Historiographies of Philosophy 18001950

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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.

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This book 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, and philosophical factors.This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Philosophy.

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Introduction: Historiographies of philosophy 1800-1950 1. From a 'memorable place' to 'drops in the ocean': on the marginalization of women philosophers in German historiography of philosophy 2. Making history philosophical: Kant, Maimon, and the evolution of the historiography of philosophy in the critical period 3. The interpretation of Locke's Two Treatises in Britain, 1778-1956 4. Hegel and the history of idealism 5. Impure temporalities in the history of political philosophy: the historiography of d mokratia in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain 6. Philosophizing with a historiographical figure: Descartes in Degérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie (1804 and 1847) 7. Grote's analysis of Ancient Greek political thought: its significance to J. S. Mill's idea about 'active character' in a liberal democracy 8. "All history is the history of thought": competing British idealist historiographies 9. Two dogmas of analytic historiography 10. Husserl on Hume 11. Cassirer's enlightenment: on philosophy and the 'Denkform' of reason 12. French historiographical Spinozism, 1893-2018. Delbos, Gueroult, Vernière, Moreau