Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse - and On the Socratic School

This book provides first-time English translations of two chapters from Brucker's Latin work: The 'Preliminary Discourse', explaining the method of the new discipline, and 'The Socratic School', illustrating the hermeneutic consequences of his method.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: Preliminary Discourse on the Nature, Foundation, Utility and Tools of the Philosophical History


• On the Socratic School


• List of terms: Latin-English


• Bibliography


• Index of names

About the author

Leo Catana gained his PhD on Giordano Bruno from the University of London in 2002. In 2007 he was employed as associate professor at the Section of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen, where he has taught Ancient and Renaissance philosophy. His contributions to science draw on his competences in philosophy, philology and theology. His research has been driven by questions crossing disciplinary boundaries, and he has positioned himself where such disciplines intersect. Trained in philosophy, he has explored into the ways in which knowledge about philosophy's past has been produced among philosophers, and how that knowledge influence philosophy proper.

Summary

This book provides first-time English translations of two chapters from Brucker's Latin work: The 'Preliminary Discourse', explaining the method of the new discipline, and 'The Socratic School', illustrating the hermeneutic consequences of his method.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2024
• EAN: 9780192847140
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284714-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: British Society for the History of Philosophy:New Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / World, Philosophy, General & world history, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, General and world history, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought