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Continental philosophy
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Continental philosophy

Collective term for the many distinct philospohical traditions, methods, and styles that predominated on the European continent (particularly in France and Germany) from the time of Immanuel Kant. It is usually understood in contrast with analytic philosophy, also called Anglo-American philosophy. In the 20th century it encompassed schools such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and deconstruction and thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. See also structuralism; poststructuralism.


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For Schmidt, trained as a continental philosopher, the very possibility of philosophical reflection rests upon its relation to the tradition.
Those of us who were dismayed by the New York Times' sneering obituary for Jacques Derrida owe a debt of gratitude to his good friend and America's most inspiring Continental philosopher, Jack Caputo, for his affectionate eulogy to this most complex Jewish saint.
 
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