Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach

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Wiley, 2005 - Philosophy - 456 pages

Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  • Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism,; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  • Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.

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About the author (2005)

William R. Schroeder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Sartre and His Predecessors (1984) and co-editor, with Simon Critchley, of A Companion to Continental Philosophy (Blackwell, 1998).

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