What are some books that cover the history of Western philosophy from post-Hegel to contemporary times? (I mean anything and everything, continental and analytic)
History of Philosophy by Fredrick Copleston
>>8970746
What is the point of studying the "history" of philosophy?
Why not just read philosophers?
>>8972025
Several reasons. You might be trying to get a feel for the terrain before deciding what to read. Your interest might not be in philosophy directly, but in how the historical context produces certain ideas rather than others. You might find it valuable to know what sort of world a particular philosopher inhabited and what ideas he was responding to before diving in. Are you really so stupid that you answer rhetorical questions?
>>8970746
Habermas' The philosophical discourse of modernity
It only covers continentals but it does a good job of it: Hegel, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno and the post estructuralists
>>8972025
Read Hegel plrb