My question is very simple. What are the chances one can get a philosophy book (in the tradition of continental philosophy) published and delivered to a wide audience if one does not hold any degrees/certificates in philosophy? What are the chances they/their work will be dismissed and not even read or even rejected? Can you be a successful writer if you do not hold a degree in philosophy but are passionate enough to write a book and you are an avid philosophy reader?

My question is general and can be answered from many different angles, however I mainly want to know about the tendency of academia, the public, readers, and other philosophers in general attacking such a writer and rejecting him as a philosopher!

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Very slim. The majority of people who have been doing professional philosophy for decades have no recognition outside of their peers. This isn't because their work is bad, it's because the general public only cares about the best work out there, if they care at all. If you're trying to reach a broad audience they won't care because you aren't a professional who is famous for coming up with some novel idea. Publishers already get bombarded with work from over qualified professionals and have to turn a lot of it down due to low demand, it would take your work being extremely novel to get noticed – Not_Here 3 hours ago
    
If what you care about is furthering knowledge and producing good philosophy my advice to you is start a blog or a YouTube channel. There are tons of people who do are into those markets and there are a lot of very active communities that follow those types of outlets. You haven't done professional philosophy so you really have no idea how rigorous real philosophical writing is, putting yourself out there to these communities will give you a lot of feed back on the style and quality of your work and might result in a reality check about your ideas which will help you further improve them. – Not_Here 3 hours ago
    
Nothing is stopping you from getting your ideas out there if that's what you want to do! The Internet is a vast place and there's room for almost anything. In regards to being publish, however, philosophy, like any other professional writing, is peer reviewed. It helps control for content, helps makes sure the ideas are well founded, and helps identify where weaknesses are. It's very difficult to get peer reviewed when you don't have an academic background. Without having that experience you really have no idea how many people think they have a good idea which turns out to be a really bad idea – Not_Here 3 hours ago
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@Not_Here I've community-wiki'd an answer that pretty much agrees with what you're saying. – virmaior 2 hours ago

There's several different problems that make the odds of the outcome you want very slim. First, let's split your question into pieces.

Part 1 - Widely Received Philosophy Book

What are the chances one can get a philosophy book (in the tradition of continental philosophy) published and delivered to a wide audience if one does not hold any degrees/certificates in philosophy?

Very few philosophy books are widely received in the English speaking world. I gather there's more of a chance of that in France and Spain, but I'm not super well aware of who and what. In other words, philosophy in the English-speaking world rarely amounts to celebrity.

Part 2 - What will philosophers think of it

What are the chances they/their work will be dismissed and not even read or even rejected?

Here, (perhaps mistakenly), I will take this to mean what are the chances philosophers in the English speaking world will find the work serious?

I think the answer is basically nil. Having studied with some of the better respected continental philosophy scholars in the English-speaking world, I can tell you the field for original continental philosophy in English basically does not exist. The number of really famous continental philosophers is quite small (Foucault, Derrida, Deluze, Heidegger, Habermas, Gadamer, Levinas ... ). n.b. Zizek is not really that well-regarded even by continental philosophers.

Moreover, much of their work isn't even respected by most English-speaking philosophers. You can find condemnations of it as junk through the internet.

A second aspect is that you're probably going to not even get to full peer review without some formal training in philosophy. (What do I mean by full peer review? See all of these). Most likely, you'd get desk-rejected by the editor when they read you abstract. The reason is that (regardless of its virtues and demerits) if you're self-studied, you won't be used to the normal styles of philosophical writing.

Part 3 - Writing Success

Can you be a successful writer if you do not hold a degree in philosophy but are passionate enough to write a book and you are an avid philosophy reader?

If we separate this from "widely received" and "accepted by the philosophical community", then I think if you write in the right way and in a certain popular style, you could potentially write something (not specifically considered academic philosophy) that gets well-read enough for you to have a career, but you'd really have to ask writers.SE or some other context.

Part 4 - WHY?

Simply put, there's no money in academic philosophy and little fame to go around. Few outside of philosophy read contemporary philosophers. And usually they-1 are reading this because they-1 too are contemporary philosophers or work in a cognate field (law, cognitive science, psychology, social sciences).

For academic publications, you generally get a free copy of the book and no money. A good print run is measured in the thousands of volumes. Tens of thousands is huge.

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Just to emphasise: It is hard enough (read: almost impossible) to publish a philosophical book with academic degrees, especially without the support of an established professor with a broad network. Most authors either published smaller texts in journalistic context and/or in peer-reviewed journals before. – Philip Klöcking 2 hours ago
    
This answer is so ignorant that it makes me regret having joined this community, it is as if I am directly contacting the Last Man of philosophy. Sentences as inane as "[...] if you're self-studied, you won't be used to the normal styles of philosophical writing." just show that you have not bothered to even dig deep into Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics, and your lack of Nietzschean is most visible here, let me not even mention Deleuzian. – Fryd 53 mins ago
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@Fryd: It is not that I (and I think that I can include virmaior here) do like this. It is just describing reality. I guess about 90% of contemporary philosophy is published in peer-reviewed journals. Do you have access to these? Have you read thousands and thousands of pages in this style? Sorry, but Heidegger, Nietzsche and Deleuze isn't "normal styles of (read: contemporary) philosophical writing". And currently residing in the UK, I can confirm that the stance towards continental philosophy is...problematic. In general, not including references as new as possible is considered bad style. – Philip Klöcking 40 mins ago
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@Fryd Who are you mad at? You asked if it's hard to get an entire book published with "no formal education" and we gave you a completely honest and accurate answer. Reading philosophical texts and actually writing them yourself are two completely different things. I am sure that virmaior meant that you won't be used to writing in the normal styles of philosophical writing. And as Philip Klöcking said, half century old continental writing is not what is accepted today, even in the continental school. You name dropping some of the most famous continental writers does not show your familiarity. – Not_Here 29 mins ago

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