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Geloof
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 18.95Hoe kunnen we nog geloven en regels hebben in dit postmoderne tijdperk waarin naar verluidt niets is om in te geloven en geen regels zijn. De beroemde filosoof en onstuitbaar cultuurcriticus Slavoj Zizek daagt iedereen uit in dit overtuigende en adembenemende nieuwe boek. In Geloof , dat van 'cyberspace-denken' tot de paradox van het 'westerse boeddhisme'... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 30.00An international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Habermas, and surveys the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to this philosophical school. The result is an illuminating and authoritative guide to Critical Theory. more...
The Philosophy of Death
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00A lively and engaging discussion about the nature of death and the permissibility or otherwise of killing. more...
Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot, Derrida, and Vattimo. Weller offers the first in-depth analysis of nihilism's key role in the thinking of the aesthetic since Nietzsche. more...
A Philosophy of Culture
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 27.95In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of holistic pragmatism can accommodate its breadth. Going beyond Quine's dictum that philosophy of... more...
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 34.99J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: it includes Schneewind's early anti-foundationalist 'Moral Knowledge and Moral... more...
Philosophical Chronicles
Fordham University Press 2008; US$ 17.99In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher?s rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again, is whether philosophy is conditioned by the world the... more...
Alienation After Derrida
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Alienation After Derrida rearticulates the Hegelian-Marxist theory of alienation in the light of Derrida’s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Simon Skempton aims to demonstrate in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation. In so doing, he argues that the acceptance of Derrida’s deconstructive... more...
Rationality and Feminist Philosophy
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Rationality and Feminist Philosophy argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. Deborah K. Heikes shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with many feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need a substantive theory of rationality, which she argues... more...
Homo agens
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 182.00The author reconstructs the development and particular structure of early humanist moral philosophy. The humanists overcame scholastic philosophy through the development of a new style of thought. Not only did they develop solutions to the philosophical problems important in their time, but they also provided answers to ethical questions that remained... more...









