Companion To Continental Philosophy

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.

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.

Acknowledgements.

List of Contributors.

Introduction: what is Continental Philosophy?: Simon Critchley (University of Essex).

Part I: The Kantian Legacy.

Part II: Overturning The Tradition.

Part III: The Phenomenological Breakthrough.

Part IV: Phenomenology, Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism in France.

Part V: Religion Without The Limits of Reason.

Part VI: Three Generations of Critical Theory.

Part VII: Hermeneutics.

Part VIII: Continental Political Philosophy.

Part IX: Structuralism and After.

Afterword: William R Schroeder.

Analytic Index.