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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Though I've also once been compared to Habermas/Frankfurt school, which is almost the opposite.
I've also been simultaneously accused of being a capitalist shill and a communist apologist for the same essay, so go figure :D
That's why I don't take comparisons seriously.
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All the best positions get that ;)
Habermas & FS are v different (basically the latter is Marxist, with an emphasis on the sphere of cultural production as ideological apparatus), be suspicious of anyone bracketing them together.
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You'd be surprised how common this is in communication studies. Or maybe not...
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Yeah, I was making that mistake myself early on when I first ran into both worlds. Now I can tell them apart. It's an understandable mistake since both traditions came out of the same milieu, in response to similar zeitgeist developments, and do have a certain amount of resonance
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