20th Century & Contemporary

Contemporary philosophy has been shaped by two great divergences: the analytic tradition, which uses formal logic and philosophy of language to achieve precision and clarity, and the continental tradition, which inherits Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl and emphasises history, power, and lived experience. These traditions have produced radically different styles and preoccupations, yet the questions — about consciousness, justice, meaning, and our relationship to language and reality — remain recognisably the same ones philosophy has always asked.