As philosophy departments increasingly hire specialists in currently trendy but niche areas like philosophy of race and gender (but never class), it remains remarkable how many departments currently do not have any tenure-stream faculty specializing in one of the most important periods of Western philosophy (but also hugely influential in non-Western traditions), that centered in Germany after Kant, but also reflected in other Continental European countries in the 19th- and 20th-century, especially France. This, of course, puts the lie to the claim that Anglophone departments are "departments of Western philosophy," or "departments of European and American philosophy." After considerable progress in the last forty years, it looks like Anglophone departments are now sliding backwards in terms of narrowness, even though I'm happy to bet that Schopenhauer and Marx and Foucault will be of interest in one hundred years, in a way that, say, the metaphysics of grounding will not.
Anyway, here are ranked PGR Departments without a single tenure-stream faculty member specializing in any aspects of the post-Kantian traditions in Continental philosophy: Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Princeton University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Southern California; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Arizona; Washington University, St. Louis; Duke University; University of Pennsylvania; Ohio State University; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Carnegie-Mellon University; University of Connecticut, Storrs; University of Miami; University of Maryland, College Park; University of California, Davis; University of Illinois, Chicago; Florida State University; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul; University of Rochester.
That's more than half the top 50 in the U.S.! Given the large number of young philosophers now who are both well-versed in the Anglophone traditions and expert in the post-Kantian traditions, there really is no excuse for this parochialism. What a shame, and what a loss for the undergraduate and graduate students at those universities.
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