Continental philosophy : a contemporary introduction / Andrew Cutrofello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cutrofello, Andrew, 1961-

Series:

Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--Europe--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 440 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

Thematic introduction from Kant to DerridaAddresses continental/analytic divide in helping to define the continental

Contents:

Introduction: what is continental philosophy? 1

I.1 The Wars of the Roses 1

I.2 Kant's attempt to secure perpetual philosophical peace 5

I.3 Rorty's attempt to restore the peace 14

I.4 Nietzsche's clue to the persistence of the analytic/continental division 17

I.5 Heidegger's confirmation of Nietzsche's clue 20

I.6 Kant's questions as taken up in the House of Continental 23

1 The problem of the relationship between receptivity and spontaneity: how is truth disclosed aesthetically? 30

1.1 Kant's vigilance against fanaticism 31

1.2 Nietzsche's commemoration of Dionysian intoxication 32

1.3 Bergson's intuition of duration 34

1.4 Husserl's intuition of ideal essences 40

1.5 Heidegger's openness to being 48

1.6 Bachelard's poetics of science 58

1.7 Sartre's nihilating cogito 64

1.8 Merleau-Ponty's return to primordial perception 71

1.9 Foucault's archaeology of imagination 80

1.10 Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence 88

1.11 Deleuze's transcendental empiricism 98

2 The problem of the relationship between heteronomy and autonomy: to what does the feeling of respect attest? 111

2.1 Kant's fact of reason 112

2.2 Nietzsche's genealogy of the ascetic ideal 119

2.3 Freud's diagnosis of superegoic cruelty and his speculative anthropology 122

2.4 Levi-Strauss's structural anthropology 134

2.5 Bataille's heterology and his transvaluation of sovereignty 142

2.6 Blanchot's art of discretion 151

2.7 Levinas's ethics of alterity 158

2.8 Lacan's detection of a secret alliance between Kant and Sade 167

2.9 Althusser's attempt to forge an alliance between Marx and Freud 178

2.10 Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis 188

2.11 Kristeva's semanalysis 196

2.12 Derrida's hauntology 202

3 The problem of the relationship between immanence and transcendence: must we despair or may we still hope? 213

3.1 Kant's prophetic response to the French Revolution 214

3.2 Marx's prophecy of a proletarian revolution 225

3.3 Lukacs's conception of reification and his development of a Marxist aesthetics 234

3.4 Heidegger's dialogue with Nietzsche about great art 244

3.5 Benjamin's angel of history 248

3.6 Adorno's ambivalence about the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz 259

3.7 Marcuse's Great Refusal 268

3.8 Arendt's articulation of the democratic principles of the American revolution 275

3.9 Gadamer's fusion of horizons 284

3.10 Ricoeur's dialectic of rival hermeneutics 293

3.11 Habermas's defense of the project of modernity 303

3.12 Lyotard's assessment of postmodernity 311

3.13 Zizek's fidelity to the messianic promise of the Russian Revolution 321

4 The problem of the relationship between the empirical and the transcendental: what is the meaning of philosophical humanism? 335

4.1 Kant's pragmatic anthropology 336

4.2 Nietzsche's overman 344

4.3 Sartre's resolve for man's freedom 350

4.4 Heidegger's reproach against man's hubris 355

4.5 Beauvoir's project of solidarity and her analysis of the lived experience of gender 358

4.6 Fanon's indictment of colonialism and his analysis of the lived experience of race 368

4.7 Levi-Strauss's repudiation of the category of man 375

4.8 Foucault's genealogy of power 379

4.9 Irigaray's sensible transcendental 384

4.10 Habermas's evasion of the dilemmas concerning man and his doubles 390

5 Conclusion: what is philosophy? 396

5.1 Kant's questions as taken up in the House of Analytic 396

5.2 The conflict of the philosophy faculty with itself 402.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-432) and index.

ISBN:

0415242088

0415242096

OCLC:

57422616