[Analytic philosophy] sees itself as locked in a heroic struggle with something it calls ‘continental philosophy’: an atavistic cult, it seems, that lurks in dank corners of foreign languages where the sun of modern science does not shine.
In 2011, for instance, the New York philosopher Kit Fine described his continental colleagues as ‘fraudulent’, adding that if there were any exceptions they must be as rare as ‘good Nazis’. Analytic philosophers are terrified of continental philosophy, in short; but as Schuringa observes, it is probably no more than a figment of their imagination.
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In 2011, for instance, the New York philosopher Kit Fine described his continental colleagues as ‘fraudulent’, adding that if there were any exceptions they must be as rare as ‘good Nazis’. Analytic philosophers are terrified of continental philosophy, in short; but as Schuringa observes, it is probably no more than a figment of their imagination.
Jonathan Ree, The Analytic Ideology, NLR 154, July–August 2025
Jonathan Rée on Christoph Schuringa, A Social History of Analytic Philosophy. Critique of the ideological function of Anglo-American philosophy’s hegemonic style.
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