Description
This critical survey of issues in European philosophy offers detailed accounts of crucial texts by important thinkers. Sedgwick draws key ideas from these sources, analyzing the various relationships between them and linking them to central themes in philosophical enquiry, such as the nature of subjectivity, reason and experience, anti-humanism, and the nature of language.
Areas explored include epistemology, metaphysics and ontology, ethics and politics. Aspects of the work of a broad range of thinkers is considered in detail, including Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer, Heidegger, Deleuze and Guatarri, Levinas, Derrida, Althusser, Foucault and Lyotard.
This intriguing new work presents the complex ideas of European philosophy in a straightforward manner, and will be of interest to both introductory and advanced-level readers
Weekly Topics
Descartes, Empiricism, Hume
Kant, From Descartes to Kant, European Philosophy
Hegel
Nietzsche
The Frankfurt School
Mediations, not Meditations
Heidegger
Deleuze and Guattari
Sartre
Levinas
Derrida, Anti-humanism and Ethics
Liberism, Althusser, Politics, Subjectivity and Power
Lyotard, What Kind of Language is Philosophical Language?
Afterward: ‘Hell Fire!’, wrap up
Bibliography
Sedgwick, Peter, Descartes to Derrida, an introduction to European Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, 2001
About the Author
Peter Sedgwick is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. He is editor of Nietzsche: A Critical Reader (Blackwell, 1995) and co-editor, with Andrew Edgar, of Key Concepts in Cultural Theory (1999).
