This review of a recent book by John McCumber, a Germanist at UCLA, is a case study of how Party-Line Continentals, under the influence of one very particular (and contentious) reading of Heidegger, try to erase the actual diversity of traditions in post-Kantian European philosophy.   One might even call it the SPEP History of Continental philosophy, though I know there are scholars associated with SPEP who do not share McCumber's confused, and almost sophomorically simplified, version of two hundred years of philosophy after Kant.  The reviewer (Alan Schrift [Grinnell]), another Party member, notices little of this.   The learned review by Frederick Beiser (Syracuse) of a different book co-edited by Schrift  may shed some light on why.