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One would only read continental philosophy if one was not competent to read contemporary algorithmic logic, genetics, cognitive science, behavioral economics. Philosophy as a paradigm, as knowledge, and truth rather than just choice (preferencde) was exhausted before the 20th, and has gone the way of theology as a footnote in the history of thought. If you invest in the frame provided by the French(Rousseau, Voltaire et al), Germans (Kant et all), or the Ashkenazi (Freud, boas, Marx, et al) then you create an impediment to knowledge, not knowledge....