Continuum's Reader's Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader toward a thorough understanding of often demanding material. Ideal for undergraduate students, the guides provide an essential resource for anyone who needs to get to grips with a philosophical text.
All the Reader's Guides follow the same basic format, with chapters on:
- Philosophical and historical context
- Key themes
- Reception and influence
- Further reading
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Reader's Guides Available Now:
Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' by Chistopher Warne
Aristotle's 'Politics' by Judith A. Swanson and C. David Corbin
Badiou's 'Being and Event' by Christopher Norris
Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge' by Alasdair Richmond
Berkeley's 'Three Dialogues' by Aaron Garrett
Deleuze's 'Difference and Repetition' by Joe Hughes
Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus' by Ian Buchanan
Derrida's 'Writing and Difference' by Sarah Wood
Descartes' 'Meditations' by Richard Francks
Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' by David Rose
Heidegger's 'Being and Time' by William Blattner
Heidegger's Later Writings by Lee Braver
Hobbes's 'Leviathan' by Laurie M. Johnson Bagby
Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion' by Andrew Pyle
Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' by Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien
Kant's 'Critique of Aesthetic Judgment' by Fiona Hughes
Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by James Luchte
Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals' by Paul Guyer
Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling' by Clare Carlisle
Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' by John Preston
Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' by William Uzgalis
Locke's 'Second Treatise of Government' by Paul Kelly
Mill's 'On Liberty' by Geoffrey Scarre
Mill's 'Utilitarianism' by Henry R. West
Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' by Keith Ansell Pearson and Christa Davis Acampora
Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morals' by Daniel Conway
Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy' by Douglas Burnham and Martin Jesinghausen
Plato's 'Republic' by Luke Purshouse
Plato's 'Symposium' by Thomas L. Cooksey
Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice' by Frank Lovett
Rousseau's 'The Social Contract' by Christopher D. Wraight
Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' by Sebastian Gardner
Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation' by Robert L. Wicks
Spinoza's 'Ethics' by J. Thomas Cook
Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations' by Arif Ahmed
Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logic-Philosophicus' by Roger M. White
