Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy considers influential figures and movements in recent philosophy. It publishes studies that consider philosophers and philosophical ideas within a specific context. Such contexts may include a historical development or reflections upon the impact of a philosopher or philosophical idea.
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism
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By Tuomo Tiisala
December 25, 2025
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike,...
Cosmopolitan Husserl: From Transcendental Phenomenology to the Ethics of Renewal
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By Curtis Hutt, Halla Kim
September 29, 2025
This volume reflects on the themes and topics presented in Edmund Husserl’s articles published in the popular Japanese magazine Kaizōin 1923. It addresses the cosmopolitan nature of Husserl’s work as well as the enduring appeal of Husserl’s cultural phenomenology for today’s globalized age. The ...
Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time
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By Emily Hughes, Marilyn Stendera
September 28, 2025
This book reconstructs Heidegger’s philosophy of time by reading his work with and against a series of key interlocutors that he nominates as being central to his own critical history of time. In doing so, it explains what makes time of such significance for Heidegger and argues that Heidegger can ...
The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
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By Carlo DaVia, Greg Lynch
June 27, 2025
This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer’s account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project. Whereas philosophers have typically thought of ...
The Turing Test Argument
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By Bernardo Gonçalves
May 05, 2025
This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical, social, and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England, 1946–1952, over the intellectual capabilities of digital computers, which led Turing to propose ...
Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
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By Shunichi Takagi, Pascal F. Zambito
May 05, 2025
This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives. While some chapters focus on the philological and biographical connections of Wittgenstein’s reading of Nietzsche, others reflect on the ideas that are implicitly shared ...
Between Wittgenstein and Weil: Comparisons in Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics
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By Jack Manzi
April 13, 2025
This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy...
Early Analytic Philosophy: Origins and Transformations
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By James F. Conant, Gilad Nir
February 21, 2025
The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy. As this field has developed, complex and provocative questions have emerged about the very nature of analytic philosophy, challenging longstanding assumptions and spawning new research paradigms. In this ...
Collingwood’s Metaphysics: A Unique Position
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By Guido Vanheeswijck
December 31, 2024
This book explores R.G. Collingwood’s concept of metaphysics. It traces the evolution of Collingwood’s thought on metaphysics through his published work, posthumously published manuscripts and recently discovered course notes. From 1933 to 1936, Collingwood’s thought shifted considerably from the ...
Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond
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By Martin Gustafsson, Oskari Kuusela, Jakub Mácha
December 18, 2024
This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity. Saul Kripke is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of contemporary analytic philosophy. His most important contributions include the strict distinction ...
Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion: God, Freedom, and Duration
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By Matyáš Moravec
December 18, 2024
This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. More specifically, the book demonstrates how Bergson’s philosophy of time can respond to the problem of foreknowledge and free will. The question of how humans can be free...
Unworldliness in Twentieth Century German Thought
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By Stéphane Symons
December 12, 2024
What happens when the world around us feels fragmented? How can a person continue to respond positively to their environment when it seems to have lost its internal coherence? These questions lie at the heart of this innovative interpretation of some of the most influential German philosophers of ...