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Continental Philosophy: A contemporary introduction surveys the main trends of
European philosophy from Kant to the present. It is clearly written and accessible to
students. In a novel approach, Andrew Cutrofello looks at continental philosophy through
the lens of four questions that derive from Kant:
• How is truth disclosed aesthetically?
• To what does the feeling of respect attest?
• Must we despair, or may we still hope?
• What is the meaning of philosophical humanism?
Cutrofello shows how these questions have been taken up by phenomenologists,
continental ethicists, hermeneuticians and critical theorists, and existentialists and their
critics. In the introduction and conclusion, he explains how the questions raised by
continental philosophers differ from their analogues in the analytic tradition. With its
frequent references to Shakespeare, Cutrofello’s style is lively and engaging. His
remarkably comprehensive book will be of interest not only to students but to anyone
seeking a reliable overview of the continental tradition.
Andrew Cutrofello is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago.
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Andrew Cutrofello
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Contents
List of abbreviations vii
Preface and acknowledgments xv
Introduction: what is continental philosophy? 1
1 The problem of the relationship between receptivity and spontaneity: how 26
is truth disclosed aesthetically?
2 The problem of the relationship between heteronomy and autonomy: to 96
what does the feeling of respect attest?
3 The problem of the relationship between immanence and transcendence: 184
must we despair or may we still hope?
4 The problem of the relationship between the empirical and the 289
transcendental: what is the meaning of philosophical humanism?
5 Conclusion: what is philosophy? 343
References 364
Index 376
Abbreviations
A Derrida, Aporias
AC Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
AFPPV Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
AMAM Beauvoir, All Men are Mortal
AME Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
AO Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
AOK Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge
AOR Sartre, The Age of Reason
AP Benjamin, The Arcades Project
AS Bataille, The Accursed Share (three volumes)
AT Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
B Deleuze, Bergsonism
BAT Heidegger, Being and Time
BBP Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
BCD Deleuze, “Bergson’s Conception of Difference”
BEP Kristeva, “Bataille, Experience and Practice”
BGE Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
BN Sartre, Being and Nothingness
BOT Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
BPAF Arendt, Between Past and Future
BS Kristeva, Black Sun
BSWM Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
BW Heidegger, Basic Writings (revised edition)
C Marx, Capital Volume I
CAC Deleuze, Coldness and Cruelty
CAID Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
CC Ricoeur, Critique and Conviction
CDR Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason
CE Bergson, Creative Evolution
CES Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental
Phenomenology
CI Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations
CIS Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
CM Husserl, Cartesian Meditations
COF Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties
COP Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism
COTR Arendt, Crises of the Republic
CPJ Kant, Critique of the Power of Judgment
CPR Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
CPrR Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
D Nietzsche, Daybreak
DBBT Irigaray, Democracy Begins Between Two
DD Bachelard, The Dialectic of Duration
DIAE Foucault, “Dream, Imagination, and Existence”
DOE Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment
DOSS Kant, “Dreams of a Spirit-Seer”
DOT Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking
DP Foucault, Discipline and Punish
DPID Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute
DR Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
DS Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity
DSe Blanchot, Death Sentence
DSST Žižek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
E Lacan, Écrits
EAE Levinas, Existence and Existents
EAPM Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
EATI Freud, The Ego and the Id
EC Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
EH Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
EHE Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions
EIJ Arendt, Eichmann injemsalem
EOA Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
EOAT Kant, “The End of All Things”
EOHP Heidegger, Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry
EOM Adorno, Essays on Music
EOSD Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference
EPM Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind
ESK Lévi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Kinship
F Deleuze, Foucault
FA Žižek, The Fragile Absolute
FAK Hegel, Faith and Knowledge
FAMH Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
FAP Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy
FBLOS Deleuze, Francis Bacon: the Logic of Sensation
FLF Althusser, The Future Lasts Forever
FM Althusser, For Marx
FM-R Ricoeur, Fallible Man
FOHN Habermas, The Future of Human Nature
Fors Derrida, “Fors”
FPF Bachelard, Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
FR Frege, The Frege Reader
Fr Blanchot, Friendship
G Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
GI Marx and Engels, The German Ideology
Gift Mauss, The Gift
GLAPL Žižek, “Georg Lukács as the Philosopher of Leninism”
GOC Gadamer, Gadamer on Celan
GPAE Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
GPT Freud, General Psychological Theory
GS Nietzsche, The Gay Science
GT Derrida, Given Time I. Counterfeit Money
HACC Lukács, History and Class Consciousness
HC Arendt, The Human Condition
HCOW Althusser, The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings
HDWRS Deleuze, “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?”
HOC Nietzsche, “Homer on Competition”
HS Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume I
I Benjamin, Illuminations
IC Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation
IM Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics
