It is admittedly a grievous oversimplification,but if asked to summarize a critical incompatibility between analytical Anglo-American philosophers and so-called “Continentals," one might broadly say that the former approach philosophy as thinking, and the latter as writing. Contrast,for example, John Locke, or Thomas Hobbes,and Bertrand Russell—none of whom are particularly known as prose stylists—with Michel []
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