Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools.

Introduction. 1. The beginnings of phenomenology: Husserl and his predecessors. 2. Philosophy of existence1: Heidegger. 3. Philosophy of existence 2: Sartre. 4. Philosophy of existence 3: Merleau-Ponty. 5. Philosophies of religion: Mach, Duhem, Bachelard. 7. Philsophies of Marxism: Lenin, Lukacs, Gramsci, Althusser. 8. Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas 9. Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur. 10. Italian idealism and after: Gentile, Croce and others. 11. French structuralism and after: de Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Lacan, Foucault. 12. French feminist philosophy: de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous 13. Deconstruction and Derrida. 14. Postmodernist theory: Lyotard, Baudrillard and others.