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Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion (Hardcover)
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Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy
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One would expect that so successful and controversial a
philosophical school as analytic philosophy would have a clear
platform of substantive philosophical views. However, this is not
so. For at least 30 years, analytic philosophy has consisted in an
increasingly loose and variable amalgam of philosophical topics,
views and methods. This state of affairs has led some to claim
that, despite its professional entrenchment, analytic philosophy is
in a state of crisis. Analytic Philosophy: The History of an
Illusion argues that this is so, and that the crisis is deeper and
more longstanding than is usually recognized. Synthesizing data
from early and recent studies on the historical and philosophical
foundations of analytic philosophy as well as from canonical
primary texts, it argues (1) that analytic philosophy has never
involved significant agreement on substantive philosophical views,
and thus that it has always been in this state of crisis, (2) that
this fact was long hidden by the illusion that analytic philosophy
was originally united in the metaphilosophical thesis that
philosophy is linguistic analysis, and (3) that both the rise of
analytic philosophy under this illusion and the preservation of its
privileged status since the illusion's demise have been facilitated
by a scientistic 'stance' that minimizes the traditional
philosophical duty to examine one's most fundamental assumptions.
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