What is critical history of philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandford (0000-0002-7490-2977, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Kingston University, London Kingston upon Thames UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 5-16 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12577 |
| OpenAlex | W4399674554 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
In the past half‐century critical historiographies of philosophy have challenged the exclusionist Eurocentric and masculinist presumptions of “history of philosophy,” and we have witnessed the multiplication of philosophical worlds in the relation of indigenous to Western scholarship and in critical philosophical anthropologies. Does this mean that there is, or can be, no unity to the history of philosophy? In this article, I argue that these challenges are not incompatible with our thinking the unity of the history of philosophy, so long as we understand it to be an historical “distributive unity,” constitutively related to other histories and to social, political, and institutional realities, and open to continuous transformation. The idea of a “critical history of philosophy” emerges from this. I argue that a critical history of philosophy proceeds via the problematizations of contemporary thought, which are then themselves challenged by that critical history and that it can and must include what remains marginal to its canonical history, working in conjunction with the theory and practices of other disciplines. These general claims are illustrated by showing how a critical history of philosophy could proceed in practice in relation to the contemporary problematization of the concept of “sex.”
Contemporary philosophy · Critical theory · Epistemology · Philosophy education · Philosophy of history · Philosophy of sport · Problematization · Relation (database) · Sociology · Western philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of the Power of Judgment
Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie
Aristotle on Female Animals
Historiographies of philosophy 1800–1950
Philosophy as an academic discipline
From Aristotle to Contemporary Biological Classification
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |