•  7
    The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives (edited book)
    with Renata Grossi
    Routledge. 2017.
    Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capable of providing us with both our sense of worth and way of being in the world. The Radicalism of Romantic Love interrogates the purported radicalism of Romantic love from philosophical, cultural and psychoanalytic perspectives, exploring whether it is a subversive force capable of breaking down entrenched social, political and cultural norms and struc…Read more
  •  4
    Previous ed. published as: An introduction to Continental philosophy. 1996.
  •  67
    Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought
    Polity: Cambridge UK & Malden US. 2005.
    This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of sexual experience. Western philosophy and religion have distorted and continue to distort our experience of sex and love through three far-reaching constellations of reason, self and sexuality. Thinkers like Plato, Aquinas and Kant helped to fashion an ascetic ideal of reason hostile to bodily pleasures and sexual diversity. By contrast, philosophical h…Read more
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  •  4
    Reviews (review)
    with Jeffrey Prager, Teresa Brennan, Craig Browne, and Peter Beilharz
    Thesis Eleven 45 (1): 124-141. 1996.
  •  148
    Reviews : A. Phillips Griffiths, Contemporary French Philosophy ; Raoul Mortley, French Philosophers in Conversation
  •  22
    Power and formation: New foundations for a radical concept of power
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 30 (1 & 2). 1987.
    A radical concept of power identifies social processes which (whether as ?ideology?, ?false consciousness?, or ?the spectacle') influence people's actions by moulding their beliefs or desires. However, seeing people as deluded is to risk treating them as less than fully autonomous beings. Despite his libertarian intentions, Lukes fails to guard against this paternalistic implication. His view still implies that it is the social critic who is in the best position to identify the real interests of…Read more
  • Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza
    In Moira Gatens (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009.
  • William E. Connolly, The Ethos of Pluralization (review)
    Philosophy in Review 18 89-91. 1998.
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    This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Habermas, Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger, Sartre and Nietzsche. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics; the…Read more
  •  139
    This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of _An Introduction to Continental Philosophy_, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Žižek. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosop…Read more
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    In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of political action beyond the institutional sphere of polit…Read more
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    Spinoza on Positive Freedom
    Political Studies 41 (2): 284-96. 1993.