Contemporary Philosophical Movements
- Deconstructionism (See also deconstructivism).
- Emotivism
- Postmodernism
- Poststructuralism
- Structuralism
The Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Romanticism are broader cultural "movements" that happened to characterized by fairly distinctive philosophical concerns.
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