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"As the first publication in a promised series on the development of Continental philosophy, this volume focuses on ""understudied thinkers and ideas"" (p. 1) of the history of philosophy. The book is divided into three parts with ten essays in total. Part 1 explores the influence of less-known philosophers on Jean-Luc Marion, French existentialism, and Hannah Arendt. Part 2, comprising four essays, examines responses on the part of Continental thinkers to social issues of environmental destruction, racial oppression, and inauthentic communities. The third part addresses questions of political exile, the meaning of democracy, and biopolitics through major Continental thinkers such as Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas. The volume is largely successful in broadening the conception of Continental philosophy through introduction of Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Maria Zambrano, and Gerda Walther, and by exhibiting the relevance of Continental thought to contemporary issues of concern. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."""

"As the first publication in a promised series on the development of Continental philosophy, this volume focuses on ""understudied thinkers and ideas"" (p. 1) of the history of philosophy. The book is divided into three parts with ten essays in total. Part 1 explores the influence of less-known philosophers on Jean-Luc Marion, French existentialism, and Hannah Arendt. Part 2, comprising four essays, examines responses on the part of Continental thinkers to social issues of environmental destruction, racial oppression, and inauthentic communities. The third part addresses questions of political exile, the meaning of democracy, and biopolitics through major Continental thinkers such as Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas. The volume is largely successful in broadening the conception of Continental philosophy through introduction of Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Maria Zambrano, and Gerda Walther, and by exhibiting the relevance of Continental thought to contemporary issues of concern. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."" -- ""Choice Reviews"""

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Christian Lotz is professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Antonio Calcagno is professor of philosophy at King's University College at Western University Canada.

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