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).

"This book teaches us that there is a good deal going on today under the banner of 'continental philosophy' that neither starts with Kant nor ends with post-structuralism. Without looking over its shoulder at every turn, it provides an overview of the thematic areas that belong to 'continental philosophy' as it is actually conceived and practiced today, highlighting especially that it is no longer a matter of applying philosophical 'theory' to other disciplines, but more and more a distinctive way of engaging in those other disciplines themselves." - Simon Glendinning, Reader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Mullarkey and Lord have done a great service to students and researchers with the publication of The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. While the historical appendixes alone make the book supremely useful for students and teachers, the true brilliance of the book is its focus not on the leading figures of the field but on the practices of Continental philosophy as well as the problems that concern it. With this focus the editors and contributors show us not who Continental philosophy has been, but what Continental philosophy does and can do. -- Anthony Paul Smith, Humanities Research Fellow, Institute for Nature and Culture, DePaul University (Chicago, USA)

• 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