Continental Philosophy: The Basic Theories is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteeth and twentieth centuries. Chronologically organized, the book includes chapters on Hegel, Marx and Western Marxism, Schopenhauer and Freud and Bergson, Nietzsche, hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, French feminism, and postmodernism. The book is an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.