Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

by Lawlor, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780253223722
• ISBN10: 0253223725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in the continental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy. Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers -- immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. His conception of continental philosophy as a unified project enables Lawlor to think beyond its European origins and envision a global sphere of philosophical inquiry that will revitalize the field.

Author Biography

Leonard Lawlor is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of Derrida and Husserl (IUP, 2002) and Thinking through French Philosophy (IUP, 2003)

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: Structure and Genesis of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy	p. 1
Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to Metaphysics" (1903)	p. 15
Schizophrenic Thought: Freud's "The Unconscious" (1915)	p. 38
Consciousness as Distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica Entry)	p. 63
The Thought of the Nothing: Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?" (1929)	p. 88
Dwelling in the Speaking of Language: Heidegger's "Language" (1950)	p. 115
Dwelling in the Texture of the Visible: Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and Mind" (1961)	p. 141
Enveloped in a Nameless Voice: Foucault's "The Thought of the Outside" (1966)	p. 174
Conclusion: Further Questions	p. 203
A Note on the Idea of Immanence	p. 211
What is a Trait?	p. 215
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 249
Index	p. 263
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