A Companion to Continental Philosophy

This is the twelfth in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. These vary in format; some are in the form of encyclopaedic dictionaries, others have essays on various topics, and some, like this one, deal with individual writers. Continental philosophy is the name applied by analytical philosophers to non‐analytical philosophy that was, and is, mainly produced in Western Europe. It derives historically from Kant’s work on reason, but it has developed in many ways since the 18th century. The range of ideas covered do not form a coherent school although they all share the literary approach to discourse. For the...