Archive for the 'concepts' Category
The distinction between critical and speculative philosophy of history (by Walsh) sent me to the dictionary, tracing the history of the word speculative. Via French from Latin, the word is – obviously enough – etymologically tied to sight. Just like theory. Speculari, to spy out, specula, a look out, a watch tower. In the 17th C. [...]
Now, we finished the last post off with the geometrical object acquiring a “living linguistic body”, and with this being the manner in which it became there for everybody. Now we need to have a closer look at this process.
Husserl not only lists the objects of science as ideal bodies, but, interestingly, the “constructions of [...]
My reasons for looking at historicism should emerge clearly over the coming posts. Derrida understands historicism as an unacceptable relativism, and a critique of this is an implicit first step in his thinking. As Peter Dews notes:
Given the frequency of relativistic appropriations of Derrida, particularly in the English speaking world, it is important for an [...]
Forty years ago there were all sorts of debates about historicism. They’ve largely disappeared, or are met with stifled yawns. But, I think, it is largely an unacknowledged problem within historiography.
Frederick Beiser (Hegel 2005, p.29-30) gives a brief schematic of historicism, which is a useful place to start, as follows:
Although the term ‘historicism’ has acquired [...]
