Continental Philosophy since 1750 The Rise and Fall of the Self [Paperback]

The flowering of creative and speculative philosophy that emerged in modern Europe--particularly in Germany--is a thrilling adventure story as well as an essential chapter in the history of philosophy. In this integrative narrative, Solomon provides an accessible introduction to the major authors and movements of modern European philosophy, including the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Rousseau, German Idealism, Kant, Fichte, Schelling and the Romantics, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Max Brentano, Meinong, Frege, Dilthey, Bergson, Nietzsche, Husserl, Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, hermeneutics, Sartre, Postmodernism, Structuralism, Foucault, and Derrida.

The central virtue of this study is Solomon's presentation of such difficult material in both a readable and succinct manner. The very idea of covering some 250 years of philosophy in 200 pages is mind-boggling. But not only does Solomon manage to accomplish this feat, he does so in a very readable manner....[It] is a book that could be successfully used in undergraduate courses....It would allow the student burdened by the complexity and difficulty of the texts of the great Continental philosophers to get a good sense of their overall views. --Teaching Philosophy

Clear, learned, concise, useful. --Brian Finney,University of Southern California