Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830 Contributor(s): Park, Peter K. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 143844642X ISBN-13: 9781438446424 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - History | Historiography - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 190.903 |
Series: SUNY Series, Philosophy and Race (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.11" W x 8.96" (0.76 lbs) 253 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association 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 Gérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, Friedrich Schlegel's lectures on the history of philosophy, Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä 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." |