Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basicproject of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movementtoward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in thecontinental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, andMerleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy.Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers --immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. Hisconception of continental philosophy as a unified project enables Lawlor to thinkbeyond its European origins and envision a global sphere of philosophical inquirythat will revitalize the field.