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Continental philosophyCollective 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Scheler has also been sidelined by the enormous presence of Heidegger in continental philosophy. Academics, he said, report that school students 'are not doing well enough in the basics--comprehension, analysis and expression--to be asked to assimilate notions such as deconstruction that stem from a bewilderingly complex school of continental philosophy, or pseudo-philosophy', and that 'students are entering university ill-equipped to write coherent sentences, let alone essays'. The kind of theoretical work that harks back to the questions of Weber or Durkheim seems more today the domain of comparative literature (Anidjar), continental philosophy (Derrida, Agamben), or medieval studies (Boyarin). |
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