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A collection of essays exploring the implicit dispute between Gilles Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and Kant's transcendental idealism, a key philosophical concern. It addresses the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers.

Examines how for Merleau-Ponty the work of art opens up, without conceptualizing, the event of being. This title treats Merleau-Ponty's renderings of the artwork - specifically in his later writings during the period ranging from 1952-1961 - as a path into the being that precedes phenomenology.

Arguing for the thematic and structural unity in Heidegger's thought from "Being and Time" right through to the later writings, this book focuses on the summons to authenticity; labeling the move as the key to identifying recurring patterns and themes in Heidegger's protracted confrontation with modernity.

Includes the essays that offer an attempt to grasp Nietzsche's prescience through Heidegger's critique of it, and so by attempting to think through the philosophical consequences of the last century in reading the signs of our own condition. This book also provides a discussion of some of the lesser-known texts of the later Heidegger.

Examines the birth of a new philosophical position resulting from Heidegger's notorious confrontation with Nietzsche. This book charts Heidegger's course of the 1930s and the birth of a new philosophical position resulting from his notorious confrontation with Nietzsche. It is suitable for students and academics from across the discipline.

An examination of Deleuze's notion of the diagram from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that develops the concept into a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art. It charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram.

A collection of essays bringing together and exploring the connections between two figures in twentieth-century hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. It brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other. It shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other.

A collection of essays exploring the relevance of Deleuze and Guattari's work in contemporary aesthetics and political theory. It attempts to explore and extend the creative rupture that Deleuze and Guattari produce in the "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" project.

A collection of essays examining Merleau-Ponty's interrogation of the limits of philosophy. It seeks to answer the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. It traces the line between art and aesthetic judgment, psychology and philosophy, sacramentality and transcendence in Merleau-Ponty's life and work.

Examines the important contributions of three giants of contemporary French thought to the field of political theory: Alain Badiou, one of the most important continental thinkers; Etienne Balibar who has forged new approaches to democracy and citizenship; and, Jacques Ranciere who has crossed boundaries between history, politics and aesthetics.

Analyses the concept of free will in the Continental philosophical tradition. This book explores the concepts of free-will and self-determination in the Continental philosophical tradition. It examines the ways in which Continental philosophy offers a viable alternative to the hegemonic scientistic approach taken by analytic philosophy.

A comprehensive account of Heidegger's philosophy of logic. It looks at Heidegger's writings on logic in the "Being and Time" era and argues that Heidegger does not seek to discredit logic, but to determine its scope and explain its foundations. It shows that this tradition of interpretation rests on mischaracterizations and false assumptions.

Offers a reading of Nietzsche through an examination of his English and American influences, including Darwin, Shakespeare, Mill, Hume, Emerson, Swift, Sterne and Byron. This book also provides an account of his engagement with the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition.

A monograph that presents a critique of the work of Theodor W Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt School. It concerns with Adorno's notoriously difficult writing, a feature most commentators acknowledge only to set it aside on the way to an expository account of 'what Adorno is saying'.

A collection of essays providing a comprehensive overview of the thought of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze's philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, Felix Guattari).

Offers an interpretation of Heidegger's later thought, within the context of his philosophy as a whole, to develop a fresh conception of human happiness. This book redeems the essential content of the Greek notion of eudaimonia and transcends debates concerning the 'objectivity' or 'subjectivity' of happiness.

Martin Heidegger was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His analysis of human existence proves an inexhaustible ground for thinkers of various backgrounds who seek answers for their specific questions left open or opened up by our times. This book offers a meticulous reading of Heidegger's magnum opus, "Being and Time".

A collection of essays examining and promoting Foucault's influence on present-day philosophy, in both the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions. It shows how his influence goes beyond his own canonical tradition and linguistic milieu. It shows how important Foucault remains to philosophy today.

Felix Guattari was a French political militant, practicing psychoanalyst and international public intellectual. He is best known for his work with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the two-volume "Capitalism and Schizophrenia". This title examines the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Continental philosophy has seen philosophy as historical, claiming that there are no new beginnings in the discipline, and that we must revisit the work of earlier thinkers again and again. This title looks at the development of continental philosophy, examining the work of several major figures, including Hegel, Heidegger and Levinas.

Derrida wrote a vast number of texts for particular events across the world, as well as a series of works that portray him as a voyager. This book explores the conditions of Derrida's writing and his contribution to philosophy, literature, critical and cultural theory.

Examines the structure, method, style and sources of "Zarathustra" as a philosophical text and its relationship to methodological and metaphilosophical questions amid the broader discussions of philosophy.

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific French philosophers of the 20th Century. This book offers an insightful examination of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a central concept in his work. It takes a thematic approach that explores his lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism.

There remains a basic conviction throughout Heidegger's thought that the event by which Being is given or disclosed is somehow 'prior' to our relation to the many beings we meet in our everyday lives. This monograph presents a series of perspectives on the conditions that underlie the relation between ethics and ontology in Heidegger.

A collection of essays that explore the implicit dispute between Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and Kant's transcendental idealism. It addresses the varied connections between these two European philosophers, providing material for understanding the central philosophical problems in the wider naturalism/transcendental philosophy debate.

Offers an interpretation of the work of Slavoj Zizek, one of the world's leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Heidegger. This book finds limitations in Zizek's relationship with Heidegger, specifically in his ambivalence about Heidegger's technophobia.

Sets forth an examination of Heidegger's phenomenology between 1924 and 1929, during which time Heidegger was concerned with a radical temporalization of thought. This book seeks to reconstruct Heidegger's radical phenomenology through an interpretation of his published and unpublished works of the period.

A contribution to Deleuze studies, this book argues that Deleuze's thought, far from carrying out a critique of representation, is in fact an account of its genesis. It also describes the way in which Edmund Husserl theorized the production of meaning and representation.

Exploring the central issues of life, science, language and art in Deleuze's work, this title offers a fresh and alternative assessment of Deleuze's contribution to philosophy. It argues that while Deleuze does draw upon sciences that explain the emergence of language, art and philosophy, his own thought is distinguished by a discontinuist thesis.