From Kant to Lévi-Strauss : : The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory / / Jon Simons.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Simons, Jon,
• MitwirkendeR: Connell, Matt F.,; Ellis, John,; Hutson, William,; Johnson, Christopher,; King, Richard H.,; Sim, Stuart,; Simons, Jon,; Smith, Nicholas H.,; Tormey, Simon,; Woods, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Guides you through the key figures in 'The Tradition of Critique' - critical post-Enlightenment European thinkingIntroduces 15 key figures in modern Western philosophyEnables students to study individual thinkers from one handy reference resourceExplains the relevance of philosophical tradition to contemporary thoughtAccessible to beginners and non-philosophersExplains the main ideas and concepts which contemporary thinkers addressOriented to the philosophical, social and political aspects of the critical traditionThe intellectual tradition covered by the book is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory which has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. Yet many students and non-philosophers have little understanding of the tradition on which such thinking draws. The book therefore covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas.There are individual chapters on: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukacs, Adorno and Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt and Levi-Strauss. Each chapter offers some contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, explains the thinker's relevance to an ongoing tradition and offers suggestions for further reading.The volume provides readers with sufficient background knowledge to study more contemporary theorists whose work draws on, or assumes knowledge of, these earlier or more foundational thinkers. Thus the book is aimed specifically at students and scholars who do not have a philosophical training and who study literary, cultural, social or political theorists who engage with this European intellectual tradition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- 3. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- 4. Karl Marx (1818-83) -- 5. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- 6. Max Weber (1864-1920) -- 7. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- 8. Georg Lukács (1885-1971) -- 9. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) -- 10. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- 11. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- 12. Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) -- 13. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- 14. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) -- 15. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-) -- Names index -- Subject index