ABSTRACT

Now that various claims to the Kantian legacy have been recounted on behalf of the House of Continental, it is time to consider what corresponding claims can be made on behalf of the House of Analytic. In the Introduction I suggested that, by responding to Kant’s dualisms in divergent ways, continental and analytic philosophers had prioritized different philosophical questions. In this concluding chapter I will first present an extremely brief synopsis of how the analytic variants have been pursued. I will then try to show that the division between the two houses can be represented as a metaantinomy about the nature of antinomies. Finally, I will suggest that the analytic/continental distinction attests to a shared anxiety that all post-Kantian thinkers have had to face about the philosopher’s cosmopolitan vocation.