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 and Democratic Politics: Language, Dialogue and Political Forms of Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Lotar Rasiński, Anat Biletzki, Leszek Koczanowicz, Alois Pichler, Thomas Wallgren
October 28, 2024
This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and practice. Its focus is on language, reason and communication as central to identifying present confusions in our understanding of ...
Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion
1st Edition
By Pedro Tabensky
August 26, 2024
This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power ...
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929
1st Edition
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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 ...
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 Concept of Philosophical Method: Innovating Philosophy in the Age of Global Warming
1st Edition
By Vincent Blok
September 30, 2021
This book provides new interpretations of Heidegger’s philosophical method in light of 20th-century postmodernism and 21st-century speculative realism. In doing so, it raises important questions about philosophical method in the age of global warming and climate change. Vincent Blok addresses ...
Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language
1st Edition
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By Hanne Appelqvist
September 30, 2021
The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the ...
Benjamin, Adorno, and the Experience of Literature
1st Edition
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By Corey McCall, Nathan Ross
September 30, 2020
This collection features original essays that examine Walter Benjamin’s and Theodor Adorno’s essays and correspondence on literature. Taken together, the essays present the view that these two monumental figures of 20th-century philosophy were not simply philosophers who wrote about literature, but...