The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida

Get an introduction to the contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality and knowledge, led by an author and award-winning professor, as you explore the ideas behind modern philosophy's most important movements.

• By This Professor
• 01: Philosophy and the Modern Age
• 02: Scholasticism and the Scientific Revolution
• 03: The Rationalism and Dualism of Descartes
• 04: Locke's Empiricism, Berkeley's Idealism
• 05: Neo-Aristotelians-Spinoza and Leibniz
• 06: The Enlightenment and Rousseau
• 07: The Radical Skepticism of Hume
• 08: Kant's Copernican Revolution
• 09: Kant and the Religion of Reason
• 10: The French Revolution and German Idealism
• 11: Hegel-The Last Great System
• 12: Hegel and the English Century
• 13: The Economic Revolution and Its Critic-Marx
• 14: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason
• 15: Nietzsche's Critique of Morality and Truth
• 16: Freud, Weber, and the Mind of Modernity
• 17: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Pragmatism
• 18: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Analysis
• 19: Rise of 20th-Century Philosophy-Phenomenology
• 20: Physics, Positivism, and Early Wittgenstein
• 21: Emergence and Whitehead
• 22: Dewey's American Naturalism
• 23: Heidegger's Being and Time
• 24: Existentialism and the Frankfurt School
• 25: Heidegger's Turn against Humanism
• 26: Culture, Hermeneutics, and Structuralism
• 27: Wittgenstein's Turn to Ordinary Language
• 28: Quine and the End of Positivism
• 29: New Philosophies of Science
• 30: Derrida's Deconstruction of Philosophy
• 31: The Challenge of Postmodernism
• 32: Rorty and the End of Philosophy
• 33: Rediscovering the Premodern
• 34: Pragmatic Realism-Reforming the Modern
• 35: The Reemergence of Emergence
• 36: Philosophy's Death Greatly Exaggerated