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A collection of essays examining Merleau-Ponty's interrogation of the limits of philosophy. It seeks to answer the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. It traces the line between art and aesthetic judgment, psychology and philosophy, sacramentality and transcendence in Merleau-Ponty's life and work.

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Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology" reconstructs Merleau-Ponty's treatment of the problem of ideal objects. The author describes Merleau-Ponty's early attempt to found ideal objects on pre-linguistic, perceptual experience and shows that Merleau-Ponty ultimately came to see the shortcomings of this initial view.

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Michel Henry (1922-2002) was a French philosopher and novelist, whose work spanned decades and genres while remaining united by a singular vision. This title offers an examination of Michel Henry's important contributions to phenomenology, theology, politics and aesthetics, featuring contributions from an international list of scholars.

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Offers a reading of Nietzsche through an examination of his English and American influences, including Darwin, Shakespeare, Mill, Hume, Emerson, Swift, Sterne and Byron. This book also provides an account of his engagement with the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition.

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Nietzsche's reputation has undergone a transformation and he is seen as one of the greatest defenders of human freedom. This book offers a crucial reading of Nietzsche through an examination of his English and American influences, including Darwin, Shakespeare, Mill, Hume, Emerson, Swift, Sterne and Byron.

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Explores the ethical theory of Friedrich Nietzsche in light of work done in the philosophy of mind. This book examines issues of free will, communication, the way in which we construct the self, and the implications of these for ethics.

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A collection of essays from an international team of leading Nietzsche scholars examining arguably his most important work.

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Examines the structure, method, style and sources of "Zarathustra" as a philosophical text and its relationship to methodological and metaphilosophical questions amid the broader discussions of philosophy.

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A collection of essays that examine Nietzsche's response to contemporary nihilism. It examines Nietzsche's analysis of and response to contemporary nihilism, the sense that nothing has value or meaning.

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An examination of i ek's groundbreaking psychoanalytic methodology and its implications within our contemporary capitalist universe.

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Explores the theoretical and practical potential of the psychoanalytic method deployed by Slavoj Zizek by investigating its epistemological implications within our capitalist universe. This book begins by evaluating Zizek's account of the capitalist ideology of enjoyment through the analysis of Lacan's critique of Marx's surplus-value.

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A new monograph examining Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and its implications for historical rationality and the community.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely known for his emphasis on embodied perceptual experience. This book emphasises the historical and intersubjective underpinnings of Merleau-Ponty's late accounts, in relation to rationality, institution and community, and examines its implications.

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Examines hermeneutics in relation to existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory and postructuralism.

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Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.

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Gives an overview of the work of both figures, tracing the origins and development of their principal ideas, and identifying key similarities and differences. This book identifies and explores the key philosophical influences upon their work such as: Descartes; Kant; Nietzsche; Husserl; Freud; Marcel; and Jaspers.

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Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was one of the most prolific French philosophers of the 20th Century. This book offers an insightful examination of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a central concept in his work. It takes a thematic approach that explores his lifelong struggle to be both iconoclastic and yet hopeful, and avoid the slippery slope to relativism.

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This book offers an original and insightful examination of Ricoeur's hermeneutics, a central concept in his work.

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Presents an examination of the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur that focuses on his specific concept of interpretation. This book explores the philosophical resources provided by Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics in dealing with the challenges of a world framed by globalization.

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An original examination of the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur, focusing on his specific concept of interpretation.

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Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most distinctive and vociferous social critics of the twentieth century. This title presents an alternative to the long standing view that Sartre is an extreme individualist, placing him instead at the centre of the debate over civic virtue and democratic participation.

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Shows that authenticity is an important civic virtue, relevant to the social and political institutions of the modern world. This book demonstrates the vitality of Jean-Paul Sartre's landmark essays 'What is Literature' and 'Anti-Semite and Jew', and reveals the importance of the 'Notebooks for an Ethics', a manuscript.

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In "Being and Nothingness", Sartre picks up diverging threads in the phenomenological tradition, weaves them together with ideas from Gestalt and behaviourist psychology. This work describes Sartre's account of the transition from one's original apprehension of another consciousness to the perception of other persons.

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Offers a theory of 'staggered time', based on the relation between simultaneity and delay. By investigating not only philosophical texts, but also ideas from aesthetics, political theory, and the sciences, this book builds a set of concepts for describing the time-structures of atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal delays, and more.