Humanism

By Tony Davies

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political – and reactions against...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42065-5 (Routledge)

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On Deconstruction

Theory and Criticism after Structuralism - revised edition

By JONATHAN CULLER

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is...

February 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46151-1 (Routledge)

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Derrida's Legacies

Literature and Philosophy

Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45428-5 (Routledge)

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A Sense of the World

Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge

Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, Luca Pocci

A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70191-4 (Routledge)

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Shelley's Intellectual System and its Epicurean Background

By Michael Vicario

Scholars do not agree on how best to describe Shelley’s philosophical stance. His work has been variously taken to be that of a skeptic or...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98143-9 (Routledge)

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Things Merely Are

Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

By Simon Critchley

This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35631-2 (Routledge)

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Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts

A Guide for Humanists

By Patrick Colm Hogan

The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94245-4 (Routledge)

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Language Alone

The Critical Fetish of Modernity

By Geoffrey Galt Harpham

How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94219-5 (Routledge)

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Gilles Deleuze

By Claire Colebrook

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24634-7 (Routledge)

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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture

By Jonathan Dollimore

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93772-6 (Routledge)

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