History of Contemporary Philosophy

1. Introduction.
2. G. W. F. Hegel.
3. Hegelian philosophers (Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx).
4. Protests against Hegel (Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche).
5. Positivist philosophers (Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill).
6. Franz Brentano.
7. Gottlob Frege.
8. Henri Bergson.
9. The phenomenological movement (Edmund Husserl, Adolf Reinach, Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre).
10. Analytical philosophy (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, W.V.O. Quine, John R. Searle).

• Michael DUMMETT, Origins of Analytical Philosophy, Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press, 1994.
• Antonio LIVl, La filosofia e la sua storia, volume III: La filosofia contemporanea, Firenze: Dante Alighieri, 1997.
• Giovanni REALE / Dario ANTISERI, Il pensiero occidentale dalle origini ad oggi, tomo 3: Dal Romanticismo ai giorni nostri, ed.18. edizione ampliata e aggiornata, Brescia: La Scuola, 1996.
• Wolfgang STEGMÜLLER, Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie . Eine kritische Einführung, Bände 1-4, Stuttgart, 1978-1979. English translation of the first volume: Main Currents in Contemporary German, British and American Philosophy, translated by Albert E. Blumenberg, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1969.
• Sofia VANNI ROVIGHI, Storia della filosofia contemporanea dall'ottocento ai nostri giorni, Brescia, 1980.
• David WEST, An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996.
• Kurt WUCHTERL, Bausteine zu einer Geschichte der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Von Husserl zu Heidegger: Eine Auswahl, UTB Band 8095, Bern: Haupt, 1995.
• Corresponding volumes of the Routledge History of Philosophy, London, 1993-1997.

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