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The history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. This work aims to undermine this popular view of the radical break between idealism and existentialism by means of a series of detailed studies in specific episodes of European thought.

Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.

Explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Zizek by investigating its epistemological implications within our capitalist universe. This book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value.

Shows that authenticity is an important civic virtue, relevant to the social and political institutions of the modern world. This book demonstrates the vitality of Jean-Paul Sartre's landmark essays 'What is Literature?' and 'Anti-Semite and Jew', and reveals the importance of the 'Notebooks for an Ethics', a manuscript.

This rethinking of ethics and politics in light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian political thought of Slavoj Zizek among others; it thereby opens up the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many unexpected.

Presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. This book examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

Presents an examination of the readings of Marx given by four post-structuralist thinkers, all key figures in Continental philosophy: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. This title aims to develop a better understanding of both Marx and post-structuralism.

An examination of Friedrich Nietzsche's radically original ideas on time and becoming. It explores Nietzsche's approach to temporality, showing that his metaphorical and literary presentations lend themselves, in surprising detail, to the debates that have engaged other thinkers.

Examines how Martin Heidegger conceives and carries out the task of educating human beings in a life determined by philosophic questioning. This study of the aims, necessity, character, method and limits of Heidegger's philosophic pedagogy opens up the political implications of Heidegger's thought as he himself understood them.

Offers an examination of Hegelian/Marxist theory of alienation in light of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. This title demonstrates in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation.

Relating the unifying method of Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" with Deleuze's account of experience, and using Kant's concern to secure the conditions that make experience possible to develop Deleuze's attempt to convincingly relate 'the actual' and 'the virtual', this book helps in our understanding of Deleuze and his philosophical project.

Presents an examination of the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur that focuses on his specific concept of interpretation. This book explores the philosophical resources provided by Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics in dealing with the challenges of a world framed by globalization.

Features a critical assessment of Heidegger's interpretation and political use of Plato's "Republic". This book challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism.

According to the doctrine of univocity there is a fundamental concept of being that is truly predicable of everything that exists. This book presents an interpretation of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in terms of the doctrine of the 'univocity of being'.

A study of the ethical concern that defines Husserl's phenomenology and motivates its development. It traces the ethical concepts apparent throughout Husserl's main body of work and argues that Husserl's phenomenology of consciousness, experience and meaning is ultimately motivated by an ethical demand.

Challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, this book proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.

Martin Heidegger's work is pivotal in the history of modern European philosophy. The New Heidegger presents a comprehensive and stimulating overview of, and introduction to, the work of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of our time.

Argues that Heidegger's question of being cannot be separated from the question of nature and culture, and that the history of being describes the growing predominance of culture and technology over nature. This work proposes that we turn to Heidegger's thought in order fully to understand this crisis.

Re-evaluates Deleuze and Guattari's legacy in philosophy, literary criticism and cultural studies since the early 1980s. This work offers an analysis of the reception of the "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" project by such key figures as Jameson, Zizek, Badiou, Hardt, Negri and Agamben.

Derrida addressed political questions more and more explicitly in his writing, yet there is still confusion over the politics of deconstruction. This book evaluates and substantiates Derrida's provocative claim, assessing the importance of this controversial contemporary philosopher's work for political thought.

Focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject - "Philosophical Investigations" and "Truth and Method", respectively. This book brings the work of two major modern philosophers in to dialogue.

Cormac McCarthy's significance in the field of contemporary American fiction is enormous. Offering critical perspectives on three McCarthy's novels - "All the Pretty Horses", "No Country for Old Men", and "The Road", this title provides an introduction to the different interpretations of his work.

Examines hermeneutics in relation to existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory and postructuralism.

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. This title sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida.

Reflects upon the paradoxical notion of immanent transcendence; particularly its implications for materialist projects in politics and theology. This book outlines how the notion of immanent transcendence is variously invoked in continental materialist projects as a means of radicalising the concept of matter.

Constructs, problematizes, and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, this book identifies ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings. It covers the following themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality; and more.