School · 1906 CE–2004 CE
Continental philosophy
Continental philosophy is European and transnational currents concerned with history, interpretation, subjectivity, power, embodiment, and critique.
Shared questions
- How are experience and social life shaped by history, language, institutions, and power?
Internal disagreements
- Whether philosophical critique begins from consciousness, interpretation, material conditions, language, or practices of resistance.
Key texts
- Being and Time · 1927 — Heidegger's unfinished analysis of Dasein is the text most of the later tradition takes a position on.
- Of Grammatology · 1967 — Derrida's reading of writing and presence gave deconstruction its programme.