Bücher der Reihe Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him comes through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. This book offers an examination of Protagoras' thought for modern readers: his role as the first Western thinker to argue for relativism.

Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, this book provides insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers explanations for some of the worst outbreaks of violence and hatred in modern times.

Investigates the nexus between 'the seemingly impossible of high theory and the seemingly accessible possibilities of popular discourse', as encountered in liberation movements based on identity. This book offers an explication of complex philosophical issues and an understanding of how they relate to the political practicalities of everyday life.

Zizek has emerged as the pre-eminent European cultural theorist of the last decade and has been described as the ultimate Marxist/Lacanian cultural studies scholar. Sharpe undertakes the difficult task of drawing out an evolving argument from Zizek's texts from 1989 to 2001. Sharpe from the University of Melbourne.

A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures. This book argues that the thesis of incommensurability challenges this assumption and provides contributions to the discussion of incommensurability and related issues in philosophy.

This text investigates the issue of why there is something instead of nothing. In an attempt to answer this most extreme of philosophical questions, the author draws upon both the intellectual and emotional aspects of human thought.

Engaging with the controversial reading of "Spinoza" presented by Gilles Deleuze in "Expressionism in Philosophy" (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as an alternative to the Hegelian dialectical philosophy.