My background is also in analytic. I did a little bit of continental in school, but not much, and most of it went over my head at the time. I only got really into it a few years ago during a point in my life where it turned out to be exactly what I needed. Analytic philosophy is great for teaching you how to think critically and craft well-structured arguments, but continental philosophy is far more useful when it comes to questions of how to understand yourself and live your life.
If you're interested in reading existentialism at all, I think The Ethics of Ambiguity is actually a great place to start. It's quite short, and I've always found Beauvoir's prose to be pretty readable as far as continental philosophers go. It's hard to describe how that book impacted me, but it has more heart and humanity in it than the entire analytic canon.
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Date: 2022-02-01 04:30 am (UTC)If you're interested in reading existentialism at all, I think The Ethics of Ambiguity is actually a great place to start. It's quite short, and I've always found Beauvoir's prose to be pretty readable as far as continental philosophers go. It's hard to describe how that book impacted me, but it has more heart and humanity in it than the entire analytic canon.