Article Title：Whose fault? The origins and evitability of the analytic-continental rift
Abstract：
This is a broad survey of the chronology of the rift between continental and analytic philosophy, starting in 1899. Whereas at that time there was no discernible divide, as the twentieth century progresses we can see a gradual parting of the ways in which philosophy was done, culminating in a period of maximum separation in 1945-68, followed by some convergence. There is one substantial historical thesis proposed, and facts are adduced from the chronology to back it up: that the divide was never absolute, never purely geographical, and above all that it was not inevitable, but was largely the product of accidental historical circumstance, of which the most crucial was the flourishing of totalitarianism in Europe and the disruption caused by two world wars.
Keywords: analytic philosophy; continental philosophy; contingency in history; history of twentieth-century philosophy
DOI: 10.1080/09672550110058858
Source：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
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