Heidegger

I think you’ll find earlier references to “continental philosophy”. It was in
use by at least the 1920s at Oxbridge–not that I can cite a reference from
where I am right now.

Analytic philosophy is a later artificial construction, in that there was a
need for a term for Anglo-American philosophy that was less geographical
(despite the Vienna Circle having voted with their feet), and not all
Anglo-American philosophers wanted to be labeled logical-positivists. So the
earliest reference, from whomever coined the term “analytic philosophy”,
probably contrasts it to “continental philosophy” in the next sentence.

— Anthony Crifasi wrote:

> Someone on another discussion list is looking for the earliest
> references to the division between “analytic philosophy” and
> “continental philosophy” (those specific phrases). Does anyone here
> know? So far, the following two are the earliest I’ve found:
>
>
> 1.
> Author(s): E. N.
> Reviewed work(s): Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred J. Ayer
> Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 12 (Jun. 4, 1936), pp.
> 328-330
> Publisher: Journal of Philosophy, Inc.
> Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2016260
>
> Nagel critiques Ayer’s brand of “analytic philosophy” (phrase occurs on
> p. 329), and then on the next page compliments Ayer for having “stated
> in clear language the outcome of the logico-analytic method, freed from
> the disturbing overtones of the continental schools…” That’s the only
> reference to “continental” in the review.
>
>
> 2.
> Philosophic Thought in France and the United States
> Author(s): Herbert W. Schneider
> Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Mar.,
> 1951), pp. 376-385
> Publisher: International Phenomenological Society
> Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2103542
>
> The phrase “continental philosophies” occurs on p. 380, where the author
> describes it as having been revolutionized by Husserl and as dominated
> by the phenomenological method. The phrase “analytic philosophy” occurs
> on p. 383 in the context of American thought, and is characterized by
> the author as distinctly “objective,” “scientific,” and “conceptual” in
> its methodology, in that even subjective phenomena are described
> “objectively,” as in the “facts” of subjectivity. The author opposes
> this (in the same paragraph) to the French call to “pass beyond all
> conceptualizations.”
>
>
> Anyone know of any earlier ones?
>
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