great comments and replies in this thread! one thing that it really brings to light for me is that unfortunately, a lot of us in the West just aren't conditioned to receive continental thought. for us academic disciplines are supposed to have specific empirical domains to whose technical development they have a historical mission to contribute. for continentals in the 60s and 70s, that very notion of "missionness" was in question, especially for a discipline like philosophy which had historically partnered as much with labor as with capital.