Time and philosophy : a history of continental thought / John McCumber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCumber, John Albert, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy.

Continental philosophy--History.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

Montréal [Québec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Looking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, McCumber discusses philosophers ranging from Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno and Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Derrida to the most influential thinkers of today - Agamben, Badiou, Butler, and Rancière. Throughout, McCumber's concern is to elucidate the primary texts for readers coming to these thinkers for the first time, while revealing the philosophical rigour that underpins and connects the history of continental thought.

Contents:

Germany, 1790-1890

The collapse of Kant

Hegel discovers the past

Marx, capitalism and the future

Kierkegaard's dreadful future

Nietzsche and the boundless future

Germany and America, 1900-1968

The return of traditional philosophy : Edmund Husserl

The finite future : Martin Heidegger

Activity and mortality : Hannah Arendt

The twilight of Enlightenment : Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer

France, 1945-2004

The future and freedom : Jean-Paul Sartre

The future and the disclosure of being : Simone de Beauvoir

The future as rupture : Michel Foucault

The future and hope : Jacques Derrida

Onwards, 2011-

Badiou, Rancière, and the time of equality

Life and gender in Agamben and Butler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-403) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-9473-6

OCLC:

881552198