Yeah, that’s been a significant shift over the last few decades in the U.S. There’s still a significant anti-scientific religious faction within the American left (New Agers and such) but they’ve been increasingly joined by factions that thirty/forty years ago would have been considered right, making the coalition as a whole a lot more secular than it was. Meanwhile the right’s power base has increasingly moved towards more rural states, and the . anti-scientific religious faction within the American right (evangelical Christians and such) have gained more relative power within it.
Three or four decades ago I think were were more aligned with the European model.
I have no idea whether the distinctions between continental and analytic philosophy have anything to do with it, and am inclined to doubt that the philosophical schism is causal if so, but I’d love to hear arguments supporting the idea.
It gets more complex once you include other groups, too — such as libertarians. In the ’60s and ’70s, the libertarian movement was closer to the New Left than to the Right, for instance.
Yeah, that’s been a significant shift over the last few decades in the U.S. There’s still a significant anti-scientific religious faction within the American left (New Agers and such) but they’ve been increasingly joined by factions that thirty/forty years ago would have been considered right, making the coalition as a whole a lot more secular than it was. Meanwhile the right’s power base has increasingly moved towards more rural states, and the . anti-scientific religious faction within the American right (evangelical Christians and such) have gained more relative power within it.
Three or four decades ago I think were were more aligned with the European model.
I have no idea whether the distinctions between continental and analytic philosophy have anything to do with it, and am inclined to doubt that the philosophical schism is causal if so, but I’d love to hear arguments supporting the idea.
It gets more complex once you include other groups, too — such as libertarians. In the ’60s and ’70s, the libertarian movement was closer to the New Left than to the Right, for instance.