Böcker av John McCumber

Explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. What happens, McCumber asks, when events and pressures go beyond interfering with individual careers to influence the nature of a discipline itself?

Because of the emancipatory nature of their thought, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty challenge domination, but it does not rise to the level of conscious critique in their writings. This title captures insights of these thinkers and places them into the larger, pluralistic movement toward philosophical freedom.

A significant new interpretation of Hegel's crucial criticisms of Kant.

This book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.

Presents a survey of continental thought through an historical account of its key texts. Looking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, this title discusses the philosophers that range from Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, and Horkheimer, to Agamben, Badiou, Butler and Ranciere.

Unfolds a history of Western metaphysics that is also a history of the legitimation of oppression. This book brings to light the unperceived challenge, by tracing the history of the inscription of domination into the very nature of being as it is conceived by Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes, and Locke.

Proposes a philosophical revolution. This work recommends a set of rational tools to enable philosophers and then puts these tools to work to redefine epistemology, ontology, and ethics.