Cartesianisms and spinozisms : towards a theory of possible histories in philosophy
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Translation by Pedro H. G. Muniz
The history of philosophy is generally identified with an internalist and contextualist study of philosophical texts. Sometimes historiography is included; in that case, a first step is made to understand that several scenarios of the same text are possible, and why. The aim of this contribution is to open windows even more widely. It suggests including in the history of philosophy the history of its receptions and actualizations, in order to lay the foundations of a theory of possible histories. The figure of Descartes is a paradigmatic case to test this theory. By taking advantage of the methodological advances of the social sciences, intellectual history or even analytic philosophy, this history of revived philosophy thus reveals all its philosophical potential.
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