The Development of Thought Philosophy: Communist Idealism and Postmodern Liberational Politics

What distinguishes and excites philosophy on the continent of Europe? And why is it so reputed to be "difficult?"

Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.

Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras - from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and...
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What distinguishes and excites philosophy on the continent of Europe? And why is it so reputed to be "difficult?"

Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant and Hegel confronting the extremism of the time with theories that challenged the very formation of individual and social consciousness.

Covering the great philosophers of the modern and postmodern eras - from Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze right to up Agamben and Žižek - and philosophical movements from German idealism to deconstruction and feminism - the author and the illustrator brilliantly elucidate some of the most thrilling and powerful ideas ever to have been discussed.