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.
Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning
1st Edition
By Pol Vandevelde
September 20, 2013
While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and ...
The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre
1st Edition
By Jonathan Webber
April 09, 2013
Webber argues for a new interpretation of Sartrean existentialism. On this reading, Sartre is arguing that each person’s character consists in the projects they choose to pursue and that we are all already aware of this but prefer not to face it. Careful consideration of his existentialist writings...
The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plot and Heroes
1st Edition
Edited
By Anat Biletzki, Anat Matar
March 21, 2013
This unique collection looks at analytic philosophy in its historical context. Prominent philosophers discuss key figures, including Russell and Wittgenstein, methods and results in analytic philosophy to present its story. This volume assesses the challenge posed by changing cultural and ...
Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art
1st Edition
By Ruth Lorand
November 14, 2012
Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet different from the traditional discursive order. It will be of importance to all interested in aesthetic theory....
Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "On Denoting"
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Griffin, Dale Jacquette
February 03, 2012
A century after ‘On Denoting’ was published, the debate it initiated continues to rage. On the one hand, there is a mass of new historical scholarship, about both Russell and Meinong, which has not circulated very far beyond specialist scholars. On the other hand, there are continuing problems and ...
The Philosophy of Time: Time before Times
1st Edition
By Roger McLure
November 25, 2011
The question of the existence and the properties of time has been subject to debate for thousands of years. This considered and complete study offers a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time. Is time perceptible only ...
Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonella Corradini, Sergio Galvan, E. J. Lowe
December 13, 2010
In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry. All of these attempts have had the common goal of rendering these areas of philosophy amenable to empirical methods, with the intention of securing for them ...
Ineffability and Philosophy
1st Edition
By André Kukla
December 13, 2010
Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion. The author distinguishes different senses in which it might...
The Russellian Origins of Analytical Philosophy: Bertrand Russell and the Unity of the Proposition
1st Edition
By Graham Stevens
December 13, 2010
This monograph reappraises the role of Bertrand Russell's philosophical works in establishing the analytical tradition in philosophy. It's main aims are to: * improve our understanding of the history of analytical philosophy * engage in the important disputes surrounding the interpretation of ...
Philosophy and the Vision of Language
1st Edition
By Paul Livingston
June 07, 2010
Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection. It traces the implications of the access to language in some of the most prominent projects...
The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Beaney
October 13, 2009
This collection, with contributions from leading philosophers, places analytic philosophy in a broader context comparing it with the methodology of its most important rival tradition in twentieth-century philosophy--phenomenology, whose development parallels the development of analytic ...
The Metaphysics of Perception: Wilfrid Sellars, Perceptual Consciousness and Critical Realism
1st Edition
By Paul Coates
June 22, 2009
This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics....