Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Series Editor: John D. Caputo, Villanova University and Syracuse University

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy is devoted to the whole spectrum of contemporary continental studies: nineteenth century beginnings; classical phenomenology and existentialism; hermeneutics, critical theory, and structuralism; the many varieties of poststructuralist or postmodern thought, including the work of Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, Levinas, Foucault, and feminist theory; and Agamben, Badiou, Žižek, and debates about the new materialism. While the series is open to a wide variety of approaches to continental thought, it is particularly interested in those that address ethics, political philosophy, or the philosophy of religion. The series welcomes careful interpretive studies of the major figures and movements in contemporary continental philosophy, but it is also interested in original philosophical investigations that draw upon and are written from a continental perspective.

Series Board: James Bernauer, Drucilla Cornell, Thomas R. Flynn, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Adriaan Peperzak, Thomas Sheehan, Hent de Vries, Merold Westphal, Michael Zimmerman

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A Philosophy of Prayer

A Philosophy of Prayer

George Pattison, John D. Caputo

George Pattison

Exploring the silence of prayer in Post-Kantian philosophy and traditional spiritualityA Philosophy of Prayer explores prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background...

ISBN: 9781531506834

Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

Irving Goh, Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Irving Goh, Eleanor Kaufman, Ian Alexander Moore, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, John H. Smith

Edited by Irving Goh

Contributor(s): Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Irving Goh, Eleanor Kaufman, Ian Alexander Moore, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy and John H. Smith

This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or...

ISBN: 9781531501990

The Political Logic of Experience

The Political Logic of Experience

Neal DeRoo

Neal DeRoo

The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understanding of subjectivity, epistemology, experience, the...

ISBN: 9781531500054

The Ruse of Techne

The Ruse of Techne

Dimitris Vardoulakis

Dimitris Vardoulakis

The Ruse of Techne offers a reappraisal of Heidegger’s entire work by focusing on the forms of activity he regards as separate from instrumentality. Non-instrumental activities like authenticity,...

ISBN: 9781531506759

Class Acts

Michael Naas

Michael Naas

Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.

ISBN: 9780823298402

What Is Theology?

What Is Theology?

Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

ISBN: 9780823297825

Deconstruction in a Nutshell

Deconstruction in a Nutshell

Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo

Jacques Derrida

Edited by John D. Caputo

This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language.Responding to questions...

ISBN: 9780823290291

Radical Hospitality

Radical Hospitality

Richard Kearney, Melissa Fitzpatrick

Richard Kearney and Melissa Fitzpatrick

Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. The book engages urgent moral conversations concerning identity, nationality, immigration, peace, and justice for the work of living together.

ISBN: 9780823294435

In Search of Radical Theology

In Search of Radical Theology

John D. Caputo

John D. Caputo

This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large.Capturing a career’s...

ISBN: 9780823289196

Nothing Absolute

Nothing Absolute

Alex Dubilet, Joseph Albernaz, Daniel C. Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, S.D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Vincent W. Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler, Alex Dubilet

Edited by Alex Dubilet

Contributor(s): Joseph Albernaz, Daniel C. Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, S.D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Vincent W. Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler and Alex Dubilet

Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.

ISBN: 9780823290178

Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World

Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World

Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

Galen A. Johnson, Mauro Carbone and Emmanuel de Saint Aubert

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.

ISBN: 9780823287703

Nothing Absolute

Nothing Absolute

Kirill Chepurin, Alex Dubilet, Joseph Albernaz, Daniel C. Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, S.D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Vincent W. Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler, Kirill Chepurin, Alex Dubilet

Edited by Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet

Contributor(s): Joseph Albernaz, Daniel C. Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, S.D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Vincent W. Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler, Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet

Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.

ISBN: 9780823290185

Pauline Ugliness

Pauline Ugliness

Ole Jakob Løland

Ole Jakob Løland

Jacob Taubes radically changed our conceptions of Paul the apostle. Loland shows how we can approach Paul’s letters with the distinctive perspective of this Jewish rabbi steeped in continental philosophy. The book emphasizes Paul’s Jewishness as well as the political explosiveness of the apostle’s revolutionary doctrine of the cross, which the author terms Pauline Ugliness.

ISBN: 9780823286546

Murderous Consent

Murderous Consent

Marc Crépon, Michael Loriaux, James Martel

Marc Crépon

Translated by Michael Loriaux

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.

ISBN: 9780823283743

A Theology of Failure

A Theology of Failure

Marika Rose

Marika Rose

This book draws the work of Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the Christian mystical theological tradition in order to propose a materialist account of Christian identity as constituted by failure.

ISBN: 9780823284061

Carnal Hermeneutics

Carnal Hermeneutics

Richard Kearney, Brian Treanor

Edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor

Carnal hermeneutics offers a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. It engages our finite, spatio-temporal being-in-the-world through an account of meanings involving corporeal sensation, orientation, and linguistic articulation, and transcends the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, arguing that our most carnal sensations are already interpretations.

ISBN: 9780823265893

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Vanessa Lemm

Edited by Vanessa Lemm

Nietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.

ISBN: 9780823262878

The Guide to Gethsemane

The Guide to Gethsemane

Emmanuel Falque, George Hughes

Emmanuel Falque

Translated by George Hughes

Anxiety, suffering and death are not simply the “ills” of our society, nor are they uniquely the product of a sick and sinful humanity. We must all some day confront them, and we continually face...

ISBN: 9780823281954

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

Michael Naas

Michael Naas

The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, The Beast and the Sovereign (2001-2003), as the explicit themes of the seminar, namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal, come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world.

ISBN: 9780823263295

Derrida From Now On

Derrida From Now On

Michael Naas

Michael Naas

Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the continuing significance of his work for contemporary...

ISBN: 9780823229598

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Phenomenologies of Scripture

Adam Y. Wells

Edited by Adam Y. Wells

A selection of essays by notable phenomenologists and biblical scholars on scriptural texts and interpretive methodology.

ISBN: 9780823275564

Walter Benjamin and Theology

Walter Benjamin and Theology

Colby Dickinson, Stéphane Symons

Edited by Colby Dickinson and Stéphane Symons

Benjamin’s relationship to theological matters has been less observed than it should. Walter Benjamin and Theology brings together some of the world’s most renowned experts to reassess the stake theology has in Benjamin’s writings, aiming for nothing less than the beginning of a new phase in Anglophone Benjamin scholarship.

ISBN: 9780823270187

The Ground of the Image

The Ground of the Image

Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Jeff Fort

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation...

ISBN: 9780823225415

Derrida after the End of Writing

Derrida after the End of Writing

Clayton Crockett

Clayton Crockett

This book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.

ISBN: 9780823277841

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Husserl's Missing Technologies

Don Ihde

Don Ihde

Don Ihde, contemporary postphenomenological philosopher of science and technology—technoscience—examines the important philosophical role of Husserl, here in relation to technologies, and his classical phenomenology. With concrete analyses of both the science of Husserl’s time and a retrospective reading from new technoscience interpretations, scientific instruments, technologies of reading and writing, and new imaging technologies are discussed.

ISBN: 9780823269617

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