Table of Contents

Contents Preface Entries A-Z List of Contributors; Alphabetical List of Entries; abjection [Kristeva]; absolute [Hegel] [250]; abstract machine [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; absurd (1) [Kierkegaard] [250]; absurd (2) [Sartre] [250]; active forgetting [Nietzsche] [250]; actor network theory [Latour] [250]; actual / virtual distinction [Bergson / Deleuze]; [250]; Adorno, Theodor [1000]; aesthetic judgment [Kant] [250]; Aesthetics [1000]; affirmation [Derrida] [250]; African Philosophy [1000]; African socialism [Senghor] [250]; Agamben, Giorgio [500]; a-letheia [Heidegger] [250]; alienation (1) [Marx] [250]; alienation (2) [Beauvoir] [250]; alienation (3) [Sartre] [250]; Althusser, Louis [500]; Analytical Philosophy [1000]; angoisse [Sartre] [250]; Angst [Heidegger] [250]; Anthropology [1000]; Antiphilosophy (Lacan) [250]; antitheodicy [Jewish philosophy] [250]; anxiety (1) [Kierkegaard] [250]; anxiety (2) [Heidegger] [250]; anxiety (3) [Sartre]; Apel, Karl-Otto [500]; archaeology [Foucault] [250]; architectonic [architecture] [250]; Architecture [1000]; archi-writing [Derrida] [250]; Arendt, Hannah [1000]; Asian Philosophy [1000]; assemblage [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; attunement (Befindlichkeit) [Heidegger] [250]; Aufhebung (sublation) [Hegel] [250]; aura [Benjamin] [250]; authenticity [Heidegger] [250]; auto-immunity [Derrida] [250]; autopoiesis [Varela] [250]; Bachelard, Gaston [500]; bad conscience [Nietzsche] [250]; bad faith (1) [Beauvoir] [250]; bad faith (2) [Sartre] [250]; Badiou, Alain [500]; Bakhtin, Mikhail [500]; Barthes, Roland [500]; Bataille, Georges [1000]; Baudrillard, Jean [1000]; de Beauvoir, Simone [1000]; becoming (1) [Bergson] [250]; becoming (2) [Deleuze] [250]; being-towards-death [Heidegger] [250]; Benjamin, Walter [500]; Bergson, Henri [1000]; Biology [1000]; biopower [Foucault] [250]; Blanchot, Maurice [1000]; Bloch, Ernst [500]; body without organs [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Bourdieu, Pierre [500]; Brentano, Franz [500]; British Idealism [1000]; Buber, Martin [500]; Butler, Judith [500]; Camus, Albert [500]; Canguilhem, Georges [500]; Caputo, John [500]; Casey, Ed [500]; Cassirer, Ernst [500]; Castoriadis, Cornelius [500]; categorial imperative [Kant] [250]; Cavailles, Jean [500]; de Certeau, Michel [500]; Cesaire, Aime [500]; chiasm [Llewelyn; Derrida; Levinas] [250]; Cioran, E. M. [500]; Cinema [1000]; Cixous, Helene [500]; codes (as semiotic systems) [250]; Cognitive Science [500]; Complexity Theory [500]; Comte, Auguste [500]; constituent/constituted power [Negri] [250]; constitution [Hegel] [250]; contradiction (1) [Hegel] [250]; contradiction (2) [Marx] [250]; Corporeal Feminism [500]; Cosmopolitianism [1000]; creative evolution [Bergson] [250]; critical epistemology [LeDoeuff] [250]; Critical Legal Studies [1000]; Critical Theory / Frankfurt School [1000]; Critique [1000]; Croce, Benedetto [500]; Cyberfeminism [500]; Cybernetics [500]; Dasein [Heidegger] [250]; Davidson, Donald [500]; Death [1500] [1000]; Debord, Guy [500]; deconstruction [Derrida] [250]; deduction of categories [Kant] [250]; DeLanda, Manuel [500]; Deleuze, Gilles [2500]; DeMan, Paul [500]; democracy-to-come [a venir] [Derrida] [250]; Derrida, Jacques [2500]; desiring-production [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; desouvrement [Blanchot] [250]; despair [Kierkegaard] [250]; deterritorialization [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; dialectic [Hegel] [250]; dialectical image [Benjamin] [250]; dialectical materialism [Marx] [250]; dialogism [Bakhtin] [250]; differance [Derrida] [250]; Difference [1000]; differend [Lyotard] [250]; differentiation [Deleuze] [250]; Dilthey, Wilhelm [500]; disagreement [Ranciere] [250]; disclosedness /resolute disclosedness [Heidegger] [500]; discourse ethics [Habermas] [250]; Dreyfus, Hubert [500]; drives [Freud] [250]; dromology [Virilio] [250]; duration [Bergson] [250]; duty [Kant] [250]; earth and world [Heidegger] [250]; Eco, Umberto [500]; Ecocriticism [500]; Ecole Normale Superieure [500]; ecriture feminine [Cixous] [250]; eidetic reduction [Husserl] [250]; eidetic seeing [Husserl] [250]; Ek-sistenz [Heidegger] [250]; elan vital [Bergson] [250]; Embodiment [1000]; empire [Negri] [250]; enaction [Varela] [250]; Engels, Friedrich [500]; Enlightenment [1000]; Environmental Philosophy [1000]; episteme [Foucault] [250]; epistemological break [Canguilhem] [250]; Epistemology [2500]; epoche [Husserl] [250]; Ereignis [Heidegger] [250]; essence (eidos) [Husserl] [250]; essential solitude [Blanchot] [250]; essentialism (1) [Irigaray / feminism] [250]; essentialism (2) [postcolonial theory] [250]; eternal recurrence [Nietzsche] [250]; Ethics [1000]; event [Badiou] [250]; existential analytic [Heidegger] [250]; Existentialism [1000]; expenditure [Bataille] [250]; Experience [1000]; face (of the other) [Levinas] [250]; Fanon, Frantz [500]; Feminism [2500]; Feminist Epistemology [2500]; Feminist Re-readings of the Tradition [1000]; Feuerbach, Ludwig [500]; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb [500]; fidelity (as criterion of truth) [Badiou] [250]; Fink, Eugen [500]; Florensky [500]; flesh (of the world) [Merleau-Ponty] [250]; Foucault, Michel [2500]; the fourfold [Heidegger] [250]; framing [Derrida] [250]; French Maoism [500]; Freud, Sigmund [1000]; friend-foe relation [Schmitt] [250]; fundamental ontology [Heidegger] [250]; Gadamer, Hans-Georg [1000]; Gelassenheit [Heidegger] [250]; Gender [1000]; Genealogy [1000]; General Strike, Social Myth of [250]; Geography [1000]; German Idealism [2500]; German Romanticism [500]; Gestell (enframing) [Heidegger / technology] [250]; gift (1) [Derrida] [250]; gift (2) [Marion] [250]; Girard, Rene [500]; governmentality [Foucault] [500]; Gramsci, Antonio [500]; Guattari, Felix [500]; Habermas, Jurgen [1000]; habitus [Bourdieu] [250]; haecceity [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Haraway, Donna [500]; Hartmann, Nicolai [500]; Hegel, G.W.F. [2500]; hegemony [Gramsci] [250]; von Herder, J.G.; Heidegger, Martin [2500]; hermeneutic circle [Gadamer] [250]; Hermeneutics [1000]; heteroglossia / monoglossia [Bakhtin] [250]; heteronormativity [Queer Theory] [250]; heterotopia [architecture / Foucault] [250]; historical materialism [Marx] [250]; historicity [Heidegger] [250]; History, Philosophy of [1000]; Horkheimer, Max [500]; hospitality [Derrida] [250]; von Humboldt, Alexander [500]; Husserl, Edmund [2500]; hybridity [postcolonial theory] [250]; Hyppolite, Jean [500]; Idea (1) [Kant] [250]; Idea (2) [Hegel] [250]; Idea (3) [Deleuze] [250]; ideal speech situation [Habermas] [250]; ideal type (Weber) [250]; identification [Freud] [250]; Ideological State Apparatus [Althusser] [250]; ideology [Marx] [250]; il y a [Levinas] [250]; imaginary [Lacan] [250]; immanence [Deleuze] [250]; immanent critique [Jameson] [250]; immaterial labor [Negri] [250]; inclination [Kant] [250]; inessential other [Beauvoir] [250]; infinity [Levinas] [250]; information bomb [Virilio] [250]; Intellectual intuition [Kant, Fichte, Schelling] [500]; intensive difference [Deleuze] [250]; Intentionality [1000]; interpellation [Althusser] [250]; Intersubjectivity [Husserl] [500]; intuition [Bergson] [250]; Irigaray, Luce [2500]; iterability [Derrida] [250]; "I-Thou" relation [Buber] [250]; James, William [500]; Jameson, Fredric [500]; Jaspers, Karl [1000]; Jewish Philosophy [1000]; Jonas, Hans [500]; jouissance Irigaray [250]; Kant, Immanuel [2500]; Kierkegaard, Soren [1000]; Kofman, Sarah [500]; Kojeve, Alexandre [500]; Kristeva, Julia [1000]; Lacan, Jacques [1000]; Language [1000]; Latour, Bruno [500]; Lebensphilosophie [500]; Le Doeuff, Michele [500]; Leap of faith [Kierkegaard] [250]; Lefebvre, Henri [500]; Lefort, Claude [500]; Lenin, Vladimir [500]; Levinas, Emmanuel [1000]; Life, Philosophy of (Lebensphilosophie) [1000]; limit situation [Jaspers] [250]; line of flight [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Lingis, Alphonso [500]; Literary Theory [1000]; Llewelyn, John [500]; logocentrism [Derrida] [250]; Luhmann, Niklas [500]; Lukacs, Georg [500]; Lyotard, Jean-Francois [1000]; MacIntyre, Alisdair [500]; Marcel, Gabriel [500]; Marcuse, Herbert [500]; Marion, Jean-Luc [500]; markedness [Jakobson] [250]; Marx, Karl [1000]; Marxism [2500]; Materialism [1000]; Mathematics, Philosophy and [500]; Memmi, Albert [500]; Memory [1000]; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice [1000]; metaphoricity [Derrida] [250]; Metaphysics [1000]; metapolitics [Badiou / Ranciere] [250]; mimesis [Irigaray] [250]; mimetic desire [Girard] [250]; minor literature [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Modernity [1000]; moment of vision (1) [Kierkegaard] [250]; moment of vision (2) [Heidegger] [250]; "mourning and melancholia" [Freud] [250]; multiplicities [Bergson] [250]; multiplicity [Deleuze] [250]; multitude [Negri] [250]; Nancy, Jean-Luc [500]; narrative voice [Blanchot] [250]; natality [Arendt] [250]; Nature, Philosophy of [1000]; negative dialectics [Adorno] [250]; negative philosophy [Schelling] [250]; Negri, Antonio [500]; negritude [Cesaire; Senghor] [250]; NeoKantianism [1000]; Neo-Thomism [1000]; Nietzsche, Friedrich [2500]; nihilism [Nietzsche] [250]; nomadology [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Non-Soviet Russian philosophy [500]; normalization [Foucault] [250]; "the nothing" [Heidegger] [250]; ontological difference [Heidegger] [250]; onto-the-logy (critique of) [Heidegger, Derrida, Marion] [250]; order word [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; organism [Deleuze and Guattari / Varela] [250]; Orientalism [postcolonial theory] [250]; Ortega y Gasset, Jose [500]; overdetermination [Althusser] [250]; Overman [Ubermensch] [250]; panopticon [Foucault] [250]; paradigm and syntagm [Linguistics] [500]; Parti Communiste Francais [500]; particularism [LeDoeuff] [250]; performativity [Butler] [250]; phallogocentrism [250]; pharmakon [Derrida] [250]; phenomenological reduction [Husserl] [250]; Phenomenology [2500]; philosophical imaginary [LeDoeuff] [250]; plateau [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Platonism, overturning of [1000]; play impulse [Schiller] [250]; positive philosophy [Schelling] [250]; positivism [Comte] [250]; postal principle [Derrida] [250]; Postcolonial Theory [1000]; post-democrary [Ranciere] [250]; Postmodernism [1000]; Poststructuralism [2500]; Potency [Schelling]; pour soi / en soi distinction ("for itself / in itself") [Sartre] [250]; Power [1000]; Pragmatism [1000]; problematic [Althusser] [250]; project [Beauvoir] [250]; Psychoanalysis [1000]; Psychology [1000]; quantum mechanics [250]; quasi-object [Latour] [250]; Queer Theory [1000]; Race / Race Theory [1000]; Ranciere, Jacques [500]; rationalization [Weber] [250]; real [Lacan] [250]; real subsumption [Negri/Marx] [250]; reason (1) [Kant] [250]; reason (2) [Hegel] [250]; reification [Lukacs] [250]; Religion, Philosophy of [1000]; Repetition [1500]; repressive desublimation [Marcuse] [250]; responsibility [Derrida] [250]; ressentiment [Nietzsche] [250]; revaluation of all values [Nietzsche] [250]; rhizome [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Ricoeur, Paul [500]; Romantic Irony [500]; Rorty, Richard [500]; Rosenzweig, Franz [500]; Russian Existentialism (Berdyaev, Shestov, ...) [500]; Sallis, John [500]; Sartre, Jean-Paul [1000]; saturated phenomenon [Marion] [250]; de Saussure, Ferdinand [500]; "the Saying and the Said" [Levinas] [250]; scapegoat [Girard] [250]; Scheler, Max [500]; Schelling, F.W.J. [1000]; Schiller, Friedrich [500]; schizoanalysis [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Schleiermacher, Friedrich [500]; Schmitt, Carl [500]; Schopenhauer, Arthur [500]; Science Wars [250]; self-overcoming [Nietzsche] [250]; the semiotic [Kristeva] [250]; Semiotics [1000]; Sense [1000]; sensibility [Kant] [250]; Serres, Michel [500]; Sex / sexuality [1000]; sign [semiotics] [250]; signature [Derrida] [250]; signifier and signified [500]; Simmel, Georg [500]; Simondon, Gilbert [500]; simulacrum [1000]; simulation [Baudrillard] [250]; singularity [Deleuze] [250]; Situationism [Debord] [250]; slave revolt in morality [Nietzsche] [250]; smooth / striated space [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; social constructivism [Feminism] [250]; Socialisme ou Barbarie [Lefort, Castoriadis] [250]; socialized worker [Negri] [250]; Sorel, Georges [500]; Sovereignty [1000]; Space [1000]; spectrality [Derrida] [250]; Speech Act Theory [500]; Spirit [Hegel] [250]; state of exception [Schmitt] [250]; stratification [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Strauss, Leo [500]; Structuralism [1000]; Subject [1000]; Subject, Topology of [Lacan]; supplement [Derrida] [250]; symbolic order [Lacan] [250]; symbolic exchange [Baudrillard] [250]; synthetic a priori judgment [Kant] [250]; Taylor, Charles [500]; techniques of the self [Foucault] [250]; Technology, Philosophy of [1000]; teleological judgment [Kant] [250]; teleological suspension of the ethical [Kierkegaard] [250]; Thought [1000]; thrownness (Geworfenheit) [Heidegger] [250]; Time / temporality [2500]; totality [Levinas] [250]; trace [Derrida] [250]; transcendental analytic [Kant] [250]; transcendental dialectic [Kant] [250]; transcendental ego (1) [Fichte] [250]; transcendental ego (2) [Husserl] [250]; transcendental empiricism [Deleuze] [250]; transcendental unity of apperception [Kant] [250]; transversality [Guattari] [250]; Truth [1000]; undecidability [Derrida] [250]; understanding (1) [Kant] [250]; understanding (2) [Weber] [250]; uneven development [Althusser] [250]; universal pragmatics [Habermas] [250]; Varela, Francisco [500]; Vattimo, Gianni [1000]; Virilio, Paul [500]; vitalism [Biology] [250]; void [Badiou] [250]; war machine [Deleuze and Guattari] [250]; Weber, Max [1000]; Weil, Simone [500]; Whitehead, Alfred North [500]; will-to-power [Nietzsche] [250]; will-to-truth [Nietzsche] [250]; Wittgenstein, Ludwig [1000]; worldhood (Weltlichkeit) [Heidegger] [250]; Young Hegelians [1000]; Zizek, Slavoj [500].

About the Author

John Protevi is Associate Professor of French Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Time and Exteriority (Bucknell, 1994); and Political Physics (Athlone, 2001); the editor of The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2005); and co-author, with Mark Bonta, of Deleuze and Geophilosophy (Edinburgh, 2004). He is currently working on a book on 'political physiology' that will combine cognitive science and post-structuralism.

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John Protevi has put together a very useful dictionary and I expect it to be used extensively by students seeking clear and crisp definitions of key concepts, as well helpful and reliable accounts of the main intellectual figures, in continental philosophy. The entries are uniformly excellent and Protevi's grasp of the key concepts is first-rate. -- Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy can be recommended to novices and scholars alike because it satisfies the pressing need for a reliable guide to the most recent developments in Continental philosophy not only in Europe, but also, and more unusually, in North America -- Professor Robert Bernasconi, Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy, The University of Memphis [A] valuable addition to the reference library of any student or scholar in the Humanities. ... The variety of concepts, topics and areas for which it provides an analysis is ... quite impressive. -- Marios Constantinou and Maria Margaroni An authoritative reference tool. -- Marios Constantinou and Maria Margaroni John Protevi has put together a very useful dictionary and I expect it to be used extensively by students seeking clear and crisp definitions of key concepts, as well helpful and reliable accounts of the main intellectual figures, in continental philosophy. The entries are uniformly excellent and Protevi's grasp of the key concepts is first-rate. The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy can be recommended to novices and scholars alike because it satisfies the pressing need for a reliable guide to the most recent developments in Continental philosophy not only in Europe, but also, and more unusually, in North America [A] valuable addition to the reference library of any student or scholar in the Humanities. ... The variety of concepts, topics and areas for which it provides an analysis is ... quite impressive. An authoritative reference tool.