[Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy 01] • Continental Philosophy by Cutrofello, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction: what is continental philosophy?

I.1 The Wars of the Roses I.2 Kant’s attempt to secure perpetual philosophical peace I.3 Rorty’s attempt to restore the peace I.4 Nietzsche’s clue to the persistence of the analytic/ continental division I.5 Heidegger’s confirmation of Nietzsche’s clue I.6 Kant’s questions as taken up in the House of Continental 1 What can I know? 2 What should I do? 3 What may I hope? Notes

1.1 Kant’s vigilance against fanaticism 1.2 Nietzsche’s commemoration of Dionysian intoxication 1.3 Bergson’s intuition of duration 1.4 Husserl’s intuition of ideal essences 1.5 Heidegger’s openness to being 1.6 Bachelard’s poetics of science 1.7 Sartre’s nihilating cogito 1.8 Merleau-Ponty’s return to primordial perception 1.9 Foucault’s archaeology of imagination 1.10 Derrida’s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence 1.11 Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism Notes

2.1 Kant’s fact of reason 2.2 Nietzsche’s genealogy of the ascetic ideal 2.3 Freud’s diagnosis of superegoic cruelty and his speculative anthropology 2.4 Levi-Strauss’s structural anthropology 2.5 Bataille’s heterology and his transvaluation of sovereignty 2.6 Blanchot’s art of discretion 2.7 Levinas’s ethics of alterity 2.8 Lacan’s detection of a secret alliance between Kant and Sade 2.9 Althusser’s attempt to forge an alliance between Marx and Freud 2.10 Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis 2.11 Kristeva’s semanalysis 2.12 Derrida’s hauntology Notes

3.1 Kant’s prophetic response to the French Revolution 3.2 Marx’s prophecy of a proletarian revolution 3.3 Lukacs’s conception of reification and his development of a Marxist aesthetics 3.4 Heidegger’s dialogue with Nietzsche about great art 3.5 Benjamin’s angel of history 3.6 Adorno’s ambivalence about the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz 3.7 Marcuse’s Great Refusal 3.8 Arendt’s articulation of the democratic principles of the American revolution 3.9 Gadamer’s fusion of horizons 3.10 Ricoeur’s dialectic of rival hermeneutics 3.11 Habermas’s defense of the project of modernity 3.12 Lyotard’s assessment of postmodernity 3.13 Zizek’s fidelity to the messianic promise of the Russian Revolution Notes

4.1 Kant’s pragmatic anthropology 4.2 Nietzsche’s overman 4.3 Sartre’s resolve for man’s freedom 4.4 Heidegger’s reproach against man’s hubris 4.5 Beauvoir’s project of solidarity and her analysis of the lived experience of gender 4.6 Fanon’s indictment of colonialism and his analysis of the lived experience of race 4.7 Levi-Strauss’s repudiation of the category of man 4.8 Foucault’s genealogy of power 4.9 Irigaray’s sensible transcendental 4.10 Habermas’s evasion of the dilemmas concerning man and his doubles Notes

Conclusion: what is philosophy?

5.1 Kant’s questions as taken up in the House of Analytic 5.2 The conflict of the philosophy faculty with itself Notes

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