Robert Solomon & David Sherman 
The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy 

The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy is an accessible but sophisticated introduction to the most important figures in Continental philosophy in the last 200 years.

* Presents a definitive introduction to the core figures and topics of continental philosophy.

* Contains newly commissioned essays, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars.

* Provides a solid foundation for further study.

* Subjects include Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx and Marxism, Nietzsche, Husserl and Phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, critical theory, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Robert C. Solomon (University of Texas at
Austin).

1. G. W. F. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit: Stephen Houlgate
(University of Warwick).

2. Arthur Schopenhauer: Noël Carroll (University of
Wisconsin-Madison).

3. Soren Kierkegaard: David E. Cooper (University of
Durham).

4. Karl Marx: Douglas Kellner (University of Califonia, Los
Angeles).

5. Friedrich Nietzsche: Robert C. Solomon (University of Texas
at Austin).

6. Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology: Sean Kelly (Princeton
University).

7. Martin Heidegger: J. E. Malpas (University of Tasmania).

8. Jean-Paul Sartre: David Sherman (University of Montana,
Missoula).

9. Critical Theory: David Sherman (University of Montana,
Missoula).

10. Jurgen Habermas and Hans-Georg Gadamer: David Ingram (Loyola
University of Chicago).

11. Michel Foucault: Robert Wicks (University of Auckland).

12. Jacques Derrida: John Coker (University of Southern
Alabama).

13. Postmodernism: Steven Best (University of Texas at El Paso)
and Douglas Kellner (University of Califonia, Los Angeles).

14. French Feminism: Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis) and
Kelly Oliver (State University of New York at Stony Brook).

Conclusion: What Now for Continental Philosophy?: Robert C.
Solomon (University of Texas at Austin).

Index.

About the author

Robert C. Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of more than thirty books, including From Rationalism to Existentialism (1978), In the Spirit of Hegel (1985), From Hegel to Existentialism (1990), and What Nietzsche Really Said (with Kathleen M. Higgins, 2000).David Sherman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana-Missoula. He is the author of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness (with Leo Rauch, 1999) and articles on Adorno, Sartre, Aristotle, and Camus.