CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY (THEORY)

SUB-PAGES

• Definitions

Periods / Schools of Thought:

• Nineteenth Century Thought:

  • Romanticism

• Twentieth Century Thought:

  • Idealism

  • Marxism

  • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics

  • Psychoanalysis

  • (Post-)Structuralisms:

    • Deconstruction

    • Deleuzean Theory

    • Dialogism (the Bakhtinian Circle)

    • Foucauldian Discourse Theory

    • Semiology / Structuralism

    • Structuralist Marxism

    • Structuralist (Lacanian) Psychoanalysis

Some Celebrated Continentalists (Uncategorised):

• Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)

• Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962)

• Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924 - 1998)
• Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007)
• Alain Badiou (1937 - )

Some Recent Continentalists:

• Click here

Regions:

• France

• Germany

• UK

• USA

Related Pages:

• Modernism, Myth Criticism and New Criticism

• Postmodernism

Feminist:

• Continental Feminist Theory

Post-colonial:

• Continental Post-colonial Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Catholic Philosophy Association

• Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP)

• Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (formerly Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought)

• Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle (formerly Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle)

• DASEIN: Dallas Area Seminar on European Inquiry

• Forum for European Philosophy (UK)

• Société Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF) [American Society for Philosophy in the French Language]

• Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context

• Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology

• Society for Applied European Thought (Slovakia)

• Society for European Philosophy (UK)

• Society of European Philosophy (Finland)

• Society for Existentialist and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC)

• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)

CONFERENCES

2008:

• The Post/Human Condition, Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP), University of Auckland, December 3–5
• 4th Annual Joint Conference, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, University College Dublin, August 29-31
• Saint Paul's Journeys into Philosophy, Vancouver School of Theology, University of British Columbia, June 4-6
• Theories of Recognition and Contemporary French Philosophy: Reopening the Dialogue, École Normale Supérierue and Université de Paris X-Nanterre. May 6-7
• Postmodernism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism, Fourth Biennial Conference, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, Gordon College, April 11-12
• Comparative Continental Philosophy, 3rd Annual Meeting, Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, University of Honolulu, April 10-13
• The Substance of Thought: Critical and Pre-Critical, Theory Reading Group, Cornell University, April 10-12
• Critical Aesthetics, Theory Reading Group, Cornell University, April 6-8, 2008

2007:

• Dialogues in Place, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, December 5-8
• New Materialities: French Perspectives, European Philosophy Group, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 24
• Cosmopolis or Ghettos: What Comes after Modernity?, Department of Philosophy, Wheaton College, Illinois, October 25-26
• Annual Conference,  Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Queen's University, October 4-7
• 3rd Annual Joint Conference, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, University of Sussex, September 8-10
• Experience and Experiences, 13th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 15-21
• 2nd Annual Meeting, Comparative Continental Philosophy Circle, Seattle University, April 13-14
• The Time of Materiality, Theory Reading Group, Cornell University, April 5-7

2006:

• 2nd Annual Joint Conference, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, September 8-10
• The Structure of Reflection Self-Consciousness and Critique, 12th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 17-21
• Trauma: Historicity, Philosophy, Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Deakin University, July 12-14

2005:

• The Future of Difference, Society for the Study of Difference, Salt Lake City, October 20

• What is Terror?  1st Annual Joint Conference, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, University of Reading, September 8-10

• The Question of Normativity, 11th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 18-22

• Inclusions and Exclusions in the New Europe, 7th Biennial Conference, Society for Applied European Thought, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, and Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica Tatranská Lomnica, Slovakia, July 3-8

• The Politics of Being, Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, June 15-17

• The Force of Events: Futures of Aesthetics, Politics, and Metaphysics, Theory Reading Group, Cornell University, April 8-9

• The Wisdom of Love, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, Department of Philosophy, Wheaton College, March 17-19

2004:

• Critique Today, Annual Conference, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, December 8-10

• Annual Meeting, Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, Memphis, October 28-30

• On the Very Idea of Continental Philosophy, Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, Every Tuesday, October 19-November 23

• Resistance, Seventh Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Greenwich, August 26-28

• Sociality and Recognition, 10th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 19-23

• Continental Drift?  Modern European Philosophy in Britain Today, 7th Annual Conference, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, May 14-15

• On Sensibility, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, April 24-25

2003:

• Continental Philosophy and the Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, December 8-10

• Possibilities: Historical Conditions, Political Change, Radical Philosophy Conference 2003, Birbeck College, University of London, November 29

• Imagination, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, November 20-22

• 42nd Annual Meeting, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, November 6-8

• Unassumable Responsibility: New Perspectives on Freedom, Justice and Obligation, National Institute of Humanities, Australian National University, September 22-23

• Religion and Postmodernism, Department of Philosophy, University of Villanova, September 18-20

• Aesthetics and Politics, Sixth Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, September 9-11

• What is a Human Being, 9th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 14-18

• Questioning / Critique / Construction: Aspects of Philosophy, 7th Annual Conference, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, March 15

• Ancient and Continental Workshop, Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, February 27

2002:

• ASCP 2002, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, December 11-13

• European Philosophy and the Human Condition, Fifth Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, September 11- 14

• What is Practice (Use)?  Constitution or Subversion, 8th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 15-19

2001:

• Fourth Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 11-13

• Intersubjectivity Role and Scope of a Philosophical Concept, 7th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 16-20

2000:

• Third Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Middlesex University, September

• Thinking Materiality: Body, Language, Event, 6th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 10-14

• ASCP 2000, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of New South Wales

1999:

• To Be Done With Judgement, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney

• Second Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy, Anglia Polytechnic University, September 8-10

• Who Speaks?  The Subject and Language, 5th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 12-17

1998:

• Truth and Lies, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney

• The Work of Critique and the Persistence of Crisis, 4th Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 13-17

1997:

• Topologies, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

• After Postmodernism, University of Chicago, November 14-16

• Politics in / of Philosophy, 3rd Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 14-18

1996:

• Time and Memory, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

• The Other of Philosophy, 2nd Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, July 21-26

1995:

• Intellectual Passports for Philosophers, 1st Evian Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, June 17-26

Annual:

• Annual Evian International Philosophy Colloquium, Evian, Switzerland
• Annual Conference, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, UK
• Annual Meeting, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, USA

COURSES

• Bolton University: Recent Continental Philosophy (Marsden)
• University of California, Davis: Twentieth Century European Philosophy (Mattey)
• Carnegie Mellon University: Continental Philosophy (Cavalier)
• Cleveland State University: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (Pole)

• Concordia University: 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Zeman)

• University of Durham: Twentieth Century European Philosophy

• University of East Anglia:
  • European Philosophy: Hegelianism and Marxism to Post-Structuralism (Riley)
• Grinnell College:
  • Cultural Critique: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Beyond (Schrift)
  • Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (Schrift)
• Harvard University: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (Risse)
• Kalamazoo College: Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Latiolais)

• Lewis and Clark College: Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy (Fritzman) 1999 / 2002

• University of London, Royal Holloway College: Introduction to Modern European Philosophy (Bowie)
• Macquarie University: Power, Desire, Subjectivity: Contemporary European Philosophy (Sinnerbrink)
• Michigan State University: Topics in Continental Philosophy: Self, Other, and Community (Hollander)
• University of New South Wales: 20th Century European Philosophy (Diprose)
• University of Pennsylvania: Continental Philosophy (Bowman)
• Rice University: Continental Philosophy (Crowell)
• University of Texas, Austin: Continental Philosophy (Arens)

• Texas A & M University: 

  • Current Continental Philosophy (2003) (Daniel)

  • Current Continental Philosophy (2001) (Daniel)

  • Current Continental Philosophy (1999) (Daniel)

  • Current Continental Philosophy (1997) (Daniel)

• University of Western Ontario: Huron University College: Recent European Philosophy (D'Arcy)

Postmodernism:

• University of California, Santa Barbara: Theory of Postmodernism (Liu)
• Drury University: Plato, Nietzsche and the Postmodern Debate (Ess)
• University of Exeter: Modernity and Postmodernity (King)
• Louisiana State University: Genealogies of Postmodernity (Protevi)
• State University of New York:
  • Buffalo: Poetics of Postmodernism (Conte)
  • Stony Brook: Postmodernisms: either here or here (Silverman)
• Syracuse University: Postmodernism (Caputo)

See also:

• courses in Nineteenth Century Thought

JOURNALS (GENERAL)

• Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

• Borderlands: New Spaces in the Humanities

• Bulletin de la Société Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Française

• Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man and World)

• Contretemps

• Culture, Theory and Critique

• Janus Head: Continental Philosophy, Literature, Phenomenological Psychology, Art

• Kritikos: Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image

• New Formations

• Parrhesia: a Journal of Critical Philosophy

• Per se: Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy

• Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy

• SUBSTANCE: a Review of Theory and Criticism

• Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Blackwell:

  • Readings in Continental Philosophy

  • Critical Reader

• Cambridge University Press: Modern European Philosophy.  Ed. Robert B. Pippin.

• Columbia University Press: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

• Continuum: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy

• University Press of Florida: Crosscurrents - Comparative Studies in European Literature and Philosophy

• Fordham University Press: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy.  Ed. John D. Caputo. 

• Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman and Graeme Nicholson.

• Indiana University Press:

  • Studies in Continental Thought.  Ed. John Sallis.

  • Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Ed. James M. Edie. 

• Northwestern University Press: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.  Ed. John McCumber (James M. Edie, founding editor)

• Ohio University Press: Continental Thought.  Ed. Claude Evans.

• Pennsylvania State University Press: American and European Philosophy

• Peter Lang:

  • Studies in Contemporary Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Galen Johnson.

  • Studies in European Thought. 

• Routledge:

  • Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman.

  • Warwick Studies in European Philosophy. 

• Rowman and Littlefield: New Frameworks for Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Hugh J. Silverman.

• SUNY Press: Contemporary Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Dennis J. Schmidt.

• Anthologies:
  • General:
    • Brogan, Walter, and James Risser, eds.  American Continental Philosophy: a Reader.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2000.

    • Daniel, Stephen H., ed.  Contemporary Continental Thought.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2005.

    • Kearney, Richard, and Mara Rainwater, eds.  The Continental Philosophy Reader.  London: Routledge, 1994.

    • Lotringer, Sylvère, and Sande Cohen , eds.  French Theory in America.  London: Routledge, 2001.

    • May, Todd, ed.  Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.

    • McNeill, William, and Karen Feldman, eds.  Continental Philosophy: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

    • Silverman, Hugh J.  Thomas Seebohm, John Sallis, and Alphonso Lingis, eds.  Continental Philosophy in America.  Philadelphia: Duquesne UP, 1983.

  • Postmodernism:

    • Brooker, Peter, ed.  Modernism / Postmodernism.  London: Longman, 1992.
    • Cahoone, Lawrence, ed.  From Modernism to Postmodernism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
    • Docherty, Thomas, ed.  Postmodernism: a Reader.  New York: Columbia UP, 1992.
    • Drolet, Michael, ed.  The Postmodernism Reader: Foundational Texts.  London: Routledge, 2003.
    • Hutcheon, Linda, and Joseph Natoli, eds.  A Postmodern Reader.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
    • Taylor, Victor, and Charles E. Winquist, eds.  Postmodernism: Critical Concepts.  4 Volumes.  London: Routledge, 1998.
    • Waugh, Patricia, ed.  Postmodernism: a Reader.  London: Edward Arnold, 1992.
  • Topics:
    • Arts:
      • Cazeaux, Clive, ed.  The Continental Aesthetics Reader.  London: Routledge, 2000.
      • Kearney, Richard, and David Rasmussen, eds.  Continental Aesthetics: from Romanticism to Postmodernism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
    • Knowledge:
      • Appleby, Joyce, Elizabeth Covington, David Hoyt, Michael Latham, and Allison Sneider, eds.  Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective.  London: Routledge, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

    • Hanssen, Beatrice.  Critique of Violence: Between Poststructuralism and Critical Theory.  London: Routledge, 2000.

    • Kolb, David.  The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

    • Mullarkey, John.  Post-Continental Philosophy.  London: Continuum, 2007.

  • Postmodernism:

    • Burger, Peter.  Theory of the Avant-Garde.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.

    • Eagleton, Terry.  The Illusions of Postmodernism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

    • Eagleton, Terry.  "Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism."  New Left Review 152 (1985): 60-73.  Rpt. in Against the Grain: Selected Essays 1975-1985.  London: Verso, 1986.  131-148.

    • Harvey, David.  The Condition of Postmodernity: an Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

    • Hassan, Ihab.  The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Towards Postmodern Literature.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1982.

    • Hassan, Ihab.  Paracriticisms: Seven Speculations of the Times.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1975.

    • Hassan, Ihab.  The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture.  Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1987.

    • Huyysen, Andreas.  After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

    • Jameson, Frederic.  Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present.  London: Verso, 2002.

    • Jameson, Frederic.  Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.  Durham: Duke UP, 1991.

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

      •  

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

See also primary sources also listed under:

• France

• Germany

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • General:

    • Critchley, Simon, and William R. Schroeder, eds.  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

    • Glendinning, Simon, ed.  Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Continental Philosophy.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.
    • Hansom, Paul, ed.  Twentieth-Century European Cultural Theorists.  2nd Series.  Vol. 296 of Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Detroit: Gale, 2004.
    • Kearney, Richard, ed.  Debates in Continental Philosophy: Richard Kearney in Conversation With Contemporary Thinkers.  New York: Fordham UP, 2004.

    • Kearney, Richard, ed.  States of Mind: Dialogues With Contemporary Thinkers.  New York: New York UP, 1995.

    • Kearney, Richard, ed.  Continental Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.  Vol. 8 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1994.
    • Kearney, Richard, ed.  Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers: the Phenomenological Heritage.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1984.

    • Leiter, Brian, and Michael Rosen, eds.  Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, forthcoming.

    • Protevi, John, ed.  Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2005.

    • Scott, Charles E., Arleen B. Dallery, and P. Holley Roberts, eds.  Crises in Continental Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1990.

    • Scott, Charles E., and Arleen B. Dallery, eds.  The Question of the Other: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.

    • Skinner, Quentin, ed.  The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

    • Smith, Barry, ed.  Continental Philosophy: For and Against.  The Monist.  82.2 (1999).

    • Smith, Barry, ed.  European Philosophy and the American Academy.  La Salle: the Hegeler Institute, 1994.

    • Solomon, Robert C., and David L. Sherman, eds.  Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.

    • Watson, James R., ed.  Portraits of Contemporary American Continental Philosophers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999.

    • Teichman, Jenny, and Graham White, eds.  An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy.  London: Macmillan, 1995.

  • Postmodernism:

    • Altieri, Charles, ed.  Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1999.

    • Boyer, Alain, ed.  Pourquoi nous ne sommes pas Nietzschéens.  Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle, 1991.

    • Connor, Steven, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

    • Foster, Hal, ed.  The Postmodern Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture.  Port Townshend, WA: Bay Press, 1983.
    • Kaplan, E. Ann, ed.  Postmodernism and its Discontents: Theories, Practices.  London: Verso, 1988.
    • Kellner, Douglas, ed.  Postmodernism - Jameson - Critique.  Maisonneuve, 1989.
    • Madison, Gary Brent, and Marty Fairbairn, eds.  The Ethics of Postmodernity: Current Trends in Continental Thought.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1999.
    • Malpas, Simon, ed.  Postmodern Debates.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

    • Nicholson, Linda, Steven Seidman, and Jeffrey Alexander, eds.  Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

    • Owen, David, ed.  Sociology after Postmodernism.  London: Sage, 1997.

    • Roseneau, Pauline, ed.  Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

    • Seidman, Steven, and David Wagner, eds.  Postmodernism and Social Theory: the Debate over General Theory.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

    • Silverman, Hugh J., and Donn Welton, eds.  Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.

    • Silverman, Hugh J., ed.  Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Arts.  London: Routledge, 1990.

    • Sim, Stuart, ed.  Routledge Companion to Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 2001.

    • Taylor, Victor, and Charles E. Winquist, eds.  Encyclopedia of Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 2003.

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

      • Knellwolf, Christa, and Christopher Norris, eds.  Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.  Vol. 9 of of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
      • Selden, Raman, ed.  From Formalism to Poststructuralism.  Vol. 8 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • General:

    • Beiser, Frederick C.  "The Context and Problematic of Post-Kantian Philosophy."  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  21-34. 

    • Cooper, David E.  "Modern European Philosophy."  Blackwell Companion to Philosophy.  Ed. Nicholas Bunnin and E. P. Tsui-James.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.  703-721.

    • Cooper, David E.  "Analytical and Continental Philosophy."  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 (1994): .

    • Copleston, Frederick.  Modern Philosophy: from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss.  Vol. 9 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1974. 

    • Critchley, Simon.  Continental Philosophy: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.

    • Critchley, Simon.  "Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy?"  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  1-17.

    • Cutrofello, Andrew.  Continental Philosophy: a Contemporary Introduction.  London: Routledge, 2005.

    • D'Amico, Robert.  Contemporary Continental Philosophy.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999.

    • Embree, Lester.  "Husserl as Trunk of the American Continental Tree."  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 11 (2002): 177–90.
    • Glendinning, Simon.  The Idea of Continental Philosophy.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.
    • Glendinning, Simon.  "What is Continental Philosophy?"  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendinning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  3-20.
    • Glendinning, Simon.  “The Ethics of Exclusion: Incorporating the Continent.”  Questioning Ethics: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1999.  120-131.
    • Kearney, Richard.  "Introduction."  Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy.  Vol. 8 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Richard Kearney.  London: Routledge, 1994.  1-4.
    • Kearney, Richard.  Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.
    • May, Todd.  Reconsidering Difference: Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, and Deleuze.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1997.
    • Megill, Alan.  Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

    • Mullarkey, John.  Post-Continental Philosophy: an Outline.  London: Continuum, 2007.

    • Mulligan, Kevin.  "On the History of Continental Philosophy."  Topoi 10.2 (1991): 115-120.

    • Rosen, Michael.  "Continental Philosophy from Hegel."  Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject.  Ed. A. C. Grayling.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.  663-704.

    • Schroeder, William.  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

    • Sedgwick, Peter.  Descartes to Derrida: an Introduction to European Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. 

    • Sinnerbrink, Robert.  Understanding Hegelianism.  Chesham: Acumen, 2007.

    • Skinner, Quentin.  "Introduction: the Return of Grand Theory."  The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences.  Ed. Quentin Skinner.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.  1-21.

    • Solomon, Robert C.  Continental Philosophy since 1750: the Rise and Fall of the Self.  Vol. 7 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.

    • West, David.  An Introduction to Continental Philosophy.  Cambridge: Polity, 1996.

    • White, Graham.  "Reflections on the Present Conflict."  An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy.  Ed. Jenny Teichman and Graham White.  London: Macmillan, 1995.  4-17.
    • Wolin, Richard.  The Seductions of Unreason: the Intellectual Romance With Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004.

  • Postmodernism:

    • Anderson, Perry.  The Origins of Postmodernity.  London: Verso, 1998.

    • Appignanesi, Richard.   The End of Everything: Postmodernism and the Vanishing of the Human.  Totem, 2003.

    • Appignanesi, Richard.   Introducing Postmodernism.  Totem, 2001.

    • Arac, Jonathan.  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.

    • Arac, Jonathan.  "Postmodernism, Politics, and the Impasse of the New York Intellectuals."  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  281-315.

    • Baker, Keith Michael.  What's Left of Enlightenment?  A Postmodern Question.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001.

    • Bertens, Hans.  The Idea of the Postmodern: a History.  London: Routledge, 1995.

    • Bertens, Hans, and Douwe Wessel Fokkema, eds.   Approaching Postmodernism.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 1986.  

    • Bertens, Hans, and Douwe Wessel Fokkema, eds.   International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997.

    • Bertens, Hans, Johannes Bertens, and Joseph Natoli, eds.  Postmodernism: the Key Figures.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

    • Best, Stephen, and Douglas Kellner.  "Postmodernism."  The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and David L. Sherman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  285-308.

    • Best, Stephen, and Douglas Kellner.  The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium.  Guilford, 2001.

    • Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner.  The Postmodern Turn.  London: Routledge, 1997.

    • Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner.  Postmodern Theory: Critical Investigations.  London: Macmillan, 1991.

    • Butler, Christopher.  Postmodernism: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.

    • Connor, Steve.  Postmodernist Culture: an Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.

    • Crews, Frederick.  Postmodern Pooh.  Northpoint, 2003.

    • Detmer, David.  Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth.  London: Humanity Books, 2003.

    • Devaney, M. J.  'Since at Least Plato . . .' and Other Postmodernist Myths.  London: Macmillan, 1997.

    • Duvall, John.  Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.

    • Erickson, Millard.  Truth or Consequences: the Promise and Perils of Postmodernism.  Intervarsity, 2002.

    • Farrell, Frank B.  Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism: the Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

    • Fokkema, Douwe Wessel.  Literary History, Modernism and Postmodernism.  Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 1984.

    • Gellner, Ernest.  Postmodernism, Reason and Religion.  London: Routledge, 1992.

    • Grant, Ian Hamilton.  "Postmodernism: Lyotard and Baudrillard."  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  628-640.

    • Grenj, Stanley J.  A Primer on Postmodernism.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996.

    • Hart, Kevin.  Postmodernism: a Beginner's Guide.  Oneworld, 2004.
    • Heartney, Eleanor.  Postmodernism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

    • Hutcheon, Linda. The Politics of Postmodernism.  London: Routledge, 1989.

    • Hutcheon, Linda. The Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988.

    • Hutcheon, Linda. Narcissistic Narrative.  London: Routledge, .

    • Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Parody: the Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms.  Urbana-Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1985.

    • Katz, Adam.  Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture'.  Boulder, Col.: Westview, 2000.
    • Kearney, Richard.  The Wake of Imagination.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.

    • Kolb, D.  Postmodern Sophistications.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

    • Lechte, John.  Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: from Structuralism to Postmodernity.  London: Routledge, 1994.

    • Lyon, David.  Postmodernity.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1999.

    • Madison, Gary Brent.  The Politics of Postmodernity: Essays in Applied Hermeneutics.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.

    • Madison, Gary Brent.  The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity: Figures and Themes.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1989.

    • McGowan, John.  Postmodernism and its Critics.