A fault line has run through Western philosophy for a hundred years. In the Anglosphere, philosophy is a thoroughly academic affair and goes by the name "analytic" or "Anglo-American." Devoted to the clarification of concepts, it is a modest discipline. It thinks of itself as a handmaiden to scientific inquiry, helping biologists, physicists, or brain scientists refine their language and causal theories. Critics of analytic philosophy think it arid, ahistorical, and insular. Its debates (and there are many) do not percolate through to the popular consciousness.
When Jordan Peterson, Roger Scruton, Russell Brand, Slavoj Zizek, or Alain de Botton bring philosophy to our homes through Youtube.com, it is the other side of the divide we learn about: Continental philosophy
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