Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-403) and index.
Contents:
Germany, 1790-1890 -- The collapse of Kant -- Hegel discovers the past -- Marx, capitalism and the future -- Kierkegaard's dreadful future -- Nietzsche and the boundless future -- Germany and America, 1900-1968 -- The return of traditional philosophy : Edmund Husserl -- The finite future : Martin Heidegger -- Activity and mortality : Hannah Arendt -- The twilight of Enlightenment : Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- France, 1945-2004 -- The future and freedom : Jean-Paul Sartre -- The future and the disclosure of being : Simone de Beauvoir -- The future as rupture : Michel Foucault -- The future and hope : Jacques Derrida -- Onwards, 2011- -- Badiou, Ranciè€re, and the time of equality -- Life and gender in Agamben and Butler.
Summary:
Looking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, McCumber discusses philosophers ranging from Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno and Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Derrida to the most influential thinkers of today - Agamben, Badiou, Butler, and Ranciere. Throughout, McCumber's concern is to elucidate the primary texts for readers coming to these thinkers for the first time, while revealing the philosophical rigour that underpins and connects the history of continental thought.
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