TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scharff,Robert C.
TI  - How history matters to philosophy: reconsidering philosophy's past after positivism
T2  - Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, (Vol. 56)
SN  - 9780415709224
U1  - 190 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Philosophy - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - History - Surveys
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Continental philosophy
N1  - Table of Contents:

1. Thinking from Nowhere: A Way of Being Historical 
Part I 
2. Socrates contra Platonism: The Success of Aporetic Inquiry 
3. Descartes contra Cartesianism: The Historicity of Meditation 
4. Comte, the Last Honest Positivist: His Defense of Being One 
Part II 
5. Dilthey: From Epistemology to the Problem of History 
6. Nietzsche: From the Scientific Problem of History to Historical Science as an Existential Problem 
7. Heidegger: The Problem of History as Pre-Philosophical.
8. Heidegger: Being Historian and Taking advantage of History


N2  - In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals.

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ER  -