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Continental philosophy

West, David,

9780745645827 - Continental philosophy
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Artikelomschrijving

This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of AnIntroduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction tophilosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging andreliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche,Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and i ek. At the same time, it situates their thought withina coherent overall account of the development of continentalphilosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, theEnlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism,the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology;existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism andpostmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, thereis extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey,Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The newedition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continentalphilosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben,Alain Badiou and Slavoj i ek.

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Auteur West, David,
ISBN/EAN 9780745645827
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Artikelomschrijving

This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of AnIntroduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in1996. It provides a clear, concise and readable introduction tophilosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging andreliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche,Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida and i ek. At the same time, it situates their thought withina coherent overall account of the development of continentalphilosophy since the Enlightenment. Individual chapters consider the character of modernity, theEnlightenment and its continental critics; the ideas of Marxism,the Frankfurt School and Habermas; hermeneutics and phenomenology;existentialism; structuralism, post-structuralism andpostmodernism. In addition to the thinkers already mentioned, thereis extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey,Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir and Lyotard. The newedition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continentalphilosophy in the twenty-first century focusing on Giorgio Agamben,Alain Badiou and Slavoj i ek.

Specificaties

Auteur West, David,
ISBN/EAN 9780745645827