Books by Alison Assiter

The book offers an original defence of a new materialist thesis that focuses on the biological core of humans to develop a theory of human rights.

There has been a recent revival of interest in reading Kierkegaard as an ontologist, as a thinker who engages with questions about the kinds of entity or process that constitute ultimate reality. This new way of reading Kierkegaard stands alongside a revival of interest in ontology and metaphysics more generally. This highly original book concentrates on the claim that Kierkegaard focuses in part on ontological questions and on issues pertaining to the nature of being as a whole. Alison Assiter asserts that Being, for Kierkegaard, following Schelling, can be read in terms of conceptions of birthingthe capacity to give birth as well as the notion of a birthing body. She goes on to argue that the story offered by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety about the origin of freedom connects with a birthing body, and that Kierkegaard offers a speculative hypothesis, in terms of metaphors of birthing, about the nature of Being.

A much-needed antidote to falsehoods, and patronising sexism fuelling anti-pornography campaigns misleading the women's movement

Enlightened Women is a concise guide to contemporary thought in postmodernist feminism, analysing some of the most influential postmodern theorists whilst giving a unique defence of realism and enlightenment philosophy.