Eclecticism rediscovered: [Rezension zu: ]Michael Albrecht, Eklektik. Eine Begriffsgeschichte mit Hinweisen auf die Philosophie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Stuttgart 1994 und Patrice Vermeren, Victor Cousin. Le Jeu de La Philosophie et de l''Etat, Paris 1995

Whatever the significance of the postmodern state of mind, recent views concerning philosophical eclecticism are largely the product of researches into the history of philosophy. There is an obvious inclination of today''s intellectual historians to investigate background figures of European modernity. The increasing willingness of historians to enlarge the notion of philosophy in both its disciplinary and historical definition seems to be in agreement with a similar disposition of contemporary philosophers. As we can learn from Michael Albrecht''s and Patrice Vermeren''s books, a critical appreciation of eclecticism throws light both on the conditions of contemporary philosophizing and on the politics of philosophy in the modern age.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:13180
Date24 February 2015
CreatorsSchneider, Ulrich Johannes
PublisherJohns Hopkins Univ. Press
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceJournal of the history of ideas, 59 (1998),1, S. 173 - 182 ISSN 0022-5037
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-776112, qucosa:77611

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