Companion to Continental 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:.1. The Context and Problematic of Post-Kantian Philosophy: Frederick C. Beiser (University of Indiana, Bloomington).2. Kant: Robert B. Pippin (University of Chicago).3. Fichte: Ludwig Siep (Universitat Munster).4. Early German Romanticism: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis: Ernst Behler (University of Washington, Seattle).5. Schelling: Jean-Francois Courtine (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). 6. Hegel: Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick).Part II: Overturning The Tradition: .7. Feuerbach and the Young Hegelians: Lawrence S. Stepelevich (Villanova University).8. Marx: Michel Henry (University of Montpellier III).9. Kierkegaard: Merold Westphal (Fordham University).10. Schopenhauer: Robert Rethy (Xavier University).11. Nietzsche: Charles E. Scott (Pennsylvania State University).12. Freud: John Deigh (Northwestern University).13. Bergson: Pete A. Y. Gunter (North Texas State University).Part III: The Phenomenological Breakthrough:.14. Neo-Kantianism: Steven Galt Crowell (Rice University).15. Husserl: Rudolf Bernet (Louvain Catholic University).16. Scheler: Manfred S. Frings (The Max Scheler Archives, Des Plaimes).17. Jaspers: Kurt Salamun (University of Graz).18. Heidegger: John D. Caputo (Villanova University).Part IV: Phenomenology, Hegelianism and Anti-Hegelianism in France:.19. Kojeve: Stanley Rosen (Boston University).20. Levinas: Hent De Vries (University of Amsterdam).21. Sartre: Thomas R. Flynn (Emory University).22. De Beauvoir: Kate Fullbrook (University of the West of England) and Edward Fullbrook (freelance writer).23. Merleau-Ponty: Bernhard Waldenfelds (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum).24. Bataille: Robert Sasso (University of Nice).25. Blanchot: Paul Davies (University of Sussex).Part V: Religion Without The Limits of Reason:.26. Franz Rosenzweig: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew University).27. Martin Buber: Maurice Friedman (San Diego State University).28. Marcel: Philip Stratton-Lake (Keele University).Part VI: Three Generations of Critical Theory:.29. Benjamin: Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto).30. Horkheimer: Gunzelin Schmidt Noerr (Frankfurt am Main).31. Adorno: Hauke Brunkhorst (Frankfurt am Main).32. Bloch: Hans-Dieter Bahr (University of Vienna).33. Marcuse: Douglas Kellner (University of Texas at Austin).34. Habermas: Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern University).35. Third Generation Critical Theory: Max Pensky.(SUNY, Binghampton).Part VII: Hermeneutics:.36. Schleiermacher: Ben Vedder (University of Tilburg).37. Dilthey: Rudolf A. Makkreel (Emory University).38. Gadamer: Dennis J. Schmidt (Villanova University).39. Ricoeur: Richard Kearney (University College, Dublin).Part VIII: Continental Political Philosophy:.40. Lukacs: Gyorgy Markus (University of Sydney).41. Gramsci: Ernesto Laclau (University of Essex).42. Schmitt: G. L. Ulmen (Telos Press Ltd).43. Arendt: Robert Bernasconi (Memphis State University).44. Lefort: Bernard Flynn (Empire State College, SUNY).45. Castoriadis: Fabio Ciaramelli (University of Naples).Part IX: Structuralism and After:.46. Levi-Strauss: Marcel Henaff (UCSD, California).47. Lacan: William J. Richardson (Boston College).48. Althusser: Jacques Ranciere (University of Paris VIII).49. Foucault: Paul Patton (University of Sydney).50. Derrida: Geoffrey Bennington (University of Sussex).51. Deleuze: Brian Massumi (McGill University).52. Lyotard: Jacob Rogozinski (University of Paris VIII).53. Baudrillard: Mike Gane (Loughborough University).54. Irigaray: Tina Chanter (Memphis State University).55. Kristeva: Kelly Oliver (University of Texas at Austin).56. Le Doeuff: Moira Gatens (University of Sydney).Afterword: William R Schroeder.Analytic Index.

"This anthology makes an important contribution to the study of Continental philosophy in English-speaking countries, tracing its roots back to attempts to overcome Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. These articles are concise summaries and are accessible to nonspecialists while still interesting to specialists. Recommended for upper-division graduates, graduate students, and faculty." Choice "The chapters on individual writers discuss the major works, ideas and achievements of their subject. The accounts are clear, informative and appear to be very even handed in the discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the philosophers." Philosophy and Religion