“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance”  
- Jean-Paul Sarte

absurdreasoning:

philosophy-of-praxis replied to your post: people who study philosophy really have no idea of…

Isn’t there a philosophy for the study of philosophy? There’s a philosophy for everything else.

I think that there are some people that study “meta-philosophy” but they’ve been derided as creating an unneeded discipline, since you could really go to an infinite regress of meta-level analysis and thus they establish philosophy as the first discipline and/or say that study of what philosophy is is still philosophy, and thus not philosophy of philosophy.

I’m 85% sure that I just gave a cosmological argument for the existence of philosophy as the meta-level of all academic ventures 

I would definitively consider most of Jasper’s “existenzphilosophie” a sort of meta-philosophy, as he basically believed (and this is a tremendous oversimplification) one had to engage in existenzphilosphizing through the medium of other philosophers to reach authentic existenz, as he did with Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard. I’d even go so far to say that certain elements within Marxism, particularly his concept of ideology, are in part meta-philosophical, in that it indicates that the philosophy of a certain epoch will be indicative of and serve to sustain whatever the ruling class of that epoch is, so, for instance, Nicomachean ethics resulted, in part, because the ethics espoused in it were those best suited towards aristocratic Athenian men, and the Kantian Categorical Imperative, with the individualism inherent in deontological ethics, was well suited to the growing bourgeoisie class of Kant’s era. Beyond this though, I think a good deal of late 20th century philosophy, especially within post-modernism, has been in some regards meta-philosophical.