Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction

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ISBN: 9780415242080 | 0415242088
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Copyright: 9/29/2005

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Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introductionsurveys the main trends of European philosophy from Kant to the present. It is clearly written and accessible to students. In a novel approach, Andrew Cutrofello looks at continental philosophy through the lens of four questions that derive from Kant: -How is truth disclosed aesthetically? -To what does the feeling of respect attest? -Must we despair, or may we still hope? -What is the meaning of philosophical humanism? Cutrofello shows how these questions have been taken up by (1) phenomenologists, (2) continental ethicists, (3) hermeneuticians and critical theorists, and (4) existentialists and their critics. In the introduction and conclusion, he explains how the questions raised by continental philosophers differ from their analogues in the analytic tradition. With its frequent references to Shakespeare, Cutrofello's style is lively and engaging. His remarkably comprehensive book will be of interest not only to students butto anyone seeking a reliable overview of the continental tradition.

List of abbreviations

viii

Preface and acknowledgments

xiv

Introduction: what is continental philosophy?

I.1 The Wars of the Roses

(4)

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

(9)

I.3 Rorty's attempt to restore the peace

(3)

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

(3)

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

(3)

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

(6)

Notes

(1)

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

(81)

1.1 Kant's vigilance against fanaticism

(1)

1.2 Nietzsche's commemoration of Dionysian intoxication

(2)

1.3 Bergson's intuition of duration

(6)

1.4 Husserl's intuition of ideal essences

(8)

1.5 Heidegger's openness to being

(10)

1.6 Bachelard's poetics of science

(6)

1.7 Sartre's nihilating cogito

(7)

1.8 Merleau-Ponty's return to primordial perception

(9)

1.9 Foucault's archaeology of imagination

(8)

1.10 Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence

(10)

1.11 Deleuze's transcendental empiricism

(11)

Notes

109

(2)

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

111

(102)

2.1 Kant's fact of reason

112

(7)

2.2 Nietzsche's genealogy of the ascetic ideal

119

(3)

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

122

(12)

2.4 Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology

134

(8)

2.5 Bataille's heterology and his transvaluation of sovereignty

142

(9)

2.6 Blanchot's art of discretion

151

(7)

2.7 Levinas's ethics of alterity

158

(9)

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

167

(11)

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

178

(10)

2.10 Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis

188

(8)

2.11 Kristeva's semanalysis

196

(6)

2.12 Derrida's hauntology

202

(9)

Notes

211

(2)

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

213

(122)

3.1 Kant's prophetic response to the French Revolution

214

(11)

3.2 Marx's prophecy of a proletarian revolution

225

(9)

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

234

(10)

3.4 Heidegger's dialogue with Nietzsche about great art

244

(4)

3.5 Benjamin's angel of history

248

(11)

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

259

(9)

3.7 Marcuse's Great Refusal

268

(7)

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

275

(9)

3.9 Gadamer's fusion of horizons

284

(9)

3.10 Ricoeur's dialectic of rival hermeneutics

293

(10)

3.11 Habermas's defense of the project of modernity

303

(8)

3.12 Lyotard's assessment of postmodernity

311

(10)

3.13 2riek's fidelity to the messianic promise of the Russian Revolution

321

(11)

Notes

332

(3)

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

335

(61)

4.1 Kant's pragmatic anthropology

336

(8)

4.2 Nietzsche's overman

344

(6)

4.3 Sartre's resolve for man's freedom

350

(5)

4.4 Heidegger's reproach against man's hubris

355

(3)

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

358

(10)

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

368

(7)

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

375

(4)

4.8 Foucault's genealogy of power

379

(5)

4.9 Irigaray's sensible transcendental

384

(6)

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

390

(3)

Notes

393

(3)

5 Conclusion: what is philosophy?

396

(23)

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

396

(6)

5.2 The conflict of the philosophy faculty with itself

402

(15)

Notes

417

(2)

References

419

(14)

Index

433

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