ANSEL-PEARSON, KEITH (1999), Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze, Routledge.  This text is a tour of ethology, biology, ethics, literature and cyborgs to introduce the idea of germinal life to challenge traditional notions of ethology and philosophy. (For more information click on the provided link)

BELL, JEFFREY (2006), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference, University of Toronto Press.   Drawing on the concept of chaosmos, this text maps the figures of difference across the ages and discusses the importance of chaos for contemporary philosophy. (For more information click on the provided link)

BELL, JEFFREY (1998), The Problem of Difference, University of Toronto Press.  The central concern of this text is that the things that are irreducibly different are nevertheless related and the discussion of Husserl,  Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze aims at shedding some light on such paradox. (For more information click on the provided link)

CAPUTO, JOHN (1982), Heidegger and Aquinas: an Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics, Fordham University Press.  In brining together Heidegger and Aquinas, the author seeks to highlight some important parallels in their thinking, crucially the notions of “being” and “difference”. (For more information click on the provided link)

CURRIE, MARK (2004), Difference (The New Critical Idiom), Routledge.  Considering that “difference” is one of the most influential critical concepts of recent decades, the author offers a comprehensive account of the history and use of the term and its place in contemporary thinking. (For more information click on the provided link)

DELEUZE, GILLES (1994/1968), Difference and Repetition (translated Paul Patton), Columbia University Press.  This classic seeks to lay the foundation for a systematic treatment of “difference” and “repetition” away from identity, for themselves based on a rhizomatic mode of thinking rather than its arborescent version. Index (For more information click on the provided links)

DE BEISTEGUI, MIGUEL (2004), Truth and Genesis: Philosophy As Differential Ontology (Studies in Continental Thought), Indiana University Press. This text traces the evolution of being from the Aristotelian ousia through the Heideggerian being to Deleuzian viturality in the attempt to bring philosophy and science with the latest sub-atomic findings and complexity concepts in a new metaphysics. 

DE NOOY, JULIANA (1998), Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line: an Articulation of Two Theories of Difference, Garland Publishing.  This book aims at establishing an articulation between Kristeva and Derrida by tracing intersections and divergences, parallels and discontinuities to derive “difference” and demonstrates that the articulation of the theories shifts under different discursive conditions. (For more information click on the provided link)

DERRIDA, JACQUES (2001/1967), Writing and Difference (translated Allan Bass), Routledge.  A classic ... read it! (For more information click on the provided link) 

DERRIDA, JACQUES (1982/1972), Margins of Philosophy (translated Allan Bass), University of Chicago Press.  This classic aims at mapping a number of metaphors that make up philosophical discourse, notably “difference”, "pyramid", "language", "interweaving", "category", "Being", and "source".  (For more information click on the provided link)

DILLON, MARTIN (1997), Ecart and Différance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing, Humanity Books. This is a very creative and comprehensive comparative study between two important figures of difference, namely Merleau Ponty's "écart" and Derrida's "différance".

DILLON, MARTIN (1997), Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology, Northwestern University Press.  This book offers an intricate account of the ultimate failure of reductionist thought in the Western tradition by demonstrating how polarizing constructions of reality ultimately betray the underlying ontological reality which they were designed to explain by rendering valuation impossible. (For more information click on the provided link)

DONKEL, DOUGLAS (ed.) (2001), The Theory of Difference, State University of New York Press.  This anthology focuses on “difference” to present not only of this notion but more importantly its philosophical underpinnings, with a collection of texts by Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida, Irigaray, and Merleau Ponty. (For more information click on the provided link)

DONKEL, DOUGLAS (1992), The Understanding of Difference in Heidegger and Derrida, Peter Lang.  This text gives a clear and comprehensive account of how "difference" has been thought by Heidegger and Derrida with insightful explanations based on their original work in that with the former it is a (present) difference between Being and being - an ontological gap, whereas with the latter it is a difference within Being and being that upsets their presence. (For more information click on the provided link)

EASTHOPE, ANTHONY (2002), Privileging Difference, Palgrave.  This is a study of the significance and foregrounding of the concept of “difference” in contemporary, critical, literary and cultural theory by means of textual analyses of the foremost theorists of the current generation. (For more information click on the provided link)

HART, JONATAHAN & BAUMAN, RICHARD (eds.) (1996), Explorations in Difference: Law, Culture, and Politics, University of Toronto Press.   A collection of essays that offers many views on the concept of difference, and shows how it operates in relation to law, culture, and politics so as to mirror the postmodern challenge to notions of unity and consensus and show the ideological dimension of representation in society. (For more information click on the provided link)

HEIDEGGER, MARTIN (1969/1957), Identity and Difference (translated Joan Stambaugh), Harpe and Row Publishers.   This (bilingual) classic seeks to map “difference” away from identity and its metaphysical conception in Western tradition in an effort to conceptualize “Being”. (For more information click on the provided link)

KELLER, CATHERINE & DANIELL, ANNE (eds.) (2002), Process and Difference Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms, State University of New York Press.  This collection examines the similarities and creative tensions between French post-structuralism and Whitehead process of thought to construct innovative modes of reflection on science and religion, gender, ethics of otherness and subjectivity. (For more information click on the provided link)

MAY, TODD (1997), Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy:  A Reader, Prentice-Hall.        This text presents crucial thinkers from the phenomenological, structuralist, psycho-analytic, hermeneutical, and post-structuralist traditions in the form of seminal writings. (For more information click on the provided link)

MAY, TODD (1997), Reconsidering Difference, Pennsylvania Sate University Press.  This critical study aims at an appraisal of the trend to see “difference” as the constitutive element of our experience, not only for the purpose of questioning the “foundationalist” underpinning of such like viewpoints, but to offer a complement to difference-related viewpoints by means of 'positive rearticulations' in four areas, namely, “community”, “language”, “ethics”, and “ontology”. (For more information click on the provided link)

SILVERMAN, HUGH (ed.) (1991), Writing the Politics of Difference, State University of New York Press.  This collection addresses various phases of continental philosophy, focusing on the diversity of traditions in continental philosophy, and exploring the reality of social, political, sexual, and philosophical differences. (For more information click on the provided link)

TAYLOR, MARK (1987), Altarity,  University of Chicago Press.  This text explores the strategies of design, contrast, and resonance in the works of Hegel, Heidegger, Bataille, Blanchot, Derrida, and Kierkegaard to map out “difference” as “altarity”. (For more information click on the provided link)

VATTIMO, GIANNI (1993/1980), The Adventure of Difference (translated Cyprian Blamires), Johns Hopkins University Press.  The author examines the notion of "difference" in scientific knowledge and in contemporary mass society, and proposes ways to deal with the fragmentation of modern life and that of the “self” by lessening the grip of “domination”.  (For more information click on the provided link)

WIDDER, NATHAN (2008), Reflections on Time and Politics, Pennsylvania State University Press.  Within the contect of globalization and politics, this text seeks to conceptualize time in non-linear ways.(For more information click on the provided link)

WIDDER, NATHAN (2002), Genealogies of Difference, University of Illinois Press.  This text critically engages with modern and postmodern theories of “identity”, “difference”, “contingency”, and “time” to provide the philosophical underpinnings for a politics and ethics of “difference” as plurality. (For more information click on the provided link)

WILLIAMS, JAMES (2003), Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: a Critical Introduction and Guide, Edinburgh University Press.  This critical introduction seeks to offer a critical analysis of Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments on “difference” and “repetition”. (For more information click on the provided link)

WRIGHT, CRISPIN (2003), Saving the Differences : Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivity, Harvard University Press.

WOOD, DAVID & BERNASCONI, ROBERT (eds.) (1988), Derrida and Différance, Nothwestern University Press.  This collection deals with "différance" in an attempt to provide sufficient grounding to enable its understanding. (For more information click on the provided link)

ZAMAROS, PANAYOTIS (2004), Rhyming Difference, P. Zamaros.  This text, set out as rhyming, seeks to place “difference” not as an object of study but as a speaking subject to account for difference-related issues and concerns.  (For more information click on the provided link)