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1. Existentialism

   Edited by Tanja Staehler

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   Existentialism entered the public consciousness after the Second World War, especially through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Indeed, these charismatic and engaged thinkers gave philosophy a level of glamour it had not before enjoyed, while existentialism’s...

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Plato and Levinas

   The Ambiguous Out-Side of Ethics

   By Tanja Staehler

   In the second half of the twentieth century, ethics has gained considerable prominence within philosophy. In contrast to other scholars, Levinas proposed that it be not one philosophical discipline among many, but the most fundamental and essential one. Before philosophy became divided into...

   Published August 12th 2009 by Routledge