APOPHATIC RATIONALISM IN ANGLOPHONE PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY: HISTORICAL ASSESSMENT AND THEORETICAL OUTCOMES

In the Anglophone intellectual world since the 1990s we witness a widespread movement of the academia from analytical philosophy more and more into continental philosophy, since neither themes, nor style, nor logics are effective criteria to distinguish the two, but the two came about because of historical circumstances, mainly the Second World War.[1] What really used to distinguish them was the hostility of analytical philosophy towards history of philosophy.[2] An hostility still present but quickly vanishing, [3] so that , hopefully, less and less continental philosophy will be confined to Nietzsche,Heidegger,Adorno,Foucault,Derrida,Ricoeur,Guattari,Lacan,Levinas and Deleuze, but will also include Descartes, Malebranche, Galilei, Spinoza, Grotius, Bodin,Leibniz,Wolf,Kant,Rousseau,Voltaire,Vico,Hegel,Fichte,Comte, Croce and Freud (without Freud, why Ricouer and Lacan, after all?).