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A Companion to Continental Philosophy

ISBN: 978-0-631-19013-4

June 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

704 pages

Description
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 the Author
Simon Critchley is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex and Program Director at the College International de Philosophie, Paris. He is author of The Ethics of Deconstruction (1992), Very Little... Almost Nothing (1997) and Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity (1999). He is co-editor of Re-reading Levinas (1991), Deconstructive Subjectivities (1996), and Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (1996).

William R. Schroeder teaches Continental Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is author of Sartre and His Predecessors: The Self and the Other (1984). He has also written on Hegel Nietzsche, interpretive theory, freedom, and Continental ethics and is currently working on a survey of Continental philosophy for Blackwell Publishers.

Features
* Offers full coverage of all the major figures in 19th & 20th Century Continental Philosophy.
* Includes contributions from leading scholars from France, Germany, England & the US thus providing a truly international perspective.
* Develops the key ideas of each figure and expands to related areas, such as art theory, cultural studies, social and political theory, psychology and the sciences.