Why study the past of philosophy ? With what methods – the analysis of “ eternal questions » or the patient reconstruction of the specific architecture of each doctrine ? For what purpose – to imbibe timeless values, to educate oneself rigorously or to give oneself intellectual instruments to think about the contemporary world ?
By focusing in turn on ancient and medieval philosophies, political philosophy, materialism, analytical philosophers and the history of philosophical systems, this work shows how the history of philosophy, far from being locked into the exegesis of an inert past, is in reality always linked to original philosophical reflection.
Table of contents
– Introduction, by G. Lepan & P.-F. Moreau
– The study of ancient philosophy: an instrument for critical reading of the present, by Letizia Mouze
– What is the history of medieval philosophy for? ?, by Christophe Grellard
– What is the history of political philosophy for? ? History of civil philosophy and political science in Hobbes, by Géraldine Lepan
– What is the point of the history of materialism ?, by Guillaume Coissard
– Don’t make a clean slate ? Aspects of the history of philosophy in analytical philosophy, by Denis Forest
– What is systems history for? ?, by Pierre-François Moreau