This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of "An
Introduction to Continental Philosophy," first published in 1996.
It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to
philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and
reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche,
Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Zižek.
At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent
overall account of the development of continental philosophy since
the Enlightenment.
Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the
Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism,
the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology;
existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism and
postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there
is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey,
Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new
edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental
philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben,
Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zižek.
"Continental Philosophy: An Introduction" is an invaluable
introductory text for courses on continental philosophy as well as
courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major
figures or influential approaches within that tradition.
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