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The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy

ISBN: 978-1-405-14304-2

April 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

360 pages

Description

The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the most important figures in Continental philosophy in the last 200 years.

  • Presents a definitive introduction to the core figures and topics of continental philosophy.
  • Contains newly commissioned essays, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars.
  • Provides a solid foundation for further study.
  • Subjects include Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, Husserl and Phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, critical theory, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.
About the Author
Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of more than thirty books, including From Rationalism to Existentialism (1978), In the Spirit of Hegel (1985), From Hegel to Existentialism (1990),and What Nietzsche Really Said (with Kathleen M. Higgins, 2000).David Sherman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness (with Leo Rauch, 1999) and articles on Adorno, Sartre, Aristotle, and Camus.
Features

  • Presents a definitive introduction to the core figures and topics of continental philosophy.

  • Contains newly commissioned essays, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars.

  • Provides a solid foundation for further study.

  • Subjects include Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, Husserl and Phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, critical theory, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.