Continental Philosophy

Continental Philosophy is a diverse term developed by Analytic Philosophers to refer to the various traditions which had developed mostly within continental Europe, in contrast to there own traditions. Continental philosophy is primarily defined by the inseparability of the history of philosophy and philosophy itself.

Analytic philosophy had comparatively little influence on the European continent, where the speculative and historical tradition remained strong. Dominated by phenomenology and existentialism during the first half of the 20th century, after World War II Continental philosophy came to embrace increasingly far-reaching structuralist and poststructuralist critiques of metaphysics and philosophical rationality.

Beliefs
There doesn't exist any definition of what Continental Philosophy is, but rather, a lose set of characteristics surrounding a set of different traditions. As a whole, continental philosophy tends to claims that all possible ideas and experiences are conditioned upon things like language, space, time, and historical context. As such, more modern analytic philosophers tend to be skeptical of claims to "objective" or "universal" truth, questioning what conditions brought about those ideas.