Overview

The idea of Continental Philosophy has never been properly explained in philosophical terms. In this short and engaging book Simon Glendinning attempts finally to succeed where others have failed -- although not by giving an account of its internal unity but by showing instead why no such account can be given. Providing a clear picture of the current state of the contemporary philosophical culture Glendinning traces the origins and development of the idea of a distinctive Continental tradition, critiquing current attempts to survey the field of contemporary philosophy.

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Author:   Dr. Simon Glendinning
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9780748624713

ISBN 10:   0748624716
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   13 June 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Starting Points - An Initiation into Philosophy - Interpreting Philosophy Today - A Working Distinction: Works of and Works in; Chapter Two: A Meeting of (Some) Minds: Phenomenology at Large - A Wide-Angled View - Only a Continental philosopher would say that! - Reading the Other; Chapter Three: The Usual Suspects - Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware) - An 'A' List of Continental Philosophers - Movements in the Stream - A Map of Continental Philosophy; Chapter Four: The Analytic Perspective on the Idea - Ryle and the Gulf-Seekers - Hare on Schooling Philosophers - Warnock on Expelling the Alien; Chapter Five: The Continental Perspective on the Idea - Chickening Out - An All-American Story - A Classic Problem; Chapter Six: The (B)end of the Idea - Reaching an End - Enders and Benders - Continental Philosophy Today; Appendix: Continental Philosophy in Britain since 1986.

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Despite its consistently mild tone, Simon Glendinning's The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a provocative and uncompromising work. It is to be admired for this. -- Jack Reynolds, La Trobe University International Journal of Philosophical Studies Despite its consistently mild tone, Simon Glendinning's The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a provocative and uncompromising work. It is to be admired for this.

Despite its consistently mild tone, Simon Glendinning's The Idea of Continental Philosophy is a provocative and uncompromising work. It is to be admired for this. -- Jack Reynolds, La Trobe University International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Author Information

Simon Glendinning, is Fellow in European Philosophy at the European Institute at LSE. His interests lie primarily in the phenomenological movement in Europe and its relation to phenomenological philosophy from the English-speaking world. As well as numerous articles, he is the author of On Being With Others: Heidegger -- Derrida -- Wittgenstein (Routledge, 1998), and editor of Arguing with Derrida (Blackwells, 2001) and the Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy (EUP, 1999).

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