Table of Contents
1.Still philosophy? --2.Philosophy in and out of Europe:The European sources of recent Anglo-American philosophy --3.Philosophy in and out of Europe:The reception of continental philosophy in America --4.A note on the philosophy of Heidegger: confessions of a young positivist --5.Authenticity: an existential virtue --6.Heidegger: philosopher and prophet --7.The German existentialists --8.Karl Jaspers: a philosopher of humanity --9.The aesthetic dialogue of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty --10.The career of action and passion in Sartre's philosophical thought --11.The true teachers of mankind --12.Life, death, and language: some thoughts on Wittgenstein and Derrida --13.Appendix: Hobbes and the modern mind.