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Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools, including phenomenology, existentialism and postmodernism

Jean Baudrillard is generally recognized as one of the most important and provocative contemporary social theorists. But in the English speaking world, his reputation is largely based on books published after the 1960s, as he moved towards becoming the premier commentator on postmodernism

The author argues that Thomas Hobbes anticipates a set of questions about meaning and semantic order that come to fuller expression in the 20th century, in the writings of W.V.O. Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty. Despite their different points of departure, these 20th-century writers pose a number of profound questions about the conditions for the stability of meaning, and about the conditions that govern the use of the term "language" itself. Though the more recent debate benefits from a set of philosophical tools unavailable in the seventeenth century, the author further argues that Hobbes performs a number of maneuvers in his texts from which his 20th-century successors would profit.

This book provides a critical introduction to twentieth-century French phenomenology and philosophy of religion. Emmanuel Falque, the most important voice in contemporary French philosophy of religion, offers a novel and creative philosophy of the body at the intersection of philosophy and theology.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Clearing the Ground: The First Volume of Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "One Surely Will Be Found One Day to Make an Ontology with What I Am Telling You": The Road to a Post-Lacanian Materialism -- Part 1. Jacques Lacan: Between the Sacred and the Secular -- 1. Conflicted Matter: The Challenge of Secularizing Materialism -- 2. Turning the Sciences Inside Out: Revisiting "Science and Truth" -- 3. On Deep History and Psychoanalysis: Phylogenetic Time in Lacanian Theory -- Part 2. Alain Badiou: Between Form and Matter -- 4. What Matter(s) in Ontology: The Hebb-Event and Materialism Split from Within -- 5. Phantom of Consistency: Kant Troubles -- Part 3. Quentin Meillassoux: Between Faith and Knowledge -- 6. The World Before Worlds: The Ancestral and Badiou's Anti- Kantian Transcendentalism -- 7. Hume's Revenge: À Dieu, Meillassoux? -- Postface: From Critique to Construction: Toward a Transcendental Materialism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Situating Derrida's engagement with Freud vis-à-vis key contemporaries such as Lévi-Strauss and Foucault, this title uses close analysis of a range of primary texts to show how Derrida reshaped Freud's insights in the very different intellectual context of post-war France.

Extrait : 'Pour faire comprendre l'état de la philosophie contemporaine, son mouvement, son progrès, il nous paraît utile de rappeler brièvement ses origines. La philosophie date de l'époque, bien reculée, où l'on vit clairement qu'il y a dans les différents êtres, outre leurs propriétés diverses, objets des diverses sciences, quelque chose qui fait proprement leur être et leur unité, et que considère en tous une seule et même science.'

"This collection renews contemporary debates in phenomenology, ethics, social ontology, aesthetics, and metaphysics and broadens the scope of twentieth-century French philosophy by analyzing the works and key concepts of authors who left their marks on its genesis"--

Cover -- Routledge History of Philosophy -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- General editors' preface -- Notes on contributors -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 Philosophy of language -- 2 Formally oriented work in the philosophy of language -- 3 Metaphysics I (1900-45) -- 4 Metaphysics II (1945 to the present) -- 5 Ethics I (1900-45) -- 6 Ethics II (1945 to the present) -- 7 Epistemology -- 8 Wittgenstein's later philosophy -- 9 Political philosophy -- 10 Feminist philosophy -- 11 Philosophy of law -- 12 Applied ethics -- 13 Aesthetics -- 14 Philosophy of religion -- Glossary -- Index.

The present thesis explores the history of interpretations of Rousseau's political philosophy in the last one hundred years in China. Ever since the introduction of Of the Social Contract into China at the beginning of the twentieth century, Rousseau became one of the few western thinkers who greatly influenced how the Chinese perceive modern society and politics. Rousseau's political ideas first generated a growing number of interpretations from 1898 to 1920. In these interpretations, his work was portrayed as the epitome of modern democracy, and his teachings were considered the cure for social problems in China at the time. However, in the recent three decades in China, scholars interpreted his political writings differently. Some even accused him of being the advocate of totalitarianism, and his political theories the theoretical support of dictatorship of the French Revolution. Such different interpretations in different periods of the Chinese reception of his political philosophy raised the question: what caused the distinctive alteration of Rousseau's image in the last century in China? This thesis intends to provide a possible answer by examining the movement and evolution of interpretations of his political philosophy over the past century. In this examination, I first introduce the methodology and the theoretical foundation of this dissertation: Gadamer's hermeneutic method in interpreting a text, and Rousseau's political philosophy as a whole. In part two and part three, the history of the Chinese interpretations will then be divided into two phases in accordance with the alteration of Rousseau's image over time. I present and briefly analyze different interpretations of his political theories to provide a thorough overview, as well as different characteristics of the interpretations from both phases. I then employ Gadamer's hermeneutic method to analyze three interpretations that were most influential in these phases to argue that even though some interpretations contained inaccurate accounts of Rousseau's texts, all fulfilled the hermeneutic task of understanding these texts in different phases. The cause of the alteration of Rousseau's image in the last century is the alteration of interpreters' hermeneutic horizons in different times. As the process of understanding his political writings evolved through the last century in China, these texts constantly generates new fusions of the horizon of the author with the horizons of the interpreters. ; published_or_final_version ; Philosophy ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy