If you classify western philosophers by what they led with, I think it is:
Epistemology-first: Spinoza, Descartes, Hume, Kant
Ontology-first: Hegel, Marx, Heidegger
Phenomenology-first: Nietzche, Husserl, Arendt
Treating these as stocks I think E is down, O is up, P is up a lot
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You might get a lot out of Graham Harman's object-oriented philosophy & Quentin Meillassoux's anti-correlationism (there is a real world out there that we can know thru science/math). Kinda blows up the tired analytic/continental divide.
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In general, I like to stay vaguely aware of various traditions that claim turf around my interests, in case I get into fights, but tbh I mostly ignore them. The benefit of saved time and risk of repeating old mistakes are both lower than risk of getting bogged down in other heads
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From Harman or QM?
How about Latour? Can be an infuriating writer but there's a lot going on with actor-network theory.
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I like Latour better, but again, as in most cases of relations to existing work, I find the effort of accessing it is almost never worth it, and reinventing wheels for myself is both more productive and more fun. Luxury of non-academic life is ignoring intellectual neighbors
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