Introduction to Continental Philosophy

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The term ‘continental philosophy’ covers a plurality of philosophical currents, including German idealism, existentialism, phenomenology, structuralism, post-structuralism, and critical theory. Accordingly, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt, Adorno, Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze are all considered continental philosophers. Generally speaking, ‘continental philosophy’ refers to a large set of 19th and 20th-century philosophical traditions and philosophers, mostly from mainland Europe. This label aims to distinguish these traditions from ‘analytic philosophy, which is the predominant type of philosophy in the Anglo-American world.

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