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Interesting, I was unaware of this. Why is this the case?
Comment by meforitself at 20/06/2020 at 17:27 UTC
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There are both pedagogical reasons (Heidegger is hard and for that reason difficult to teach in any substantive way to undergraduates) and doctrinal reasons (most American philosophy departments are not pluralistic, but instead employ nearly exclusively analytic philosophers, many of whom have neither the desire nor the capacity to teach Heidegger)