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Heraclitus
The Inception of Occidental Thinking and Logic: Heraclitus’s Doctrine of the Logos
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on...
Nature, History, State
1933-1934
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading thinkers and scholars: Robert Bernasconi, Peter...
by Jaysankar Lal Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
One of the first philosophers to relate Indian philosophical thought to Western analytic philosophy, Jaysankar Lal Shaw has been reflecting on analytic themes from Indian philosophy for over 40 years. This collection of his most important writings, introduces his work and presents new ways of using...
Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations
Tracing all the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Does Wittgenstein's method of analysis rest on the distinction between internal and external relations?
Approaching Wittgenstein's writings from a new perspective, Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations focuses on how Wittgenstein distinguishes between relations that are grounded in...
by Dr Bradley L. Herling
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call "religion†?? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion...
Bodies of Water
Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman...
Technic and Magic
The Reconstruction of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary...
by Todd McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Film Theory in Practice Series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. The first book in the series, Psychoanalytic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Comparative Philosophy without Borders presents original scholarship by leading contemporary comparative philosophers, each addressing a philosophical issue that transcends the concerns of any one cultural tradition. By critically discussing and weaving together these contributions in terms of their...
Dead Theory
Derrida, Death, and the Afterlife of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory today. Considering...
On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian Howie
Materialism and Mortality
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Over three decades, Gillian Howie wrote at the forefront of philosophy and critical theory, before her untimely death in 2013. This interdisciplinary collection uses her writings to explore the productive, yet often resistant, interrelationship between feminism and critical theory, examining the potential...
Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Rethinking Religion and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.
Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry...
Rethinking World War Two
The Conflict and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading controversies surrounding the conflict, its aftermath and its ongoing significance in the modern world.
The...
Contesting History
Narratives of Public History
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national...