"A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness" represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of "Being and Nothingness" more readily understandable and readable. In his systematic inte...

Translator's Note Tympan Differance Note on a Note from Being and Time The Pit and the Pyramid: Introduction to Hegel's Semiology The Ends of Man The Linguistic Circle of Geneva Form and Meaning: A Note on the Phenomenology of Language The Supplement...

This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-1916 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E. D. Klemke. Corrections have been ma...

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unf...

Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as "Writing and Difference" and "Dissemination". Derrida takes positions on h...

Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In "Critical Understanding", Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism – a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any on...

When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that...

Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of t...