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Continental philosophy has traditionally seen philosophy as historical, claiming that there are no new beginnings in the discipline, and that we must revisit the work of earlier thinkers again and again. Yet, continental philosophers rarely argue explicitly for their view of philosophy's past, and the discussions of the topic that exist tend to be riddled with confusion. Here, Robert Piercey asks why, and explores what the continental tradition must do to come to terms with this crisis. Piercey traces the confusion about history back to Hegel, who he argues sends a mixed message about historic

The story of Western philosophy in the late twentieth century is, first and foremost, a tale of the discipline's division into two distinct discourses—analytic and Continental philosophy. This article argues that institutional dynamics of American higher education played a decisive role in the creation of this divide. Through quantitative analysis of the hiring and promotion of philosophers, it demonstrates how hierarchies and informal academic networks established boundaries for mainstream American philosophy that excluded modern European thought. Following the end of World War II, as American universities expanded, philosophy departments nearly tripled in size. However, the discipline was dominated by a Brahmin caste of elite departments that hired its own graduates almost exclusively. In this environment, the invidious distinction between the "elite" analytic departments and heterodox departments at the discipline's periphery was mapped onto the styles of philosophy practiced at those schools, and shaped America's reception of "Continental" European philosophy.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Kant and Heidegger on the creation of objectivity -- chapter 2 The power of judgment: Metaphor in the structure of Kant's third Critique -- chapter 3 Sensation, categorization, and embodiment: Locke, Merleau-Ponty, and Lakoff -- chapter 4 Heidegger and the senses -- chapter 5 Conflicting perspectives: Epistemology and ontology in Nietzsche's will to power -- chapter 6 Cutting nature at the joints: Metaphor and epistemology in the science wars -- chapter 7 Opening and belonging: Between subject and object in Heidegger and Bachelard -- chapter 8 Metaphor and metaphysics in Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida.

A model of engaged scholarship, this book examines first-person testimonials by women who have survived abuse and atrocity in zones of conflict and terror. Drawing on a wide range of sources and settings, Anne Cubili+ uses survivor testimony as theoretical invention, placing personal witness in dialogue with work by philosophers, literary theorists, and others who study the space between victim and survivor, ethical witness and silenced observer, male and female. This nuanced example of ethical criticism demonstrates forcefully how ethical witnessing reformulates the language of human rights and enhances its ability to intervene against violence and oppression.

The crisis in contemporary continental philosophy -- Hegel's mixed message to historians of philosophy -- Heidegger and the myth of the primordial -- Ricoeur's entanglements in the aporias of tradition -- Truth in history

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Catholics and Continental Thought – a Curious Allegiance -- 1. The Reception of Phenomenology and Existentialism by American Catholic Philosophers: Some Facts and Some Reasons -- 2. Philosophy between the Old World and the New: Neoscholasticism, Continental Philosophy, and the Historical Subject -- 3. Continental Philosophy and American Catholics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow -- 4. Meaning, Concreteness, and Subjectivity: American Phenomenology, Catholic Philosophy, and Lonergan from an Institutional Perspective -- 5. Catholicism and Continental Philosophy in French Canada: An Opening Followed by an Ungrateful Separation -- 6. Phenomenology and Catholic Thought: Unfolding the logos of the Logos -- 7. The Use of Philosophy in Critical Catholic Theology -- 8. Continental Philosophy as a Source for Theology: The Case of the "Science–Religion" Debate -- 9. How Continental Philosophy of Religion Came into Being and Where It Is Going -- 10. Phenomenology, Catholic Thought, and the University: Lessons from the French Discussion -- 11. Being True to Mystery and Metaxological Metaphysics -- 12. Slavoj Žižek's Theory: The Christian Tradition and the Catholic Intellectual -- About the Authors -- Index

"With figures such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche, the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. The period made lasting contributions to several fields of philosophy. Moreover, it paved the way for the development of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume is dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy in its different areas with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of this tradition in the development of the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Wager of Communication (as Revealed by Psychoanalysis) -- CHAPTER 2 The Ban of Language and Law of Communication -- CHAPTER 3 Of Communication and-as Immunization -- CHAPTER 4 Body as Index -- CHAPTER 5 What Remains to Be Thought Community, or Being-With -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index