A study of 20th century topics and figures in continental philosophy such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, structuralism, and post-structuralism. Figures discussed may include Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Adorno and Horkheimer (the Frankfurt School), Foucault, Deleuze, Cixous, and Derrida.