Models of the History of Philosophy: Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book 216)

This is the third volume of __Models of the History of Philosophy__, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit humain animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the philosophes and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be “general” histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography. "Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia philosophica' (a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian - the bibliography has been updated) gives a comprehensive description of the various forms and approaches in the literature of the history of philosophy from the fifteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century. Several traditions are described, from the well known 'prisca theologia' and 'perennis philosophia' traditions of Marsilio Ficino and Augustino Steuco, which claimed that the Greeks got their philosophy from the East, to the unknown influence of Scepticism on the history of philosophy by the recovery of Sextus Empiricus, and the German Protestant critical attack on Greek philosophy as Atheistic which was the tradition of the history of philosophy out of which Leibniz developed. Each individual historian of philosophy is given a separate entry which includes a biography, a complete bibliography of his works, a description of his history of philosophy and ends with both an assessment of his reputation during his own time and a complete listing of recent literature on him. As a result the substantial variety in the way the history of philosophy was written and, with it, an overview of the way western civilization developed is described in detail for the first time"--Publisher's description, volume 1 This is the third volume of 'Models of the history of philosophy', a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great "Encyclopedie" of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the 'histoire de l'esprit humain' animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the 'philosophes' and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be "general" histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great 2Encyclopédie3 of Diderot and D'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit humain animated by the idea of progress to the a priori history of human thought. The interest of the philosophes and the Kantians (Buhle and Tennemann) in the study and the reconstruction of the philosophies of the past was characterized by a spirit that was highly critical, but at the same time systematic. The material is divided into four large linguistic and cultural areas: the French, Italian, British and German. The detailed analysis of the 35 works which can be considered to be 2general3 histories of philosophy is preceded and accompanied by lengthy introductions on the historical background and references to numerous other works bordering on philosophical historiography Front Matter....Pages i-xxxii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The History of Philosophy in the Encyclopédie ....Pages 3-46 The Impact of the esprit des Lumières on the History of Philosophy....Pages 47-185 Religious Apologetics and Historiographical Practice....Pages 187-236 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 The Enlightenment, Erudition and Religious Apologetics....Pages 239-313 The Historiography of Philosophy: From School Textbooks to Works for a Wider Readership....Pages 315-358 Theism and the History of Philosophy: Appiano Buonafede....Pages 359-379 Front Matter....Pages 381-381 The Scottish Enlightenment and “Philosophical History”....Pages 383-472 Front Matter....Pages 473-473 Textbooks After Brucker....Pages 475-513 The Göttingen School and Popularphilosophie ....Pages 515-693 Front Matter....Pages 695-695 Philosophy and Historiography: The Kantian Turning-Point....Pages 697-768 Kantianism and the Historiography of Philosophy....Pages 769-963 Back Matter....Pages 965-1000