This book examines the encounters between leading 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophers: Frege and Husserl, Carnap and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bataille and Ayer, the Royaumont colloquium, and Derrida with Searle.

Autorentext
Andreas Vrahimis is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK and teaches at the University of Cyprus.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Frege, Husserl and the future of philosophy 2. Questioning metaphysics in Weimar Germany: Carnap, Heidegger, Nonsense 3. Was there a sun before men existed?: Ayer, Sartre, Bataille, and Merleau-Ponty 4. 'La Philosophie Analytique' at Royaumont: Ryle's ambivalent phenomenology 5. Derrida and Searle: The abyss stares back? 6. Conclusion