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Palgrave Macmillan has a distinguished and fast-growing philosophy list with a wide range of works, from introductory textbooks and general interest titles to research monographs. We are proud to be publishing many new series reflecting the depth, quality and energy of new research in the field, including Mike Beaney’s History of Analytic Philosophy , John Protevi’s New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science , Vincent F. Hendricks & Duncan Pritchard’s New Waves in Philosophy  and Miguel de Beistegui’s  Palgrave Forum for French Philosophy . Alongside these are several longstanding series such as Gary Banham's Renewing Philosophy  and John Hick's well-established  Library of Philosophy and Religion . Market-leading textbooks such as Bryan Greetham's invaluable Philosophy , Julian Baggini's Philosophy: Key Texts and  Philosophy: Key Themes  and Paul Smith’s Moral and Political Philosophy  provide the student and general reader with accessible and engaging introductions.

As part of the same Macmillan company which has been publishing since 1843, our backlist boasts a variety of classic texts by authors such as William James, John Dewey, Emile Durkheim, Bernard Bosanquet, James Baldwin, Friedrich Waismann and A.J. Ayer to name but a few. In recent years we have also brought to life reissues of several classic works from the Macmillan archives – a reissue of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason  in its seminal translation by Norman Kemp-Smith, accompanied by a new extended bibliography by Kant scholar Gary Banham, as well as a three volume centenary series of works by Henri Bergson, including his  Creative Evolution , Mind-Energy and An Introduction to Metaphysics , each fully reset and accompanied by critical introductions from Keith Ansell Pearson and John Mullarkey. 2008 sees the publication of Michel Foucault’s The Birth of Biopolitics , the fifth volume in our series of books deriving from his lectures at the Collège de France.

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