Search results for “Alain Badiou”

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expre...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern id...

Literary Theory: A Reintroduction introduces the current state of theory by placing it in its social, historical, and institutional contexts. Focu...

Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of...

Heidegger’s way of thinking has left a rich legacy for post-modern philosophers, particularly for Jacques Derrida who has greatly influenced philos...

Beginning in the 1920s, the book looks at the impact of the periods preceding the 'theory movement' and reintroduces this movement from a contempor...

Unpopular Essays, [Paperback] Bertrand Russell

Featuring seminal work in the philosophies of mathematics and language, this comprehensive and assiduously edited collection also makes available h...

Enlightenment and Violence is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human h...

Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity, David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sid...

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized lingui...

The quest for liberty has driven political movements across the globe, inspiring revolutions in America, France, China and many other countries ove...

As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would sha...

Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and rel...

The second edition of this distinguished and popular Companion introduces new chapters on the philosophy of biology: bioethics, genethics, and medi...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

A Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postm...

Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in ...

The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of...

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a...

This is a critical study on Paul Scott’s Novels. It explores in depth the novelist’s ‘private’ art of writing the novel as an image, symbol or an e...