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Before we get on to Derrida’s commentary on the Origin, lets take a look at Husserl’s text.
The opening reference to Galileo puts us within the thinking of The Crisis. The specific question of the piece, ‘the origin of geometry’ is an unexpectedly historical one’. Husserl has no interest in the ‘historical’ first geometers, even if [...]
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 [...]
Here’s something I’m currently grappling with. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
On the one hand, I am dealing with the empirical history of the reception of Derrida. This is interesting insofar as it provides a kind of anthropology of academic disciplines – the way academics respond (or not) to philosophical innovation, and the way this is [...]
My supervisor has asked me to set my own deadline for a full draft of my first chapter. PhD as experience of self-discipline. This chapter is an analysis of the reception of Derrida in certain philosophy of history and historiographical journals.
I’m coming up on having been doing this for 12 months now, and a [...]
