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The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy is the definitive guide to the major themes of the continental European tradition in philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen have assembled a stellar group of contributors who 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 scope of the volume is broad, with discussions covering a wide range of philosophical movements including German Idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, Marxism, postmodernism, and critical theory, as well as thinkers like Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and Foucault. This Handbook will be an essential reference point for graduate students and professional academics working on continental philosophy, as well as those with an interest in European literature, the history of ideas, and cultural studies.

CONTENTS:

1. Introduction, Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen
Part I: Problems of Method
2. Phenomenology as Rigorous Science, Taylor Carman
3. Hermeneutics, Michael N. Forster
4. Philosophical Aestheticism, Sebastian Gardner
5. The History of Philosophy as Philosophy, Michael Rosen
6. Historicism, Frederick Beiser
7. What Have We Been Missing? Science and Philosophy in Twentieth-Century French Thought, Gary Gutting
8. Marxism and the Status of Critique, Alex Callinicos
Part II: Reason and Consciousness
9. Serpentine Naturalism and Protean Nihilism: Transcendental Philosophy in Anthropological Post-Kantianism, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantiasm, Paul Franks
10. Dialectic, Objectivity, and the Unity of Reason, Fred Rush
11. Overcoming Epistemology, Herman Philipse
12. Individual Existence and the Philosophy of Difference, Robert Stern
13. Consciousness in the World: Husserlian Phenomenology and Externalism, Peter Poellner
Part III: Human Being
14. Nihilism and the Meaning of Life, Julian Young
15. "The Presentation of the Infinite in the Finite": The Place of God in Post-Kantian Philosophy, Stephen Mulhall
16. Being at Home: Human Beings and Human Bodies, Maximilian de Gaynesford
17. Freedom as Autonomy, Kenneth Baynes
18. The Legacy of Hellenic Harmony, Jessica N. Berry
19. Critical Theory and Practical Philosophy: On the Normative Credentials of Frankfurt School Social Criticism, Gordon Finlayson
20. Morality Critics, Brian Leiter
21. The Humanism Debate, Thomas Baldwin
Bibliography
Index