The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy

If I were to throw at you the names of Heidegger and Virilio, Zizek and Deleuze, Simmel and Kojève, Merleau‐Ponty and Irigaray, Vattimo and Derrida, Lyotard and Adorno, you might remember them, as a student, for the simultaneous relevance and mystery of what they said, and, as a teacher or source provider or scholar, for their relevance but, again simultaneously, the challenge of making anyone understand what they said. This is very much the terrain of continental philosophy (in the sense, the continent of “Europe”, and its wider influences), the domain of postmodernism, and a multi‐disciplinary pool out of which...