ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide an earlier and deeper Anglo-American philosophical tradition for a post-analytical world. It explains the analytical connection and remythologize the notion of Anglo-American thought along Romantic–neopragmatist lines. The chapter argues that if a continuous and live tradition of Anglo-American philosophy exists, it is best conceived along the Romantic–neopragmatist trajectory, rather than the largely defunct analytical genealogy. Reconstructing and remythologizing Anglo-American philosophy along Romantic–neopragmatist lines, therefore, speaks to its vindication over the analytic tradition, especially in philosophy of religion. The term ‘Anglo-American philosophy’ is invoked most frequently to identify an epistemological alliance. Richard Rorty similarly characterizes the Anglo-American/Continental difference, albeit with Nietzschean flourish. Anglo-American philosophers abjectly failed philosophy by marching it off into the technical obscurity of logical analysis. Rorty fancies himself an Anglo-American analogue to Derrida, and his neopragmatism an Anglo-American parallel to Derridean deconstruction.
