Provides a broad introduction to themes in European Philosophy, such as: the character of human subjectivity, rationality (and its limits), alienation, progress, history, freedom and how to understand meaning and morality with the waning of religious authority. Focuses on the legacy of the Enlightenment (Rousseau, Kant), the principal critics of this tradition (Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche), the emergence of existential and phenomenological themes in the work of thinkers such as Heidegger; some of the influential sources of contemporary theory such as the Frankfurt School and Hannah Arendt, and mostmodern thinkers such as Foucault.