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  Contemporary Continental Philosophy: The New Scepticism (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) (Hardback) By (author) Professor Stuart Sim

  

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  Short Description for Contemporary Continental PhilosophyPresenting an overview of the philosophical landscape of the continental tradition since the 1940s, this book traces the establishment of new, super-scepticism as an intellectual paradigm with the power to threaten and disorientate existing world-views and traditional styles of discourse.
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  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
  • Published: 04 May 2000
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
  • ISBN 13: 9780754612032 ISBN 10: 0754612031

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• Contemporary continental philosophy is a widely used but in many ways problematic term, and its exact frame of reference is not always clear. In French manifestations in particular, it continues to arouse considerable controversy and create bitter divisions, with especially hostile reactions to the work of Derrida and others. Much work in the recent continental tradition can be fitted into a longer-running philosophical tradition of scepticism and scepticism has always had the power to provoke and unsettle the philosophical establishment. Presenting an overview of the philosophical landscape of the continental tradition since the 1940s, this book traces the establishment of the new, super-scepticism as an intellectual paradigm with the power to threaten and disorientate existing world-views and more traditional styles of philosophical discourse - marking the continental divide. Exploring how contemporary continental philosophy from existentialism to postmodernism can be characterized as this new, more resistant form of scepticism, Stuart Sim identifies a clutch of key themes - including "different", "the subject"; anti-foundationalism" and "dialectics" which have been obsessively worked over by key thinkers in the Existentialist-Postmodernist period and demonstrates how these have contributed to the development of a super-sceptical outlook. Presenting a theme-led approach to provide an entry into current debates in continental philosophy, Stuart Sim reintegrates the work of Sartre into the more recent continental tradition, and suggests that something qualitatively different is now occurring in French philosophy.