Continental Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Politics of Imagination

   Edited by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand

   Series: Birkbeck Law Press

   The Politics of Imagination offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the contemporary relationship between politics and the imagination. What role does our capacity to form images play in politics? And can we define politics as a struggle for people’s imagination? As a result of the increasingly...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Birkbeck Law Press
2. 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...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality

   Law as Absolute Hospitality

   By Jacques de Ville

   Series: Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers

   Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality presents a comprehensive account and understanding of Derrida’s approach to law and justice. Through a detailed reading of Derrida’s texts, Jacques de Ville contends that it is only by way of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence, and...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Nothing

   On Sovereignty

   Edited by Clare Monagle, Dimitris Vardoulakis

   This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Ends of History

   Questioning the Stakes of Historical Reason

   Edited by Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols

   Over two decades ago we were confronted by the end of the Soviet Union and collapse of the geo-political divisions that had defined much of the twentieth century. From this particular end, the ‘end of history’was proclaimed. But is it still possible to argue that liberal democracy and free market...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Textual Poachers

   Television Fans and Participatory Culture, 2nd Edition

   By Henry Jenkins

   The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview...

   Published November 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights

   Edited by Ben Golder

   Re-reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights is the first collection in English fully to address the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for law. Foucault is the best known and most cited of the late twentieth-century’s ‘theory’ academics. His work continues to animate a range of different...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Divine Violence

   Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty

   By James Martel

   Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. China, Sex and Prostitution

   By Elaine Jeffreys

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police...

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt

    By Mariano Croce, Andrea Salvatore

    The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt provides a detailed analysis of Schmitt’s institutional theory of law, mainly developed in the books published between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s. By reading Schmitt’s overall work through the lens of his institutional turn, the authors...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge