Why I Don't Read Continental Philosophy - by Noah McKay
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A confession
I am an analytic philosopher. I do not read continental philosophy (anymore). In this post, I will explain why. I intend to confess, not polemicize — I will not try to convince you to stop reading continental philosophy. I will merely try to communicate why I stopped reading it. In college, I took a class on continental philosophy. I read all the greats — Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Habermas, Arendt, de Beauvoir, and so on. Their writing was unintelligible to me. More importantly, it was unintelligible in a distinctive way. It was…
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