From Kant to Lévi-Strauss The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory,9780748615063

From Kant to Lévi-Strauss The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory

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ISBN13: 9780748615063
ISBN10: 0748615067
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-08-28
Publisher(s): Edinburgh University Press
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Summary

An accessible basic guide to critical post-Enlightenment European thinking, this book introduces fifteen key figures in modern Western philosophy. The intellectual tradition covered is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory that has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. The book covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas. There are individual chapters on Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukacs, Adorno and Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt, and Levi-Strauss. Each chapter offers contextualization, explains major concepts and the thinker's relevance to an ongoing tradition, and offers suggestions for further reading.

Author Biography

Jon Simons has been the director of the MA in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham since 1995

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction
1(16)
Jon Simons
Immanuel Kant
17(16)
Jon Simons
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
33(17)
Matt F. Connell
Karl Marx
50(15)
Simon Tormey
Friedrich Nietzsche
65(16)
Jon Simons
Max Weber
81(16)
John Ellis
Jon Simons
Sigmund Freud
97(16)
Richard H. King
Georg Lukacs
113(16)
Stuart Sim
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
129(17)
Matt F. Connell
Edmund Husserl
146(17)
William Hutson
Martin Heidegger
163(18)
David Woods
Hans-Georg Gadamer
181(16)
Nicholas H. Smith
Ludwig Wittgenstein
197(16)
Simon Tormey
Hannah Arendt
213(15)
Richard H. King
Claude Levi-Strauss
228(16)
Christopher Johnson
Names index 244(3)
Subject index 247

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