Contemporary Continental Philosophy (dimensions Of Philosophy Series)

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Contemporary Continental Philosophy steps back from current debates comparing Continental and analytic philosophy and carefully, yet critically outlines the tradition’s main philosophical views on epistemology and ontology. Forgoing obscure paraphrases, D’Amico provides a detailed, clear account and assessment of the tradition from its founding by Husserl and Heidegger to its challenge by Derrida and Foucault. Though intended as a survey of this tradition throughout the twentieth century, this study’s focus is on the philosophical problems which gave it birth and even now continue to shape it.The book reexamines Husserl as an early critic of epistemological naturalism whose grasp of the philosophical importance of the theory of meaning was largely ignored. Heidegger’s contrasting effort to revive ontology is examined in terms of his distinction between ontic and ontological questions. In contrast with many earlier studies, the author outlines confusions engendered by the misappropriation of the distinct philosophical agendas of Husserl and Heidegger by such famous figures as Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. The book is also original in its emphasis on how social externalism in epistemology, inspired by Karl Mannheim, influenced this tradition’s structuralist and Marxist phases. The philosophical defenses of a theory of interpretation by Gadamer and Habermas are closely examined and assessed and the study concludes with a a probing yet balanced account of Foucault and Derrida as critics of philosophical autonomy. The book concludes by reassessing this century-long divide between the analytic and Continental traditions and its implication for the future of philosophy.

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E-Book Information

• Series: Dimensions of Philosophy Series

• Year: 1,999

• Pages: 280

• Pages In File: 280

• Language: English

• Topic: 195

• Issue: до 2011-01

• Identifier: 0813332222,9780813332222

• Ddc: 190/.9/04

• Lcc: B804 .D28 1999

• Org File Size: 34,093,219

• Extension: pdf

• Toc: Contents......Page 6Introduction......Page 81 Phenomenology......Page 14The Inextinguishable Task......Page 16Against Born Dogmatists......Page 24Transcendental Interiority......Page 36The European Crisis......Page 40Critical Friendship and Enmity......Page 46French Phenomenology......Page 48No Raison d'Être?......Page 54Notes......Page 56Bibliography......Page 602 Ontology......Page 62Being, Not Beings......Page 66Always, We Ourselves......Page 70Existential Analysis......Page 77Other Minds......Page 81Understanding......Page 83Authenticity and Inauthenticity......Page 85Back to the Things Themselves......Page 88Nonnaturalistic Time......Page 91A Criticism......Page 95Popular Existentialism......Page 98The Last Word......Page 114Notes......Page 117Suggested Readings......Page 121Bibliography......Page 1223 Social Epistemology......Page 124Epistemology as Sociology......Page 125Social Ontology......Page 134"Against the Observer, the Native,"......Page 142Scientific Holism......Page 150How to Read......P