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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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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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I've made my peace with the fact that readers who are better read and informed than I am around my own writings will likely want to juxtapose and connect and critique in specific traditions, but that's their homework if they want it.
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Naturally this means there are people who dismiss me out of hand because something I said, when seen in the context of what they think they know from some tradition I'm unaware of, completely invalidates, undermines, supersedes what I said. That's blogosphere risk.
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