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Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and …

In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costell …

Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian lite …

Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for express …

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on ‘private language’. In so doing, he makes detailed us …

Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in …

Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian lite …

Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and rema …

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First published in 2002. Few movies have captured our imagination as deeply and enduringly as those of the ”Alien” quartet, which follow the odyssey of Sigourney Weaver”s Flight Lieutenant Ellen R …

First published in 2002. Few movies have captured our imagination as deeply and enduringly as those of the ”Alien” quartet, which follow the odyssey of Sigourney Weaver”s Flight Lieutenant Ellen R …

Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and rema …

Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. A difficult and powerful philosopher, his work requires careful reading. Being and Time was his first major book and rema …

The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring c …

The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring c …

The first edition of Stephen Mulhall”s acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its s …

The first edition of Stephen Mulhall”s acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its s …

On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philos …

On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philos …

Although Heidegger”s writings are not extensively concerned with the analysis of political concepts or with advocating particular arrangements of political institutions, his basic way of understandi …

Although Heidegger”s writings are not extensively concerned with the analysis of political concepts or with advocating particular arrangements of political institutions, his basic way of understandi …

In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values …

J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European phil …

J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European phil …

In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values …