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Since Levi-Strauss' structuralist revolution, Anthropology has been the social science home of [[Continental Philosophy]]. Kicked out of most Philosophy departments in the USA, Continental Philosophy draws from such figures as [[Immanuel Kant, [[Nietzsche]], [[Hegel]], [[Heidegger]], and [[Derrida]] (as opposed to the logical positivists that generally make up analytic philosophy). Continental Philosophy is of particular use to Cyborg Anthropology in several respects:
# Continental Philosophy questions/engages the social conditions that facilitate techno-science and is hyper-aware of the dangers of solely relying on these paradigms for understanding the human condition.
# Continental Philosophy recognizes that all thought/praxis is socially/historically/materially conditioned, a necessary pre-requisite for understanding our techno-human-cyborg condition. Thought does not happen in a void, and the more resources we have for undermining this notion the better.
# Continental Philosophy emerges from the German philosophy of reflection (Kant-Hegel-Nietzsche) that is centered upon a rich complication of the self-other relation. Since this is the central binary put in question by the concept of the cyborg, it makes sense to use this wealth of scholarship to analyze the self-other dyad. They also scrutinize the role of the observer in analysis, a hallmark of both second-wave cybernetics and Cyborg Anthropology (since we are all cyborgs we need to question our own assumptions).
# Last but not least, almost all the central thinkers of Cyborg Anthropology situate themselves in the literary theory/continental nexus.

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