Continental philosophy

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branch of philosophy philosophical tradition

Continental philosophy is a broad tradition of European thought that includes movements such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism, often emphasizing history, culture, and critique of modernity.

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Label	Occurrences
continental philosophy	10
Continental philosophy canonical	6
Deleuzian ontology	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of philosophy ⓘ philosophical tradition ⓘ
associatedWithCountry	Belgium ⓘ France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Italy ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Spain ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ
concerns	aesthetics ⓘ ethics ⓘ freedom ⓘ ideology ⓘ language ⓘ meaning ⓘ politics ⓘ power ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ
contrastedWith	analytic philosophy ⓘ
critiques	Enlightenment rationality ⓘ modernity ⓘ positivism ⓘ scientism ⓘ
emergedInCentury	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ
emphasizes	critique of modernity ⓘ culture ⓘ historical context of ideas ⓘ history ⓘ interpretation ⓘ social critique ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Edmund Husserl ⓘ Emmanuel Levinas ⓘ Gilles Deleuze ⓘ Hannah Arendt ⓘ Jacques Derrida ⓘ Jean-François Lyotard ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ Jürgen Habermas ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ Maurice Merleau-Ponty ⓘ Max Horkheimer ⓘ Michel Foucault ⓘ Paul Ricoeur ⓘ Simone de Beauvoir ⓘ Theodor W. Adorno ⓘ
hasOrigin	Europe ⓘ continental Europe ⓘ
includesMovement	Western Marxism ⓘ critical theory ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ existentialism ⓘ hermeneutics ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ psychoanalytic theory ⓘ structuralism ⓘ
influencedBy	Edmund Husserl ⓘ Friedrich Nietzsche ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ German idealism ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Søren Kierkegaard ⓘ
methodologicallyUses	deconstruction ⓘ genealogy ⓘ hermeneutic interpretation ⓘ phenomenological description ⓘ
relatedDiscipline	cultural studies ⓘ literary theory ⓘ political theory ⓘ theology ⓘ
taughtIn	universities worldwide ⓘ