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for future reference, this is not so - the program has excellent funding

I have a silly question, which I recognize and apologize for in advance, but vanity compels me to pose it: What is the perception of Johns Hopkins humanities center within the academic community? As far as interdisciplinary work in continental philosophy is concerned, is this a competitive/prestigious program?

I have a silly question, which I recognize and apologize for in advance, but vanity compels me to pose it: What is the perception of Johns Hopkins humanities center within the academic community? As far as interdisciplinary work in continental philosophy is concerned, is this a competitive/prestigious program?

Thanks folks, I really appreciate the insight. I can assure you I feel perfectly absurd even wielding the word "tenure" as this point, but my mentors at NYU have forced it upon my fragile, freshly-graduated (bachelors) psyche and it has me a bit freaked out. All the schools they've told me to apply to if I want a good shot at a position after I graduate are quite glamorous (princeton, yale, columbia, etc.), but I feel like I would be compromising my interests in attending (assuming I can even get in in the first place). At the same time, I love philosophy and all, but I don't want to live in some horrible suburb teaching apathetic students at a community college. presumptuous as it may sounds, these are factors that I feel obligated to consider in pursuing such a competitive life trajectory, which will in all likelihood only intensify in the years to come. Do either of you know anything about studying outside the US? I realize there are "great schools" (as uselessly vague as this designation is..), but what would a foreign degree practically entail in terms of returning to the U.S. to find work? Any specific schools worth looking into? Superthanks!

I am currently plagued by the precarious status of the European Continental Philosophical Tradition in contemporary academia. As most of you are probably well aware, continental philosophy has largely been relegated to departments as far and wide as comparative literature, german and french studies, sociology, etc. I want a strong training in history of philosophy, but the thinkers i'd like to study most intently in addition to gaining a strong foundation in the history of philosophy, such as Lacan, Bataille, Derrida, Baudrillard, merleau-ponty, Levinas, Heidegger, are hard to find in most "Tier One" University's philo departments. It seems peculiar to me to apply to comparative literature departments when my primary interests have nothing to ultimately do with literature; if anything, for my purposes literature is only used instrumentally for questions of a more philosophical nature. I realize that there are a lot of philosophy programs in okay schools with strong continental orientations (Stony brook, new school, U chicago, loyola, etc), but I am an extremely competitive student and, grotesquely and to my own utter embarrassment, I must admit that I don't want to sacrifice applying to more prestigious programs in order to accommodate my interests. i say this only pragmatically, because I know I can get into very competitive schools and desire to do so, if only because then my odds of getting a good tenured position after graduation are better. anyone familiar with programs that might prove helpful to me, general insight, or 'Ivy' schools with weird highly interdisciplinary departments ? feel free to bully me into accepting my comp. lit. fate, however strange the title may seem to me now..