of concepts are the and the Dictionnaire des intraduisibles Historisches Wörterbuch der which were completed respectively eight and seven years ago, while Philosophie, to the history of political concepts, the Geschichtliche Reinhart Koselleck’s approach was achieved already in 1989. English-speaking interest in Grundbegriffe has provoked a conspicuous linguistic turn in current history of Begriffsgeschichte philosophy. While the history of philosophical concepts keeps playing a central “purely” role within the Donald R. Kelley and New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Schneider have made it clear, however, that the history of philosophy and intellectual history cannot be said to be co-extensive. of study is The “intelligible” field language, or languages, and history of philosophy is not the model of but rather the province in the larger arena of interpretation of intellectual history. The role of the history of philosophy finds thus a re-positioning as a separate field within the approach of intellectual history, which is being disseminated by Howard Hotson and the current editors of the Warren Breckman, Martin J. Burke, Journal of the History of Ideas, Anthony Grafton, and Ann E. Moyer. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, history of philosophy must be reinvented on the basis of a development towards all diverse cultures of humankind. But not only the past should be taken into consideration, the redesign of the present is of equal importance. Intercultural history of philosophy is a means for making variety heard. Interculturality derives from the overlapping of cultures. Intercultural philosophy is by no means an exotic notion for anything non-European, it is instead an attitude that precedes philosophical thinking. Only then comparative philosophy becomes possible. Working
of concepts are the Dictionnaire des intraduisibles and the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, which were completed respectively eight and seven years ago, while Reinhart Koselleck’s approach to the history of political concepts, the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe was achieved already in 1989. English-speaking interest in Begriffsgeschichte has provoked a conspicuous linguistic turn in current history of philosophy. While the history of “purely” philosophical concepts keeps playing a central role within the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Donald R. Kelley and Schneider have made it clear, however, that the history of philosophy and intellectual history cannot be said to be co-extensive. The “intelligible” field of study is language, or languages, and history of philosophy is not the model of but rather the province in the larger arena of interpretation of intellectual history. The role of the history of philosophy finds thus a re-positioning as a separate field within the approach of intellectual history, which is being disseminated by Howard Hotson and the current editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas, Warren Breckman, Martin J. Burke, Anthony Grafton, and Ann E. Moyer. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, history of philosophy must be reinvented on the basis of a development towards all diverse cultures of humankind. But not only the past should be taken into consideration, the redesign of the present is of equal importance. Intercultural history of philosophy is a means for making variety heard. Interculturality derives from the overlapping of cultures. Intercultural philosophy is by no means an exotic notion for anything non-European, it is instead an attitude that precedes philosophical thinking. Only then comparative philosophy becomes possible. Working
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