Falsafah benua ialah istilah yang digunakan untuk menggambarkan beberapa ahli falsafah dan tradisi falsafah yang tidak berada di bawah payungfalsafah analitik. Walau bagaimanapun, tiada konsensus akademik mengenai definisi falsafah benua. Sebelum abad kedua puluh, istilah "benua" digunakan secara meluas untuk merujuk kepada falsafah dari benua Eropah.[1][2] Penggunaan istilah yang berbeza berasal dari kalangan ahli falsafah berbahasa Inggeris pada separuh kedua abad ke-20, yang menggunakannya untuk merujuk kepada pelbagai pemikir dan tradisi di luargerakan analitik.[3] Falsafah kontinental merangkumi idealisme Jerman,fenomenologi,eksistensialisme (dan pendahulunya, seperti pemikiranKierkegaard danNietzsche),hermeneutik,strukturalisme,pascastrukturalisme,dekonstruksi, feminisme Perancis, teori psikoanalisis, dan jugateori kritikal Mazhab Frankfurt. sebagai cabang pandanganFreudian, Hegelian dan Marxis Barat.[4]
^Leiter 2007: "As a first approximation, we might say that philosophy in Continental Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is best understood as a connected weave of traditions, some of which overlap, but no one of which dominates all the others."
^Critchley, Simon (1998), "Introduction: what is continental philosophy?", dalam Critchley, Simon; Schroder, William (penyunting),A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, m/s. 4.
^Critchley 2001: "As such, Continental philosophy is an invention, or, more accurately, a projection of the Anglo-American academy onto a Continental Europe.."
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