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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…

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August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96371-8 (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…

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July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33981-0 (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…

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June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46482-6 (Birkbeck Law Press)

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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…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96372-5 (Routledge)

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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…

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February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96108-0 (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…

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January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45428-5 (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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95719-9 (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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39552-6 (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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32400-7 (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…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43091-3 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Nihilism
By Bulent Diken
To be published November 28th 2008

The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre
By Jonathan Webber
To be published December 17th 2008

History of Madness
By Michel FoucaultEdited by Jean Khalfa
To be published March 1st 2009

Foucault's Law
By Ben Golder, Peter Fitzpatrick
To be published March 20th 2009

The Radical Orthodoxy Reader
Edited by John Milbank, Simon Oliver
To be published April 28th 2009