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Introduction: On the history of continental philosophy

✍ Scribed by Kevin Mulligan

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
606 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7411

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✦ Synopsis

Continental philosophy" is now a well-established term in the Englishspeaking world: it has a point and is taken to refer to a fairly well-defined entity. It is, for example, regularly used in job descriptions. But any explanation that goes beyond something like the following, "Continental philosophy is the sort of philosophy produced by or in the wake of philosophers such as Heidegger and Adorno, Habermas and Apel, Sartre and Lrvinas, Foucault, Lacan, Althusser and Derrida", is likely to be controversial. The term excludes analytical and other types of exact philosophy done on the continent. 1 Nor is the contrast between Analytical and Continental Philosophy supposed to encourage the assumption that Wittgenstein and Carnap are honorary Anglo-Saxons.

Continental Philosophy is often held to have the following distinctive features: it is inherently obscure and obscurantist, often closer to the genre of literature than to that of philosophy; it is devoid of arguments, distinctions, examples and

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