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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy


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Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy considers influential figures and movements in recent philosophy. It publishes studies that consider philosophers and philosophical ideas within a specific context. Such contexts may include a historical development or reflections upon the impact of a philosopher or philosophical idea.

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Between Wittgenstein and Weil Comparisons in Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics

Between Wittgenstein and Weil: Comparisons in Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics

1st Edition

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Edited By Jack Manzi
November 03, 2023

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy...

Kripke and Wittgenstein The Standard Metre, Contingent Apriori and Beyond

Kripke and Wittgenstein: The Standard Metre, Contingent Apriori and Beyond

1st Edition

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Edited By Martin Gustafsson, Oskari Kuusela, Jakub Mácha
October 06, 2023

This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity. Saul Kripke is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of contemporary analytic philosophy. His most important contributions include the strict distinction ...

Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion God, Freedom, and Duration

Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion: God, Freedom, and Duration

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Forthcoming

By Matyáš Moravec
August 04, 2023

This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion. More specifically, the book demonstrates how Bergson’s philosophy of time can respond to the problem of foreknowledge and free will. The question of how humans can be free...

Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy Experience, Ephemerality and Truth

Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy: Experience, Ephemerality and Truth

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By Nathan Ross
May 31, 2023

This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of body and mind, and the limits of human ...

Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929

Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in 1929

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Edited By Florian Franken Figueiredo
February 24, 2023

The book explores the impact of manuscript remarks during the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. Although its intention is to put the focus specifically on the manuscripts, the book is not purely exegetical. The contributors generate important new insights for understanding ...

Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question An Ethics of Rebellion

Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question: An Ethics of Rebellion

1st Edition

By Pedro Tabensky
December 09, 2022

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power ...

C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of Time

C. D. Broad’s Philosophy of Time

1st Edition

By L. Nathan Oaklander
August 01, 2022

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.D. Broad’s changing views of time and in so doing  clarify the central disputes in the philosophy of time, explicate the various positions Broad took regarding them, and develop his own responses both to ...

Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger

Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger

1st Edition

By Filippo Casati
November 30, 2021

This book offers a clear, analytic, and innovative interpretation of Heidegger’s late work. This period of Heidegger’s philosophy remains largely unexplored by analytic philosophers, who consider it filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas, particularly concerning the notions of Being and ...

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary: Language and Morality in J.L. Austin’s Philosophy

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By Niklas Forsberg
October 25, 2021

This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin’s philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin’s philosophical work. Austin is primarily viewed as a philosopher of language whose work focused on the pragmatic aspects of ...

The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset

The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter: Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset

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By Lydia Amir
September 30, 2021

This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she ...

Heidegger’s Ecological Turn Community and Practice for Future Generations

Heidegger’s Ecological Turn: Community and Practice for Future Generations

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By Frank Schalow
September 06, 2021

This book makes explicit the ecological implications of Martin Heidegger. It examines how the trajectory of Heidegger’s thinking harbors an "ecological turn," which comes to the forefront in his attempt to anticipate the impending crisis precipitated by modern technology. Schalow’s emphasis on such...

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language

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Edited By Hanne Appelqvist
December 02, 2019

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein’s work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly debates on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as the ...

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