Scharff, Robert C.

How history matters to philosophy: reconsidering philosophy's past after positivism/ Robert C Scharff - New York: Routledge, 2014. - xxiii, 321 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy, 56. .

1 Thinking from Nowhere: A Way of "Being" Historical

PART I Introduction Doing Philosophy Historically versus Being Philosophically Historical

2 Socrates Contra Platonism: On the "Success" of Aporetic Inquiry

3 Descartes Contra Cartesianism: The Historical Determinateness of "Meditation"

4 Comte, the Last Honest Positivist: His Defense of "Being" One

PART II Introduction Comte Inherited but Not Surpassed: The Problem of Historicity

5 Dilthey: From Epistenology to the Problem of History

6 Nietzsche: From the Problem of History to Historie as an Existential Problem

7 Heidegger: The Problem of History as Pre-Philosophical

8 Heidegger: Being Historical and Taking Advantage of History

Concluding "Mindful" Remark.

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Philosophy
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