the introduction to continental philosophy here is left as footnote, but the argument for understanding continental philosophy and not as a red-headed stepchild of analytic philosophy goes in saying that they've had as equal an effect on the world of art and politics (of the kind in countries opposed to america, tho, of course) as analytic philosophy has in formal linguistics and cs and such.
do you think they don't read adorno in beijing university? they do. if the chinese started off the great Deng reform era based upon the marxist doctrine of historical materialism, maybe it's worthwhile to go learn historical materialism! the Bourbaki conversed extensively with the French post-structuralists and various other weirdoes including Dieudonne, Levi-Strauss, Piaget and Lacan: if you understand more of post-structuralism, maybe you'll understand why the hell they are / were that way!
they sure didn't have the early-Wittgensteinian idea of philosophy as fundamentally therapy underneath. they lived by philosophy, and slaughtered millions for it, but this is still worth study, if not very useful as life-enrichment.
do you think they don't read adorno in beijing university? they do. if the chinese started off the great Deng reform era based upon the marxist doctrine of historical materialism, maybe it's worthwhile to go learn historical materialism! the Bourbaki conversed extensively with the French post-structuralists and various other weirdoes including Dieudonne, Levi-Strauss, Piaget and Lacan: if you understand more of post-structuralism, maybe you'll understand why the hell they are / were that way!
they sure didn't have the early-Wittgensteinian idea of philosophy as fundamentally therapy underneath. they lived by philosophy, and slaughtered millions for it, but this is still worth study, if not very useful as life-enrichment.