Stephen Mulhall traces the development of an ideal of asceticism through Western culture. He shows how influential this self-denying attitude to life has been not just in religion and morality but in
Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in p
Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for expressi
The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the fourAlien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its seco
The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the fourAlien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its seco
On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philoso
Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in p
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring ca
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger’s Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger’s writings are notoriously difficult, requiring ca
In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello
Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use
In this significantly expanded new edition of his acclaimed exploration of the four Alien movies, Stephen Mulhall adds several new chapters on Steven Spielberg’s Mission: Impossible trilogy and
Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and e
Three lectures Mulhall (philosophy, Oxford U.) delivered in 2005 at the University of Virginia explore the notion of language as conversation and how it has been articulated in the work of recent phil
Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult; they both require and reward careful reading. Being and Time, his first major publ
Facsimiles of 17 articles published between 1976 and 2006 explore the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in three periods. The first focuses on central concerns of Being and Ti
