Gary GuttingThinkers

Analytic philosophy is a philosophical school that sets out to achieve maximal clarity about the content and basis of our intuition, while continental philosophy, by contrast, seeks to challenge our intuitions by the creation of new and (at first) highly counter-intuitive vocabularies.

Analytic philosophy reads experience in terms of common-sense intuitions (often along with their developments and transformations in science) and understands reason in terms of formal logic. Continental philosophy, by contrast, typically sees experience as penetrating beyond the veneer of common-sense and science, and regards reason as more a matter of intellectual imagination than deductive rigor.

Continental philosophy seeks to challenge our intuitions by the creation of new and (at first) highly counter-intuitive vocabularies whereas analytic philosophy is a philosophical school that sets out to achieve maximal clarity about the content and basis of our intuition.

Continental philosophy typically sees experience as penetrating beyond the veneer of common-sense and science, and regards reason as more a matter of intellectual imagination than deductive rigor whereas analytic philosophy reads experience in terms of common-sense intuitions (often along with their developments and transformations in science) and understands reason in terms of formal logic.

Maurice Blanchot's writing shimmers with a strangeness that seems due to the complete withdrawal of all subjectivity.