A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy): 61 - Softcover

Critchley, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631218505 ISBN 13: 9780631218500

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1999

Synopsis

Covering the complete development of post--Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

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Review:

"This anthology makes an important contribution to the study of Continental philosophy in English-speaking countries, tracing its roots back to attempts to overcome Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. These articles are concise summaries and are accessible to nonspecialists while still interesting to specialists. Recommended for upper-division graduates, graduate students, and faculty." Choice

"The chapters on individual writers discuss the major works, ideas and achievements of their subject. The accounts are clear, informative and appear to be very even handed in the discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the philosophers." Philosophy and Religion

From the Back Cover:

With 58 original essays by major experts, this Companion volume provides the first survey of all the major figures of 19th- and 20th-century Continental philosophy. Each essay explains and develops the key ideas of a central figure or movement as they relate to such areas as art theory, cultural studies, social and political theory, psychology, and the sciences.

Core topic section headings include:

• "The Kantian Legacy" (Kant to Hegel).
  
• "Overturning the Tradition" (Marx to Bergson).
  
• "The Phenomenological Breakthrough" (neo-Kantianism to Heidegger).
  
• "Phenomenology, Hegelianism and anti-Hegelianism in France" (Kojeve to Blanchot).
  
• "Religion without Limits of Reason" (Rosenzweig to Marcel).
  
• "Three Generations of Critical Theory"(Benjamin onwards).
  
• "Hermeneutics" (Schleiermacher to Ricoeur).
  
• "Continental Political Philosophy" (Lukas to Castoriadis).
  
• "Structuralism and After" (Levi-Strauss to Le Doeuff).

Key contributors include Beiser, Pippin, Caputo, Flynn, McCarthy, Laclau, Patton, and Bennington, among others.

Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0631218505
• ISBN 13: 9780631218500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700