Writing the History of the Mind

Contents......Page 6
Series Editor's Introduction......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Historical Reconstructions and Disciplinary Boundaries......Page 12
Writing the History of the Mind: A Set of Projects across Disciplines......Page 14
From the History of Philosophy to the History and Philosophy of Science......Page 16
Academic and Intellectual Spaces......Page 17
Scholars' Social Positions and their Philosophical and Political Ideas......Page 18
Plan of the Work......Page 19
The Identity of the History of Philosophy......Page 22
Studying the History of Philosophy in Paris......Page 25
How to Become a Leading Professor of Philosophy: Education and Early Career......Page 29
Professors of the History of Philosophy and their Social Backgrounds......Page 33
Personal Strategies and Institutional Success......Page 38
Introduction......Page 44
Academic Journals and the Historiography of Philosophy......Page 45
Debates about the Notion of the History of Philosophy......Page 54
The History of Philosophy as Heritage and Genre......Page 64
History as Heritage versus History as Evolution: The Challenge of the Social Sciences......Page 70
The Mind and Mentalities: Lucien Lévy-Bruhl......Page 73
Léon Brunschvicg's History of the Mind......Page 81
Social and Disciplinary Mobility......Page 91
The Diffuse Presence of the History of Science......Page 96
The Centre international de synthèse......Page 98
Abel Rey between 'Scientism' and Mentalities, and between the Sorbonne and the Centre international de synthèse......Page 104
Aldo Mieli and the Creation of National and International Spaces for the History of Science......Page 111
Hélène Metzger and the History of the Mind......Page 120
Alexandre Koyré and the History of Intellectual Revolutions......Page 134
Gaston Bachelard and the History of the Scientific Mind......Page 150
Georges Canguilhem between Concepts and the Living Being......Page 163
Philosophical Questions across Fluid Disciplinary Boundaries......Page 178
Social and Disciplinary Marginality and Personal Strategies......Page 181
The Writers of History and the Objects of Knowledge......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 186
B......Page 214
C......Page 215
H......Page 216
L......Page 217
P......Page 218
S......Page 219
Z......Page 220