20, 21 Century

Hegel’s ‘highway of despair, ‘ introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, is the tortured path traveled by ‘natural consciousness’ on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian c …

This volume is the first collection of articles dedicated to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thoughts on colour, focusing in particular on his so-called Remarks on Colour, a piece of writing that has received …

David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926–13 May 2014) has been one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians working in the analytic tradition and surely the greatest 20th century Australian phil …

Deathworlds are places on planet earth that can no longer sustain life. These are increasing rapidly. We experience remnants of Deathworlds within our Lifeworlds (for example traumatic echoes of war, …

Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals. This text is an …

Despite the increasing prominence of Klossowski’s philosophical work, there exists no full-length or sustained treatment of his writings on Nietzsche. This study analyses Klossowski’s semiotic of int …

We place an inordinate amount of faith in the machine, in the fuselage as an infallible body: one that guarantees immunity from the dispassionate forces of space. We think that we can master the bio- …

In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem – a complex aporia that underlines the topic of the handwritten as a sign of legal identification. Event of Signature formulates a new …

Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook ‘likes’ to Coca-Cola ‘loves, ‘ from ‘emot …

The book contributes to the refutation of the separation of philosophy in the 20th century into analytic and continental. It is shown that Edmund Husserl was seriously concerned with issues of so-cal …