{"product_id":"continental-philosophy-by-david-west-9780745645827","title":"Continental Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Continental Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, concise, and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as Nietzsche, Habermas, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Žižek. At the same time, it situates their thought within a coherent overall account of the development of continental philosophy since the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndividual chapters consider the character of modernity, the Enlightenment and its continental critics, the ideas of Marxism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas, hermeneutics and phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the thinkers already mentioned, there is extended discussion of the ideas of Kant, Hegel, Dilthey, Husserl, Gadamer, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, and Lyotard. The new edition includes an additional, full-length chapter on continental philosophy in the twenty-first century, focusing on Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContinental Philosophy: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable introductory text for courses on continental philosophy, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences dealing with major figures or influential approaches within that tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000574918892,"sku":"9780745645827","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7d68bf8ded38fce5eec49e3b55153c38.jpg?v=1773005009","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/continental-philosophy-by-david-west-9780745645827","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}