Encounters between Analytic and Continental Philosophy [Hardcover]

This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.Introduction 1. Frege, Husserl and the future of philosophy 2. Questioning metaphysics in Weimar Germany: Carnap, Heidegger, Nonsense 3. Was there a sun before men existed?: Ayer, Sartre, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty 4. 'La Philosophie Analytique' at Royaumont: Ryle's ambivalent phenomenology 5. Derrida and Searle: The abyss stares back? 6. ConclusionAndreas Vrahimis is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and teaches at the University of Cyprus.