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Informationen zum Autor William R. Schroeder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Sartre and His Predecessors (1984) and co-editor, with Simon Critchley, of A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell, 1998). Klappentext Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chronologically organized, the book includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism; philosophies of dispersion; French feminist philosophy; and postmodernism. Each chapter includes an assessment of the thinkers it covers and highlights their main contributions. The book also provides a discussion of the value, present situation, and future prospects of Continental philosophy. Zusammenfassung Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide--ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Preface x Introduction 1 Descartes 1 Empiricism and the Rise of Science 4 Rationalism 7 The French Enlightenment 8 Challenges to the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Romanticism 11 Kant 16 Problems with Kant's System 20 Fichte 23 Schelling 25 Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schiller 28 1 Hegel 30 Core Contributions 30 Life 32 The Phenomenology of Spirit 33 Philosophy of History 41 Politics and Ethics 44 Aesthetics 47 Philosophy of Mind 50 The Preface to the Phenomenologyas a Transition to the System 52 The System 55 Assessment 56 2 Marx And Western Marxism 60 Marx: Core Contributions 60 Life 61 Early Marx: Alienation and Capitalism 62 The Materialist Conception of History 66 Marx's Analysis of the Capitalist Mode of Production 71 Assessment 74 Western Marxism 76 Core Contributions 79 Gramsci 80 Horkheimer 83 Marcuse 85 Habermas 88 Assessment 91 Summary 92 3 Life-Philosophy And Subconscious Forces: Schopenhauer, Freud, And Bergson 93 Core Contributions 93 Schopenhauer 95 Freud 98 Bergson 107 Comparisons 111 Assessment 113 4 Nietzsche 117 Core Contributions 117 Life 119 On Reading Nietzsche 119 The Death of God and the Struggle Against Nihilism 120 Critique of Morality and Revaluation of Values 124 Constructive Ethics: Life-Affirmation, Power, Individuated Virtues 130 Art 132 History 134 Culture and Politics 136 Human Life and Consciousness 138 Epistemology and Metaphysics 140 New Philosophers 142 Comparisons 143 Assessment 146 5 Hermeneutics 149 Core Contributions 149 A Precursor: Schleiermacher 152 Dilthey 154 Heidegger 158 Gadamer 165 Betti 167 Comparisons 169 Assessment 170 6 Phenomenology 174 Introduction 174 Core Contributions 177 Some Types of Phenomenology 181 The Contributions of the Founder: Husserl 183 Concrete Phenomenological Studies 187 Phenomenology and Social Science 199 Other Applications 201 Comparisons 202 Assessment 203 7 Existentialism And Philosophical Anthropology 206 Core Contributions 206 Existentialism 207 Kierkegaard 209 Heidegger 215 Sartre 221 Philosophical Anthropology 228 Scheler 229 Goldstein ...
