title: The New Century (The History of Continental Philosophy)
author: Keith Ansell-Pearson
description: "One of the finer achievements of its kind and one that will aid both newcomers to continental philosophy (students and analytic philosophers) and seasoned scholars." --<i>Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews</i><br /><br />"This is by far the most comprehensive and insightful history of that key period in continental philosophy spanning Husserl's entire career, the beginning of Heidegger's, and contributions of numerous other thinkers including Bergson, Scheler, Freud, and Wittgenstein. I know of no finer introduction to the thinkers and issues covered in this volume, which will be indispensable to any serious philosopher." --<b>Robert P. Crease<b>, <i>Stony Brook University</i>
  						    	
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  **Routledge History of Philosophy** Volume VII The nineteenth century was a
  period of intense intellectual activity with advances being made in the
  sciences, in mathematics and in psychology which gradually established itself
  as a discipline independent of philosophy. Philosophical disputes arose about
  the nature of scientific method and about whether, or to what extent, the
  understanding of human conduct and human society required the adoption of the
  methods of observation and experiment common to the natural sciences.
  Different philosophical theories about the nature of reality, the foundations
  of knowledge and of morality, and the limits of individual freedom were
  systematically developed, and many such theories are still very much alive in
  contemporary philosophical debates.
  
  The philosophers discussed in this volume include those belonging both to the
  
  ‘analytic’ and the ‘continental’ traditions, as well as the now influential
  American pragmatists. Eac