Brucker versus Rorty? on the 'models' of the historiography of philosophy

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-81

  Piaia, Gregorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

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EID: 33750713711     PISSN: 09608788     EISSN: 14693526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09608780010012693     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Rorty's essay is contained in Philosophy in History. Essays on Historiography of Philosophy, ed. by Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Quentin Skinner (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1984). pp. 49-75
2. Cf., among the most important contributions to the historiography of philosophy in the past twenty years in Anglo-American scholarship: Philosophy and Its Past, ed. by Jonathan Rée (Hassocks, Harvester Press, 1978)
3. Philosophy, Its History and the Historiography, ed. by Allan J. Holland (Dordrecht-Boston-Lancaster-Tokio, Reidel, 1985)
4. David Boucher, Texts in Context. Revisionist Methods for Studying the History of Ideas (Dordrecht, M. Nijhoff, 1985)
5. Anthony O'Hear, 'The History that is Philosophy', Inquiry 28 (1985), pp. 455-66
6. Jorge J. E. Gracia, Philosophy and Its History. Issues in Philosophical Historiography (New York, State University of New York Press, 1992) with a full bibliography on pp. 343-67
7. Richard A. Watson. 'Shadow History in Philosophy', Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), pp. 95-109
8. John Inglis, 'Philosophical Autonomy and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy', British Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (1997), pp. 21-53. On the 'reception' in Italy of Rorty's thesis cf. Giuseppe Invernizzi, 'Recenti discussioni sulla storiografia filosofica in ambiente anglosassone', Rivista di storia delta filosofia 44 (1989). pp. 295-310
9. Luigi Turco. 'Pura storia o mera erudizione? La storia della filosofia nei paesi di lingua inglese', Rivista di filosofia 87 (1996), pp. 473-95
10. Martial Gueroult, Dianoématique, Livre I: Histoire de I'histoire de la philosophie, 2: En Allemagne de Leibniz á nos jours (Paris, Aubier, 1988)
11. Cf. also Lucien Braun, Histoire de I'histoire de la philosophie (Paris, Ophrys, 1973), where there is a distinction between 'learned history', 'pragmatic history', the 'history of philosophy as progress' etc. It should be pointed out that the idea of 'models' of historiography of philosophy inspired the title of the English translation in progress of the work in several volumes Storia delle storie generali della filosofia, ed. by Giovanni Santinello [and, from vol. 4. by Gregorio Piaia] (Brescia-Padova. La Scuola-Antenore, 1979-1995)
12. cf. Models of the History of Philosophy, 1: From the Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia philosophica' ed. by Constance W. T. Blackwell and Philip Weller (Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer, 1993)
13. Lutz Geldsetzer, 'Tre tipi sistematici di storiografia filosofica', Criteria 7 (1989), pp. 108-13, but see also the monograph Die Philosophie der Philosophiegeschichte im 19. Jahrhundert (Meisenheim a. Glan: A. Hain, 1968)
14. Rorty, 'Four genres', p. 62
15. Here we venture to refer, on this subject, to our work 'L'Urone filosofo e la 'filosofia dei Canadesi', Studi settecenteschi 13 (1992-1993), pp. 101-112
16. Jacques-André Naigeon, Philosophie ancienne et moderne (Paris: Panckoucke-Agasse, 1791-1794), vol. 3, p. 940
17. Hegel. Lectures on the History of Philosophy, translated by E. S. Haldane (Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), Vol. 1, p. 112. On this line, naturally, we find Croce. who placed Brucker among those who understood the work of historiography of philosophy as 'information about the lives and teachings of the philosophers' ('Filosofia e storiografia', p. 179)
18. Wilhelm Windelband, A History of Philosophy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955), Vol. 1, p. 10
19. Leibniz, Die philosophischen Schriften (Berlin 1875-1890; repr. Hildesheim-New York, G. Olms, 1960-1961), Vol. IV, p. 162
20. Cf. Antonio Banfi, La ricerca della realtá, ed. by Guido D. Neri and Gabriele Scaramuzza (Bologna, 1st. Banfi - II Mulino, 1996), Vol. 1, pp. 103-65
21. 2]), pp. 241-84. For a fuller reconstruction ef. (in addition to the above mentioned Vols. I II of Storia delle storie generali della filosofia) the monographs of Maria Assunta Del Torre, Le origini moderne della storiografia filosofica (Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1976) and Mario Longo, Historia philosophiae philosophica. Teorie e metodi della storia della filosofia tra Seicento e Settecento (Milano, IPL, 1986)
22. Garin, Dal Rinascimento all' Illuminismo, p. 150
23. Cf. Giovanni Santinello, 'II problema metodologico nella storia critica della filosofia di J. Brucker', in Idem, Metafisica e critica in Kant(Bologna, Patron, 1965), pp. 293-315
24. Johann Jakob Brucker, Historia critica philosophiae [.. .] (Lipsiae, Breitkopf, 1742-1744; repr. Hildesheim - New York, G. Olms, 1975), Vol. I. p. 10. An Italian translation of the whole 'Dissertatio praeliminaris' can be found as an appendix to Longo, Historia philosophiae philosophica, pp. 152-203 (for an analysis of Brucker's text, see pp. 104-114)
25. Brucker, Historia critica, Vol. I, P-11
26. Cf. (also on the subject of criticism made on this point by Hegel) Longo, Historia philosophiae philosophica, PP .112-13
27. Jacques Roger, 'Per una storia storica delle scienze', Giornale critico della filosofia italiana 63 (1984), pp. 285-314 (here 298)
28. Rorty, 'Four Genres', p. 61
29. Cf. Storia delle storie generali della filosofia. Vol. II, pp. 135-40