Key Concepts
Surrealism: Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson
June 20, 2016
Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time. The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution...
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Hewson, Marcus Coelen
November 30, 2015
Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key figures in post-modernist and post-structuralist ...
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
2nd Edition
Edited
By Michael Grenfell
September 01, 2012
The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout these studies, ...
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Colebrook
October 27, 2014
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as technology, psychoanalysis, friendship, Marxism, racism and sexism, to his ethico-political writings...
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Charles J. Stivale
October 13, 2014
Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art, architecture and cultural studies. Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts provides a guide to Deleuzian thought ...
G. W. F. Hegel: Key Concepts
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Baur
June 30, 2014
The thought of G. W. F. Hegel (1770 -1831) has had a deep and lasting influence on a wide range of philosophical, political, religious, aesthetic, cultural and scientific movements. But, despite the far-reaching importance of Hegel's thought, there is often a great deal of confusion about what he ...
Alain Badiou: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens
September 03, 2014
Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou: Key Concepts presents an overview of and ...
Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Bret W. Davis
November 01, 2009
Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in recent philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. Yet any student of philosophy needs to become acquainted with Heidegger's thought. "Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts" is designed ...
Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Rosalyn Diprose, Jack Reynolds
May 27, 2008
Having initially not had the attention of Sartre or Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty's work is arguably now more widely influential than either of his two contemporaries. "Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts" presents an accessible guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his ...
Immanuel Kant: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Will Dudley, Kristina Engelhard
November 25, 2010
Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His transcendental idealism claims to overcome the skepticism of David Hume, resolve the impasse between empiricism and rationalism, and establish the reality of human freedom and moral agency. A thorough understanding ...
Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Steven Churchill, Dr. Jack Reynolds
September 30, 2013
Most readers of Sartre focus only on the works written at the peak of his influence as a public intellectual in the 1940s, notably "Being and Nothingness". "Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts" aims to reassess Sartre and to introduce readers to the full breadth of his philosophy. Bringing together ...
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts
1st Edition
By Dianna Taylor
September 30, 2010
Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, ...