1st Edition

Historiographies of Philosophy 1800–1950

Edited By Mogens Lærke, Leo Catana Copyright 2024
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors. Since its inception as a discipline, histories of philosophy have been written in different ways, depending on author, place, and time; they have varied according to... Read more

Introduction: Historiographies of philosophy 1800–1950
Leo Catana and Mogens Lærke

1. From a ‘memorable place’ to ‘drops in the ocean’: on the marginalization of women philosophers in German historiography of philosophy
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer

2. Making history philosophical: Kant, Maimon, and the evolution of the historiography of philosophy in the critical period
Pavel Reichl

3. The interpretation of Locke’s Two Treatises in Britain, 1778–1956
James A. Harris

4. Hegel and the history of idealism
Frederick Beiser

5. Impure temporalities in the history of political philosophy: the historiography of dēmokratia in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
Alexandra Lianeri

6. Philosophizing with a historiographical figure: Descartes in Degérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie (1804 and 1847)
Delphine Antoine-Mahut

7. Grote’s analysis of Ancient Greek political thought: its significance to J. S. Mill’s idea about ‘active character’ in a liberal democracy
Leo Catana

8. "All history is the history of thought": competing British idealist historiographies
Colin Tyler

9. Two dogmas of analytic historiography
Michael Beaney

10. Husserl on Hume
Hynek Janoušek and Dan Zahavi

11. Cassirer’s enlightenment: on philosophy and the ‘Denkform’ of reason
Ursula Renz

12. French historiographical Spinozism, 1893–2018. Delbos, Gueroult, Vernière, Moreau
Mogens Lærke

Biography

Mogens Laerke is Senior Researcher at the CNRS in France, affiliated with the research centre IHRIM at the ENS de Lyon and at the Maison Française d’Oxford. He specialises in early modern philosophy and intellectual history. 

Leo Catana is Associate Professor at the Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen. He focuses on ancient philosophy and the historiography of philosophy, especially Brucker’s eighteenth-century account of past philosophy and the influence of his work.