Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacan’s notion of extimité In 1960, Jacqu......more

Bringing together theorists and practitioners of psychoanalysis to interrogate Lacan’s notion of extimité In 1960, Jacqu......more

The worldly culture of northern Europe in the two centuries between the end of the Carolingian Empire and the "renaissan......more

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, contex......more

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, contex......more

Critical theory has many faces; its complexities and nuances present a challenge to those seeking to engage with its tho......more

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women’s experiences within mental health services, demonstrating the need......more

In "after modernism" the meanings of "after" include periodisation, homage and critique. This book attends to neglected ......more

This book considers the work of two philosophers situated within the anglo-american analytical tradition, Stanley Cavell......more

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange. This volume aims ......more

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenome......more

There is a long-lasting controversy concerning our mind and consciousness. The book proposes a connection between the mi......more

This book shows, for the first time in its full spectrum, the interconnectedness and topicality of two historically and ......more

Palestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the ......more

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in......more

This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contri......more

An ambitious venture into Nietzsche’s envisioned philosophy for the future. Nietzsche advocated for a post-theistic "phi......more

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

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

Embodied Reception investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religi......more

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by rec......more

The book examines philosophical and sociological approaches within critical theory and more widely from the vantage poin......more

Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or......more

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A theory of passive vitalism. Contemporary theory has pushed the boundaries of the concept of the living, urging us to c......more

This volume contains Carnap’s Studies in Semantics, a series of three interlocking books: Introduction to Semantics (194......more

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The 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original pap......more

This volume reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially John Dewey’s. It addresses what democ......more

Anxiety as not only a feeling of dread, but a feeling that we dread is widely considered by both philosophical and psych......more

Contributors to this special issue investigate how spaces and practices of "home" structure and challenge norms of intim......more

This book centers on two dominant trends within contemporary epistemology: first, the dissatisfaction with the project o......more

The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the prototypical "absurdist" thinker. Such a reading freezes C......more

Palestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the ......more

In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher o......more

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was amo......more

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was amo......more

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This book extends the approach that Murray and Schuler develop in their companion volume, False Moves in Philosophy and ......more

The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature--death by drowni......more

The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature--death by drowni......more

A philosophical exploration of how modern global cinema represents everyday means of resisting authoritarianism and tota......more

The book aims to describe the history of Chan (Japanese Zen) School thought from the standpoint of social history. Chan,......more

This book reconstructs the intense early post-Kantian debate on freedom of the will, choice, and moral imputability for ......more

Hannah Arendt, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, argued that some parts of history need not just to be understood but to......more

This book proposes a new interpretation of Claude Lefort’s thought focusing on his phenomenological method. Although all......more

This book offers an exercise in reception theory and investigates the key figures in the reception of Nietzsche’s critiq......more

In this collection of essays, Mill presents his key philosophical contributions to ethics, political theory, and governa......more

Singularities are isolated social bonds. They lack a common language with one another and express themselves with certai......more

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Exploring A......more

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as se......more

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as se......more

Three American Hegels explores Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s influence on three seminal, yet overlooked, philosophers:......more

This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists ......more

While contemporary studies have paid renewed attention to the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and routinely reference......more

First published in 1961, Sensation and Perception aims to cast light upon the nature of perception itself....more

Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed m......more

Embodied Reception investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religi......more

What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed in......more

The Dialectic of Herbert Marcuse offers a re-evaluation of Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory and argues for its continue......more

Psychiatry has to be taken seriously. An ever-increasing proportion of the population are prescribed long-term, powerful......more

Psychiatry has to be taken seriously. An ever-increasing proportion of the population are prescribed long-term, powerful......more

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning."......more

This volume examines the relationship between recognition theory and key developments in critical social epistemology. I......more

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our intellec......more

To what extent is autonomy under threat today and how should these threats to autonomy be analysed? The essays in this b......more

This book explores a spontaneous uprising that occurred in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in which workers confronted a multinat......more

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The ......more

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows h......more

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable ......more

A century ago the dominant philosophical outlook was not some form of materialism or naturalism, but idealism. However, ......more

Is populism the unsurpassable horizon of our own time or is it a temptation that should at all costs be resisted? Who, a......more

Offering a bold new vision on the history of modern logic, Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci focus on the lasting impac......more

Making extensive use of unique archival resources this collection presents, for the first time, an in-depth study of the......more