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Article: Braver, Lee. A Thing of this World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- June 1, 2009
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BRAVER, Lee. A Thing of this World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism. Topics in Historical Philosophy. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007. xxi + 590 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $34.95--Lee Braver wants to see a lot more arguing taking place in philosophy. The problem with philosophy today, he claims, "is not that we are arguing with each other, but that we aren't, that we have hot yet risen to the point of disagreeing" (p. 7). He is referring of course to the lack of dialogue, and hence the mutual misunderstanding, between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. Braver claims, however, that the two camps share at least one significant ...