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The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946-1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are ...
This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille's essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of ...
'This is a superb new translation that is remarkably accurate to Plato's very difficult Greek, yet clear and highly readable. The notes are more ...
Iconic French novelist, playwright and essayist, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, whose work ...
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement
'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books ...
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society ...
A startling and thought-provoking work from one of the most powerful philosophers in the Western canon
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Philosophy Classic, is Friedrich Nietzsche ...
A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played ...
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to ...
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and ...
In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism.
In forging ...
Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the ...
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In Utopia, Thomas More gives us ...
First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century ...