Continental Philosophy: An Introduction - Couverture souple

West, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745645828 ISBN 13 : 9780745645827

Editeur : Polity Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745645828
• ISBN 13: 9780745645827
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 376
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