Routledge History of Philosophy. 20th Century Continental Philosophy

Richard Kearney0415056292, 9780415056298, 0203060105

The fifteen articles in this volume outline and assess some of the issues and experiments of continental philosophy. The first five span the twin movements of phenomenology and existentialism, running from Husserl and Heidegger to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas. Subsequent essays deal with specific currents of continental thought in such areas as science, Marxism, linguistics, politics, aesthetics, feminism and hermeneutics. A final chapter on postmodernism highlights the manner in which so many concerns of continental thought culminate in a radical anti-foundationalism. It also includes a glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of philosophical, scientific and other cultural events.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume VIII……Page 2
Routledge History of Philosophy……Page 3
Title……Page 4
ISBN 0415056292……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
General editors’ preface……Page 7
Notes on contributors……Page 9
Chronology……Page 12
Introduction……Page 39
1 The beginnings of phenomenology: Husserl and his predecessors……Page 43
2 Philosophy of existence 1: Heidegger……Page 70
3 Philosophy of existence 2: Sartre……Page 99
4 Philosophy of existence 3: Merleau-Ponty……Page 124
5 Philosophies of religion: Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas……Page 146
6 Philosophies of science: Mach, Duhem, Bachelard……Page 182
7 Philosophies of Marxism: Lenin, Lukács, Gramsci, Althusser……Page 222
8 Critical theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas……Page 248
9 Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur……Page 278
10 Italian idealism and after: Gentile, Croce and others……Page 327
11 French structuralism and after……Page 360
12 French feminist philosophy……Page 376
13 Deconstruction and Derrida……Page 403
14 Postmodernist theory: Lyotard, Baudrillard and others……Page 430
Glossary……Page 456
Index……Page 461