Continental Philosophy An Anthology

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Pub. Date: 1998-06-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

From Immanuel Kant to Postmodernism, this volume provides an unparalleled student resource: a wide-ranging collection of the essential works of more than 50 seminal thinkers in modern European philosophy. Areas covered include Kant and German Idealism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Marxism and the Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism. Each section begins with a concise and helpful introduction, and all the texts have been selected for accessibility as well as significance, making the volume ideal for introductory and advanced levels in philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, and the history of modern thought.

Author Biography

William McNeill, a well-known Heidegger translator and scholar, is Assistant professor of Philosophy at DePaul University.

Karen S. Feldman is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Part I The Age of the System: Kant and German Idealism 5(52)
Immanuel Kant
1 Critique of Pure Reason
7(17)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
2 An Attempt at a New Presentation of the Wissenschaftslehre
24(10)
Friedrich Holderlin
3 Judgment and Being
34(2)
4 The Oldest Program Towards a System in German Idealism
36(2)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
5 System of Transcendental Idealism
38(9)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
6 Phenomenology of Spirit
47(10)
Part II Subjectivity in Question: Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics 57(146)
Arthur Schopenhauer
1 The World as Will and Representation
59(6)
Soren Kierkegaard
2 Either/or
65(10)
Friedrich Nietzsche
3 The Gay Science; Twilight of the Idols; The Will to Power
75(14)
Henri Bergson
4 The Perception of Change
89(8)
Edmund Husserl
5 Cartesian Meditations
97(10)
Martin Heidegger
6 Being and Time
107(16)
Max Scheler
7 Man's Place in Nature
123(9)
Karl Jaspers
8 Philosophy of Existence
132(9)
Alexandre Kojeve
9 Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
141(12)
Jean-Paul Sartre
10 Being and Nothingness
153(8)
Simone de Beauvoir
11 The Second Sex
161(6)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
12 The Visible and the Invisible
167(9)
Emmanuel Levinas
13 The Trace of the Other
176(10)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
14 The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem
186(8)
Paul Ricoeur
15 Metaphor and the Central Problem of Hermeneutics
194(9)
Part III Political Thought: Marxism and Critical Theory 203(92)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1 The Philosophy of Right
205(10)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
2 Alienated Labor; The German Ideology
215(11)
Rosa Luxemburg
3 Democracy and Dictatorship
226(3)
Georg Lukacs
4 History and Class Consciousness
229(11)
Antonio Gramsci
5 What is Man?
240(4)
Walter Benjamin
6 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
244(9)
Theodor Adorno
Max Horkheimer
7 Dialectic of Enlightenment
253(7)
Hannah Arendt
8 The Human Condition
260(11)
Louis Althusser
9 For Marx
271(8)
Herbert Marcuse
10 One-Dimensional Man
279(7)
Jurgen Habermas
11 Knowledge and Human Interests
286(9)
Part IV Structuralism and Psychoanalysis 295(44)
Ferdinand de Saussure
1 Course in General Linguistics
297(8)
Claude Levi-Strauss
2 The Elementary Structures of Kinship
305(6)
Roland Barthes
3 The Structuralist Activity
311(5)
Sigmund Freud
4 Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Femininity
316(13)
Jacques Lacan
5 The Mirror Stage; The Signification of the Phallus
329(10)
Part V Deconstruction, Feminism, and Postmodernism 339(114)
Georges Bataille
1 The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade
341(7)
Maurice Blanchot
2 The Space of Literature
348(6)
Jacques Derrida
3 Of Grammatology
354(11)
Gilles Deleuze
Felix Guattari
4 Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
365(9)
Helene Cixous
5 Sorties: Out and Out: Attacks/Ways Out/Forays
374(6)
Michel Foucault
6 The History of Sexuality
380(11)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
7 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
391(15)
Julia Kristeva
8 Women's Time
406(10)
Sarah Kofman
9 The Enigma of Woman
416(5)
Luce Irigaray
10 Sexual Difference
421(8)
Jean-Luc Nancy
11 The Inoperative Community
429(12)
Jean Baudrillard
12 The Ecstasy of Communication
441(6)
Slavoj Zizek
13 The Nation-Thing
447(6)
Index 453

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