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loginIn Britain and North America today weWnd a division between‘‘analytic’’ and ‘‘continental’’ philosophy. To be sure, the division is anunequal one, with most philosophers in each region to be found on theanalytic side of the divide. However, the near absence of this division incontinental Europe suggests that it is as much political as anything else,often a quarrel over whose students will get jobs and which work will berecognized as genuinely philosophical....Whatever the rationality of theanalytic/continental distinction, one of its oddities is that in recognizingthe division or even in overcoming it (as may be happening today), weoften neglect the diversity within each side of the division. There isnothing that could properly be called either continental or analyticphilosophy. At best, those terms designate family resemblances orconstellations or even clusters of constellations.
