The Fate of Analysis

"[The Fate of Analysis] effectively overcomes the crisis of reason in Western civilization [in a] heroic and extremely valuable effort to regain civilizational sanity." - Arran Gare, author of Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization and Chief Editor of Cosmos and History.

"...Hanna brings a unique voice and passionate vitality to the adventure of ideas - what might be called free-range philosophy. If ours were a civilized country this book would be readily available in every airport bookstore across the nation." - Henry Pickford, modern philosophy scholar, having been widely published by Palgrave Macmillan, Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and many others.

Robert Hanna's twelfth book, The Fate of Analysis, is a comprehensive revisionist study of Analytic philosophy from the early 1880s to the present, with special attention paid to Wittgenstein's work and the parallels and overlaps between the Analytic and Phenomenological traditions.

By means of a synoptic overview of European and Anglo-American philosophy since the 1880s-including accessible, clear, and critical descriptions of the works and influence of, among others, Gottlob Frege, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alexius Meinong, Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, The Vienna Circle, W.V.O. Quine, Saul Kripke, Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and Robert Brandom, and, particularly, Ludwig Wittgenstein-The Fate of Analysis critically examines and evaluates modern philosophy over the last 140 years.

In addition to its critical analyses of the Analytic tradition and of professional academic philosophy more generally, The Fate of Analysis also presents a thought-provoking, forward-looking, and positive picture of the philosophy of the future from a radical Kantian point of view.