Introduction: structure and genesis of early twentieth-century Continental philosophy -- Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to metaphysics" (1903) -- Schizophrenic thought: Freud's "The unconscious" (1915) -- Consciousness as distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica entry) -- The thought of the nothing: Heidegger's "What is metaphysics?" (1929) -- Dwelling in the speaking of language: Heidegger's "Language" (1950) -- Dwelling in the texture of the visible: Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and mind" (1961) -- Enveloped in a nameless voice: Foucault's "The thought of the outside" (1966) -- Conclusion: further questions.