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Prologue : what Rousseau found in the woods
Introduction : modern Continental philosophy and the transcendental pretence
Setting the stage : enlightenment and Romanticism
The discovery of the self : Rousseau
Pt. I. The rise of the self in German idealism. Kant and the German enlightenment ; Romancing the self : Fichte, Schelling, Schiller, and Romanticism ; Hegel and the apotheosis of self as spirit
Pt. II. Beyond enlightenment : the collapse of the absolute. The self turned sour : Schopenhauer ; After Hegel : Kirkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx ; The anti-transcendental turn : logic, empiricism, and the rise of relativism ; The attack on the self : Nietzsche and nihilism
Pt. III. The self in and for itself : phenomenology and beyond. The transcendental reaction : Husserl's science of the ego ; Two discontents and their civilization : Freud and Wittgenstein ; The self reinterpreted : Heidegger and hermeneutics ; The self in France : Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty
Supplement: The end of the self : structuralism, post-modernism, Foucault, and Derrida.
Introduction : modern Continental philosophy and the transcendental pretence
Setting the stage : enlightenment and Romanticism
The discovery of the self : Rousseau
Pt. I. The rise of the self in German idealism. Kant and the German enlightenment ; Romancing the self : Fichte, Schelling, Schiller, and Romanticism ; Hegel and the apotheosis of self as spirit
Pt. II. Beyond enlightenment : the collapse of the absolute. The self turned sour : Schopenhauer ; After Hegel : Kirkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx ; The anti-transcendental turn : logic, empiricism, and the rise of relativism ; The attack on the self : Nietzsche and nihilism
Pt. III. The self in and for itself : phenomenology and beyond. The transcendental reaction : Husserl's science of the ego ; Two discontents and their civilization : Freud and Wittgenstein ; The self reinterpreted : Heidegger and hermeneutics ; The self in France : Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty
Supplement: The end of the self : structuralism, post-modernism, Foucault, and Derrida.