Continental philosophy was first introduced to America by expatriate Europeans after the Second World War. During the 1950s and 1960s, American-born philosophers assimilated the thought of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and others, and through their teaching and writing continental philosophy took root and developed its own American character. In recent decades continental philosophy has come into its own on this side of the ocean and has become increasingly influential, not only within philosophy but also in many other academic disciplines.;This is the first anthology to gather in one place a representative selection of the most important and original work in the continental tradition being done in North America. Reflecting the diversity of the field, the anthology includes 15 essays that take as their points of departure such approaches as deconstruction, feminism, critical theory, hermeneutics, pragmatism, and psychoanalysis, as well as phenomenology and existentialism. This state-of-the-art sampler, showcasing the richness and scope of American continental philosophy, will be of value to all segments of the philosophical community.

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task-accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and careful interpretation. Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume should be of great value both to students just starting off reading the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philosophy's deepest abiding questions.