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Philosophy and its history : aims and methods in the study of early modern philosophy / edited by Mogens Laerke, Justin E.H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Modern--History.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Philosophy--History--18th century.
- Philosophy.
- Philosophy--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 362 pages)
- Other Title:
- Aims and methods in the study of early modern philosophy
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism
- 2. The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process
- 3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy
- 4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy
- 5. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems
- 6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They?
- 7. Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections
- 8. Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? The Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School
- 9. The Taming of Philosophy
- 10. Philosophic Prophecy
- 11. Philosophical Systems and Their History
- 12. Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination
- 13. Mediating between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism
- 14. What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-985716-4
- 0-19-934542-2
- 0-19-985715-6
- OCLC:
- 854585524
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