Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
About the Book Series
This series presents the best and most original work being done within the European philosophical tradition. The books included in the series seek not merely to reflect what is taking place within European philosophy, rather they will contribute to the growth and development of that plural tradition.
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Benjamin, Peter Osborne
October 23, 2013
This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false ...
Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature
2nd Edition
By Simon Critchley
July 01, 2004
Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse to anything that transcends that finitude. A profound but secular meditation on the theme of death, ...
Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory
1st Edition
By Beatrice Hanssen
October 11, 2000
Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate, shifting the emphasis from ...
Interrupting Derrida
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Bennington
July 25, 2000
One of the most significant contemporary thinkers in continental philosophy, Jacques Derrida’s work continues to attract heated commentary among philosophers, literary critics, social and cultural theorists, architects and artists. This major new work by world renowned Derrida scholar and ...
Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood
1st Edition
By Adriana Cavarero
May 04, 2000
Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and narration. Drawing a diverse array of ...
Kant Trouble: Obscurities of the Enlightened
1st Edition
By Diane Morgan
April 06, 2000
Kant Trouble offers a highly original and incisive reading of some of the lesser known aspects of Kantian thought. Throughout Morgan challenges the widely held view of Kant as the exponent of concrete and rigid rationality and argues that his airtight 'architectonic' mode of reasoning overlooks ...
Philosophy and Tragedy
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Sparks, Miguel de Beistegui
January 31, 2000
From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet...
The Hypocritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas
1st Edition
By John Llewellyn
November 12, 1999
For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the attention the imagination has received from major philosophers, remarkably little has been written ...
Essays on Otherness
1st Edition
Edited
By John Fletcher, Jean Laplanche
January 29, 1999
Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English ...
Hegel After Derrida
1st Edition
Edited
By Stuart Barnett
March 18, 1998
Hegel After Derrida provides a much needed insight not only into the importance of Hegel and the importance of Derrida's work on Hegel, but also the very foundations of postmodern and deconstructionist thought. It will be essential reading for all those engaging with the work of Derrida and Hegel ...
Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty
1st Edition
By Cathryn Vasseleu
March 10, 1998
Textures of Light draws on the work of Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to present an outstanding and ground breaking study of the vital importance of light in Western thought. Since Plato's allegory of the cave, light and the role of sight have been accorded a unique ...
Blanchot: Extreme Contemporary
1st Edition
By Leslie Hill
October 29, 1997
Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the ...