History and Anti-History in Philosophy

Edited by T. Z. Lavine and V. Tejera

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION: ON THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHIC HISTORIOGRAPHY V. Tejera	1
Historical Analysis and Applied Logic	1
Sociology of Knowledge, and Philosophic Understanding as Dialexis or Verstaendigung	3
Interpretation, Query, and the Categorization of History	6
The Metahistory of Modes in Philosophic Historiography	11

II. ON THE UNITY OF SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A. Peperzak	19

III. THE INTERPRETIVE TURN FROM KANT TO DERRIDA: A CRITIQUE T. Z. Lavine	32
Introduction	33
Kant: Formal Interpretation Theory	36
19th Century Contextual Interpretation Theory: Hegel and Marx	39
Pragmatism and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: John Dewey and C. I. Lewis	45
Sociology of Knowledge and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: Mannheim	58
Interpretation Theory from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics: Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer	67
Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: The Habermas-Gadamer Debate	88
Interpretation as Deconstruction: Derrida	98
Why Deconstruction?	108
Conclusion	113

IV. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AS A TOOL OF PHILOSOPHY V. Tejera	122
The Social Nature of Reflective and Expressive Products	122
Some Unphilosophic Uses of Past Philosophies	124
Can there be Specialized History of Pure Philosophy?	130

V. HERMENEUTIC MODES, ANCIENT AND MODERN W. Watson	135
Introduction .	135
The Expression of Universal Meanings	138
The Expression of Individual Meanings	142
The Expression of Physical Meanings	148
The Expression of Ideal Meanings	153

VI. DERRIDA AND THE QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY'S HISTORY G. Shapiro	156
Introduction	156
The Satiric View of History	162
Against Logocentrism	170
The Challenge	185

VII. CASSIRER'S THEORY OF HISTORY A. Juffras	188
Cassirer's Theory of History	188
The Function of History: Cassirer's Idiosyncratic View. Various Views on the Function of History	188
Cassirer's View of How History Functions: Two Ways	189
The Materials of a History	192
The Ends of History	193
Cassirer's Method	194
Historical Objectivity	197
Selecting the Facts: Historical Relevance	199
Historical Truth	202
Historical Causation: Some Confusions about Historical Causation	205
How Cassirer Actually Writes History	207
Why Hasn't Cassirer's Peculiar View of History Been Noticed?	210
How Cassirer's Underlying Assumption Requires his Theory of History to be Idiosyncratic	211
An Evaluation of Cassirer	212

VIII. THE PHILOSOPHIC HISTORIOGRAPHY OF J. H. RANDALL V. Tejera	215
Philosophy. History and System	215
Human Reagents in Cultural Change	221
What Distinguishes History of Philosophy from Philosophy	225

IX. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: NECESSARY PARTNERS OR MERELY ROOMMATES? J. Kegley	237
The Attack on Logical Empiricism and the Rise of Historical Relativism	238
History of Science and Philosophy of Science, a New Partnership	244
Epistemologism, Realism, and Interpretationism	251

X. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ASSUMPTIONS OF ANALYTIC AESTHETICS A. Berleanl	256

INDEX	275

SOURCE: Lavine, T. Z.; Tejera, V.; eds. History and Anti-History in Philosophy. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. (Nijhoff International Philosophy series; v. 34)

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