In the 19th century, the history of philosophy becomes the history of a particular science. Modern philosophical historiography is an ambivalent project. On the one hand, we find an affirmative concept of Bildung through tradition and historical insight; on the other, there aris…
This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competingapproaches to the history of philosophy.
"This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy." Many chapters articulat…
"Los ensayos contenidos en este volumen examinan la actual controversia sobre la relación entre la filosofía y su historia. Por una parte, los historiadores de la vida intelectual suelen acusar a los filósofos de escribir historias de la filosofía deleznables, anacrónicas; por l…
Philosophers have almost always relegated the topic of revision to the sidelines of their discipline, if they have thought about it at all. This book contends that acts of revision are central and indispensable to the project of philosophizing and that philosophy should be const…