| List of abbreviations | p. viii |
| Preface and acknowledgments | p. xiv |
| Introduction: what is continental philosophy? | p. 1 |
| The Wars of the Roses | p. 1 |
| Kant's attempt to secure perpetual philosophical peace | p. 5 |
| Rorty's attempt to restore the peace | p. 14 |
| Nietzsche's clue to the persistence of the analytic/continental division | p. 17 |
| Heidegger's confirmation of Nietzsche's clue | p. 20 |
| Kant's questions as taken up in the House of Continental | p. 23 |
| Notes | p. 29 |
| The problem of the relationship between receptivity and spontaneity: how is truth disclosed aesthetically? | p. 30 |
| Kant's vigilance against fanaticism | p. 31 |
| Nietzsche's commemoration of Dionysian intoxication | p. 32 |
| Bergson's intuition of duration | p. 34 |
| Husserl's intuition of ideal essences | p. 40 |
| Heidegger's openness to being | p. 48 |
| Bachelard's poetics of science | p. 58 |
| Sartre's nihilating cogito | p. 64 |
| Merleau-Ponty's return to primordial perception | p. 71 |
| Foucault's archaeology of imagination | p. 80 |
| Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence | p. 88 |
| Deleuze's transcendental empiricism | p. 98 |
| Notes | p. 109 |
| The problem of the relationship between heteronomy and autonomy: to what does the feeling of respect attest? | p. 111 |
| Kant's fact of reason | p. 112 |
| Nietzsche's genealogy of the ascetic ideal | p. 119 |
| Freud's diagnosis of superegoic cruelty and his speculative anthropology | p. 122 |
| Levi-Strauss's structural anthropology | p. 134 |
| Bataille's heterology and his transvaluation of sovereignty | p. 142 |
| Blanchot's art of discretion | p. 151 |
| Levinas's ethics of alterity | p. 158 |
| Lacan's detection of a secret alliance between Kant and Sade | p. 167 |
| Althusser's attempt to forge an alliance between Marx and Freud | p. 178 |
| Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis | p. 188 |
| Kristeva's semanalysis | p. 196 |
| Derrida's hauntology | p. 202 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| The problem of the relationship between immanence and transcendence: must we despair or may we still hope? | p. 213 |
| Kant's prophetic response to the French Revolution | p. 214 |
| Marx's prophecy of a proletarian revolution | p. 225 |
| Lukacs's conception of reification and his development of a Marxist aesthetics | p. 234 |
| Heidegger's dialogue with Nietzsche about great art | p. 244 |
| Benjamin's angel of history | p. 248 |
| Adorno's ambivalence about the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz | p. 259 |
| Marcuse's Great Refusal | p. 268 |
| Arendt's articulation of the democratic principles of the American revolution | p. 275 |
| Gadamer's fusion of horizons | p. 284 |
| Ricoeur's dialectic of rival hermeneutics | p. 293 |
| Habermas's defense of the project of modernity | p. 303 |
| Lyotard's assessment of postmodernity | p. 311 |
| Zizek's fidelity to the messianic promise of the Russian Revolution | p. 321 |
| Notes | p. 332 |
| The problem of the relationship between the empirical and the transcendental: what is the meaning of philosophical humanism? | p. 335 |
| Kant's pragmatic anthropology | p. 336 |
| Nietzsche's overman | p. 344 |
| Sartre's resolve for man's freedom | p. 350 |
| Heidegger's reproach against man's hubris | p. 355 |
| Beauvoir's project of solidarity and her analysis of the lived experience of gender | p. 358 |
| Fanon's indictment of colonialism and his analysis of the lived experience of race | p. 368 |
| Levi-Strauss's repudiation of the category of man | p. 375 |
| Foucault's genealogy of power | p. 379 |
| Irigaray's sensible transcendental | p. 384 |
| Habermas's evasion of the dilemmas concerning man and his doubles | p. 390 |
| Notes | p. 393 |
| Conclusion: what is philosophy? | p. 396 |
| Kant's questions as taken up in the House of Analytic | p. 396 |
| The conflict of the philosophy faculty with itself | p. 402 |
| Notes | p. 417 |
| References | p. 419 |
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