But, fifteen years later, it can now be asked: Did the September 11 th attacks really exert such a stunning effect on the contemporary world? And if September 11 th really did change the world, how has Western philosophy changed to keep pace with the contemporary world? The September 11 th attacks then marked what Gaston Bachelard and Michel Foucault describe as an ‘epistemological break’ in the contemporary episteme: a disjunction in the subconscious a priori system of knowledge by which human beings ‘make sense’ of their world-historical situation. After the September 11 th terror attacks, Western broadcast media repeatedly trumpeted the refrain that somehow ‘everything was different!’ than before that shocking event, and that politics, literature, art, and, yes, philosophy, too, would have to be completely transformed to cope with these striking changes in the contemporary world.
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