Postanalytic and Metacontinental Crossing Philosophical Divides [Hardcover]

Analytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This important collection of essays details some of the more significant methodological and philosophical differences that have separated the two traditions, as well as examining the manner in which received understandings of the divide are being challenged by certain thinkers whose work might best be described as post-analytic and meta-continental.

Together these essays offer a well-defined sense of the field, of its once dominant distinctions and of some of the most productive new areas generating influential ideas and controversy. In an attempt to get to the bottom of precisely what it is that separates the analytic and continental traditions, the essays in this volume compare and contrast them on certain issues, including truth, time and subjectivity. The book engages with a range of key thinkers from phenomenology, post-structuralism, analytic philosophy and post-analytic philosophy, examines the strengths and weaknesses of each tradition, and ultimately encourages enhanced understanding, dialogue and even rapprochement between these sometimes antagonistic adversaries.

1. Introduction: Post-analytic and Meta-continental Philosophy Jack Reynolds, James Chase, James Williams and Edwin Mares\ 2. Post-analytic Philosophy: Overcoming the Divide? George Duke, with Elena Walsh, James Chase, and Jack Reynolds\Part 1: Reason and Argument\ 3. The Fate of Transcendental Reasoning in Contemporary Philosophy James Chase and Jack Reynolds\ 4. Logic and Metaphysics: Dummett Meets HeideggerEdwin Mares\ 5. Argument All the Way Down: The Demanding Discipline of Non-Argumento-Centric Modes of PhilosophySimon Glendinning\ 6. Analytic Philosophy and Dialogic ConservatismJames Chase\Part 2: Mind\ 7. Cartesian Echoes in the Philosophy of Mind: The Case of John SearlePascale Gillot\ 8. When the Twain Meet:l6