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Is all continental philosophy postmodernism?If not,could some of you ELI5 the other areas of continental philosophy that are currently being worked on?
gpt
Not at all. "Postmodernism" is also not an *area* of continental philosophy, but an imprecise label to describe a cluster of mostly French post-structuralist philosophers and their followers in non-philosophy humanities departments: Lacan, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, etc.

This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as continental philosophy, and IMHO, the shittiest part. Continental philosophy includes basically *all* philosophy done on the Continent of Europe, especially in Germany and France, from Kant to the late 20th century (today the geographic separation is less clear - there is a lot of continental philosophy outside Continental Europe and a lot of analytic philosophy in Continental Europe--Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy...)

Other areas include:

**German Idealism**: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, post-Hegelians

**Marxism**: Marx, Althusser, Lukacs, etc.

**Critical Theory**/**Frankfurt School**: Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas

**Psychoanalysis**: (read as philosophy rather than psychology) Freud, Jung, Lacan

**Nietzsche**

**Kierkegaard**

**Bergson**

**Phenomenology**: Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Levinas

The big one is phenomenology. It would be more accurate to say not that all continental philosophy is postmodernism but that all continental philosophy is phenomenology, but of course there's a lot more to it. There are also some figures that don't fit in the above categories, and some contemporary stuff I've left out.