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- Book Title
- How History Matters to Philosophy
- ISBN-13
- 9781138642157
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- 9781138642157
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138642150
ISBN-13
9781138642157
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219291165
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
348 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
How History Matters to Philosophy : Reconsidering Philosophy's Past after Positivism
Subject
History & Surveys / General, Historiography, General, Movements / Rationalism
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
190
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Thinking from Nowhere: A Way of Being Historical Part One 2. Socrates contra Platonism: The Success of Aporetic Inquiry 3. Descartes contra Cartesianism: The Historicity of Meditation 4. Comte, the Last Honest Positivist: His Defense of Being One Part Two 5. Dilthey: From Epistemology to the Problem of History 6. Nietzsche: From the Scientific Problem of History to Historical Science as an Existential Problem 7. Heidegger: The Problem of History as Pre-Philosophical. Conclusion
Synopsis
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy's past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato's Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history's mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.
LC Classification Number
B29.S34 2015
