Roots of the Confrontation of Analytic Philosophy and Continental Philosophy: A Survey

The Confrontation of Analytic Philosophy and Continental Philosophy in the 20th century and continuity of the divergence between two sides have provoked some scholars to do research about the roots of this split and sometimes to ask for a way to approximate these two traditions. Among these studies Bernstein and Freidman’s opinions has had more reflection. Bernstein introduces praxis and action as the common elements of the important contemporary philosophical schools while Freidman take the encounter of three sages of contemporary philosophy, Cassirer, Heidegger and Carnap at Davos in 1929 as the root of the split. The cause of split according to him, from philosophical point of view is the approach to the logic and from political point of view is the position on or upon Nazism. But in opposition to him Tam Rackmore reduces the disagreement to the theory of knowledge and denies reducing it to the political issues. In this article Bernstein and Freidman’s ideas on the subject and their critics have been investigated.