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Summary
This book addresses various phases of continental philosophy, both in the context of its multiple traditions and in relation to the alternatives that mark the understanding of its present and future. Divided into two parts, the authors first focus on the diversity of traditions in continental philosophy in connection with the texts of Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and De Beauvoir. Second, they explore the reality of social, political, sexual, and philosophical differences, in connection with the writings of Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Habermas, Heidegger, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Derrida, and Vattimo. They also stress the various theoretical foundations that manifest these differences.
Issues surrounding the role of philosophical systems, language, ethical choice, relations with others, the gendered body, socialization, and the status of philosophy today constitute the fabric of this book. The authors place these ideas in the context of current thought and current debates in continental philosophy and evaluate their significance for the future.
Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the coeditor of Descriptions; Hermeneutics and Deconstruction; Critical and Dialectical Phenomenology; Postmodernism and Continental Philosophy; and The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences, all published by SUNY Press.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hugh J. Silverman
Acknowledgments
Part One: Rereading the Traditions of Difference in Continental Philosophy
I. Hegel and the Subversion of the System
1. Subversion of System/Systems of Subversion
Gary Shapiro
2. Essence and Subversion in Hegel and Heidegger
John McCumber
3. Hegel and the Subversion of System: Der Fall Adorno
Martin Donougho
II Kierkegaard: Faith as Action-Reaction
4. Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way: How Many Are There?
John M. Michelsen
5. Kierkegaard's Phenomenology of Faith as Suffering
Merold Westphal
6. Where There's A Will There's a Way: Kierkegaard's Theory of Action
C. Stephen Evans
III. Toward a Sartrean Ethics
7. Love and Perfect Coincidence in a Sartrean Ethics
Linda A. Bell
8. Authenticity, Conversion, and the City of Ends in Sartre's Notebooks for an Ethics
Thomas C. Anderson
9. "Making the Human" in Sartre's Unpublished Dialectical Ethics
Elizabeth A. Bowman and Robert K Stone
IV. Dialectic of Desire and Identity
10. Woman's Experience: Renaming the Dialectic of Desire and Recognition
Patricia J. Mills
11. Literature and Philosophy at the Crossroads: Proustian Subjects
Christie McDonald
12. Philosophy Becomes Autobiography: The Development of the Self in the Writings of Simone de Beauvoir
Jo-Ann Pilardi
Part Two: Writing Differences in Continental Philosophy
V. Dialogue and Difference
13. Dialogue and Discourses
Bernhard Waldenfels
14. Beyond Signifiers
M. C. Dillon
15. Merleau-Ponty and l'Écriture
Wayne J. Froman
VI. The Politics of Difference
16. Docile Bodies, Rebellious Bodies: Foucauldian Perspectives on Female Psychopathology
Susan Bordo
17. Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Difference
Eleanor H. Kuykendall
18. Rationality, Relativism, Feminism
Terry Winant
VII. Democracy and Social Change
19. Modern Democracy and Political Philosophy
Claude Lefort
20. The Political Origins of Democracy
Dick Howard
21. Art and Democracy in Habermas
Claude Piché
VIII. The Future of Continental Philosophy
22. The Future of Continental Philosophy
Joan Stambaugh
23. The Secularization of Philosophy
Gianni Vattimo
24. Translating the Differences: The Futures of Continental Philosophy
