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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Introduction: What is Continental Philosophy? | |
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| Modernity, Enlightenment and their Continental Critics | |
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| From modernity to Enlightenment | |
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| The critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant | |
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| Continental critics of Enlightenment | |
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| The Hegelian synthesis | |
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| Dialectics of Emancipation: Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas | |
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| Feuerbach, Marx and Marxism | |
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| The critical theory of the Frankfurt School | |
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| Habermas and the renewal of critical theory | |
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| Historicism, Hermeneutics and Phenomenology | |
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| Dilthey, philosophy of life and hermeneutics | |
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| Husserl and phenomenology | |
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| Heidegger's phenomenology of being | |
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| Gadamer and the universality of hermeneutics | |
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| The phenomenology of political action - Hannah Arendt | |
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| Beyond Theory: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Existentialism | |
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| S�ren Kierkegaard | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre and French existentialism | |
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| Beyond the Subject: Structuralism and Poststructuralism | |
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| Decentring the subject | |
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| The break with humanism | |
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| Foucault's genealogy of the subject | |
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| Derrida's deconstruction of Western metaphysics | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Varieties of postmodernism | |
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| Philosophical critique of Enlightenment and modernity | |
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| Postmodernity as a stage of Western society | |
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| Politics of difference and ethics of the other | |
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| Radical Departures | |
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| The Resumption of history | |
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| The return of the Political in Agamben, Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe | |
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| Slavoj ZiZek - the fractious subject of ideology | |
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| In the event of Alain Badiou | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |