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Synopsis
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Continental-Analytic split in Western philosophy. Around the beginning of the last century, philosophy began to go down two separate paths, as thinkers from Continental Europe explored the legacy of figures including Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, while those educated in the English-speaking world tended to look to more analytically-inclined philosophers like Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege. But the divide between these two schools of thought is not clear cut, and many philosophers even question whether the term 'Continental' is accurate or useful.
The Analytic school favours a logical, scientific approach, in contrast to the Continental emphasis on the importance of time and place. But what are the origins of this split and is it possible that contemporary philosophers can bridge the gap between the two?
With:
Stephen Mulhall
Professor of Philosophy at New College, University of Oxford
Beatrice Han-Pile
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex
Hans Johann-Glock
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich
Producer: Natalia Fernandez.
FURTHER READING
S. Critchley, ‘Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction’ (Oxford University Press, 2001)
S. Glendinning, ‘The Idea of Continental Philosophy’ (Edinburgh University Press)
S. Glendinning, ‘In the Name Of Phenomenology’ (Routledge)
J. Chase and J. Reynolds, ‘Analytic Versus Continental: Arguments on the Methods and Value of Philosophy’ (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010)
C. G. Prado, ‘A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy’ (Prometheus Books, 2003)
T. Baldwin, ‘Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945’ (Oxford University Press, 2001)
M. Beaney (ed.), ‘The Oxford Companion to the History of Analytic Philosophy’ (Oxford University Press, 2010)
A. Biletzki and A. Matar (eds.), ‘The Story of Analytic Philosophy’ (Routledge, 1998)
L. J. Cohen, ‘The Dialogue of Reason: An Analysis of Analytic Philosophy’ (Oxford University Press, 1986)
M. A. E. Dummett, ‘The Origins of Analytical Philosophy’ (London: Duckworth, 1993)
H-J. Glock (ed.), ‘The Rise of Analytic Philosophy’ (Blackwell, 1997)
H-J. Glock, ‘What is Analytic Philosophy?’ (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
P. M. S. Hacker, ‘Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy’ (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
A. P. Martinich and D. Sosa (eds.), ‘Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology’ (Blackwell, 2001)
A. Preston, ‘Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion’ (Continuum, 2007)
A. Stroll, ‘Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy’ (Columbia University Press, 2000)
Broadcasts
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Thu 10 Nov 201109:00
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Thu 10 Nov 201121:30
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