2018 - Franco Angeli
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Provincialising Europe? : Soviet Historiography of Philosophy and the Question of Eurocentrism
277-293 p.
- The article explores the ways in which Soviet scholars wrote national histories of philosophy and how they justified their practice theoretically. Particular emphasis is put on the issue of Eurocentrism, which was a central target for Soviet historiography of philosophy. By means of examples from Soviet histories of Georgian (Šalva Nucubidze) and Russian philosophy (the History of Philosophy in the USSR; Galaktionov and Nikandrov's Russian Philosophy), the author examines the tension between constructing national histories and combatting Eurocentrism in philosophy while remaining faithful to the universal Marxist scheme of philosophy's past as a struggle between materialism and idealism. While in particular Hegel is repeatedly criticised for being Eurocentric, the Soviet practice is nevertheless dependent on his ideas of history and of history of philosophy.
- Thus, Europe, or the West, seems to represent the benchmark for what philosophy is, despite the intention to liberate national philosophies from it. The author suggests that such problems may be fruitfully approached by means of postcolonial perspectives. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- History of philosophy, historiography, Marxism, postcolonialism, world philosophy
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In this issue
- Introduction : writing a universal history of philosophy : soviet philosophical historiography in a comparative perspective
- History of Philosophy in the Early Soviet Epoch
- What History of Philosophy Do We Need, or, Is Soviet Scientific Approach to the History of Philosophy Really Scientific?
- Rethinking History : The 1964 Interdisciplinary Conference On Methodological Questions of Historical Science
- The Philosophy of the Russian Enlightenment in Soviet Historiography : Names and Problems
- Provincialising Europe? : Soviet Historiography of Philosophy and the Question of Eurocentrism
- From Aristotole, Through Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd to Dialectical Materialism : Soviet Approaches Towards the History of Medieval Philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s
- Merab Mamardašvili : Kant, Descartes, and the History of Philosophy
- Soviet Studies in Renaissance Philosophy as a Basis for Developing a New View on History (1960-1980s)
- Science and Politics in the Newly Born Soviet Union : Silvano Tagliagambe's Analysis in Ludovico Geymonat's Storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico
- Soviet Theory of the History of Philosophy as Capstone of Soviet Philosophical Culture
- Index