Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Traditional Korean Philosophy
Problems and Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This unique volume of original essays presents in-depth analyses of representative periods, problems, and debates within the long and rich history of Korean philosophy. It provides the reader with a sense of the problems that motivated thinkers within the tradition and the kinds of arguments that...
by Michel Serres
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.
Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything...
Phenomena-Critique-Logos
The Project of Critical Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
One commonplace assumption in Continental philosophy circles today is that there is an unbridgeable gap between, on the one hand, Kantian and post-Kantian critical tradition in German thought and, on the other, Husserlian and post-Husserlian phenomenology.
*Phenomena-Critique-*Logos challenges...
by Casey Rentmeester
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world’s relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset of anthropogenic climate change and the increasing threats...
The Question Concerning the Thing
On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe).
The text presents with particular clarity Heidegger’s...
Breached Horizons
The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This volume is a guide to the legacy of the philosophical work of Jean-Luc Marion. A leading phenomenologist and philosopher of religion, Marion’s work addresses questions on the nature and knowledge of God, love, consciousness, art, psychology, and spirituality. Here, leading Marion scholars explain...
Metaphors of Invention and Dissension
Aesthetics and Politics in the Postcolonial Algerian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Metaphors of Invention and Dissension explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the postcolonial Algerian novel, examining six novels written by two Algerian authors of French expression, Tahar Djaout and Rachid Mimouni. Rajeshwari S. Vallury argues that postcolonial literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical re-appraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering 21st century thought. This interdisciplinary collection of state-of-the-art essays offers...
At the Limits of the Political
Affect, Life, Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The question of the limits of the political permeates the history of western political thought and has been at the forefront of debates in contemporary political philosophy, especially in French and Italian contexts. This book argues that the question of radical political exteriority fell into neglect...
Geopolitics and Decolonization
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Gathering researchers from or towards Global South epistemologies, this book enriches the debate on crucial questions for liberation in the South and the improvement of South relations. It argues that coloniality and colonialism are not outdated phenomena of the historical past, but contemporary marks...
by Peter Lamarque
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading philosophers of literature at work today, explores these and related questions to bring new clarity...
Credo Credit Crisis
Speculations on Faith and Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Money facilitates the rites and rituals we perform in everyday life. More than a mere medium of exchange or a measure of value, it is the primary means by which we manifest a faith unique to our secular age.
But what happens when individual belief (credo, ‘I’ believe) and the systems into...
The Composition of Movements to Come
Aesthetics and Cultural Labour After the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control? How do art, aesthetics and activism inform one another? And how do strategic spaces of creativity become the basis for new forms of production and governance?
The Composition of Movements...
Ambivalence
A Philosophical Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Ambivalence (as in practical conflicts, moral dilemmas, conflicting beliefs, and mixed feelings) is a central phenomenon of human life. Yet ambivalence is incompatible with entrenched philosophical conceptions of personhood, judgement, and action, and is denied or marginalised by thinkers of diverse...