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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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geod...

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...

The Three Ecologies

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

Capitalism - A Conversation in Critical Theory

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

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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

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...

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...

Less Than Nothing - Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

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

Natural Born Monads - On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals

We are still looking for a satisfactory definition of what makes an individual being a human individual. The understanding of human being...

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...

A Time for Critique

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

Nature as Limit - Prolegomena to Ecological Thinking in Heidegger

Nature as Limit provides an account of Nature in terms of the collapse of the subject-object binary, presenting Heidegger's work as a ser...

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 ...

Edmund Husserls ethische Untersuchungen - Dargestellt Anhand Seiner Vorlesungmanuskrìpte

Das Husserlbild der Gegenwart ist noch weitgehend gepragt von den erkenntnistheoretischen "Logischen Untersuchungen", durch die Husserl i...

The Origins of Life - The Origins of the Existential Sharing-in-Life

1 M. Heidegger, Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. Frankfurt a.M. 1979. GA 20. 236; zur "Gegebenheit", vgl. M. Heidegger, Grund...

Doing Climate Justice - Theological Explorations

The struggle against the climate crisis and for a livable future on earth raises profound questions of justice that call for theological ...

Lectures on Ancient Philosophy

Mit diesem Band werden Cassirers 1935 in Oxford und 1942 in New Haven gehaltene Vorlesungen zur antiken Philosophie erstmals für Forschun...

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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 ...

Regelwerke und ihre Beurteilung - Theorie und Praxis in philosophischer Perspektive

Regeln sind allgegenwärtig. Sie leiten unser Handeln in den Wissenschaften ebenso wie in Recht, Politik, Wirtschaft und im alltäglichen L...

Zizek Responds!

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

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 ...

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...

Conceptual Engineering in Education - Philosophical Analysis for Educational Problems

Conceptual engineering has taken off as a philosophical methodology. This book asks what happens when conceptual engineering is applied t...

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...

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, ...

Wege und Seitenwege der Philosophie - Von Anaximander bis Wittgenstein

Was ist eine gute Weltanschauung? Die Aufsätze behandeln einige der großen Themen der westlichen Philosophie unter neuen Gesichtspunkten,...

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...

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...

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 ...

Revealing the Antichrist, the Number 666, the End Of Times, and Much More

Dear Reader, how do you believe we and the universe came in be? Is there life after death? What happens to us after we die? Existential q...

Glossary of Morphology

This book is a significant novelty in the scientific and editorial landscape. Morphology is both an ancient and a new discipline that res...

Leibnitz and the Seventeenth-century Revolution

Life-World and Cultural Difference - Husserl, Schutz and Waldenfels

The fact that there are different cultures in the world is too obvious for words. Considering thus cultural differences in the light of t...

Democracy and Representation - The Meaning of Eric Voegelin's Theory of Representation

The current crisis of liberal democracy has become the focus of constitutional, historical, philosophical, theological, and political ana...

Why Philosophy?

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

Der epistemische Wert von Wissen aus zweiter Hand

Dieses Buch untersucht den Wert von Wissen aus zweiter Hand aus epistemischer Sicht. Es kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Wissen aus zweiter Han...

Postmodernity and Its Discontents

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

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...

Brutalism

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

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...

Rechtfertigungsspiele - Über das Rechtfertigen und Überzeugen in heterodoxen Wissensdiskursen

Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit den Bedeutungen, Ausprägungen und Dynamiken des Rechtfertigens und Überzeugens. Es ist eine gän...

Wittgensteinian Exercises - Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations

This volume explores and expands a Wittgensteinian account of philosophy as an ongoing transformative practice. It investigates the simul...

Martin Heidegger: Holzwege

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

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.

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...

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...

Habermas - A Biography

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

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...

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...

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...