Is There Still (if There Has Been At All) an Analytic–Continental Divide?

• Authors: d'Agostini Franca
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I reconstruct the nature, origins and survivals of the divide between the “analytic” and “continental” traditions – a famous dualism which has affected the development of philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. I also present a theory of it, stressing that its intra-philosophical causes are to be found in the mutual resistance between critical (transcendental) and semantic (logical) approaches in philosophy. I conclude by noting that good philosophers (more or less knowingly) are and have always been sensitive to the transcendental and logical aspects of the philosophical work.

Keywords

EN

analytic philosophy; continental philosophy; birth of modern logic; transcendental philosophy

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Edukacja Filozoficzna
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 74
• Pages: 9-36

Contributors

author

d'Agostini Franca

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