The Paradox of Analytic Philosophy’s Success

[Hume]

“The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests.”

And “it has had little impact on the general culture and on other parts of the academy.”

The Paradox of Analytic Philosophy’s Success - Daily Nous

"The paradox is that the more analytic philosophy became dominant in the universities, the more it became removed from the concerns of the average person with philosophical interests." And "it has had little impact on the general culture and on other parts of the academy." So writes Tim Crane...

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[Hume]

"The original sin of analytic philosophy, then, is that it simply recreates the 18th century “bourgeois” ideologies of liberalism and empiricism, and does so without any historical or critical awareness. Not only are these ideologies pernicious in themselves—Schuringa talks of “the fact that the ideological function of liberalism is the justification of a system of subjugation”—but analytic philosophy deserves special contempt for being so deeply historically entangled with these political ideas while assuming that it is, in itself, apolitical and ahistorical.