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Continental Philosophy

by Schroeder, William Ralph Schroeder, Blackwell Publishers
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Overview

Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism,; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  • Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.

Synopsis

Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism,; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  • Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.
  • About the Author, Schroeder

    William R. Schroeder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Sartre and His Predecessors (1984) and co-editor, with Simon Critchley, of A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell, 1998).

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    Editorials

    From the Publisher

    “Schroeder has a masterful command of the Continental tradition after Kant in European philosophy. He presents a comprehensive critical introduction to the philosophers who have shaped it, in an admirably clear and concise idiom that is readily accessible to academics, students, and general readers alike.”

    Richard Schacht, University of Illinois

    “This is an enormously impressive work. In the fashion of a panoramic mosaic, it assembles incisive analyses of the host of thinkers who comprise the ‘Continental Tradition’ in philosophy. Like no other book before it, it succeeds not only in helping us to understand the past, but also defines an array of future tasks that those working in this field will have to address.”

    Frithjof Bergmann, University of Michigan

    “Schroeder captures Continental philosophy's complex trajectory in clear and thoughtful language. Along the way, he offers provocative challenges to many of its central figures.”

    Todd May, Clemson University

    Book Details

    Published
    November 1, 2004
    Publisher
    Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
    Pages
    480
    Format
    Paperback
    ISBN
    9781557868817

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