Key Contemporary Thinkers (Polity) Series

76 primary works • 76 total works
'Key Contemporary Thinkers' makes available to a wide audience the ideas of some of the most influential thinkers of our time, both those that are well-known and those whose work has yet to be presented to a general readership. Cutting across the boundaries between academic disciplines and between different traditions of thought, the series address…
Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition, and Reason
4.02
· 43 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1987 · 9 editions
Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosoph…
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Quine: Language, Experience and Reality
Quine
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Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State
3.91
· 65 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1991 · 14 editions
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one …
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Roland Barthes
4.15
· 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1991 · 10 editions
A Stanford University Press classic.
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Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
3.83
· 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 9 editions
The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous imp…
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حنّة أرندت: السياسة والتاريخ والمواطنة
يأتي هذا الكتاب ضمن سلسلة "ترجمان" عن المركز العرب…
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Foucault: A Critical Introduction
3.93
· 15 Ratings · published 1994 · 8 editions
A Critical Introduction offers a comprehensive an…
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Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and Its Other
3.57
· 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 11 editions
A Stanford University Press classic.
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Hélène Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love
This book is a clear and accessible introduction t…
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Hayek: The Iron Cage Of Liberty
3.69
· 13 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1996 · 12 editions
Hayek, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth ce…
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Levinas: An Introduction
4.15
· 47 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1996 · 9 editions
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of in…
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Feyerabend: Philosophy, Science and Society
3.00
· 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 8 editions
This book is the first comprehensive critical stud…
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Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction
This book provides the first comprehensive introdu…
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Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism
Fredric Jameson has been described as "probably th…
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Adorno: A Critical Introduction
3.76
· 29 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
Jarvis offers an introduction to the intellectual …
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Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy
Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influent…
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Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis
Harvey Sacks's early death in 1975 robbed the soci…
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Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method
Karl Popper is a philosopher of knowledge and poli…
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Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics
This book is an unusually readable and lucid accou…
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Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to…
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Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics
The key to Chomsky's overall intellectual project …
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Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity
3.75
· 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions
In this major new book, Dennis Smith provides a cl…
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Clifford Geertz: Culture Custom and Ethics
4.50
· 4 Ratings · published 2000 · 6 editions
This is the first full-scale study of the work of …
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Edward Said: A Critical Introduction
3.68
· 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2000 · 13 editions
Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writin…
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Frege: A Critical Introduction
3.33
· 6 Ratings · published 2000 · 10 editions
This new book offers a comprehensive and accessibl…
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Dummett: Philosophy of Language
3.75
· 4 Ratings · published 2001 · 4 editions
Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as…
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Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations
4.07
· 14 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2002 · 15 editions
The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widel…
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Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy
Jerry Fodor is one of the most important philosoph…
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Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity
4.00
· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 11 editions
The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key f…
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Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary
Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American phi…
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Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn's shadow hangs over almost every field…
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Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption
4.00
· 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
In this new book Rosemary Cowan provides a clear a…
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Stuart Hall
3.27
· 11 Ratings · published 2003 · 5 editions
Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural stud…
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Zizek: A Critical Introduction
3.46
· 41 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
Žižek is hailed as the most significant interdisci…
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Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric
This book is the first comprehensive exposition of…
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فانون: المخيّلة بعد – الكولونيالية
يسلّط هذا الكتاب الضوء، من منظور نقدي، على المراحل…
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Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception
3.38
· 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 5 editions
Daniel Dennett is one of the most influential thin…
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John McDowell
3.70
· 10 Ratings · published 2004 · 4 editions
John McDowell has set the philosophical world alig…
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Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis
4.22
· 51 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
In recent years there has been a renewed interest …
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Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism
4.00
· 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thi…
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Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology
4.16
· 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 9 editions
Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and criti…
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Manuel Castells
4.12
· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 4 editions
First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneerin…
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Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle
4.39
· 31 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 7 editions
This book offers a lucid and highly readable accou…
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Deleuze
3.53
· 19 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2006 · 4 editions
This book provides a clear and concise introductio…
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Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn
4.11
· 27 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sella…
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Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics
4.09
· 22 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
With the publication of her highly acclaimed and m…
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G.H. Mead: A Critical Introduction
G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of soci…
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Terry Eagleton
3.57
· 7 Ratings · published 2008 · 7 editions
Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential cont…
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Richard Rorty
3.33
· 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 9 editions
Neil Gascoigne provides the first comprehensive in…
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Morgenthau
4.14
· 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 8 editions
The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study o…
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Habermas: A Critical Introduction
3.36
· 14 Ratings · published 1994 · 15 editions
Book by Outhwaite, William
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Badiou: A Philosophy of the New
3.55
· 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions
Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in…
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Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
3.88
· 41 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2010 · 12 editions
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is general…
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Jacques Rancière
3.50
· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
This book is a critical introduction to contempora…
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Kristeva
3.73
· 11 Ratings · published 2011 · 8 editions
Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and pro…
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Irigaray
4.00
· 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2011 · 9 editions
The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has e…
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Hayden White
3.79
· 19 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2011 · 10 editions
This new book offers a clear and accessible exposi…
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Antonio Negri
3.57
· 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
The Italian philosopher and militant Antonio Negri…
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Jean-Luc Nancy
3.79
· 14 Ratings · published 2012 · 6 editions
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading contemporary …
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Kripke
3.93
· 15 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 11 editions
Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic…
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Heidegger: Thinking of Being
4.50
· 38 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
Martin Heidegger is among the most important philo…
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Siegfried Kracauer
3.00
· 1 Ratings · published 2010 · 12 editions
This major new book offers a much-needed introduct…
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Axel Honneth
0.00
· published 2015 · 7 editions
With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of rec…
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Sloterdijk
4.00
· 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
This is the first English-language introduction to…
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Agamben
4.00
· 4 Ratings · published 2015 · 6 editions
Until recently, "continental" philosophy has been …
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Laruelle: A Stranger Thought
4.00
· 13 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2016 · 10 editions
François Laruelle's "non-philosophy" or "non-stand…
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Bruno Latour
4.25
· 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 7 editions
Bruno Latour is among the most important figures i…
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Brandom
4.00
· 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 6 editions
Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemp…
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H.L.A. Hart
H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophe…
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Canguilhem
3.25
· 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 4 editions
Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential hi…
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is one of the world’s best-known voice…
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Minsky
4.20
· 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 1 edition
No economist has written more incisively and provo…
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John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes is the 20th century’s greatest…
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Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is one of the world's most importan…
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Du Bois: A Critical Introduction
W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most…
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Leo Strauss: An Introduction
4.00
· 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions
Leo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to…
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