Böcker i Continuum Impacts-serien

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and a leading figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. This book offers a companion to Ricoeur's classic text, "The Conflict of Interpretations".

Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. This book contains essays that explore his project of revising the phenomenological picture of the world in light of our experience of other persons.

An analysis of the kabbalah, a mystical Judaic system. This book provides a study of the Kabbablah itself, of its commentators - the 'revisionary ratios' they employed - and of its significance as a model for contemporary criticism.

Derrida, notorious French philospher, literary critic and film star, is responsible for the fundamental change in the way that literature and philosophy are approached in the Western world.

Offers the most thorough explanation of the most fundamental and abiding theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the relationship of an individual's existence to truth.

Presents a series of interviews, at once inspiring, provocative and illuminating, between Schillebeeckx and fellow theologians Huub Oosterhuis and Piet Hoogeveen. Schillebecckx distills and refines his thinking to make it accessible for all readers on such subjects as feminism, the poor, the Churches future and the sacrements.

Brings together Larkin's reviews, articles and essays written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman and numerous other publications. As well as being passionate and knowledgeable about jazz, the pieces are beautifully written.

Presents one of the productive analyses of the work of Michel Foucault. This book offers a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing an engagement with his views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity.

Traces the twin development of art and science over the twentieth century. In the author's provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. It is aimed at those wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us.

Deleuze identifies three distinct principal types of 'image movement' and draws upon diverse examples from the work of such major filmmakers as Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes and Altman.

Takes up Nietzschean thought where Nietzsche left off - with the death of God. Written against the backdrop of Germany under the Third Reich the book explores the possibility of a spiritual life outside religion. In so doing it weaves an astonishing tapestry of confession, theology, philosophy, myth and eroticism.

This work provides a philosophical account of humanity's potential for liberty. It is fundamental for understanding Heidegger's view of Greek philosophy and its relationship to modern philosophy.

Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio then goes on to argue that we live in a world of global spatio-temporal collapse, and one which seems to preclude the possibility of negotiation and diplomacy.