David West

Continental Philosophy

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and Zizek. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The new edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental philosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek. Continental Philosophy: An Introduction is an invaluable introductory text for courses on continental philosophy as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major figures or influential approaches within that tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780745645810
• ISBN-10: 074564581X
• Artikelnr.: 32738984

Autorenporträt

David West is a Reader in Political Science and International Relations at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. 1
Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy? 2 Modernity, Enlightenment
and their Continental Critics. From Modernity to Enlightenment. The
Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Continental Critics of Enlightenment.
The Hegelian Synthesis. 3 Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt
School and Habermas. Feuerbach, Marx and Marxism. The Critical Theory of
the Frankfurt School. Habermas and the Renewal of Critical Theory. 4
Historicism, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Dilthey, Philosophy of Life
and Hermeneutics. Husserl and Phenomenology. Heidegger's Phenomenology of
Being. Gadamer and the Universality of Hermeneutics. The Phenomenology of
Political Action ?Hannah Arendt. 5 Beyond Theory: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
Existentialism. Søren Kierkegaard. Friedrich Nietzsche. Jean-Paul Sartre
and French Existentialism. 6 Beyond the Subject: Structuralism and
Poststructuralism. Decentring the Subject. The Break with Humanism.
Foucault's Genealogy of the Subject. Derrida's Deconstruction of Western
Metaphysics. 7 Postmodernism. Varieties of Postmodernism. Philosophical
Critique of Enlightenment and Modernity Postmodernity as a Stage of Western
Society. Politics of Difference and Ethics of the Other. 8 Radical
Departures. After the End of History. The Return of the Political -
Agamben, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe Slavoj }i~ek - The Fractious Subject of
Ideology. In the Event of Alain Badiou. Notes. Bibliography. Index.