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10 - When Reason Does Not See You: Feminism at the Intersection of History and Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2022

By
Hannah Dawson
Edited by
Richard Bourke  and
Quentin Skinner
Richard Bourke
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Quentin Skinner
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

Philosophy, particularly in the analytic form that still dominates the discipline in anglophone universities, is avowedly ahistorical, sometimes anti-historical. Abstracted from time and place, it applies the clear eye of universalised reason to certain perennial concepts and fundamental problems. History, by contrast, at least in its current, broadly cultural incarnation, insists on the contingency and practical embeddedness of ideas, and on the concomitant plurality, partiality, and opacity of human understanding.

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History in the Humanities and Social Sciences , pp. 229 - 259
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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