Home›Metaphysics›Contemporary Continental PhilosophyGroupContemporary Continental PhilosophyTwentieth and twenty first century philosophers working in the continental tradition on being, existence and the structures of thought, from phenomenology and fundamental ontology through French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, to process philosophy's continental-facing readings, the Frankfurt-adjacent and Heideggerian strands of contemporary metaphysics, the Kyoto School's synthesis of Buddhist and phenomenological thought, and Islamic philosophers of the twentieth century who read their own tradition through a Heideggerian lens. Also gathers later scholars, translators and commentators across Europe, Latin America and Asia whose own scholarly work carries German Idealist and continental metaphysics into contemporary debate.FactsContemporary Continental PhilosophySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested20 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedGerman 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedFrench 1Contemporary Continental PhilosophyFilter Results37 entriesSchool of PhilosophyAllContinental Philosophy (2)Existentialism (1)Kyoto School (1)Phenomenology (2)Branch of PhilosophyAllEpistemology (1)Ethics (1)Metaphilosophy (1)Metaphysics (5)EraAll1859 (1)1870 (1)1883 (1)1885 (1)1889 (1)1891 (1)1900 (1)1905 (1)1910 (1)1912 (1)1922 (1)1925 (1)1929 (1)1937 (1)TraditionAllArgentine philosophy, anthropologist and philosopher (1)Continental philosophy (1)Continental philosophy (post-structuralism) (1)Continental philosophy; French existentialism (1)Kyoto School, Japanese philosophy (1)Object-oriented philosophy (1)Phenomenology, fundamental ontology, continental philosophy (1)NationalityAllAncient Greece (Historical) (1)Chile (1)France (5)Germany (5)India (1)Iran (1)Ireland (1)Italy (1)Japan (2)Mexico (1)Spain (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (3)Influenced ByAllGabriel Marcel (1)Giorgio Agamben (1)Leopoldo Zea (1)Luce Irigaray (1)Nishida Kitaro (1)Tanabe Hajime (1)In GroupAllContemporary Continental Philosophy (37)Birthplace / RegionAllChile (1)France (5)Germany (5)India (1)Iran (1)Ireland (1)Italy (1)Japan (2)Mexico (1)Spain (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (3)BrowseCompareSelect all 37Ahmad FardidMetaphysicsAlain BadiouMetaphysics1 linkBrian O'ConnorMetaphysicsDavid DuquetteMetaphysicsEduardo CarrascoMetaphysicsEzra HeymannMetaphysicsFrancisco RomeroMetaphysicsGianni VattimoMetaphysicsGilles DeleuzeMetaphysics1 linkGraham ParkesMetaphysicsHeikki IkäheimoMetaphysicsHelio GallardoMetaphysicsHenri BergsonMetaphysicsJarava Lal MehtaMetaphysicsJean BaudrillardMetaphysics1 linkJean LacosteMetaphysicsJean-Paul SartreMetaphysics13 linksJennifer BatesMetaphysicsJose Ferrater MoraMetaphysicsJose GaosMetaphysics1 linkKarin de BoerMetaphysicsKarl JaspersMetaphysicsKeiji NishitaniMetaphysics1 linkKenneth R. WestphalMetaphysicsLorenz Bruno PuntelMetaphysicsLu De VosMetaphysicsMartin HeideggerMetaphysics11 linksNishida KitaroMetaphysics4 linksOmid TofighianMetaphysicsParvis EmadMetaphysicsPedro Cerezo GalánMetaphysicsReiner SchurmannMetaphysicsRodolfo KuschMetaphysicsSamuel RamosMetaphysicsTanabe HajimeMetaphysics2 linksTimothy MortonMetaphysicsWalter CerfMetaphysicsSources1. Wikipedia: Continental philosophytier 2WikipediaContinental philosophy, lead sectionContinental philosophy is a group of Western philosophies first prominent in 20th-century continental Europe that derive from a broadly Kantian tradition.Continental philosophy, lead section, France and Germany sentencefirst widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philosophies then widespread in France and GermanyView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.