1. The major currents of philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries:
   1. Values versus facts: the deep structure of philosophical works.
   2. Life, will, and vitalism: the absurd in existence.
   3. The conception of truth in Husserl's phenomenology and Heidegger's misunderstanding.
   4. Materialism: man as a social animal.
2. Division and relation between subject and object:
   1. Hermeneutics versus structuraliam.
   2. The transcendent aboject from Kierkegaard to Rosenweig, Buber, Marcel and Mounier.
   3. The eclipse of reason as the death of subject.

• A Companion to Continental Philosophy / edited by SIMON CRITCHLEY and WILLIAM R. SCHROEDER. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999.
• SEARLE, John R., "Contemporary philosophy in the United States", in: The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy. Oxford, 1996.
• Relevant volumes of the Routledge History of Philosophy, London, 1994.

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