The Philosophical Colony. Writing the History of Philosophy in the 18th-19th Centuries
by Catherine König-Pralong
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The philosophical colony appeared as early as 1700 in Germany, then became institutionalized in Europe at the end of the century. Around 1800, the writing of the history of philosophy was based on an idea that made it exclusive to the peoples of modern Europe, with the East playing the role of contrast. The work thus approaches philosophy as an intellectual device of a conceptual nature, but also as a social practice: historians of philosophy held the object of their narratives to be a geopolitical and cultural reality; the history of philosophy was constituted in interaction with new disciplines (linguistics, ethnology, anthropology, etc.).
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Author Biography
Catherine König-Pralong is Professor at EHESS (History of Philosophy). Since 2014, she has been leading the European project (ERC-Consolidator Grant) "Medieval Philosophy in Modern History of Philosophy" (MEMOPHI). Her approach to philosophical studies is characterised by a dialogue with history and social sciences. Her new research, illustrated by a book published in 2016 (Médiévisme philosophique et raison moderne. De Pierre Bayle à Ernest Renan, Paris, Vrin), questions the construction of a history of philosophy that accompanies the institutionalisation of this discipline in 18th and 19th century Europe. In an interdisciplinary approach to the history of philosophy, she studies the crossroads between this nascent discipline and the natural sciences, linguistics, geography, ethnology, anthropology and the history of culture. She thus highlights a central spring in the construction of modernity. In the 18th and 19th centuries, historians of philosophy and culture developed great narratives in which analytical and reflexive (self-analytical) rationality was considered to be Europe's own or the culture of Europe. In the same movement, they identify other cultural ensembles perceived as exotic, archaic, heterogeneous (in the biological and cultural sense) or pre-modern, such as Chinese wisdom, Arab thought or medieval scholasticism.
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- Publisher Éditions de l'EHESS
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782713227721
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 21 EUR
- Pages256
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions14x21,5 cm
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