An examination of themes and figures in European philosophy and critical social theory since the 1960s. Readings are drawn from philosophers and theorists influential in the broad Continental tradition, such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Christine Delphy, Jürgen Habermas, Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe, Alain Badiou, and Silvia Federici.