Robert C. Scharff

How History Matters to Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Reconsidering Philosophy's Past After Positivism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the era of positivistic hostility toward philosophy's past ending, renewed debate has started concerning the relationship between philosophers and their history. The lead question is usually whether philosophy's past should matter to present practice, but Scharff argues that it inevitably does matter. In Part 1, he shows how history matters even for Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, despite their seemingly ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part 2, through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Scharff describes what "having a history" involves today, when the tradition we inherit encourages the idea that having one is optional and surmountable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134626809
• Artikelnr.: 40445306

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Scharff is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, USA, and former Editor of Continental Philosophy Review.

Inhaltsangabe

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