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How History Matters to Philosophy Reconsidering Philosophy’s Past After Positivism
By Robert C. Scharff
Copyright 2014
372 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
346 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Robert C. Scharff is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, USA, and former Editor of Continental Philosophy Review.
