The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze are best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. Now, for the first ti…
Gilles Deleuze and metaphysics
Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of murderers. He considers himself ᑺ pure metaphysician,ň which is rather u…
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminat…
In this text, Aristotle laid the foundation for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. After a sharp reaction against Platonism, he achieved in this work an extraordinary synthesis, integrating the natural and rational aspects of the world.
The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of hi…
Oxford studies in metaphysics
Michael Dummett is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers; this book covers his work in the closely related fields of metaphysics and the philosophy of language.