Oxford Press never fails to publish a book that feels like how Analytic philosophy feels like to people who detest all of Analytic philosophyThis one was published in as recent as 2025, trust me it's nearly unbearable
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>>25306715Name one good analytic philosophy book then
>>25306715qrd? so i can hate analytics more than i already do
>>25306715>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09608788.2016.1261794The whole thing is honestly a big scam. It is extremely suspicious how it came to dominance in US universities during sensible years (50s and 69s) at the expense of kinds of philosophies that were dealing directly with social problems. Reducing philosophy to chess game to establish irrelevant points to an autistic degree of precision killed the speculative aspect of the subject in unis, which is what draws people to philosophy in the first place most of the time. They knew perfectly well what they were doing, in my opinion, and they never wanted to take the risk that philosophy may trickle down from student movements into worker movements, as it often did. So they simply excluded "continental" philosophy from institutional discourse, in years where extremely groundbreaking and sensible stuff was coming out - partly by leveraging already exsting traditions of american pragmatism against it.Now you have stuff like Deleuze & Guattari coming back to the US through bastardized and badly digested Nick Land's ramblings around which people build internet cults. Had they let this philosophy find an institutionalized place in US culture, they wouldn't have all this schizo (in the Deleuzian sense) talk moving alongside universities on parallel tracks. But you get what you deserve, as always. If you repress a trail of culture and expression that, like all trails of culture, has a reason to exist and express itself, it will come out somewhere else - in weirder and weirder ways.
how does this shit even get funded?
>>25307327This makes me like it more. Continental philosophy will be forgotten in a few decades.
yea it's not too profitable
>>25307327Universities have always been fundamentally conservative in character if not in ideology, because they serve as the ideological arm of the ruling class. It's not that analytic philosophy was a psyop designed to depoliticize philosophy but rather that you were never going to get genuinely socially conscious philosophy from universities because that would be contrary to their fundamental character and purpose. Academia exists not to "produce" or "discover" knowledge but rather to control the discourse of knowledge and expertise through determining who is considered a legitimate authority and who is a crank - they have a more or less absolute monopoly over conferring or revoking authority in the public eye.
