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This is a guide to the major themes of the continental European tradition in philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries. The contributors provide a thematic treatment of continental philosophy, treating its subject matter philosophically and not simply as a series of museum pieces from the history of ideas

"The continental tradition in philosophy has gotten more "materialistic" over the last two hundred years. This has resulted from a combination of some very specific moves with regard to the epistemological parameters of understanding and the assertion that ideas may have material force in history. Therefore, the materialism within the continental tradition is not a materiality of being, but a materiality of understanding and action. Such an inquiry opens up space between the activities of sensation and the mental faculty of cognition. 'I think, therefore I am,' is not an empirical statement, but a statement of cognition. It is assumed that this distinction is at the core of continental philosophy. Cognition is always interpretive. Experience is the start of cognition, but not its final product. Our cognitions cannot be separated from our experience of the physical, social, and cultural environment around us. The symbolic nature of language reinforces the interpretive nature of our thoughts and ideas. Our language is, therefore, always projecting an implicit image of the world. Language is, therefore, always political. The materiality of these cognitive world-views is manifested in two ways. First, in their formation. They are the products of sensual contact with the world. Second, in their effects. They move people. It is a picture of the world which serves to shape the content and character of human behavior. Whether we want to call these phantoms of the mind, world-view, ideas, thoughts, cognitions, or any other term, the dual character of their materiality is secure. This work examines the threads of materialist ideas running through the efforts of some major authors in the continental tradition in philosophy. A model of materialism is constructed in Chapter One and used to assess the materialist elements in works from Kant, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, and contemporary poststructuralism. The work demonstrates the evolution of materialist thinking within the tradition and asserts an evolving and developing articulation of materialism in relation to the thoughts and activities of human beings." -- Publisher's description

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

(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Research Problems and Methodology: Three Paradigms and a Thousand Exceptions; 3 The Continental Tradition: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche; Part I: Contemporary Continental Philosophy; 4 Metaphysics and Ontology; 5 Philosophies of Consciousness and the Body; 6 Philosophies of Difference; 7 Politics and Ethics; 8 Continental Marxist Thought; 9 Psychoanalysis and Philosophy; 10 Feminist Philosophy; 11 Philosophies of Life; 12 Philosophies of Science; 13 Philosophies of Art; 14 Philosophy, Literature and Interpretation.

Der Begriff des Ereignisses wird in der philosophischen Moderne so zentral wie konträr entwickelt. Naturalistische und antinaturalistische Auffassungen des Ereignisses stehen sich, meist entlang des "continental divide", bis heute antinomisch gegenüber. Während auf Seiten der analytischen Philosophie ein Ereigniskonzept kausal volldeterminierter Geschehnisse vorherrschend ist, zielt die (post)phänomenologische Kontinentalphilosophie auf ein tendenziell antinaturalistisches Ereigniskonzept der radikalen Indetermination und Diskontinuität bzw. Alterität. Mit einer an Kant (und dessen für die Moderne gültige Diagnose einer fundamentalen Ereignisantinomie) gewonnen Ereigniskritik argumentiert vorliegende Studie sowohl gegen die naturalistische Trivialisierung des Ereignisses als auch gegen dessen antinaturalistische, letztlich idealistische Hyperbolisierung. Stattdessen wird für einen kritischen Realismus des Ereignisses argumentiert, welcher die Verträglichkeit von Indetermination und Determination konsistent konzeptualisiert. Gezeigt wird, dass Normativität auf epistemischer, ethischer und ästhetischer Ebene kontingenzsensibel gedacht werden kann, ohne dass deshalb doch der Anspruch auf objektive Verbindlichkeit aufzugeben ist.

Introduction: back to the future / Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins -- PART I. THE MESSIANIC -- Is continental philosophy of religion dead? / John D. Caputo -- Friends and strangers/poets and rabbis: negotiating a "Capuphalian" philosophy of religion / B. Keith Putt -- Response / Merold Westphal -- Response / John D. Caputo -- On faith, the maternal, and postmodernism / Edward F. Mooney -- The persistence of the trace: interrogating the gods of speculative realism / Steven Shakespeare -- Speculating God: speculative realism and Meillassoux's divine inexistence / Leon Niemoczynski -- Between deconstruction and speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological materialism / Katharine Sarah Moody -- PART II. LIBERATION -- The future of liberation / Philip Goodchild -- Monetized philosophy and theological money: uneasy linkages and the future of a discourse / Devin Singh -- "Between justice and my mother": reflections on and between Levinas and Žižek / Gavin Hyman -- Verbis indisciplinatis / Joseph Ballan -- Overwhelming abundance and everyday liturgical practices: for a less excessive phenomenology of religious experience / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Countercurrents: theology and the future of continental philosophy of religion / Noëlle Vahanian -- PART III. Plasticity -- The future of Derrida: time between epigenesis and epigenetics / Catherine Malabou -- On reading--Catherine Malabou / Randall Johnson -- Necessity as virtue: on religious materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- Plasticity in the contemporary Islamic subject / John Thibdeau -- From cosmology to the first ethical gesture: Schelling with Irigaray / Lenart Škof -- Prolegomenon to thinking the reject for the future of continental philosophy of religion / Irving Goh -- Entropy / Clayton Crockett