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Focuses on the concept of Angst, a concept central to Heidegger's thought. This monograph questions the role of Angst in Heidegger's discussion of death.

Addresses the question of whether it is possible to coherently think the notion of grace strictly in terms of immanence. This book develops a model for the thought of an immanent grace that avoids the traps of both obscurantism and banality.

Offers a comprehensive survey of Heidegger's ideas on technology and modernity. This book integrates environment into philosophy and political theory, offering a constructive critique of modernity with some helpful suggestions for establishing a readiness for blue sky scenarios for the future.

Gadamer's study of the divine is an application of philosophical hermeneutics and phenomenological in its descriptions of temporality and the experience of art. This monograph shows how Gadamer provides us with a richly textured study of the divine that finds its bearings in Heidegger and the Greeks.

Explores the points of engagement between Jacques Derrida and a host of other European thinkers in order to counter recent claims that the era of deconstruction is finally drawing to a close. This book rereads Derrida in order to renew deconstruction's various conceptions of language, poetry, philosophy, institutions, difference and the future.

Compares the respective oeuvre of two seminal thinkers of 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. This title explores each thinker's congruent and complimentary metaphysical and political rationale in opposing tyranny. It emphasises the religious component in Levinas's depiction of Hitlerism as paganism.

Offers the first full-length interpretation of the thought of Martin Heidegger with respect to irony. This title attempts to show that the essence of this irony lies in uncertainty, and that the entire project of onto-heno-chronophenomenology, therefore needs to be called into question.

Offers an account of Richard Rorty's attempt to reconcile deconstruction with the American pragmatist and liberal traditions. This book argues that Rorty's powerful reading protocol is motivated by the necessity to contain the risks of Derrida's critique of Western philosophy and politics.

Reveals the philosophical context of Heidegger's return to Aristotle in his early works and thereby advances a reinterpretation of the background to Heidegger's forceful critique of the primacy of theoretical reason in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as his radical reconception of the very nature of philosophical thinking.

Published posthumously, "Contributions to Philosophy" casted Heidegger's philosophy in a new light against the opinion of "Being and Time". This book provides the reader with an overview of the significance of "Contributions", its genesis and production, as well as the interpretations and its position in the received body of work on Heidegger.

Offers an examination of the concept of life in Adorno's philosophy. This book relates Adorno's thought in this context to a number of key thinkers in the history of Continental philosophy, including Marx and provides an argument for the relevance and importance of Adorno's critical philosophy of life at the beginning of the 21st century.

Examines the relationship between mathematics and ontology in Heidegger's thought, from his earliest writings, through "Being and Time", up to and including his work of the 1930s. This book charts the unfamiliar territory of Heidegger's conception of mathematics, and explores the relationship between time and number in "Being and Time".

In "Being and Nothingness", Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology. This work describes Sartre's account of the transition from one's original apprehension of another consciousness to the perception of other persons.

Bringing together three contemporary French philosophers, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, and Jacques Ranciere, the author examines the political aspects of their work. He also identifies and explores problems in each of Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere's work, arguing that none offers a wholly convincing approach.

Presents the crucial work on politics by two giants of contemporary French philosophy, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. This book shows how the political views of these two major thinkers diverse and converge, thus providing a comprehensive exposition of their respective political systems.

Gives an overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. This book identifies and explores the key philosophical influences upon their work such as: Descartes; Kant; Nietzsche; Husserl; Freud; Marcel; and Jaspers.

Interprets the Aristotelian understanding of work in light of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. This book elucidates Heidegger's philosophy of work, providing an interpretation of the Aristotelian understanding of work in relation to Heidegger's ontology and notion of thanking.

Explores the ethical theory of Friedrich Nietzsche in light of work done in the philosophy of mind. This book examines issues of free will, communication, the way in which we construct the self, and the implications of these for ethics.

Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology" reconstructs Merleau-Ponty's treatment of the problem of ideal objects. The author describes Merleau-Ponty's early attempt to found ideal objects on pre-linguistic, perceptual experience and shows that Merleau-Ponty ultimately came to see the shortcomings of this initial view.

Foucault's philosophical relationship to Heidegger is the subject of academic debate. This book provides an approach to Foucault and Heidegger's relationship, based in an original approach to the problem itself. It also identifies a Heideggerian style of thinking in Foucault's work, which emerges in his early studies of madness and literature.

Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. This book looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida.

In 1950s and 60s Gilles Deleuze turned to Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes. In "Difference and Repetition (1968)" he conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian principles. This book shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work to engender an approach to unconscious.

Beginning with Heidegger's early dissertation on the doctrine of categories in Duns Scotus, this work shows how Heidegger's middle and later works develop a philosophical anti-theology or atheology that poses a serious threat to traditional metaphysics, natural theology, and philosophy of religion.

Shows that, as much as it is an insightful critique of the assimilationist vein in psychoanalysis, "Anti-Oedipus" remains fully committed to Freud's most singular discovery of an unconscious that is procedural and dynamic.

"This original study offers a timely reconsideration of the work of French hilosopher Jean-Franois Lyotard in relation to art, performance and writing. How can we write about art, whilst acknowledging the transformation that inevitably accompanies translations of both media and temporality?That is the question that persistently dogs Lyotard''s own writings on art, andto which this book responds through reference to artists from therecently-formed canon of performance art history, including the myths ofseminal figures Marina Abramovic and Vito Acconci, and the controlled documentation of Gina Pane''s actions. Through the unstable, untranslatable element that Lyotard calls the figural, his thought is brought to bearon attempts to write a history of performance art and to question the paradoxically prescriptive demand for rules to govern ''re-performance''. Kiff Bamford contextualises Lyotard''s writings andapproach with reference to both his contemporaries, including Deleuze andKristeva, and the contemporary art about which they wrote, whilst arguing forthe pertinence of Lyotard''s provocations today."

Examines the birth of a fresh philosophical position resulting from Heidegger's notorious confrontation with Nietzsche. This title charts Heidegger's course of the 1930s that culminates in his notorious confrontation with Nietzsche.

A collection of essays exploring the relevance of Gilles Deleuze and Felix 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.

The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human.

Constructs, problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, this title identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary texts "Anti-Oedipus", "A Thousand Plateaux", and more.

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. It argues that Zizek's oeuvre is largely a response to Heidegger's philosophy of finitude, an imminent critique of it which pulls it in the direction of revolutionary praxis.