I wish I could sit down with a book by a somewhat modern continental philosopher and read it without also having to simultaneously go back and read the entire collected works of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger in order to understand it. #philosophy #continentalphilosophy

@ConatusPrinciple Smells like academia.

@ConatusPrinciple Don’t forget Hamann’s arguments countering Kant! Isn’t philosophy fun!!

@ConatusPrinciple I just mean the constant referencing of earlier work, which is critical for academic argument, but less helpful in a popular text. Hope you're having fun even in the face of all those earlier philosophers!

@KimberlyHirsh Yeah definitely, and especially in continental philosophy that’s still base itself on commentary on the classics in giant tomes, analytic philosophy is more like “here is my paper on X, everything you need to understand or critique it should be within these 10-20 pages”