A Historical Turn in Analytical Philosophy and Neopragmatism

Abstract

After the collapse of the “Atlantic Wall” and the breaking of the boundaries between continental and analytic philosophy, there has been a historical turn in analytic philosophy, and contrary to expectations of the emergence of post-analytic philosophy on the philosophical scene, neo-pragmatism took that place, although these terms indicate in a rough way the same phenomenon. This situation demonstrates the modern definition of analytical philosophy as a technique and toolkit rather than a set of problems that define a philosophical tradition. Neopragmatism, in turn, was more consistent with the maintenance of humanistic intellectual traditions, satisfying substantive needs, which by the beginning of the XXI century. come to the foregraund, pushing back the sophisticated logical toolkit and the elitist method, unsuitable for the mass consumer of philosophical knowledge that was formed during this period.