Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 8

Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. The beginnings of phenomenology: Husserl and his predecessors. 2. Philosophy of existence1: Heidegger. 3. Philosophy of existence 2: Sartre. 4. Philosophy of existence 3: Merleau-Ponty. 5. Philosophies of religion: Mach, Duhem, Bachelard. 7. Philsophies of Marxism: Lenin, Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser. 8. Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas 9. Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur. 10. Italian idealism and after: Gentile, Croce and others. 11. French structuralism and after: de Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Lacan, Foucault. 12. French feminist philosophy: de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous 13. Deconstruction and Derrida. 14. Postmodernist theory: Lyotard, Baudrillard and others.

About the author

Kearney, Richard

Summary

Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Kearney
• Assisted by: Richard Kearney (Editor), Kearney Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138130524
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13052-4
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Routledge History of Philosoph; Routledge History of Philosophy; Routledge History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -