Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy
Subtitle: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830
Series: SUNY series, Philosophy and race
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781438446417
Subjects: Asian Philosophy; African Philosophy; Philosophy; Racism; Philosophers; Attitudes; Continental philosophy; History
Description: "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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Introduction; label: 1
title: The Kantian School and the Consolidation of Modern Historiography of Philosophy; label: 2
title: The Birth of Comparative History of Philosophy: Joseph-Marie de Gérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie; label: 3
title: India in Friedrich Schlegel’s Comparative History of Philosophy; label: 4
title: The Exclusion of Africa and Asia from the History of Philosophy: The Formation of the Kantian Position; label: 5
title: Systematic Inclusion of Africa and Asia under Absolute Idealism: Friedrich Ast’s and Thaddä Anselm Rixner’s Histories of Philosophy; label: 6
title: Absolute Idealism Reverts to the Kantian Position: Hegel’s Exclusion of Africa and Asia; label: 7
title: The Comparative History of Philosophy in August Tholuck’s Polemic against Hegel; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index