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

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