The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies

The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is a distinctive reference book made up of a series of philosophical studies -an invaluable companion to anyone who is searching for a panoramic but also reliable and challenging presentation of the philosophical ideas which shaped the last century

The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is

Preface -- General introduction -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. How to recognize analytic philosophy -- Kant and the analytic tradition -- Metaphysical and moral idealism -- Anglo-American neo-idealism -- Ordinary language philosophy -- Logical positivism and the Vienna Circle -- Naturalism -- Pragmatism -- The promise of process philosophy -- Metaphysics -- Epistemology -- Philosophy of language: 1950-2000 -- Analytic philosophy of mind: 1950-2000 -- Philosophy of mathematics -- Philosophy of logic -- A century of transition in the philosophy of science -- Ethics -- Political philosophy -- Philosophy of religion -- Feminism -- Aesthetics -- Continental themes in analytic philosophy -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY. How to recognize continental European philosophy -- The Hegelian legacy -- Phenomenology -- Hermeneutics -- Existentialism -- Marxism -- Frankfurt School and philosophy -- Psychoanalysis -- Structuralism -- Discourse about difference -- Different/ciations: the case of Gilles Deleuze -- Postmodernism -- Life: an essay on the overcoming of metaphysics -- Philosophy of mind -- Philosophy of science -- Ethics -- Political philosophy -- Feminist philosophy -- Philosophy of religion -- Aesthetics -- Analytic themes in continental philosophy -- NON-WESTERN PHILOSOPHIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Indian philosophy -- Chinese philosophy -- Japanese philosophy -- African philosophy -- Contributors -- Chronology -- Index