Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy

John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (Continuum, 2006) and Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Beth Lord teaches Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is the author of Spinoza's Ethics: A Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2009) and Kant and Spinozism: From Jacobi to Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Refreshingly, [essays in The Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy] treat continental philosophy not in the usual way, as self-enclosed, but as an ongoing enterprise, integrated with naturalism and Anglo-American analytic philosophy . . . A glossary summarises topics and thinkers, and a timeline charts philosophical, political, scientific and artistic events from 1750 to 2000.

• Notes on Contributors1. Introduction, Beth Lord (University of Dundee, UK)2. Research Problems and Methodology: Three Paradigms and a Thousand Exceptions, James Burton (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)3. The Continental Tradition: Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Gary Banham (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Part I: Contemporary Continental Philosophy4. Metaphysics and Ontology, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA)5. Philosophies of Consciousness and the Body, John Protevi (Louisiana State University, USA)6. Philosophies of Difference, Todd May (Clemson University, USA)7. Politics and Ethics, Caroline Williams (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)8. Continental Marxist Thought, Bill Martin (DePaul University, USA)9. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, Hector Kollias (King's College London, UK)10. Feminist Philosophy, Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)11. Philosophies of Life, Dorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado, USA)12. Philosophies of Science, Andrew Aitken (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)13. Philosophies of Art, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (University of Reading, UK)14. Philosophy, Literature and Interpretation, Douglas Burnham and Melanie Ebdon (both Staffordshire University, UK)15. The Future of Continental Philosophy, John Mullarkey (University of Dundee, UK)Part II: Resources16. A-Z of Key Terms and Thinkers17. Chronology, James Burton (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)18. Research ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex