Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinker, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.
One level up from the introductory texts already on the market, the Guides for the Perplexed do not compromise on accessibility or clarity, but are grounded in an acknowledgement that studying in higher education necessarily entails getting to grips 
with difficult concepts and complex texts. Each book's approach gets to the heart of just what students and readers find difficult about the given subject, and offers a way through such difficulty.
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Guides for the Perplexed Available Now:
Adorno by Alex Thomson
Aquinas by Peter S. Eardley and Carl N. Still
Arendt by Karin Fry
Aristotle by John Vella
Augustine by James Wetzel
Bentham by Philip Schofield
Berkeley by Talia Mae Bettcher
Chomsky by John Collins
Deleuze by Claire Colebrook
Derrida by Julian Wolfreys
Descartes by Justin Skirry
The Empiricists by Laurence C arlin
Existentialism by Steven Earnshaw
Freud by Celine Surprenant
Gadamer by Chris Lawn
Habermas by Lasse Thomassen
Hegel by David James
Heidegger by David R. Cerbone
Hobbes by Stephen J. Finn
Hume by Angela Coventry
Husserl by Matheson Russell
Kant by T.K. Seung
Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
Leibniz by Franklin Perkins
Locke by Patricia Sheridan
Marx by John Seed
Merleau-Ponty by Eric Matthews
Nietzsche by R. Kevin Hill
Plato by Gerald A. Press
Pragmatism by Robert. B. Talisse and Scott F. Aikin
Quine by Gary Kemp
Relativism by Timothy Mosteller
Ricoeur by David Pellauer
Rousseau by Matthew Simpson
Sartre by Gary Cox
Schopenhauer by R. Raj Singh
Socrates by Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Spinoza by Charles Jarrett
The Stoics by M. Andrew Holowchak
Utilitarianism by Krister Bykvist
Wittgenstein by Mark Addis
