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Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach

ISBN: 978-1-557-86880-0

September 2004

Wiley-Blackwell

480 pages

Description

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.

  • Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism,; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  • Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.
About the Author
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).
Features

  • Offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the 19th and 20th century.

  • Includes chapters on Hegel, Marx and Western Marxism, Schopenhauer and Freud and Bergson, Nietzsche, hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, French feminism, and postmodernism.

  • Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.