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

