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The Continental Philosophy Reader Richard Kearney, Mara Rainwater
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.

I view Kearney's proposal as pretty modest, and for those of us already reading work in Continental philosophy of religion, little of what Kearney takes as his approach will be controversial. The goal, as he explained in a 1990 essay in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, wasn't to make “abstract philosophy 'accessible' ” by simplifying ideas for a lay audience, but to figure out how to recreate a reader's more from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy that a gap exists: Continental philosophers have traditionally felt far closer to fictional literature, and continental authors have blended philosophical thoughts into their works, as Ryerson himself mentions. Very interesting post with ramifications in, among other subjects, the unfortunate split-off between analytic and continental philosophers. This collection of interviews can be read as an advice handbook or an introduction to post- Continental philosophy. I, on the other hand, am researching Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology and am currently reading Mind and Matter by Henri Bergson (Continental Philosophers). Thursday May 31, 2013 at 5:31 pm. Poetry thus has a more pronounced subjective aspect. From the writer's stance, your favorite philosophical argument/stance! Consequently, one is expected to spend much longer reading a poem, perhaps going back over it, line by line, and thinking of all the different things those words could signify. Carnap and Karl Popper (Analytic Philosophers). Nietzsche I can inform all reading that Ayn Rand is not considered a philosopher of note in Germany. Strangely, especially when you consider that he generated the main problems for the next century in continental philosophy yet had no interest in the seeds of analytic philosophy, Nietszche's system is one of the only teleologically consistent ones of his era (or since). I'm guessing the same is true in many other countries. Either way the point is to provide the reader with a small push on the winding stairs up to the ivory tower.