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Well continental philosophy is currently turning the western world on its head so I don't think there will be reconciliation any time soon.

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That's just an American misconception - because they don't really have the feel of continental philosophy, and what they do took and practice of it, they imported, understood, and used badly (even since the 70s).

If anything, the places where continental philosophy flourished have less of this "turning the western world upside down" than the excesses in US academia (when they don't criticize them) - and some excesses of it they do share, they import them (due to US pop/social/etc culture pressure), not export them.

Yeah, if I were to take two extreme ends of philosophy in terms of sociological outlook it would be Ralph Waldo Emerson's style of self-reliance versus Critical Theory - and the self-reliance ethic runs deep in American culture, so of course Critical Theory seems like some kind of philosophical anti-matter to all things American.

The analytic/continental divide isn't a conservative/progressive thing.

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