ABSTRACT
The days are long past when analytic philosophers could deride their continental counterparts as not worthy of serious attention. No doubt one can point to poor work in the continental tradition, but one can do the same in the analytic context. But one can no longer simply say that the continental emphasis on ‘being’can be dismissed as a confused reification of a verb! The interest in ‘being’ is simply the concern with the nature of reality without which philosophy could hardly be itself.
