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Betreff: Re: earliest references to “Analytic-Continental” division?
Datum: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:42:53 +0200
Von: Michael Eldred
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Anthony Crifasi schrieb Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:23:17 -0500:

> 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?
>

ME: Thanks for those references, Anthony. 1936 sounds about right,
around
the heyday of the Vienna Circle. But of course the line starts with
Hobbes
who already pronounced that words such as “entity” and “essence” are the
“names of nothing”. There may be something in Carnap’s 1931-32 article
‘Überwindung der Metaphysik durch log. Analyse der Sprache’ Erkenntnis 2
(1931-32) 219-241.
[Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie: Metaphysikkritik. (vgl. HWPh
Bd.
5, S. 1293)].

“Als Titel für eine moderne Richtung der Philosophie ist der Ausdruck
a.Ph.
allerdings erst recht spät, wohl zuerst 1936, mit E. NAGEL literarisch
belegt [3].”
[Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie: Philosophie, analytische. , S.
27248 (vgl. HWPh Bd. 7, S. 879)]

[3] E. NAGEL: Impressions and appraisals of Analytic philos. in Europe.
J.
Philosophy 33 (1936) 5-24; zit. als Erstbeleg für Analytic philosophy,
in:
Oxford dict., hg. R. W. BURCHFIELD, Suppl. 1 (Oxford 1972) 83.
[Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie: Philosophie, analytische. , S.
27251 (vgl. HWPh Bd. 7, S. 880)]

According to this last reference to Nagel, the term “analytic
philosophy”
was first used in its modern sense in 1936. A fortiori a counterposing
of
analytic philosophy and “continental philosophy” cannot be any earlier.
G.
E. MOORE and B. RUSSELL are regarded as its founders.
[Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie: Philosophie, analytische. , S.
27248 (vgl. HWPh Bd. 7, S. 879)] Analytic philosophy was founded around
1900, at the same time as Husserlian phenomenology, and phenomenology
can be
regarded as a (the?) major current of philosophy, namely, the
continental
current, vis-à-vis Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy in the 20th century.

Cf. Hegel on the critique of the “analysis” so prominent in empiricism
Enz.
§38 Addition. See also Hegel’s critique of (formal) logic which
presupposes
its proof procedures of logical argumentation by means of premisses and
conclusions (cf. e.g. Enz. §42).

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