1. Introduction: what is continental philosophy?
2. Modernity, enlightenment and their continental critics
3. Dialectics of emancipation : Marx, the Frankfurt School and Habermas
4. Historicism, hermeneutics and phenomenology
5. Beyond theory : Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, existentialism
6. Beyond the subject : structuralism and poststructuralism
7. Postmodernism
8. Radical departures.