Continental philosophy is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from
mainland Europe. 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
analytic movement. Continental philosophy includes the following movements:
German idealism,
phenomenology,
existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought of
Kierkegaard and
Nietzsche),
hermeneutics,
structuralism,
post-structuralism,
French feminism,
psychoanalytic theory, and the
critical theory of the
Frankfurt School and related branches of
Western Marxism.