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From Kant to Levi-Strauss

By Jon Simons

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0748615067, 9780748615063, 9780585442013
Open Library ID
OL17073147M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1144501 bytes)
Pages
267\267
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24

Description

An accessible basic guide to critical post-Enlightenment European thinking, this book introduces fifteen key figures in modern Western philosophy. The intellectual tradition covered is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory that has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. The book covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas. There are individual chapters on Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukàcs, Adorno and Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt, and Lévi-Strauss. Each chapter offers contextualization, explains major concepts and the thinker´s relevance to an ongoing tradition, and offers suggestions for further reading.

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