Books in the The History of Continental Philosophy series

This volume analyses the main developments in continental philosophy between 1980-1995, a time of great upheaval and profound social change.

This volume covers the period between the 1890s and 1930s, a period that witnessed revolutions in the arts and society which set the agenda for the rest of the century.

"Kant, Kantianism and Idealism" presents an overview of German Idealism, the major movement in philosophy from the late 18th to the middle of the 19th Century.

This volume covers the birth of sociology and the social sciences, the development of French spiritualism, the beginning of American pragmatism, the rise of science and mathematics, and the maturation of hermeneutics and phenomenology.

"Phenomenology: Responses and Developments" covers all the major innovators in phenomenology - notably Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the later Heidegger - and the major schools and issues.

Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Arendt, Benjamin, Bataille, French Marxism, Black Existentialism, Saussure and Structuralism, Levi Strauss, Lacan and Late Pragmatism.

This volume analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship and that set the agenda for philosophical thought from the 1960s to the present.

This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the most recent developments in European thought.