John H Zammito
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 467491 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John H Zammito |
| PRENOMES | John H |
| SOBRENOME | Zammito |
| ASSINATURA | ZAMMITO J H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3831-8383 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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M. Norton Wise. Aesthetics, Industry, and Science
Journal Article M. Norton Wise. Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. Get access M. Norton Wise. Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 405. Cloth $48.00. John H. Zammito John H. Zammito Rice University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Herder und das 19. Jahrhundert / Herder and the Nineteenth Century. Herausgegeben von Liisa Steinby. Heidelberg
Herausgegeben von Liisa Steinby. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2020. 458 Seiten. €45,00. Anthologies based on conference papers always pose problems of unity. To get to the heart of this case, let us begin with the title: Herder and the Nineteenth Century . Now, “and” is a most ambiguous conjunction
Koselleck's Times
In this essay, I examine the key features of Reinhart Koselleck's situatedness in his place and time, insofar as they help us grasp his particular slant on historical writing, and then discuss the main thrust of his Historik, or his theory of the possibility of historical practice. Koselleck argued that historical theory must be a theory about time, or, more accurately, times. In his decisive terminology, the historical "present" consisted in the…
The philosophical uptake of Caspar Friedrich Wolff in German philosophy after 1770
C. F. Wolff’s dissertation of 1759, Theoria Generationis , is widely recognized as the most important formulation of epigenesis in embryology in the mid-eighteenth century. It achieved even greater significance through his controversy with Albrecht von Haller, prompting him to the defense of his views in Theorie von der Generation (1764). He would be vindicated a generation later by the publication by his admirer, Johannes Meckel the younger, in …
A Philosophical Reconstruction of the Sublime
Robert Doran claims that the sublime is all about transcendence transferred from the religious to the aesthetic domain of experience. Taken in this philosophical rather than stylistic sense, it proved crucial for the development of modern subjectivity. Doran traces the issue from Longinus through the decisive reception of Nicolas Boileau, who first distinguished le sublime from le style sublime , on to an extended engagement with Immanuel Kant. I…
What is living and What is Dead” in materialism
Herder between Reimarus and Tetens
This essay argues that Herder’s conception of history as a form of natural growth is grounded in his claim that humans are a part of nature and develop historically situated forms of reason in communication with the features of their natural and social environments. By stressing this developmental aspect of human reason, Herder not only helps us to correct an overly universalistic conception of reason that ignores the importance of situational co…
Epigenesis in Kant
Before Boas
The historiography of anthropology is notoriously fragmentary and fractious. In the American context, there is some confidence that a discipline came into place after Franz Boas. But before Boas, things remain far from clear. Scholars have hunted down first uses of key terms, only to be confuted by other scholars who found them earlier and elsewhere. Moreover, terms mean little without their concrete implementation, and historical inquiries have …
Chapter 13. Philosophy for Everyman
Drilling Down
According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of "temporal strata" are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the "simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous." Contrast this with the notion of a zeitgeist in which every aspect of a historical moment is integrated by some master principle. There are so many trajectories active in any present that it is unlikely that one might coordinate all of them, if not unwise even …
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
This rich collection of papers by leading figures in the field concerns the "co-emergence of the concepts of race, gender and reproduction in the decades around 1800" (1). The editor, Susanne Lettow, notes that these have "rarely been studied in relation to each other" (1), and this motivated the collection, which was based upon conferences she sponsored in Vienna at the Institute for the Human Sciences as part of her research project "The Symbol…
Post-positivist Realism
Klopffechtereien - Missverständnisse - Widersprüche?
Eine der schärfsten Debatten des späten 18. Jahrhunderts war die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Immanuel Kant und Georg Forster. Gestritten wurde über die Frage, ob Menschenrassen unterschieden werden können und wie sie zu bestimmen sind. Das hochprekäre Thema wurde in der Folge bis in die Gegenwart hinein zum Streitobjekt der Wissenschaften. Am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts sollte die Kontroverse sogar die Aufklärung als Ganzes in Frage stellen. German…
The "Last Dogma" of Positivism
Has the emergence of post-positivism in philosophy of science changed the terms of the "is/ought" dichotomy? If it has demonstrated convincingly that there are no "facts" apart from the theoretical frames and evaluative standards constructing them, can such a cordon sanitaire really be upheld between "facts" and values? The point I wish to stress is that philosophy of science has had a central role in constituting and imposing the fact/value dich…
Becoming Human
The Lenoir thesis revisited
History/Philosophy/Science
Rheinberger's brief history brings into sharp profile the importance of history of science for a philosophical understanding of historical practice. Rheinberger presents thought about the nature of science by leading scientists and their interpreters over the course of the twentieth century as emphasizing increasingly the local and developmental character of their learning practices, thus making the conception of knowledge dependent upon historic…
Johann Gottfried Herder Revisited
A veritable tidal shift in Herder scholarship has taken place over the last quarter century, primarily but not exclusively in German. This review essay seeks to evoke the richness and vitality of this revival with the hope of persuading American academics that some ill-founded opinions still circulating concerning Herder's "irrationalism" and chauvinistic, even racist nationalism, and his philosophical naivety and literary effrontery, might at la…
Discipline, Philosophy, and History
Gorman proposes to investigate historical practice under the rubric of a philosophy of disciplines. Such philosophy must first "recover historically" the self-constitution of the discipline in order then to appraise its procedures for warranting claims. Gorman's concept of discipline would have profited from consulting the substantial body of empirical research and theory regarding disciplinarity, and his "historical recovery" of the discipline o…
A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder
New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
Herder and Historical Metanarrative
THERE IS SOME TRUTH in Goethe's pronouncement that Johann Gottfried Herder's ideas had been both absorbed and forgotten by the conventional wisdom of German culture after 1800. He was absorbed either into the project of the Jena Romantiker and their literary hermeneutics or into the project of Hegel and his philosophy of history. But after the rise of historicism in the school of Ranke and Droysen, a retrospective redemption seemed possible. Thus…
A Problem of our own Making
Roth claims that in constituting the sorts of events they want to connect, historians conceive matters that may not correlate with any inventory of elements eligible for admission by natural science. Given “the liabilities incurred by the very questions historians choose to ask,” the question of historical explanation is a problem of our own making. “Previous challenges to the epistemic legitimacy of historical explanations lose their point,” for…
Médecin‐philosoph
In 1772 a book appeared in Germany which officially inaugurated an intellectual pursuit that had been emerging over the course of the century and which would become the ‘royal science’ of the rest
This inscrutable principle of an original organization
Teleology then and now
Koselleck's Philosophy of Historical Time(s) and the Practice of History
Zeitschichten: Studien zur Historik (Mit Einem Beitrag von Hans-Georg Gadamer). By Reinhart Koselleck
The Lenoir thesis revisited
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
This rich collection of papers by leading figures in the field concerns the "co-emergence of the concepts of race, gender and reproduction in the decades around 1800" (1). The editor, Susanne Lettow, notes that these have "rarely been studied in relation to each other" (1), and this motivated the collection, which was based upon conferences she sponsored in Vienna at the Institute for the Human Sciences as part of her research project "The Symbol…
Herder, Sturm und Drang, and “Expressivism”
Epigenesis in Kant
Johann Gottfried Herder Revisited
A veritable tidal shift in Herder scholarship has taken place over the last quarter century, primarily but not exclusively in German. This review essay seeks to evoke the richness and vitality of this revival with the hope of persuading American academics that some ill-founded opinions still circulating concerning Herder's "irrationalism" and chauvinistic, even racist nationalism, and his philosophical naivety and literary effrontery, might at la…
Reconstructing German Idealism and Romanticism
Frederick Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2002) Robert Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002) All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one. Friedrich Schlegel, Kritische Fragmente When two major studies on the same t…
Koselleck's Times
In this essay, I examine the key features of Reinhart Koselleck's situatedness in his place and time, insofar as they help us grasp his particular slant on historical writing, and then discuss the main thrust of his Historik, or his theory of the possibility of historical practice. Koselleck argued that historical theory must be a theory about time, or, more accurately, times. In his decisive terminology, the historical "present" consisted in the…
Drilling Down
According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of "temporal strata" are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the "simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous." Contrast this with the notion of a zeitgeist in which every aspect of a historical moment is integrated by some master principle. There are so many trajectories active in any present that it is unlikely that one might coordinate all of them, if not unwise even …
The "Last Dogma" of Positivism
Has the emergence of post-positivism in philosophy of science changed the terms of the "is/ought" dichotomy? If it has demonstrated convincingly that there are no "facts" apart from the theoretical frames and evaluative standards constructing them, can such a cordon sanitaire really be upheld between "facts" and values? The point I wish to stress is that philosophy of science has had a central role in constituting and imposing the fact/value dich…
Médecin‐philosoph
In 1772 a book appeared in Germany which officially inaugurated an intellectual pursuit that had been emerging over the course of the century and which would become the ‘royal science’ of the rest
Kant's "Naturalistic" History of Mankind? Some Reservations
Among many important claims, Allen Wood in Kant's Ethical ought proposes that Kant's philosophy of history can be grasped as a "naturalist" approach, grounding human nature in biology. I suggest some reservations. First, I question Kant's conception of biology as (a still emergent) science. Second, I question Kant's extension of his notion of "natural predisposition" to reason and freedom. Third, I question the naturalism of Kant's philosophy of …
The Generation of 1914 . Robert Wohl No Man's Land
Literature and Society in Germany 1918-1945. Ronald Taylor
Are We Being Theoretical Yet? The New Historicism, the New Philosophy of History, and "Practicing Historians" The New Historicism . H. Aram Veeser Rethinking Historicism . Marjorie Levinson , Marilyn …
The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment
The Genesis of Kant's Critique of Judgment
Alexis de Tocqueville
Recent Books on Kant
Journal Article Recent Books On Kant Get access Kant’s Theory of Imagination. By Sarah Gibbons. (Oxford UP, 1994. Pp. viii + 199. Price £30.00.)Kant and the Experience of Freedom. By Paul Guyer. ( Cambridge UP, 1993. Pp. xv + 449. Price £45.00.)Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World. By Dieter Henrich. ( Stanford UP, 1994. Pp. ix + 99. Price £9.95 p/b.)Dignity and Practical Reason. By Thomas E. Hill, ( Cornell UP, 1992. Pp. xi + 255…
Nietzsche and Soviet Culture
Ankersmit's Postmodernist Historiography
Ankersmit's articulation of a postmodern theory of history takes seriously both the strengths of traditional historicism and the right of historians to decide what makes sense for disciplinary practice. That makes him an exemplary interlocutor. Ankersmit proposes a theory of historical "representation" which radicalizes the narrative approach to historiography along the lines of poststructuralist textualism. Against this postmodernism but invokin…
Kant's Legacy
Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology
This inscrutable principle of an original organization
Reconstructing German Idealism and Romanticism
Frederick Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 (Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2002) Robert Richards, The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002) All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one. Friedrich Schlegel, Kritische Fragmente When two major studies on the same t…
Koselleck's Philosophy of Historical Time(s) and the Practice of History
Zeitschichten: Studien zur Historik (Mit Einem Beitrag von Hans-Georg Gadamer). By Reinhart Koselleck
Ankersmit and Historical Representation1
Historical debate is a semantic quarrel not about the exact meaning of words, but about the past. (HR:62) In Historical Representation Frank Ankersmit seeks a juste milieu between postmodern theory and historical practice. But he still insists that the meaning of a historical representation "is not found, but made in and by [the] text." Thus "there will be nothing, outside the text itself, that can govern or check [the conceptualization]." Accord…
Teleology then and now
Rorty, ‘Historicism’ and the practice of history
Rorty's extravagant postures on hermeneutics and incommensurability seem ultimately irreconcilable with the practical exigencies of historical interpretation. This essay highlights Rorty's views on historical reconstruction to demonstrate his ironic relation to historical practice. To make the case fully, it situates Rorty's views on historical method within his larger campaign against the distinctiveness of the ‘interpretive’ approach to human s…
Herder, Sturm und Drang, and “Expressivism”
Understanding Purpose
A Problem of our own Making
Roth claims that in constituting the sorts of events they want to connect, historians conceive matters that may not correlate with any inventory of elements eligible for admission by natural science. Given “the liabilities incurred by the very questions historians choose to ask,” the question of historical explanation is a problem of our own making. “Previous challenges to the epistemic legitimacy of historical explanations lose their point,” for…
Médecin‐philosoph
In 1772 a book appeared in Germany which officially inaugurated an intellectual pursuit that had been emerging over the course of the century and which would become the ‘royal science’ of the rest
A text of two titles
Kant's "Naturalistic" History of Mankind? Some Reservations
Among many important claims, Allen Wood in Kant's Ethical ought proposes that Kant's philosophy of history can be grasped as a "naturalist" approach, grounding human nature in biology. I suggest some reservations. First, I question Kant's conception of biology as (a still emergent) science. Second, I question Kant's extension of his notion of "natural predisposition" to reason and freedom. Third, I question the naturalism of Kant's philosophy of …
A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder
New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
Herder and Historical Metanarrative
THERE IS SOME TRUTH in Goethe's pronouncement that Johann Gottfried Herder's ideas had been both absorbed and forgotten by the conventional wisdom of German culture after 1800. He was absorbed either into the project of the Jena Romantiker and their literary hermeneutics or into the project of Hegel and his philosophy of history. But after the rise of historicism in the school of Ranke and Droysen, a retrospective redemption seemed possible. Thus…
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