Introduction

Abstract

Western academic philosophy in the twentieth century has been responsible for producing an image of itself that haunts it to this day. This is an image of philosophy as cut into two parts which are separated by an unsurpassable gulf.¹ Over this gulf, a limited number of thinkers have unsuccessfully attempted to shout, their voices plunging down into the abyss. And each failure to communicate has widened the gulf a little more, forcing the two sides to drift further and further apart.