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.
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929
1st Edition
Edited
By Florian Franken Figueiredo
August 26, 2024
The book explores the impact of manuscript remarks during the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. Although its intention is to put the focus specifically on the manuscripts, the book is not purely exegetical. The contributors generate important new insights for understanding ...
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Tuomo Tiisala
July 31, 2024
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,...
Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time
1st Edition
By Emily Hughes, Marilyn Stendera
April 02, 2024
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 ...
Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy
1st Edition
By Niklas Forsberg
January 29, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of ...
The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter: Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset
1st Edition
By Lydia Amir
January 29, 2024
This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she ...
Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger
1st Edition
By Filippo Casati
September 25, 2023
This book offers a clear, analytic, and innovative interpretation of Heidegger’s late work. This period of Heidegger’s philosophy remains largely unexplored by analytic philosophers, who consider it filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas, particularly concerning the notions of Being and ...
Heidegger’s Ecological Turn: Community and Practice for Future Generations
1st Edition
By Frank Schalow
September 25, 2023
This book makes explicit the ecological implications of Martin Heidegger. It examines how the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking harbors an "ecological turn," which comes to the forefront in his attempt to anticipate the impending crisis precipitated by modern technology. Schalow’s emphasis on such...
Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy: Experience, Ephemerality and Truth
1st Edition
By Nathan Ross
May 31, 2023
This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human ...
C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of Time
1st Edition
By L. Nathan Oaklander
August 01, 2022
In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing clarify the central disputes in the philosophy of time, explicate the various positions Broad took regarding them, and develop his own responses both to ...
Heidegger's Shadow: Kant, Husserl, and the Transcendental Turn
1st Edition
By Chad Engelland
March 05, 2019
Heidegger’s Shadow is an important contribution to the understanding of Heidegger’s ambivalent relation to transcendental philosophy. Its contention is that Heidegger recognizes the importance of transcendental philosophy as the necessary point of entry to his thought, but he nonetheless comes to ...
Donald Davidson’s Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Robert H. Myers, Claudine Verheggen
August 14, 2018
According to many commentators, Davidson’s earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much ...
The Early Wittgenstein on Metaphysics, Natural Science, Language and Value
1st Edition
By Chon Tejedor
July 27, 2016
This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate. It covers Wittgenstein’s approach to language and logic, as well as other areas unduly neglected in the literature, such as his treatment of metaphysics, the ...