Preface; A Note on Texts and Translations; 1. Encounter at Davos; 2. Overcoming Metaphysics: Carnap and Heidegger; 3. The Neo-Kantian Background; 4. Heidegger; 5. Carnap; 6. Cassirer; 7. Logic and Objectivity: Cassirer and Carnap; 8. Before and After Davos: Cassirer and Heidegger; 9. Analytic and Continenta lTraditions in Perspective; Bibliography; Index.;Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent. A Parting of the Ways looks at the origins of this split through the lens of one defining episode: the disputation in Davos, Switzerland, in 1929, between the two most eminent German philosophers, Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger. This watershed debate was attended by Rudlf Carnap, a representative of the Vienna Circle of logical positivists. Michael Friedman shows how philosophical differences.