What exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition.

An accessible introductory guide to philosophy guides readers through the traditions of Western philosophy, from Heraclitus to Derrida, navigating some of the most vexing questions posed by the study of philosophy, such as what is the nature of reality? Reprint.

Modernism is usually understood as a radical aesthetic transformation, a shock wave of innovations in art, architecture, music and literature. This book explores the avantgardist work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg and other modern masters, it assesses the cinema, but also delves deeper.

'Introducing the Enlightenment' is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson.

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century.

The essential guide to the controversial Martin Heidegger, acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century.

Part of the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers. New edition.

Follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. This title takes you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology.

Part of the illustrated Introducing series, providing unique resources and fascinating graphic guides for students and uninitiated lay readers. New edition.

The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the Enlightenment.

Eastern philosophy is the most ancient form of thought known to man. This work focuses on India and China, the two oldest origins of Eastern thought. It also explains the complex branches of Indian Buddhism, the traditions of Confucius and the Tao in China, and demonstrates their fundamental differences to Western notions of truth.

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructionists, poststructuralists, postmodernists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vying for our attention.

Pope Pius XII condemned Existentialism for its 'terrifying nihilism'. Anguish, despair, absurdity, nothingness - these concepts still have a power to scandalise. But has Existentialism's popular appeal got in the way of the useful things it has to say?

Addresses such questions as: What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is identity now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? And how do we define rights , self-interest and civic duties?

Empiricist philosophers accept a 'commonsense' view of fact and yet conclude that physical reality may not exist at all. This book outlines the arguments of Locke, Berkeley, Hume, J.S. Mill, Bertrand Russell and A.J. Ayer as well as critics of this tradition, Kant, Wittgenstein, Popper and others.

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970 was one of the most important and most famous British philosophers, logicians, essayists, and peace advocates of the twentieth century. This book communicates the many facets of this extraordinary man's intellectually adventurous and original life.

This biography of Walter Benjamin encompasses political, philosophical and artistic events of the 20th century. He was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, lived in Moscow and Paris while engaging with leading modernists artists, and committed suicide after fleeing the Nazis.

Rene Descartes is the father of modern philosophy. Famously, he is the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything - even his own physical existence. 'Introducing Descartes' is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world.

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Neitzsche for our present epoch. His extraordinary insights into human psychology, morality, religion and power seem quite clairvoyant today: existentialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and postmodernism are plainly anticipated in his writings.