A01=Stuart Sim
antifoundationalism
Antifoundationalist Philosophy
Author_Stuart Sim
Category=QDHR
Cogito Ergo Sum
Contemporary
Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
Continental Route
Dark Star
Derrida
dialectical analysis
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existentialism to postmodernism debates
Existentialist Philosopher
Female Imaginary
Free Agency
French manifestations
French philosophy
Iron Collars
Logocentrist Discourse
Lyotard's Libidinal Economy
Mainstream Side
Mere Identity
Metaphysical Isolation
Noblesse De Robe
philosophical scepticism
Post-1965 Continental Philosophy
Postmodernist World View
poststructuralism
Recent Continental Philosophical
Recent French Philosophy
Recent Scientific Enquiry
Scepticism
semiotics theory
Socialisme Ou Barbarie
Socio-economic Development
Techno Scientific Project
Younger Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138295759
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This title was first published in 2000. Contemporary continental philosophy is a widely-used, but in many ways a highly problematic, term and its exact frame of reference is not always clear. In its more recent French manifestations in particular, it continues to arouse considerable controversy and create bitter divisions, with particularly hostile reactions to the work of Derrida and others. Much work in the recent continental tradition can be fitted into a longer-running philosophical tradition of scepticism, and scepticism has always had the power to provoke and unsettle the philosophical establishment. Presenting an overview of the philosophical landscape of the continental tradition since the 1940s, this book traces the establishment of the new, super-scepticism as an intellectual paradigm with the power to threaten and disorientate existing world-views and more traditional styles of philosophical discourse - marking the continental divide. Exploring how contemporary continental philosophy from existentialism to postmodernism can be characterised as this new, more resistant form of scepticism, Sim identifies a clutch of key themes - including "difference", "the subject", "antifoundationalism", "dialectics" - which have been obsessively worked over by key thinkers in the Existentialist-Postmodernist period and demonstrates how these have contributed to the development of a super-sceptical outlook. Presenting a new theme-led approach to provide an entry into current debates in continental philosophy, Stuart Sim reintegrates the work of Sartre into the more recent continental tradition, and suggests that something qualitatively different is now occurring in French philosophy.
