American Philosophy A Tradition of Resistance Erin McKenna and Scott L. Pratt Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. Placing the work of present-day American philosophers in the context of a history of resistance through a philosophical tradition marked by a commitment to pluralism, fallibilism and liberation, this book tells the story of a philosophy shaped by major events that call for philosophical reflection and illustrates the ways in which philosophy is relevant to lived experience. The book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, indigenous peoples, and environmentalism. Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. UK May 2013 • US August 2013 224 pages PB 9781441175182 •£19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441194374 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441178930 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441183750 • £65.00 / $120.00
Quine’s Naturalism Language, Theory and the Knowing Subject Paul A. Gregory UK November 2011 • US January 2012 156 pages PB 9781441105110 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441101488 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441111456 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Reality and Its Appearance Nicholas Rescher UK November 2011 • US January 2012 140 pages PB 9781441106681 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781441188908 • £17.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441164858 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Richard Rorty Ronald A. Kuipers
Philosophy of History After Hayden White
Ronald A. Kuipers introduces Rorty’s complex thought through the exploration of three Rortyan personas: The Philosophical Therapist, The Liberal Ironist, and the Anticlerical Prophet. This exploration of Rorty’s multivalent yet deeply coherent intellectual identity is set against the background of Rorty’s personal motivations for studying philosophy, and for pursuing the controversial questions he did. The book portrays how, in conversation with the traditions of American Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, and Continental Thought, Rorty weaves his own unique and original philosophy. Rorty’s originality resides in his fresh approach to interrelated social and political problems, revealing a thinker who has important reasons for wading into controversial intellectual waters.
This anthology of new essays by an international group of pre-eminent scholars explores the groundbreaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature. Individual essays relate White’s ideas to contemporary art, cognitive studies, Heideggerian hermeneutics, experimental history, Kant’s transcendental philosophy, analytic philosophy of history, Marxist cultural theory, the Kantian sublime, and American academic historiography.
Ronald A. Kuipers is Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at The Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Robert Doran is James P. Wilmot Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester, USA.
UK January 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages PB 9781441182388 • £16.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441192387 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441178145 • £18.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441140241 • £60.00 / $100.00 Series: Bloomsbury Contemporary American Thinkers
UK April 2013 • US June 2013 272 pages • 2 b/w illus. HB 9781441108210 • £65.00 /$120.00 Individual eBook 9781441147479 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441145536 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy
Peirce’s Philosophy of Communication
Subjectivity After Wittgenstein
The Rhetorical Underpinnings of the Theory of Signs
The Post-Cartesian Subject and the “Death of Man”
Mats Bergman
Chantal Bax
UK November 2011 • US January 2012 206 pages PB 9781441146304 • £24.99 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441155030 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441135377 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
UK October 2012 • US December 2012 208 pages PB 9781441127327 • £18.99 /$32.95 Individual eBook 9781441173010 • £18.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441170309 • £55.00 / $110.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in British Philosophy
Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion
Wittgenstein’s Form of Life
John W. Woell UK February 2012 • US April 2012 224 pages HB 9781441168009 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441111203 •£19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441117007 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
Edited by Robert Doran
The volume also features a previously unpublished text and a commentary by White.
A merican P hilosophy / B ritish P hilosophy
A merican P hilosophy / B ritish P hilosophy
new in PB
David Kishik UK November 2011 • US January 2012 158 pages PB 9781441171993 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441118066 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441146519 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in British Philosophy
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