Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy - Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830 (Paperback)

In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism?
This book includes the most extensive description available anywhere of Joseph-Marie de Gerando s "Histoire comparee des systemes de philosophie," Friedrich Schlegel s lectures on the history of philosophy, Friedrich Ast s and Thadda Anselm Rixner s systematic integration of Africa and Asia into the history of philosophy, and the controversy between G. W. F. Hegel and the theologian August Tholuck over pantheism. "

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Release date:	2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Peter K.J. Park
Dimensions:	228 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	237
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-4642-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	1-4384-4642-X
Barcode:	9781438446424

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