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What Is Existentialism?

The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we t...

Justice as Fairness / Gerechtigkeit als Fairness - Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

The Trolley Problem / Das Trolley-Problem - Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

Ein unscheinbarer Aufsatz mit dem Titel »The Trolley Problem« aus dem Jahr 1985 beschäftigt uns bis heute: Angenommen, ein Mensch muss si...

Fear of Black Consciousness

'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde ...

Wozu Gefühle? Philosophische Reflexionen für Achim Stephan

Wozu braucht der Mensch, das aristotelische animal rationale, eigentlich Affekte? Was ermöglichen uns Emotionen wie Freude, Wut und Glück...

Communism and Strategy - Rethinking Political Mediations

Communism is not just a dream of a better world - it is also a theory about how we get there

Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoit Chantre

Based on discussions with Benoit Chantre.

From a Logical Point of View / Von einem logischen Standpunkt aus - Drei ausgewählte Aufsätze. Englisch/Deutsch

Quine ist ein Klassiker der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Doch Quine erläutert nichts und erklärt wenig. Der von ihm angenommene Leser etwa sein...

Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? / Logik oder Psychologie der Forschung? - Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

Let Them Rot - Antigone's Parallax

"Zupančič writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly sense...

Futurability - The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

A philosophy of contemporary life and politics from a renowned Italian theorist. Contends that we're living in an age of impotence, stuck...

Existential Social Work - Meaning Making in the Face of Distress

This book is a theoretical and practical guide for mental health professionals who wish to utilize existential principles in their social...

Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's greatest yet most enigmatic and divisive philosophers. Michael Inwood explores the maj...

Reality+ - Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds In the coming decades, the technology that enab...

Companion to Heidegger

A Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the...

Foundation: Matter the Body Itself

This book presents the ontological and logical foundation of a new form of thinking, the beginning of an "absolute phenomenology." It doe...

Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility / Alternative Möglichkeiten und moralische Verantwortung - Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

Ist eine Person nur dann verantwortlich für das, was sie getan hat, wenn sie auch etwas anderes hätte tun können, wenn sie andere Handlun...

A Philosopher Looks at Work

A survey on the nature of work, integrating conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary.

How It Is - The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova

Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she became an expert on canonical works of trad...

The Basic Bakunin: Writings 1869-1871 - Writings 1869-1871

The three years covered by this anthology represent the only time in Mikhail Bakunin's life when he was able to concentrate on his work a...

Meaning / Bedeutung - Englisch/Deutsch. [Great Papers Philosophie]

Herbert Paul Grice' bahnbrechender Aufsatz von 1957 bildet einen der wichtigsten Bezugspunkte für Debatten darüber, was Bedeutung genau i...

Meaning and Authenticity - Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the Drama of Authentic Human Existence

The language of self-fulfilment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, ‘authenticity’) has become common in contemporary cu...

Hegel in 90 Minutes

Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.

Spaemanns Philosophie

Nicht nur Robert Spaemanns Stellungnahmen zu vielfältigen ethischen und gesellschaftlichen Fragen der Zeit haben große Beachtung gefunden...

Hiding in Plain Sight - What Language Says about Being Human

Journey into the heart of language to reveal its power in shaping our existence and perception of reality.

The Ruse of Techne - Heidegger's Magical Materialism

"This is a marvelous piece of work: fervently argued, written with great energy and with a propulsive argument that will attract much dis...

Threshold Phenomena - Derrida and the Question of Hospitality

"Naas's book accompanies and enlightens Derrida's seminar with a particularly hospitable form of commentary whose relaxed ease is a real ...

The Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - On the Contradiction Between System and Freedom

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised hi...

The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, German ...

Hegel on Pseudo-Philosophy - Reading the Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit

The preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most widely-read texts in Hegel's corpus, and yet we still lack a clear u...

The Right to Resist - Philosophies of Dissent

While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of politica...

The Human Vocation in German Philosophy - Critical Essays and 18th Century Sources

In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its voc...

The Creation of Wittgenstein - Understanding the Roles of Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik Von Wright

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

Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary

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

Science and Representative Democracy - Experts and Citizens

Mauro Dorato charts pressing debates within the philosophy of science that centre around scientific expertise, access to knowledge, conse...

Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging im...

Imaginary Power, Real Horizons - The Practicality of Utopianism

A defense of the radical imagination from a scholar of social movements. Political theorist and philosopher Richard Gilman-Opalsky's Imag...

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...

A Grammar of the Multitude - For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life

Paolo Virno’s on the rich concept of the “multitude” as crucial to understanding contemporary life. Paolo Virno’s A Grammar of the Multit...

Marxist Modernism - Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Lectures on art, Marxism, and critical theory by the legendary philosopher, collected for the first time

Understanding Zizek, Understanding Modernism

Slavoj Zizek is one of today's leading theorists, whose polemical works span topics from German idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from...

Brooklyn Existentialism - Voices from the Stoop explaining how Philosophical Realism can bring about the Restoration of Character, Intelligence a

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic - Revolutionary PRAXIS and Neoliberal Crisis

A vital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume connects the neoliberal underpinnings of the pandemic to the philosophy of Deleuze...

Heidegger on Thinking

Metaphysics and the Sciences

This Element presents and critically examines the relationship between metaphysics and the sciences. Section 1 provides a brief introduct...

Technocracy and the Epistemology of Human Behavior - The Debate over Power Without Knowledge

In Technocracy and the Epistemology of Human Behavior, thirteen political theorists, including Friedman himself, debate the implications ...

Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights in...

Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative - Ethics of the Image

Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English lang...

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Postmedia

Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality and exploitation? ...