Continental Philosophy

Assembled here for the first time in English translation Sigrid Weigel offers illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis...

Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. It is on screen that new grand narratives are sketched, new myths rehearsed, and old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalyp..

Cinema has a long history of engaging with the theme of sacrifice. It is on screen that new grand narratives are sketched, new myths rehearsed, and old ones recycled. Sacrifice can provide stories of loss and mourning, betrayal and redemption, death and renewal, destruction and re-creation, apocalyp..

Hermeneutics can loosely be defined as the theory or philosophy of the interpretation of menaing. It is a central topic in the philosophy of the social sciences, the philosophy of art and language and in literary criticism. This book, first published in 1980, gives a detailed overview and analysis o..

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In Continental Idealism, Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz...

Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction looks at the development of the tradition, tracing it back from Kant to the present day...

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of Pragmatist thought, providing a model for pluralist, boundary-crossing scholarship. Contributors explore Deleuze’s explicit and implicit relationship to American Pragmatism and investigate Deleuze’s thought at..

This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of Pragmatist thought, providing a model for pluralist, boundary-crossing scholarship. Contributors explore Deleuze’s explicit and implicit relationship to American Pragmatism and investigate Deleuze’s thought at..

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time._x0..

Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter He..

This book expounds the view that Kierkegaard both anticipated and critiqued Nietzsche’s central arguments in moral philosophy, exposing the weaknesses of what were to become the core Nietzschean positions. Angier argues that, despite the perceived stylistic opacity of these thinkers, their work does..

This book expounds the view that Kierkegaard both anticipated and critiqued Nietzsche’s central arguments in moral philosophy, exposing the weaknesses of what were to become the core Nietzschean positions. Angier argues that, despite the perceived stylistic opacity of these thinkers, their work does..