on seminal texts in western culture to argue that predicting our future renders much of our existence the automated ef...

The Negative Turn in Comparative Law

This book's essays aim subversively and resolutely to replace the hegemonic discursive frame governing comparative law.

Making Multiplicity

In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conc...

The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology

The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology is the first major collection on this important topic. Ideal for those studying phenome...

New Radical Enlightenment - Philosophy for a Common World

A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF EMANCIPATION IN A COMMON WORLD

The Hope and Horror of Physicalism - An Existential Treatise

This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the the healthiest sta...

Meaning in the Metropolis - Toward an Urban Existentialism

This book reveals how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way people think about their ...

Three American Hegels - Henry C. Brokmeyer, Horace Williams, and John William Miller

This book reimagines and recasts the reception of Hegel and German philosophy in the 19th- and 20th-centuries from the margins of academi...

Heidegger on Thinking

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to con...