Pragmatism and the European traditions: encounters with analytic philosophy and phenomenology before the great divide - 13

The turn of the 20th century witnessed the birth of two distinct philosophical schools in Europe: analytic philosophy and phenomenology.

The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual hostility.

What is often left out of this history, however, is the relationship between the two European schools and a third significant philosophical event: the birth and development of pragmatism, the indigenous philosophical movement of the United States.

Through a careful analysis of seminal figures and central texts, this work explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between these three revolutionary philosophical traditions.