MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Halle/Saale

I. Introduction: On the Nature of Philosophic Historiography -- Historical Analysis and Applied Logic -- Sociology of Knowledge, and Philosophic Understanding as Dialexis or Verstaendigung -- Interpretation, Query, and the Categorization of History -- The Metahistory of Modes in Philosophic Historiography -- II. On the Unity of Systematic Philosophy and History of Philosophy -- III. The Interpretive Turn from Kant to Derrida: A Critique -- Kant: Formal Interpretation Theory -- 19th Century Contextual Interpretation Theory: Hegel and Marx -- Pragmatism and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: John Dewey and C. I. Lewis -- Sociology of Knowledge and the Development of Contextual Interpretation: Mannheim -- Interpretation Theory from Phenomenology to Hermeneutics: Husserl, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer -- Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: The Habermas-Gadamer Debate -- Interpretation as Deconstruction: Derrida -- Why Deconstruction? -- Conclusion -- IV. Intellectual History as a Tool of Philosophy -- The Social Nature of Reflective and Expressive Products -- Some Unphilosophic Uses of Past Philosophies -- Can there be Specialized History of Pure Philosophy? -- V. Hermeneutic Modes, Ancient and Modern -- The Expression of Universal Meanings -- The Expression of Individual Meanings -- The Expression of Physical Meanings -- The Expression of Ideal Meanings -- VI. Derrida and the Question of Philosophy’s History -- The Satiric View of History -- Against Logocentrism -- The Challenge -- VII. Cassirer’s Theory of History -- Cassirer’s Theory of History -- The Function of History: Cassirer’s Idiosyncratic View. Various Views on the Function of History -- Cassirer’s View of How History Functions: Two Ways -- The Materials of a History -- The Ends of History -- Cassirer’s Method -- Historical Objectivity -- Selecting the Facts: Historical Relevance -- Historical Truth -- Historical Causation: Some Confusions about Historical Causation -- How Cassirer Actually Writes History -- Why Hasn’t Cassirer’s Peculiar View of History Been Noticed? -- How Cassirer’s Underlying Assumption Requires his Theory of History to be Idiosyncratic -- An Evaluation of Cassirer -- VIII. The Philosophic Historiography of J. H. Randall -- Philosophy, History and System -- Human Reagents in Cultural Change -- What Distinguishes History of Philosophy from Philosophy -- IX. History and Philosophy of Science: Necessary Partners or Merely Roommates? -- The Attack on Logical Empiricism and the Rise of Historical Relativism -- History of Science and Philosophy of Science, a New Partnership -- Epistemologism, Realism, and Interpretationism -- X. The Eighteenth Century Assumptions of Analytic Aesthetics.