Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy : A Reader

1. Introduction.

THE FOUNDERS.

2. Edmund Husserl, Introduction to The Idea of Phenomenology.
3. Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism."
4. Ferdinand de Saussure, Selections from Course in General Linguistics.

EXISTENTIALISM.

5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Selection from "Existentialism."
6. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences."

STRUCTURALISM.

7. Claude Lévi-Strauss, "Language and the Analysis of Social Laws."
8. Jacques Lacan, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud."

CRITICAL THEORY: THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL.

9. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Concept of Enlightenment" from Dialectic of Enlightenment.

V. HERMENEUTICS.

10. Hans-Georg Gadamer, "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem."
11. Paul Ricoeur, Selection from "Phenomenology and Hermeneutics."

VI. RECENT DIRECTIONS: POSTSTRUCTURALISM.

12. Jean-François Lyotard, "Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?"
13. Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History."

VII. RECENT DIRECTIONS: FEMINISM.

14. Luce Irigaray, "This Sex Which Is Not One."
15. Julia Kristeva, "From One Identity to an Other."

VIII. RECENT DIRECTIONS: DECONSTRUCTION.

16. Jacques Derrida, "Differance."

IX. RECENT DIRECTIONS: CRITICAL THEORY.

17. Jürgen Habermas, "Morality and Ethical Life: Does Hegel's Critique of Kant Apply to Discourse Ethics?"

Suggestions for Further Reading.