(Murphy, 2021)
In “The Analytic-Continental Divide, and How to Transcend it,” Robert Hanna argues that The Great Divide between Analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy is essentially an artifact of the social-institutional structure of the professional academy in the latter half of the 20th century and the first three decades of the 21st century, and if so, then it follows that the only way to transcend The Divide is for philosophy to situate its center outside the professional academy. For most philosophers, that would mean exiting the professional academy altogether and becoming philosophical nomads. What would a nomadic, post-Divide philosophy look like? As Hanna points out, his line since the 2000s has been that both Analytic and Continental philosophy alike are nothing but outgrowths from and spins on Kantian philosophy: a series of footnotes to Kant; at bottom, nothing but Kantalytic philosophy and Kantinental philosophy. Therefore, the future progress of philosophy consists in facing up to its Kantian origins, and creating a critically refined and updated version of Kantian philosophy that’s centered outside the professional academy. Hanna’s own preferred model of this extra-professional-academic refined and updated Kantian philosophy is what he calls rational anthropology.
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