Reference books are shelved in the Alumni Reading Room, on the main floor of the Library. They are limited to In Library Use Only.
Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy
A Companion to Continental Philosophy
Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory
A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy
The Dictionary of Feminist Theory
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Routledge Critical Dictionary of Feminism and Postfeminism
Routledge Critical Dictionary of Postmodern Thought
The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political ThinkersThese are invaluable entry points into the lexicon of a given thinker, written and edited by eminent scholars of that thinker. They are shelved in the Alumni Reading Room, and are In Library Use Only. The entries and bibliographies of these books are a good place to start your research into a particular area of a thinker's work, and will help you refine your terminology, making the rest of your research more effective.
A Wittgenstein Dictionary
An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis by 
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon
The Derrida Dictionary
The Freud Encyclopedia: Theory, Therapy, and Culture
