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31-519: Bad Gays is a queer history podcast about evil and complicated queers in history hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Each episode of Bad Gays explores the story of a complicated queer person in history. Lemmy and Miller also wrote a book, Bad Gays: A Homosexual History based on the podcast. It is available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook and is published by Verso Books . The Advocate listed Bad Gays in its 2023 list of "Five Gloriously Gay Podcasts You Need To Listen To." Bad Gays

62-416: A crowdfunding campaign via the website Kickstarter , in response to the bankruptcy of its UK distributor, Marston Book Services. UK-based United Independent Distributors, of which Marston was a subsidiary, had entered administration on 25 July 2024. Verso expected that the revenue crowdfunding campaign would allow it to publish its planned Autumn 2024 catalogue and pay for expenses as it transitioned to

93-399: A family resemblance across disparate philosophical views; Hans-Johann Glock has made a similar argument for analytic philosophy. Simon Glendinning has suggested that the term “continental philosophy” was originally more pejorative than descriptive, functioning as a label for types of western philosophy rejected or disliked by analytic philosophers. The term continental philosophy , in

124-480: A broadly Kantian thesis that knowledge , experience , and reality are bound and shaped by conditions best understood through philosophical reflection rather than exclusively empirical inquiry . The history of continental philosophy (taken in the narrower sense of " late modern / contemporary continental philosophy") is usually thought to begin with German idealism . Led by figures like Fichte , Schelling , and later Hegel , German idealism developed out of

155-570: A canonical figure in continental philosophy. Nonetheless, Husserl is also a respected subject of study in the analytic tradition. Husserl's notion of a noema , the non-psychological content of thought, his correspondence with Gottlob Frege , and his investigations into the nature of logic continue to generate interest among analytic philosophers. J. G. Merquior argued that a distinction between analytic and continental philosophies can be first clearly identified with Henri Bergson (1859–1941), whose wariness of science and elevation of intuition paved

186-446: A clear definition and may mark merely a family resemblance across disparate philosophical views. Simon Glendinning has suggested that the term was originally more pejorative than descriptive, functioning as a label for types of western philosophy rejected or disliked by analytic philosophers. Nonetheless, Michael E. Rosen has ventured to identify common themes that typically characterize continental philosophy. The themes derive from

217-578: A former publicist employed in the company's US office against its long-time publisher, Jacob Stevens. She described the incident in a Medium piece thus: "He then said, of my hiring, 'We needed someone nice to look at in the office besides Wes.'” She claims that this remark caused severe depression and self-harm . The board of directors responded with a public apology and updates on their sexual harassment policy. However, they likewise maintain that their procedures were properly followed, as determined by an independent review. In September 2024, Verso launched

248-1260: A new distribution arrangement with Macmillan Distribution. The publisher gained early recognition for translations of books by European thinkers and Continental philosophy , especially those from the Frankfurt School , and its affiliation with Marxist and neo-Marxist writers. Verso Books' best-selling title is the autobiography of Rigoberta Menchú , who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Verso has published books by Tariq Ali , Benedict Anderson , Robin Blackburn , Judith Butler , Noam Chomsky , C.L.R James , Mike Davis , Norman Finkelstein , Fredric Jameson , Edward Said , Max Shachtman , Rebecca Solnit , Nick Srnicek , Paul Feyerabend , Ellen Meiksins Wood , and Slavoj Žižek . Updated translations of Jean Baudrillard , Régis Debray , Jürgen Habermas , Rigoberta Menchú, and Paul Virilio have also been published through Verso. By 2020, Verso Books had published over 1,800 titles. Continental philosophy Continental philosophy includes German idealism , phenomenology , existentialism (and its antecedents, such as

279-513: A paper some observers have described as particularly polemical . Carnap's paper argues that Heidegger's lecture "What Is Metaphysics?" violates logical syntax to create nonsensical pseudo-statements. Moreover, Carnap claimed that many German metaphysicians of the era were similar to Heidegger in writing statements that were syntactically meaningless. With the rise of Nazism , many of Germany's philosophers, especially those of Jewish descent or leftist or liberal political sympathies (such as many in

310-431: Is often contrasted with analytic philosophy . There is widespread influence and debate between the analytic and continental traditions; some philosophers see the differences between the two traditions as being based on institutions, relationships, and ideology rather than anything of significant philosophical substance. The distinction has also been drawn as analytic is academic or technical philosophy, while continental

341-641: The Kantian -influenced thought of "Continental philosophy" and "Continental philosophers" with the English empiricism of Bentham and the 18th century generally. This notion gained prominence in the early 20th century as figures such as Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore advanced a vision of philosophy closely allied with natural science, progressing through logical analysis. This tradition, which has come to be known broadly as analytic philosophy , became dominant in Britain and

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372-665: The Open University . American university departments in literature , the fine arts , film , sociology , and political theory have increasingly incorporated ideas and arguments from continental philosophers into their curricula and research. North American Philosophy departments offering courses in Continental Philosophy include the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa , Boston College , Stony Brook University , Vanderbilt University , DePaul University , Villanova University ,

403-548: The University of Guelph , The New School , Pennsylvania State University , University of Oregon , Emory University , University of Pittsburgh , Duquesne University , the University of Memphis , University of King's College , and Loyola University Chicago . The most prominent organization for continental philosophy in the United States is the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). Continental philosophy

434-637: The Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School ), fled to the English-speaking world. Those philosophers who remained—if they remained in academia at all—had to reconcile themselves to Nazi control of the universities. Others, such as Martin Heidegger , among the most prominent German philosophers to stay in Germany, aligned themselves with Nazism when it came to power. Both before and after World War II there

465-514: The 1960s, continental philosophers were only intermittently discussed in British and American universities, despite an influx of continental philosophers, particularly German Jewish students of Nietzsche and Heidegger, to the United States on account of the persecution of the Jews and later World War II ; Hannah Arendt , Herbert Marcuse , Leo Strauss , Theodor W. Adorno , and Walter Kaufmann are probably

496-720: The United Kingdom, North America, and Australia. "Continental philosophy" is thus defined in terms of a family of philosophical traditions and influences rather than a geographic distinction. The issue of geographical specificity has been raised again more recently in post-colonial and decolonial approaches to "continental philosophy", which critically examine the ways that European imperial and colonial projects have influenced academic knowledge production. For this reason, some scholars have advocated for "post-continental philosophy" as an outgrowth of continental philosophy. The term continental philosophy , like analytic philosophy , lacks

527-487: The United States from roughly 1930 onward. Russell and Moore made a dismissal of Hegelianism and its philosophical relatives a distinctive part of their new movement. Commenting on the history of the distinction in 1945, Russell distinguished "two schools of philosophy, which may be broadly distinguished as the Continental and the British respectively", a division he saw as operative "from the time of Locke"; Russell proposes

558-552: The above sense, was first widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philosophies then widespread in France and Germany, such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism. However, the term (and its approximate sense) can be found at least as early as 1840, in John Stuart Mill 's 1840 essay on Coleridge , where Mill contrasts

589-421: The definition of continental philosophy. Prior to the twentieth century, the term "continental" was used broadly to refer to philosophy from continental Europe. A different use of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement . The term continental philosophy may mark merely

620-499: The first-person perspective (an idea found in divergent forms such as Cartesianism , spiritualism , and Bergsonism ). Most important in this popularization of phenomenology was the author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre , who called his philosophy existentialism . Another major strain of continental thought is structuralism / post-structuralism . Influenced by the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure , French anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss began to apply

651-652: The following broad points of distinction between Continental and British types of philosophy: Since the 1970s, however, many philosophers in the United States and Britain have taken interest in continental philosophers since Kant, and the philosophical traditions in many European countries have similarly incorporated many aspects of the "analytic" movement. Self-described analytic philosophy flourishes in France, including philosophers such as Jules Vuillemin , Vincent Descombes , Gilles Gaston Granger , François Recanati , and Pascal Engel . Likewise, self-described "continental philosophers" can be found in philosophy departments in

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682-583: The imprint, "But the gem has been Verso, our closest thing to a mainstream radical publisher. It’s building one of Britain’s most interesting fiction lists." Verso Books titles are distributed in the United States by Penguin Random House . The publishing house is known to host many events in the United States and the UK, focusing on radical politics and history. In 2021, Verso was publicly accused of poorly handling an internal sexual harassment grievance brought by

713-771: The largest independent , radical publishing house in the English-speaking world , publishing one hundred books a year. Harper's called it "Anglo-America's preeminent radical press," and The Sunday Times called it "a rigorously intelligent publisher." In 1970, Verso Books began as a paperback imprint of New Left Books and became its sole imprint. It established itself as a publisher of nonfiction works on international politics . Verso Books has also periodically published fiction over its history. On April 8, 2014 Verso began bundling DRM-free e-books with print purchases made through its website. Verso's managing director and US publisher, Jacob Stevens, stated that he expected

744-538: The most notable of this wave, arriving in the late 1930s and early 1940s. However, philosophy departments began offering courses in continental philosophy in the late 1960s and 1970s. Continental Philosophy features prominently in a number of British and Irish Philosophy departments, for instance at the University of Essex , Warwick , Newcastle , Sussex , Dundee , Aberdeen (Centre for Modern Thought), and University College Dublin ; as well as Manchester Metropolitan , Kingston , Staffordshire (postgraduate only), and

775-577: The new offer on the Verso website to contribute £200,000 to the publisher's revenue in its first year helping to "shake up how publishers relate to their readership, and help to support independent publishing". In 2019, Verso Books launched a dedicated fiction imprint, Verso Fiction. The fiction editor, Cian McCourt, said, "We want to publish bold, intelligent writing that's politically astute, but not dogmatic or charmless." In an article titled, "The best (and worst) fiction books of 2023," The Telegraph said of

806-475: The structural paradigm to the humanities. In the 1960s and '70s, post-structuralists developed various critiques of structuralism. Post-structuralist thinkers include Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze . After this wave, most of the late 20th century, the tradition has been carried into the 21st century by Quentin Meillassoux , Tristan Garcia , Francois Laruelle , and others. From the early 20th century until

837-399: The thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche ), hermeneutics , structuralism , post-structuralism , deconstruction , French feminism , psychoanalytic theory , and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School as well as branches of Freudian , Hegelian and Western Marxist views. Continental philosophy is often contrasted with analytic philosophy . There is no academic consensus on

868-605: The way for existentialism . Merquior wrote: "the most prestigious philosophizing in France took a very dissimilar path [from the Anglo-Germanic analytic schools]. One might say it all began with Henri Bergson." An illustration of some important differences between analytic and continental styles of philosophy can be found in Rudolf Carnap 's "Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language" (1932; "Überwindung der Metaphysik durch Logische Analyse der Sprache"),

899-562: The work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s and was closely linked with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment . Besides the central figures listed above, important contributors to German idealism also included Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , Gottlob Ernst Schulze , Karl Leonhard Reinhold , and Friedrich Schleiermacher . As the institutional roots of "continental philosophy" in many cases directly descend from those of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has always been

930-660: Was a growth of interest in German philosophy in France . A new interest in communism translated into an interest in Marx and Hegel, who became for the first time studied extensively in the politically conservative French university system of the Third Republic . At the same time the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl and Heidegger became increasingly influential, perhaps owing to its resonances with French philosophies which placed great stock in

961-461: Was also reviewed by Vice Media , Another Magazine , Vox Media , The Washington Post , and The Boar . Verso Books Verso Books (formerly New Left Books ) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City , founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review (NLR) and includes Tariq Ali and Perry Anderson on its board of directors. According to its website, it's

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