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One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

An “introduction to the nonfascist life” (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society’s innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage... (more)

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

by R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.

Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)

Critique of Pure Reason (Philosophical Classics)

by Immanuel Kant, Patricia Kitcher, Allen W. Wood, Werner S. Pluhar

Eighteenth century philosophy was in a crisis, the schism between rationalism and empiricism complicating the dispute over the status of religion and the threat of science. Committed equally to reason and experience, science and morality, Kant's aim was to place these concerns on a secure basis while limiting their claim to unqualified truth: the result is the Critique of Pure Reason (1781), a decisively ... (more)

Illuminations

by Walter Benjamin

Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.

The Portable Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, 'Few writers in any age were so full of ideas', and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted. The "Portable Nietzsche" includes Kaufmann's definitive... (more)

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume... (more)

The Postmodern Condition (Theory & History of Literature)

The Postmodern Condition (Theory & History of Literature)

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. The Basic Writings of Existentialism, Many Never Before Translated.

Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. The Basic Writings of Existentialism, Many Never Before Translated.

by Walter Arnold Kaufmann

Alterity and Transcendence

by Emmanuel Levinas

Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence -against the grain of Western philosophical tradition -on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investigation. This first English translation of a series of twelve essays known as Alterity and Transcendence offers a... (more)

Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialectics Ppr)

Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialectics Ppr)

by Theodor W. Adorno

The first British paperback edition of this modern classic penned by one of the towering intellectuals of the twentieth century. Negative Dialectics is a vital weapon in making sense of modern times.

On Heidegger and Language (SPEP)

by Joseph J. Kockelmans

Text: English, German (translation)

Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: and Other Writings on Media

Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: and Other Writings on Media

by Walter Benjamin

Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought. This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of... (more)

Heidegger, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism

Heidegger, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism

Martin Heidegger, a leading German philosopher of the twentieth century, has left an indelible mark on existentialism and phenomenology. He has influenced a cross-section of some of the most important later philosophers, including Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, as well as Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many lesser-known figures. Merely in terms of influence,... (more)

Heidegger and Asian Thought

by Graham Parkes

A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

by Simon Critchley

With 58 original essays by major experts, this Companion volume provides the first survey of all the major figures of 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy. Each essay explains and develops the key ideas of a central figure or movement as they relate to such areas as art theory, cultural studies, social and political theory, psychology, and the sciences. Core topic section headings include: "The... (more)

Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910-1927 (SPEP)

Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of His Early Occasional Writings, 1910-1927 (SPEP)

by Martin Heidegger

In the decades since Martin Heidegger's death, many of his early writings--notes and talks, essays and reviews--have made it into print, but in such scattershot fashion and erratic translation as to mitigate their usefulness for understanding the development, direction, and ultimate shape of his work. This timely collection, edited by two preeminent Heidegger scholars, brings together in English translation the... (more)

L'oeil et l'esprit

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Tags: continental philosophy

by Martin Heidegger

by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

by R. J. Hollingdale, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

by Immanuel Kant, Patricia Kitcher, Allen W. Wood, Werner S. Pluhar

by Walter Benjamin

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann

by Friedrich Nietzsche

by Friedrich Nietzsche

by Jean-Francois Lyotard

by Walter Arnold Kaufmann

by Emmanuel Levinas

by Theodor W. Adorno

by Joseph J. Kockelmans

by Walter Benjamin

by Graham Parkes

by Simon Critchley

by Martin Heidegger

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

by Albert Camus