The Philosophical Colony: Writing the History of Philosophy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Catherine König-Pralong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

König-Pralong, Catherine, author.

Series:

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies ; 4

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Social & Political Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ethnologists, linguists, historians, and especially historians of philosophy identified other “cultures,” which they distinguished from the West in order to subject them to empirical study. Consequently, Europe was conceived as the unique territory of philosophy, analytical rationality, and reflexive thinking. This book offers an interdisciplinary history of the history of philosophy and investigates how the scientific imagination was constructed in the West. It contributes to debates on the ideological assumptions and political aims of the European social sciences and humanities.

Contents:

Contents

Preface to the English Translation

Origin

Introduction

1 The Philosophical Colony

2 Territorialising Cultures, Colonising Pasts

3 A History of Knowledge with Ideas

4 An Interdisciplinary History of the History of Philosophy

1 Modern Philosophical Reason and Its Historians (173–183)

1 The Philosophy of Historians of Philosophy

2 The Sense of Self of Historians of Philosophy

3 Judge and Ethnographer

4 Professor and Pioneer

5 Genealogist and Evangelist

2 The Historian’s Subjectivity in Question (183–188)

1 The Dual Nature of the Scientific Self

2 Historian of His Own Subjectivity

3 Fallibilist and Self-Analyst

4 A Performer, Leader of a School of Thought, and Politician

5 Temporalisation, Historicisation, and Self-Analysis

3 Otherness, Race, and Hybridisation. The Naturalised History of Philosophy

1 Othering Arabic Thought

2 Europe as Philosophy’s Biotope

3 The Figure of the Arab in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century History of Philosophy

4 The Natural and Comparative History of Philosophy

5 Comparing and Excluding: Arabs and Other Orientals

4 Philosophical and Linguistic Genealogy: From Modern French to Scholastic Latin

1 Classical French and Scholastic Latin

2 Linguistics and Nationalism

3 French Scholasticism Versus German Mysticism

4 French Modernity: Scholastic and Analytical

5 Analytical Syntax Inherited from Scholasticism

6 An Anti-German Modernity

7 The Prosaic Yoke of Reason

8 The Analytical Clarity of French

9 The Cultural Conditioning of the Historiography of Philosophy

5 Philosophy as Nature and Culture

1 Europe’s Philosophical Nature and Culture

2 The Europeanisation of Philosophy

3 Philosophy as Historical Consciousness and Self-Examination

4 Acceleration and Speed

5 A Secularised Christian Culture

6 The Philosophical Province

6 Geography Against Psychology: Jules Michelet and Victor Cousin

1 From Universal History to the Spatial Turn

2 Cousin’s and Michelet’s Maps of Civilisation

3 Cousin: The Centrality of Philosophy

4 Michelet and Cousin

5 Late Michelet: Germanic and Eastern Decentralisation

6 Michelet and the History of Philosophy

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

90-04-72143-6

9789004721432

OCLC:

1581929329

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004721432 DOI