Continental Philosophy: An Introduction, 2nd 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.