Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) - Hardcover

Cutrofello, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415242088 ISBN 13: 9780415242080

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is ideal for students coming to the topic for the first time. It introduces the origins and development of the tradition, tracing it from Kant to the present day. Taking a clear thematic approach, Andrew Cutrofello introduces and assesses continental philosophy’s relation to fundamental questions in philosophy, such as ethics, humanism, phenomenology, politics and metaphysics, centring the book around the following questions:

• What is knowledge?

• What is moral obligation?

• For what should we hope?

• What is ‘man’?

• What is critique?

Andrew Cutrofello’s style is lively and engaging. He also introduces the major as well as the lesser-known thinkers of the continental tradition: from Kant, Mill and Nietzsche and Husserl to Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre Levinas, Bataille and Kristeva.

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Andrew Cutrofello

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415242088
• ISBN 13: 9780415242080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456