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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 ?i?ek.
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.
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 ?i?ek.
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.
Preface to the First Edition.
1 Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy?
2 Modernity, Enlightenment and their Continental Critics.
From Modernity to Enlightenment.
The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Continental Critics of Enlightenment.
The Hegelian Synthesis.
3 Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas.
Feuerbach, Marx and Marxism.
The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.
Habermas and the Renewal of Critical Theory.
4 Historicism, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology.
Dilthey, Philosophy of Life and Hermeneutics.
Husserl and Phenomenology.
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Being.
Gadamer and the Universality of Hermeneutics.
The Phenomenology of Political Action ÐHannah Arendt.
5 Beyond Theory: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Existentialism.
Søren Kierkegaard.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Jean-Paul Sartre and French Existentialism.
6 Beyond the Subject: Structuralism and Poststructuralism.
Decentring the Subject.
The Break with Humanism.
Foucault's Genealogy of the Subject.
Derrida's Deconstruction of Western Metaphysics.
7 Postmodernism.
Varieties of Postmodernism.
Philosophical Critique of Enlightenment and Modernity Postmodernity as a Stage of Western Society.
Politics of Difference and Ethics of the Other.
8 Radical Departures.
After the End of History.
The Return of the Political - Agamben, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe
Slavoj iek - The Fractious Subject of Ideology.
In the Event of Alain Badiou.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
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Genre: | Philosophie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 376 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780745645827 |
ISBN-10: | 0745645828 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | West, David |
Hersteller: |
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Maße: | 226 x 149 x 30 mm |
Von/Mit: | David West |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.11.2010 |
Gewicht: | 0,539 kg |
Preface to the First Edition.
1 Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy?
2 Modernity, Enlightenment and their Continental Critics.
From Modernity to Enlightenment.
The Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Continental Critics of Enlightenment.
The Hegelian Synthesis.
3 Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas.
Feuerbach, Marx and Marxism.
The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.
Habermas and the Renewal of Critical Theory.
4 Historicism, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology.
Dilthey, Philosophy of Life and Hermeneutics.
Husserl and Phenomenology.
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Being.
Gadamer and the Universality of Hermeneutics.
The Phenomenology of Political Action ÐHannah Arendt.
5 Beyond Theory: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Existentialism.
Søren Kierkegaard.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Jean-Paul Sartre and French Existentialism.
6 Beyond the Subject: Structuralism and Poststructuralism.
Decentring the Subject.
The Break with Humanism.
Foucault's Genealogy of the Subject.
Derrida's Deconstruction of Western Metaphysics.
7 Postmodernism.
Varieties of Postmodernism.
Philosophical Critique of Enlightenment and Modernity Postmodernity as a Stage of Western Society.
Politics of Difference and Ethics of the Other.
8 Radical Departures.
After the End of History.
The Return of the Political - Agamben, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe
Slavoj iek - The Fractious Subject of Ideology.
In the Event of Alain Badiou.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
---|---|
Genre: | Philosophie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 376 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9780745645827 |
ISBN-10: | 0745645828 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | West, David |
Hersteller: |
John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
Maße: | 226 x 149 x 30 mm |
Von/Mit: | David West |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 12.11.2010 |
Gewicht: | 0,539 kg |