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Elaborates the fundamental project on continental philosophy

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It is an essential reference volume for anyone interested in Foucault's work.

Imagination and Chance illuminates the different philosophical projects that animate Ricoeur's hermeneutics and Derrida's deconstruction. Basic concepts in Ricouer such as discourse, metaphor and symbol, and tradition are examined, and texts by Derrida including "White Mythology, " Introduction to Husserl's The Origin of Geometry, and "The Double Session" are analyzed. The book also includes a previously untranslated round table discussion bet...

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Phenomenology: Responses and Developments" covers all the major innovators in phenomenology - notably Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the later Heidegger - and the major schools and issues.

Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. Lawlor argues all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He engages with Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari to create new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence.

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basicproject of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movementtoward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in thecontinental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, andMerleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy.Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of thes...

The first reader to offer a comprehensive view of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's (1908-1961) work, this selection collects in one volume the foundational essays necessary for understanding the core of this critical twentieth-century philosopher's thought.

Chiasmi International is a trilingual publication on the french philosopher Merleau-Ponty's thought.

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety...

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(A) magnificent work... that will definitely shape the discussionon Derrida for years to come." -- Rodolphe Gasch What isthe nature of the relationship of Jacques Derrida and deconstruction to EdmundHusserl and phenomenology? Is deconstruction a radical departure from phenomenologyor does it trace its origins to the phenomenological project? In Derrida andHusserl, Leonard Lawlor illuminates Husserl's influence on the French philosophicaltradit...

Drawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. Lawlor argues all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He engages with Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari to create new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence.

The Implications of Immanence develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of ?bio-power, ? which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms ?bare life, ? mere biological existence. Breaking with all biologism or vitalism, Lawlor attends to the dispersion of death at the heart of life, in the ?minuscule hiatus? that divides the living present, separating lived experience from the living body and, cr...

The Implications of Immanence develops a philosophy of life in opposition to the notion of ?bio-power, ? which reduces the human to the question of power over what Giorgio Agamben terms ?bare life, ? mere biological existence. Breaking with all biologism or vitalism, Lawlor attends to the dispersion of death at the heart of life, in the ?minuscule hiatus? that divides the living present, separating lived experience from the living body and, cr...

Derrida wrote extensively on "the question of the animal." In particular, he challenged Heidegger's, Husserl's, and other philosophers' work on the subject, questioning their phenomenological criteria for distinguishing humans from animals. Examining a range of Derrida's writings, including his most recent L'animal que donc je suis, as well as Aporias, Of Spirit, Rams, and Rogues, Leonard Lawlor reconstructs a portrait of Derrida's views on an...

..". no other book undertakes to relate all these Frenchphilosophers to each other the way that (Lawlor) does, brilliantly." --Fran ois RaffoulFor many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, andGilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. Butthese philosophers and their works did not materialize without a philosophicalheritage. In Thinking through French Philosophy, Leonard Lawlor shows how the workof Maurice Merlea...