Tato série zkoumá základní myšlenky a klíčové koncepty v dílech nejvlivnějších filozofů a společenských teoretiků. Každá kniha se věnuje klíčovým pojmům, přičemž jednotlivé kapitoly vysvětlují a aplikují tyto koncepty. Je to vynikající úvod do myšlení velkých myslitelů pro současné čtenáře. Série nabízí srozumitelné a přehledné zpracování složitých idejí.
Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. This title includes essays that explore a key concept involved in Wittgenstein's thinking, relating it to his understanding of philosophy.
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This title explores his central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self.
'Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts' highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.
Adorno have an impact on disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, musicology and literary theory. This book serves as a guide through the labyrinth of Adorno's work. It provides readers with the key concepts needed to decipher Adorno's often daunting books and essays.
Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in the philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. This title includes chapters that introduce and explain a key Heideggerian concept, or a cluster of closely related concepts.
Alain Badiou is one of the world's most influential living philosophers. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic and continental philosophy. Alain Badiou: Key Concepts presents an overview of and introduction to the full range of Badiou's thinking. Essays focus on the foundations of Badiou's thought, his 'key concepts' - truth, being, ontology, the subject, and conditions - and on his engagement with a range of thinkers central to his philosophy, including Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Heidegger and Deleuze.
A guide to the core ideas which structure Merleau-Ponty's thinking as well as to his influences and the value of his ideas to a range of disciplines. It presents the context of Merleau-Ponty's thinking, the major debates of his time, particularly existentialism, the history of philosophy and the philosophy of history and society.
Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His revolutionary ideas are systematically interconnected and he presents them using a forbidding technical vocabulary. This book provides an introduction to Kant by explaining each of the key concepts of his philosophy.