Early twentieth-century Continental philosophy

Introduction: structure and genesis of early twentieth-century Continental philosophy -- Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to metaphysics" (1903) -- Schizophrenic thought: Freud's "The unconscious" (1915) -- Consciousness as distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica entry) -- The thought of the nothing: Heidegger's "What is metaphysics?" (1929) -- Dwelling in the speaking of language: Heidegger's "Language" (1950) -- Dwelling in the texture of the visible: Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and mind" (1961) -- Enveloped in a nameless voice: Foucault's "The thought of the outside" (1966) -- Conclusion: further questions

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in the continental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy. Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers-immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. His conception of continental philosophy as a unified project