Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

This is a wonderfully accesible (clear, small, well written) and much needed book for everyone interested in penetrating modern philosophical disputes. Really illuminating, admirably balanced. If that is not enough, it also delivers, at least in my opinion and between lines, a dissection of what is at the root of modern disputes between science and alternatives ways of knowledge, and even between political ideologies (left-right, extremists, etc). A book in the crossroads between analytic and continental philosophy only comparable to Richard Rorty's writings (e.g., Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity)