Philosophy of History

Spectres of YHWH - Deuteronomy and hauntology

by Jaco Gericke

Deleuze and Guattari’s Historiophilosophy: Philosophical Thought and its Historical Milieu

by Craig Lundy

Critical Horizons, Vol 12, No 2 (2011)

This paper will examine the relation between philosophical thought and the various milieus in which such thought takes... more This paper will examine the relation between philosophical thought and the various milieus in which such thought takes place using the late work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. It will argue that their assessment of this relation involves a rearticulation of philosophy as an historiophilosophy. To claim that Deleuze and Guattari promote such a form of philosophy is contentious, as their work is often noted for implementing an ontological distinction between becoming and history, whereby the former is associated with the act of creation and the latter with retrospective representations of this creative process. Furthermore, when elaborating on the creative nature of philosophical thought, Deleuze and Guattari explicitly refer to philosophy as a 'geophilosophy' that is in contrast to history. Nevertheless, this paper will demonstrate that far from abandoning the category of history, Deleuze and Guattari’s analysis of the relations between philosophical thought and relative milieus suggests to us an historical ontology and methodology that is a critical part of philosophy’s nature.

Emerging from the Depths: On the Intensive Creativity of Historical Events

by Craig Lundy

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Vol 18, No 1 (2010)

This paper will explore the possibility of a creative philosophy of history in the work of Gilles Deleuze. It will do... more This paper will explore the possibility of a creative philosophy of history in the work of Gilles Deleuze. It will do so by focusing on Deleuze’s concepts of ‘intensity’ and ‘depth’, as discussed in his seminal work Difference and Repetition. By analysing these concepts in light of several historical thinkers whom Deleuze significantly draws upon (Bergson, Péguy and Braudel), I will show in this paper how Deleuze promotes a theory of history that is not opposed to his philosophy of becoming and creativity, but in concert with it.

Deleuze’s Untimely: Uses and Abuses in the Appropriation of Nietzsche

by Craig Lundy

Deleuze and History, eds. Jeffrey Bell and Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 188-205

This paper studies the expression of Nietzsche’s untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. The concepts of... more This paper studies the expression of Nietzsche’s untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. The concepts of immanence and the outside form a relation throughout Deleuze and Guattari’s work that leads to their radical conception of the event, and in particular the historical event. As we see in What Is Philosophy?, in conjunction with Foucault’s actual and Péguy’s aternal, the Nietzschean untimely provides a touchstone for Deleuze and Guattari’s explanation of creativity in the historical event: the unhistorical is located as both the force and the site from which the sedimentations of history emerge. But while Deleuze and Guattari share in Nietzsche’s attempt to facilitate creations counter to our historical present, it cannot be said that they explicitly mirror (or indeed faithfully recount) Nietzsche’s analysis of history, its terms, and its effects in society. By tracing the various uses of the untimely throughout Deleuze’s work, a differential ‘becoming/history’ materialises that simultaneously enhances aspects of Nietzsche’s thoughts on the untimely whilst conflating others.

EDUCATION - Call for Papers

by Robert Parkes

Call for papers for special issue of the journal EDUCATION (Basel), edited by Dr Robert J. Parkes and Professor Monika... more Call for papers for special issue of the journal EDUCATION (Basel), edited by Dr Robert J. Parkes and Professor Monika Vinterek. Submissions due by 1 September 2012.

A história em questão: a afirmação da plausabilidade científica através de uma volta aos clássicos do século XIX

by Sérgio Campos Gonçalves

GONÇALVES, Sérgio Campos . A história em questão: a afirmação da plausabilidade científica através de uma volta aos clássicos do século XIX. OPSIS (UFG), Catalão, v. 11, n. 2, p. 260-265 - jul-dez 2011.

Kant and the Speculative End(s) of History

by Wesley Phillips

Karl Marx's Theory of History: a defense. Critical Notice of G. A. Cohen's book.

by henry laycock

Jerry Cohen's first major book defending Marx's Historical Materialism. I add an anecdote about Jerry (as he liked to be denoted) - I spoke with him as a friend shortly before his death. He had, it seemed, 'lost faith' in the idea of Capitalism's basic crises. This was during the US banking and financial scandal leading uo to the present very serious Europe-centred crisis.The unrestrained greed of the big banks in the years leading up to the 2008 implosion helped to wreck the American — and global — economy. Their business model: privatizing profit and socializing loss.

In Jstor at http://www.jstor.org/stable/40231151

I also add an important quote: "Capital is moved as much and as little by the degradation and final depopulation of the human race, as by the probable fall of the earth into the sun. Apres moi le deluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation" (Marx, CAPITAL Vol 1, 380-381).

Another helpful discussion is Charles Mills

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00201748908602197

Mills writes: G. A. Cohen's influential ‘technological determinist’ reading of Marx's theory of history rests in part... more Mills writes: G. A. Cohen's influential ‘technological determinist’ reading of Marx's theory of history rests in part on an interpretation of Marx's use of ‘material’ whose idiosyncrasy has been insufficiently noticed. Cohen takes historical materialism to be asserting the determination of the social by the material/asocial, viz. ‘socio‐neutral’ facts about human nature and human rationality which manifest themselves in a historical tendency for the forces of production to develop. This paper reviews Marx's writings to demonstrate the extensive textual evidence in favour of the traditional interpretation ‐ that for Marx, the ‘material’ includes the economic, and is thus ineluctably social in character. Thus those critics of Cohen who have urged the inclusion of the relations of production in historical materialism's explanans do seem to have Marx's terminological and conceptual backing.

CFP Special Issue of Foundations of Science on social epistemology and philosophy of the humanities

by Jeroen Van Bouwel

From Seeing to Acting. Rethinking Nishida's Practical Philosophy

by Matteo Cestari

Published in: James W. Heisig & Raquel Bouso (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6. Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nagoya, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 2009, pp. 273-296.

In reply to critics who summarily dismiss Nishida's philosophy as weakened on the historical front by excessive... more In reply to critics who summarily dismiss Nishida's philosophy as weakened on the historical front by excessive attention to the mind and interiority, in this essay I provide textual proof of a major shift in Nishida's late work based on the attept to overcome the dichotomy between the "within" and the "without". This is accomplished by applying a "dialectic of the historical world" to the mutual self-expression of the world and the things that make it up, including ut not restricted to conscious subjects. I see here the core of Nishida's complementary ideas of praxis and poiesis, and from there discuss the reviesd notions of politics, technology, morality and history. I conclude by displacing a blanket rejection of Nishida's view of history with a particular critique aimed at an overly abstract and optimistic tendency that kept Nishida from recognizing the darker side of technology and the relationships of humans to their natural and social world.

Kairos - A Political Post-History of the Concept of Time

by Rowan Tepper

Negotiating Historicity: Hungarian Jewish Scholarly Perspectives on the Relevance, Content and Meaning of History in the Age of Catastrophe

by Ferenc Laczó

Chrostowska, S. D. “Angelus Novus, Angst of History"

by Sylwia Chrostowska

Forthcoming in diacritics, 2012.

Toward a Philosophy of Holocaust Education: Teaching Values Without Imposing Agendas

by Alexander Karn

The History Teacher 45, no. 2 (2012): 221-240.

This article is a meditation on the challenges of teaching Holocaust history. It begins from the premise that the... more This article is a meditation on the challenges of teaching Holocaust history. It begins from the premise that the Holocaust, because of the extreme violence it entailed and the atmosphere of moral uncertainty in which much of this violence unfolded, is a special subject of historical inquiry. The article asks whether Holocaust history can be compared to contemporary instances of mass violence without distorting its essential features. The author contends that Holocaust education in America is generally characterized by conflicting approaches, unclear objectives, and poorly conceived assessments of student learning. The author goes on to suggest how close and critical readings of Holocaust-era memoirs can support the model of transformative learning to which many Holocaust educators and history teachers aspire.

Metodologia istorica

by Adriana Zbanț

L’Ecriture de l’histoire philosophique: L’Eternel retour du même et de l’autre chez Lévinas

by Gabriel Rockhill

Philosophie 87 (fall 2005):  59-77.

Book Review: Analytic Philosophy and the History of Philosophy

by Gabriel Rockhill

Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 (October 2007): 678-679.

Le Débat sur le temps présent. Analyse des coordonnées conceptuelles de la controverse postmoderne

by Gabriel Rockhill

Symposium 12:1 (Spring 2008):  126-145.

Through the Looking Glass: The Subversion of the Modernist Doxa

by Gabriel Rockhill

Introduction to Jacques Rancière. Mute Speech. Trans. James Swenson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Elias_Pynchon&History

by Amy J. Elias

Elias, Amy J. "History." The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon. Ed. Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale. Cambridge UP, 2012. 123-135.