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"Thoughtful, thoroughly researched, well written, Continental Philosophy invites students and scholars to engage in a rich and interesting tradition."Teaching Philosophy
"This second edition does more than introduce continental philosophy; it makes it interesting and intriguing."
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"David West's interpretations of the major figures of continental philosophy are succinct and insightful. He reads continental philosophy as a reaction to Enlightenment rationalism and as a potential foundation for emancipatory politics. This edition includes a courageous critique of several important recent figures: Agamben, Žižek and Badiou. West provides an illuminating and thorough introduction to the continental tradition."
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David West is a Reader in Political Science and International Relations at the Australian National University
Table of Contents
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 ÐHannah 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 Žižek - The Fractious Subject of Ideology.
In the Event of Alain Badiou.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.