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 conscious…
This collection of essays provides a portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. It addresses several points of contact and covers themes of the debate from the different periods in their shared history.
Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines…
Alienation is pervasive in our society where wealth, comfort, diversion and fun are more important than lives that make sense. This text develops the concept of alienation by using not only philosophical but also literary texts as its guides. It documents how our social system f…
A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take up increasingly…
Om menneskelivets meningsløshed og om oprøret mod det absurde
First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy
by Cox, Gary
fromContinuum's Guides for the perplexed
Kierkegaarda (TM)s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaarda (TM)s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish …
There can be no doubt that most of the thinkers who are usually associated with the existentialist tradition, whatever their actual doctrines, were in one way or another influenced by the writings of Kierkegaard. This influence is so great that it can be fairly stated that the e…
This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. Thes…
When we think of Heidegger's influence in France, we tend to focus on such contemporary thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. In Generation Existential, Ethan Kleinberg shifts the focus to the initial reception of Heidegger's philosophy in Fran…
by BAUDRILLARD, Jean, Guillaume, Marc
fromSemiotext(e) foreign agents series
"Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general."--"Radical Alterity" Where is the Other today? Can Otherness challenge our arrogant, insular cu…
