Continental Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society

   By Deborah Cook

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Heidegger and the Romantics

   The Literary Invention of Meaning

   By Pol Vandevelde

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
3. The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity

   By William Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

   By Somogy Varga

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. On Paul Ricoeur

   Narrative and Interpretation

   Edited by David Wood

   Series: Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Law's Trace: From Hegel to Derrida

   By Catherine Kellogg

   Law's Trace argues for the political importance of deconstruction by taking Derrida’s reading of Hegel as its point of departure. While it is well established that seemingly neutral and inclusive legal and political categories and representations are always, in fact, partial and exclusive, among...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. 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 October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. 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 August 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Politics of Logic

   Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

   By Paul Livingston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
10. Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism

    Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism

    By Thanos Zartaloudis

    Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. It explores Agamben’s work on language, ontology, power, law and criticism from the 1970s to his most recent publications. Introducing Agamben's...

    Published July 30th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish