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Time and Philosophy [electronic resource]

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""Time and Philosophy"" presents a detailed survey of continental thought through an historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respond to time. Looking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, the philosophers discussed range from Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno and Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, Derrida, to the most influential thinkers of today, Agamben, Badiou, Butler and Ranciere. Throughout, the concern is to elucidate the primary texts

Title Time and Philosophy [electronic resource] : A History of Continental Thought
Additional Titles History of continental thought
Publisher Durham : Acumen Publishing Ltd
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographic references (pages 394-403) and index.
Content Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and note on texts
Introduction
I. Germany, 1790-1890
1. The collapse of Kant
2. Hegel discovers the past
3. Marx, capitalism and the future
4. Kierkegaard's dreadful future
5. Nietzsche and the boundless future
II. Germany and America, 1900-1968
6. The return of traditional philosophy: Edmund Husserl
7. The finite future: Martin Heidegger
8. Activity and mortality: Hannah Arendt
9. The twilight of Enlightenment: Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
III. France, 1945-2004
10. The future and freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre11. The future and the disclosure of being: Simone de Beauvoir
12. The future as rupture: Michel Foucault
13. The future and hope: Jacques Derrida
IV. Onwards, 2011-
14. Badiou, Rancière, and the time of equality
15. Life and gender in Agamben and Butler
Further reading
Bibliography
Index
Extent 1 online resource (425 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702671205171
MARC RECORDS
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