Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Andrew Cutrofello

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cutrofello, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University, has done a great service for students of philosophy with this book. His guiding premise is that the fundamental problems of continental philosophy, as also of analytic philosophy, develop from out of the various "loose ends" left open by Kant's critical phlosophy and the various failed attempts to "resolve" Kantian dualisms. In this way, Cutrofello is able to connect diverse strands of continental philosophy through a historical and systematic narrative that is illuminating rather than reductive. While sometimes Cutrofello is a bit too schematic, and I sometimes feel as though he gives Spinoza and Nietzsche short shrift, this book is a remarkable resource for anyone who wishes to gain a sense for the "big picture" of continental thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Introduction: what is continental philosophy?......Page 19
1 The problem of the relationship between receptivity and spontaneity: how is truth disclosed aesthetically?......Page 44
2 The problem of the relationship between heteronomy and autonomy: to what does the feeling of respect attest?......Page 114
3 The problem of the relationship between immanence and transcendence: must we despair or may we still hope?......Page 202
4 The problem of the relationship between the empirical and the transcendental: what is the meaning of philosophical humanism?......Page 307
5 Conclusion: what is philosophy?......Page 361
References......Page 382
Index......Page 394