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(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek.

Simon Critchley discusses the ideas and approaches of philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida, and introduces key concepts such as existentialism, nihilism, and phenomenology by explaining their place in the continental tradition

Introduction: back to the future / Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins -- PART I. THE MESSIANIC -- Is continental philosophy of religion dead? / John D. Caputo -- Friends and strangers/poets and rabbis: negotiating a "Capuphalian" philosophy of religion / B. Keith Putt -- Response / Merold Westphal -- Response / John D. Caputo -- On faith, the maternal, and postmodernism / Edward F. Mooney -- The persistence of the trace: interrogating the gods of speculative realism / Steven Shakespeare -- Speculating God: speculative realism and Meillassoux's divine inexistence / Leon Niemoczynski -- Between deconstruction and speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological materialism / Katharine Sarah Moody -- PART II. LIBERATION -- The future of liberation / Philip Goodchild -- Monetized philosophy and theological money: uneasy linkages and the future of a discourse / Devin Singh -- "Between justice and my mother": reflections on and between Levinas and Žižek / Gavin Hyman -- Verbis indisciplinatis / Joseph Ballan -- Overwhelming abundance and everyday liturgical practices: for a less excessive phenomenology of religious experience / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Countercurrents: theology and the future of continental philosophy of religion / Noëlle Vahanian -- PART III. Plasticity -- The future of Derrida: time between epigenesis and epigenetics / Catherine Malabou -- On reading--Catherine Malabou / Randall Johnson -- Necessity as virtue: on religious materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- Plasticity in the contemporary Islamic subject / John Thibdeau -- From cosmology to the first ethical gesture: Schelling with Irigaray / Lenart Škof -- Prolegomenon to thinking the reject for the future of continental philosophy of religion / Irving Goh -- Entropy / Clayton Crockett

Compact INTRODUCING guide to this commonly overlooked body of thought. What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'? Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, right to up Agamben and Zizek - and philosophical movements from German idealism to Feminism Christopher Kul-want and Piero brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling ideas ever to have been discussed. INTRODUCING is a series of graphic guides that covers every key thinker and topic in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas. Each book is written by an expert in the field, and illustrated by a leading graphic artist.

The Continental tradition has always placed great emphasis on the logos. The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Philosophy celebrates and situates this emphasis in the genre of the gift and its giving. The process of receiving, or giving, of the gift overcomes the existential alienation and separation that is so present in the human condition. To ritualize giving and its gifting is to provide a syntax of solidarity that bespeaks our desire for cohesion and need for identities beyond our own

Reads six interpretations of the Marquis de Sade in French post-war philosophy: Klossowski, Blanchot, Bataille, Lacan, Barthes, and Deleuze to show how he sits at a crossroads of surprisingly disparate branches of western culture, from Tom and Jerry to Kant's moral philosophy.