Canon crises, Philosophy crises
Keywords:
canon, revision, women philosophers, history of philosophyAbstract
The increasing diversity of critical writings on the philosophical canon results from a metaphilosophical crisis. The crisis has taken three main directions: maintaining, imploding, or revising the philosophical canon. This paper examines the role of the revisionist approach in reconstructing the historiography of philosophy and expanding the canon. The current discourse suggests a shift toward a continuous revision of the canon rather than its preservation or implosion. The revisionist project plays a crucial role, for instance, in recovering the intellectual contributions of women philosophers while preserving the historical character of the philosophical activity as an intellectual compromise with an epistemic, dialogical, and trans-historical community. This approach enables the history of philosophy to appropriate the objects of philosophy without losingits content or alienating itself from its past and accurate metaphilosophical justification.
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