The Culture of Confession from Augustine to Foucault

A Genealogy of the 'Confessing Animal'

By Chloë Taylor

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting...

Published July 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Merleau-Ponty

By Taylor Carman

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) is one of the most important philosophers of the Twentieth century. His theories of perception and the role of the body have...

Published July 17th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Four Lacanian Discourses

or Turning Law Inside Out

By Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder

This book proposes a taxonomy of jurisprudence and legal practice, based on the discourse theory of Jacques Lacan. In the anglophone academy, the positivist jurisprudence...

Published June 25th 2008 by Birbeck Law Press.

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Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity

A Phenomenology of Human Rights

By Serena Parekh

Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity explores the theme of human rights in the work of Hannah Arendt. Parekh argues that Arendt's contribution to this...

Published February 25th 2008 by Routledge.

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On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy

By Nathan Ross

On Mechanism in Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy examines the role of the concept of mechanism in Hegel’s thinking about political and social institutions. It...

Published February 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

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Derrida's Legacies

Literature and Philosophy

Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a...

Published January 16th 2008 by Routledge.

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Heidegger on East-West Dialogue

Anticipating the Event

By Lin Ma

This book traces a most obscure and yet most intriguing theme concealed in Heidegger’s thinking and work, which has hitherto not yet been made the...

Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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French Feminists

Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

Edited by Jennifer Hansen, Ann Cahill

Although at times criticized for its philosophical density, French cultural theory remains a flourishing, if highly contested, area of academic study. Four feminist thinkers in...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

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Metaphor and Continental Philosophy

From Kant to Derrida

By Clive Cazeaux

Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of...

Published September 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Derrida on Time

By Joanna Hodge

This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of...

Published August 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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