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.
On Jean-Luc Nancy: The Sense of Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks, Colin Thomas
July 22, 1997
This is the first book to consider the increasing importance of Jean-Luc Nancy's work, which has influenced key thinkers such as Jacques Derrida. All his major works have been translated into English, yet until now little has been made available on his place in contemporary philosophy.By showing ...
Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer
1st Edition
Edited
By Keith Ansell-Pearson, Keith Ansell Pearson
June 25, 1997
The work of Gilles Deleuze has had an impact far beyond philosophy. He is among Foucault and Derrida as one of the most cited of all contemporary French thinkers. Never a student 'of' philosophy, Deleuze was always philosophical and many influential poststructuralist and postmodernist texts can ...
Retreating the Political
1st Edition
By Phillippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy
June 10, 1997
This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays, Retreating the Political offers some highly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy ...
Passion in Theory: Conceptions of Freud and Lacan
1st Edition
By Robin Ferrell
December 26, 1996
Philosophy had either ignored or attacked psychoanalysis: such responses are neither warranted nor helpful. One hundred years after its inception, isn't it time to find out what psychoanalysis has to offer us? In Passion in Theory Robyn Ferrell does just that, and returns with some surprising ...
Body-and Image-Space: Re-Reading Walter Benjamin
1st Edition
By Sigrid Weigel
October 21, 1996
The last decade has seen a new wave of interest in philosophical and theoretical circles in the writings of Walter Benjamin. In Body-and Image-Space Sigrid Weigel, one of Germany's leading feminist theorists and a renowned commentator on the work of Walter Benjamin, argues that the reception of his...
Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn Bailey Gill
September 20, 1996
This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. One of the finest writers of our time, Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas; his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault. Eminent commentators featured here include...
Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics
1st Edition
By John Llewelyn
July 31, 1995
First Published in 2004. 'Emmanuel Levinas's thought can make us tremble' exclaims Jacques Derrida, one of the increasing number of writers in many different fields through whose works reverberate shock waves transmitted by the prophetic words of this eminent contemporary philosopher. John ...
Bataille: Writing the Sacred
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolyn Bailey Gill
December 21, 1994
Georges Bataille's powerful writings have fascinated many readers, enmeshed as they are with the themes of sex and death. His emotive discourse of excess, transgression, sacrifice, and the sacred has had a profound and notable influence on thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida and Kristeva. Bataille: ...