History and Anti-History in Philosophy

I. Introduction: On the Nature of Philosophic Historiography.- Historical Analysis and Applied Logic.- Sociology of Knowledge, and Philosophic Understanding as Dialexis or Verstaendigung.- Interpretation, Query, and the Categorization of History.- The Metahistory of Modes in Philosophic Historiography.- II. On the Unity of Systematic Philosophy and History of Philosophy.- III. The Interpretive Turn from Kant to Derrida: A Critique.- Kant: Formal Interpretation Theory.- 19th Century Contextual Interpretation Theory: Hegel and Marx.- Pragmatism and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: John Dewey and C. I. Lewis.- Sociology of Knowledge and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: Mannheim.- Interpretation Theory from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics: Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer.- Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: The Habermas-Gadamer Debate.- Interpretation as Deconstruction: Derrida.- Why Deconstruction?.- Conclusion.- IV. Intellectual History as a Tool of Philosophy.- The Social Nature of Reflective and Expressive Products.- Some Unphilosophic Uses of Past Philosophies.- Can there be Specialized History of Pure Philosophy?.- V. Hermeneutic Modes, Ancient and Modern.- The Expression of Universal Meanings.- The Expression of Individual Meanings.- The Expression of Physical Meanings.- The Expression of Ideal Meanings.- VI. Derrida and the Question of Philosophy¿s History.- The Satiric View of History.- Against Logocentrism.- The Challenge.- VII. Cassirer¿s Theory of History.- Cassirer¿s Theory of History.- The Function of History: Cassirer¿s Idiosyncratic View. Various Views on the Function of History.- Cassirer¿s View of How History Functions: Two Ways.- The Materials of a History.- The Ends of History.- Cassirer¿s Method.- Historical Objectivity.- Selecting the Facts: Historical Relevance.- Historical Truth.- Historical Causation: Some Confusions about Historical Causation.- How Cassirer Actually Writes History.- Why Hasn¿t Cassirer¿s Peculiar View of History Been Noticed?.- How Cassirer¿s Underlying Assumption Requires his Theory of History to be Idiosyncratic.- An Evaluation of Cassirer.- VIII. The Philosophic Historiography of J. H. Randall.- Philosophy, History and System.- Human Reagents in Cultural Change.- What Distinguishes History of Philosophy from Philosophy.- IX. History and Philosophy of Science: Necessary Partners or Merely Roommates?.- The Attack on Logical Empiricism and the Rise of Historical Relativism.- History of Science and Philosophy of Science, a New Partnership.- Epistemologism, Realism, and Interpretationism.- X. The Eighteenth Century Assumptions of Analytic Aesthetics.

List of contents

I. Introduction: On the Nature of Philosophic Historiography.- Historical Analysis and Applied Logic.- Sociology of Knowledge, and Philosophic Understanding as Dialexis or Verstaendigung.- Interpretation, Query, and the Categorization of History.- The Metahistory of Modes in Philosophic Historiography.- II. On the Unity of Systematic Philosophy and History of Philosophy.- III. The Interpretive Turn from Kant to Derrida: A Critique.- Kant: Formal Interpretation Theory.- 19th Century Contextual Interpretation Theory: Hegel and Marx.- Pragmatism and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: John Dewey and C. I. Lewis.- Sociology of Knowledge and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: Mannheim.- Interpretation Theory from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics: Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer.- Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: The Habermas-Gadamer Debate.- Interpretation as Deconstruction: Derrida.- Why Deconstruction?.- Conclusion.- IV. Intellectual History as a Tool of Philosophy.- The Social Nature of Reflective and Expressive Products.- Some Unphilosophic Uses of Past Philosophies.- Can there be Specialized History of Pure Philosophy?.- V. Hermeneutic Modes, Ancient and Modern.- The Expression of Universal Meanings.- The Expression of Individual Meanings.- The Expression of Physical Meanings.- The Expression of Ideal Meanings.- VI. Derrida and the Question of Philosophy's History.- The Satiric View of History.- Against Logocentrism.- The Challenge.- VII. Cassirer's Theory of History.- Cassirer's Theory of History.- The Function of History: Cassirer's Idiosyncratic View. Various Views on the Function of History.- Cassirer's View of How History Functions: Two Ways.- The Materials of a History.- The Ends of History.- Cassirer's Method.- HistoricalObjectivity.- Selecting the Facts: Historical Relevance.- Historical Truth.- Historical Causation: Some Confusions about Historical Causation.- How Cassirer Actually Writes History.- Why Hasn't Cassirer's Peculiar View of History Been Noticed?.- How Cassirer's Underlying Assumption Requires his Theory of History to be Idiosyncratic.- An Evaluation of Cassirer.- VIII. The Philosophic Historiography of J. H. Randall.- Philosophy, History and System.- Human Reagents in Cultural Change.- What Distinguishes History of Philosophy from Philosophy.- IX. History and Philosophy of Science: Necessary Partners or Merely Roommates?.- The Attack on Logical Empiricism and the Rise of Historical Relativism.- History of Science and Philosophy of Science, a New Partnership.- Epistemologism, Realism, and Interpretationism.- X. The Eighteenth Century Assumptions of Analytic Aesthetics.

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• Assisted by: T. Z. Lavine (Editor), T.Z. Lavine (Editor), Tejera (Editor), V Tejera (Editor), V. Tejera (Editor), Z Lavine (Editor), Z Lavine (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9789401076128
• ISBN: 978-94-0-107612-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Illustrations: VIII, 286 p.
• Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series; Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works