The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy

by Leiter, Brian; Rosen, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780199234097
• ISBN10: 0199234094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy is the definitive guide to the major themes of the continental Euopean tradition in philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen have assembled a stellar group of contributors who provide a thematic treatment of continental philosophy, treating its subject matter philosophically and not simply as a series of museum pieces from the history of ideas. The scope of the volume is broad, with discussions covering a wide range of philosophical movements including German Idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, postmodernism, and critical theory, as well as thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Foucault. This Handbook will be an essential reference point for graduate students and professional academics working on continental philosophy, as well as those with an interest in European literature, the history of ideas, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Problems of Method
Phenomenology as Rigorous Science	p. 9
Hermeneutics	p. 30
Philosophical Aestheticism	p. 75
The History of Philosophy as Philosophy	p. 122
Historicism	p. 155
What Have We Been Missing? Science and Philosophy in Twentieth-Century French Thought	p. 180
Marxism and the Status of Critique	p. 210
Reason and Consciousness
Serpentine Naturalism and Protean Nihilism: Transcendental Philosophy in Anthropological Post-Kantianism, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism	p. 243
Dialectic, Value Objectivity, and the Unity of Reason	p. 287
Overcoming Epistemology	p. 334
Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference	p. 379
Consciousness in the World: Husserlian Phenomenology and Externalism	p. 409
Human Being
Nihilism and the Meaning of Life	p. 463
'The Presentation of the Infinite in the Finite': The Place of God in Post-Kantian Philosophy	p. 494
Being at Home: Human Beings and Human Bodies	p. 523
Freedom as Autonomy	p. 551
The Legacy of Hellenic Harmony	p. 588
Political, Moral, and Critical Theory: On the Practical Philosophy of the Frankfurt School	p. 626
The Humanism Debate	p. 671
Morality Critics	p. 711
Bibliography	p. 755
Index	p. 797
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