Swedberg - Joseph A. Schumpeter

Key Contemporary Thinkers

Jeremy Ahearne, Michel de Certeau: Interpretation and its Other

Peter Burke, The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School, 19291989

Michael Caesar, Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

M. J. Cain, Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy

Rosemary Cowan, Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption

Colin Davis, Levinas: An Introduction

Andreas Due, Deleuze

Maximilian de Gaynesford, John McDowell

Matthew Elton, Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and our Self-Conception

Simon Evnine, Donald Davidson

Chris Fleming, Ren Girard: Violence and Mimesis

Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook, Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction

Andrew Gamble, Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty

Nigel Gibson, Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination

Graeme Gilloch, Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations

Karen Green, Dummett: Philosophy of Language

Espen Hammer, Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary

Phillip Hansen, Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship

Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

Christopher Hookway, Quine: Language, Experience and Reality

Christina Howells, Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics

Fred Inglis, Clifford Geertz: Culture, Custom and Ethics

Simon Jarvis, Adorno: A Critical Introduction

Sarah Kay, iek: A Critical Introduction

Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Post-Modernism and Beyond

Valerie Kennedy, Edward Said: A Critical Introduction

Chandran Kukathas and Philip Pettit, Rawls: A Theory of Justice and its Critics

Moya Lloyd , Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics

James McGilvray, Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics

Lois McNay, Foucault: A Critical Introduction

Philip Manning, Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

Michael Moriarty, Roland Barthes

Stephen Morton, Gayatri Spivak

Dermot Moran, Edmund Husserl

Harold W. Noonan, Frege: A Critical Introduction

James R. OShea, Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn

William Outhwaite, Habermas: A Critical Introduction

Kari Palonen, Quentin Skinner: History, Politics, Rhetoric

John Preston, Feyerabend: Philosophy, Science and Society

Chris Rojek, Stuart Hall

Susan Sellers, Hlne Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love

Wes Sharrock and Rupert Read, Kuhn: Philosopher of Scientific Revolutions

David Silverman, Harvey Sacks: Social Science and Conversation Analysis

Dennis Smith, Zygmunt Bauman: Prophet of Postmodernity

Nicholas H. Smith, Charles Taylor: Meaning, Morals and Modernity

Felix Stalder, Manuel Castells: The Theory of the Network Society

Geoffrey Stokes, Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method

Georgia Warnke, Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason

James Williams, Lyotard: Towards a Postmodern Philosophy

Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State

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Acknowledgements

Writing a book about any living author is difficult, and particularly one as prolific as Judith Butler. Indeed, twice, the submission of this manuscript was held up because Butler published new volumes that I wanted to examine. It needs to be remembered when reading this book, therefore, that what I am evaluating is not a completed body of work but one that is on-going. It also means that it has been impossible to judge the full significance of Butlers work, particularly since, given the slowness of the publication process, responses to Precarious Life and Undoing Gender are only just beginning to appear while, as yet, there has been nothing published on Giving an Account of Oneself that I am aware of. The readings I present of these later books are, therefore, very much my own provisional readings. I hope, however, that they convey something of the excitement and intellectual stimulation that I feel when I encounter Butlers always challenging, always provocative, if not always convincing, theoretical offerings.