School · 1909 CE–1999 CE
Twentieth-century philosophy
Twentieth-century philosophy is diverse twentieth-century debates shaped by formal logic, phenomenology, language, science, colonialism, war, and mass politics.
Shared questions
- How should philosophy revise its methods amid modern science, political catastrophe, and global intellectual exchange?
Internal disagreements
- Whether philosophical progress lies in formal analysis, phenomenological description, social critique, linguistic clarification, or decolonial transformation.
Key texts
- The Sovereignty of Good · 1970 — Murdoch's three essays on attention and the Good, against the moral psychology then dominant in Oxford.
- Gravity and Grace · 1947 — Assembled after Weil's death from her notebooks by Gustave Thibon, whose selection shaped her reception.