Continental Tradition
<p><b>Continental philosophy</b> is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe" title="Continental Europe">mainland Europe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" title="Analytic philosophy">analytic movement</a>. Continental philosophy includes the following movements: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_idealism" title="German idealism">German idealism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_%28philosophy%29" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">phenomenology</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a> (and its antecedents, such as the thought of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard">Kierkegaard</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics" title="Hermeneutics">hermeneutics</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism" title="Structuralism">structuralism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism" title="Post-structuralism">post-structuralism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_France" title="Feminism in France">French feminism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalytic_theory" title="Psychoanalytic theory">psychoanalytic theory</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory">critical theory</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School" title="Frankfurt School">Frankfurt School</a> and related branches of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism" title="Western Marxism">Western Marxism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></p>