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continental philosophy

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continental philosophy
n.
A cluster of 20th-century European philosophical movements that view themselves as continuing the legacy of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger and include phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, and deconstructionism, especially as contrasted with analytic philosophy.


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Scheler has also been sidelined by the enormous presence of Heidegger in continental philosophy.
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Academics, he said, report that school students 'are not doing well enough in the basics--comprehension, analysis and expression--to be asked to assimilate notions such as deconstruction that stem from a bewilderingly complex school of continental philosophy, or pseudo-philosophy', and that 'students are entering university ill-equipped to write coherent sentences, let alone essays'.
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The kind of theoretical work that harks back to the questions of Weber or Durkheim seems more today the domain of comparative literature (Anidjar), continental philosophy (Derrida, Agamben), or medieval studies (Boyarin).
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