This volume analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship and that set the agenda for philosophical thought from the 1960s to the present.

Series Preface; Introduction, Alan D. Schrift; 1. French Nietzscheanism, Alan D. Schrift; 2. Louis Althusser, Warren Montag; 3. Michel Foucault, Timothy O'Leary; 4. Gilles Deleuze, Daniel W. Smith; 5. Jacques Derrida, Samir Haddad; 6. Jean-Francois Lyotard, James Williams; 7. Pierre Bourdieu and the practice of philosophy, Derek Robbins; 8. Michel Serres, David F. Bell; 9. Jurgen Habermas, Christopher F. Zurn; 10. Second generation critical theory, James Swindal; 11. Gadamer, Ricoeur, and the legacy of phenomenology, Wayne J. Froman; 12. The linguistic turn in continental philosophy, Claire Colebrook; 13. Psychoanalysis and desire, Rosi Braidotti & Alan D. Schrift; 14. Luce Irigaray, Mary Beth Mader; 15. Cixous, Kristeva, and Le Doeuff: three "French feminists", Sara Heinamaa; 16. Deconstruction and the Yale School of literary theory, Jeffrey T. Nealon; 17. Rorty among the continentals, David R. Hiley