Continental philosophy
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Simon Critchley.
Series: Very short introductions -- 43.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780192853592
Subjects: Continental philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136) and index.
Table of contents: title: The gap between knowledge and wisdom; title: Origins of continental philosophy: how to get from Kant to German idealism; title: Two cultures in philosophy: the need for both spectacles and eyes to see with; title: Can philosophy change the world? Critique, praxis, emancipation; title: What is to be done? How to respond to nihilism; title: A case study in misunderstanding: Heidegger and Carnap; title: Scientism versus obscurantism: avoiding the traditional predicament in philosophy; title: Sapere aude: the exhaustion of theory and the promise of philosophy.