Böcker i Warwick Studies in European Philosophy-serien

Drawing on the work of Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, this text is a study of the importance of light in Western thought. It shows the ambivalent role light plays within philosophy and challenges interpretations of Irigaray as a theorist of touch by presenting her as a philosopher of vision.

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, Benjamin's `philosophy directed against philosophy .' The essays cover all aspects of his writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to his concept of history.

An insight into the importance of Hegel, Derrida's work on Hegel and the foundations of postmodern and deconstructionist thought. For those concerned with the work of Derrida and Hegel and anyone seeking insight into the themes of deconstruction. In the WARWICK STUDIES IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY series.

Gill examines the continuing power and influence of Bataille's work. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writing.

The subject of these eleven essays is Walter Benjamin as theorist. It considers his work on thinking in images or UBilddnken, and the relation of this to "the first material of human existence ... the body" is taken as constituting the specificity of his philosophy.

Freud and Lacan argued that the mind's connection to the body is marked by the passion of the "knowing subject". This text explores what such a characterization means, and how it provides a key to many contemporary theoretical and philosophical concerns.

This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science and technology.

This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science and technology.

This collection explores, in Adorno's description, Benjamin's 'philosophy directed against philosophy .' The essays cover all aspects of his writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to his concept of history.

This work by renowned Derrida scholar and translator Bennington presents incisive new readings of both Derrida and different interpretations of his work within the domains of ethics, politics and literature.

This book assembles the key essays of two of the most celebrated continental philosophers and provides a sharp and highly original recasting of the notion of the political today.

From Heidegger's reading of Antigone to Nietzsche and Benjamin's book-length studies of tragedy, Philosophy and Tragedy presents an outstanding and original study of philosophers' preoccupation with the concept.

This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. Blanchot demonstrates the radical philosophical import of literature, and has renewed the debate over the ethics of art.

A major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero, this is a fascinating and challenging account of the relationship between the structure of the self and the structure of narrative.

Tragedy has always been an important topic in philosophy, ever since Aristotle first wrote about the subject in his "Poetics". This text is a collection of essays on the encounter between philosophy and tragedy in the work of Hegel, Holderlin, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Benjamin.

This collection of essays discusses the work of Maurice Blanchot. Blanchot demonstrates the radical philosophical import of literature, and has renewed the debate over the ethics of art. The essays also consider the political implications of Blanchot's writings.

Following Levinas's philosophical works in roughly chronological order, Llewelyn finally brings his work to a wider audience.

Gill examines the continuing power and influence of Bataille's work. By bringing together international specialists on Bataille from philosophy to art history, this collection is able to explore the many facets of his writing.

Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War.

This collection will make it impossible to approach philosophy and its relation to the political without reference to Jean-Luc Nancy.

An insight into the importance of Hegel, Derrida's work on Hegel and the foundations of postmodern and deconstructionist thought. For those concerned with the work of Derrida and Hegel and anyone seeking insight into the themes of deconstruction. In the WARWICK STUDIES IN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY series.

This book offers a highly original and incisive reading of some of the lesser known and less lucid aspects of Kantian thought. Morgan's perspective of Kant is as a radical thinker rather than a concrete rationist.

A highly original and radical investigation of the heated controversy between Postructuralism and Critical Theory, the first book to shift the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two theories.

This is a reading of an important philosophical theme: the imagination. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, the author aims to show readers that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers.

Jean Laplanche is an incisive and important representative of contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. This text presents in English many of Laplanche's key essays and also provides an overview of his work.

A compelling read, Very Little ... Almost Nothing opens up new ways of understanding finitude, modernity and the nature of imagination. Revised edition with a new preface by the author.