PhD in Philosophy - Continental Philosophy in Atlanta United States | Emory University

At Emory, continental philosophy represents both a collection of philosophical approaches and a field of research where faculty rigorously examine key thinkers and movements from late 18th to 20th century Europe, often connecting them with other philosophical eras and schools, such as American and ancient philosophy.

Scholars frequently engage with Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Cassirer, Adorno, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Foucault, Deleuze, and Kristeva. (Our affiliated faculty also specialize in Benjamin, Derrida, Foucault, and Levinas.)

Additionally, faculty explore broader intellectual movements including critical social theory, existentialism, French feminism, German idealism, German romanticism, phenomenology, post-structuralism, and psychoanalytic thought.