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Continental Philosophy

Continental philosophy refers to a set of traditions of 19th and 20th century philosophy from mainland Europe.  This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement. Continental philosophy includes the following movements: German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche), hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and some other branches of western Marxism.

FACULTY DOING RESEARCH IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY INCLUDE:

  • Daniel Conway
  • Theodore George focuses on continental European philosophy since Kant, with emphasis on Gadamer, contemporary hermeneutics, contemporary continental ethics, philosophy of art and aesthetics, as well as Hegel and German Idealism and Romanticism.
  • Claire Katz