A review by tajeip
The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling

5.0

"The main reason that so little attention is paid to Continental philosophy by Analytic philosophers has to be frankly acknowledged. It is that the latter are impatient with (at best; at worst, contemptuous of) — and here I will illustrate the point — what they see as the ab/uses and con/fusions of language, which, in its unexplained neologising, its deliberate ambiguity and its overloading, attenuating or deflating of meanings (the use of the virgule is a common device, as above; a form of 'phallus/y'?) seems impressionistic and slippery, the unclarity a mask for unclarity of thought, or worse, a pretence of profundity."