Book contents
- History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Law and History, History and Law
- 2 History, Law and the Rediscovery of Social Theory
- 3 The Uses of History in the Study of International Politics
- 4 International Relations Theory and Modern International Order: The Case of Refugees
- 5 The Delphi Syndrome: Using History in the Social Sciences
- 6 Power in Narrative and Narratives of Power in Historical Sociology
- 7 History and Normativity in Political Theory: The Case of Rawls
- 8 Political Philosophy and the Uses of History
- 9 The Relationship between Philosophy and its History
- 10 When Reason Does Not See You: Feminism at the Intersection of History and Philosophy
- 11 On (Lost and Found) Analytical History in Political Science
- 12 Making History: Poetry and Prosopopoeia
- 13 Reloading the British Romantic Canon: The Historical Editing of Literary Texts
- 14 Economics and History: Analysing Serfdom
- 15 The Return of Depression Economics: Paul Krugman and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis of American Democracy
- 16 Anthropology and the Turn to History
- Index
- References
10 - When Reason Does Not See You: Feminism at the Intersection of History and Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 December 2022
Book contents
- History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Law and History, History and Law
- 2 History, Law and the Rediscovery of Social Theory
- 3 The Uses of History in the Study of International Politics
- 4 International Relations Theory and Modern International Order: The Case of Refugees
- 5 The Delphi Syndrome: Using History in the Social Sciences
- 6 Power in Narrative and Narratives of Power in Historical Sociology
- 7 History and Normativity in Political Theory: The Case of Rawls
- 8 Political Philosophy and the Uses of History
- 9 The Relationship between Philosophy and its History
- 10 When Reason Does Not See You: Feminism at the Intersection of History and Philosophy
- 11 On (Lost and Found) Analytical History in Political Science
- 12 Making History: Poetry and Prosopopoeia
- 13 Reloading the British Romantic Canon: The Historical Editing of Literary Texts
- 14 Economics and History: Analysing Serfdom
- 15 The Return of Depression Economics: Paul Krugman and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis of American Democracy
- 16 Anthropology and the Turn to History
- Index
- References
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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