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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ethnologists, linguists, historians, and especially historians of philosophy identified other “cultures,” which they distinguished from the West in order to subject them to empirical study. Consequently, Europe was conceived as the unique territory of philosophy, analytical rationality, and reflexive thinking. This book offers an interdisciplinary history of the history of philosophy and investigates how the scientific imagination was constructed in the West. It contributes to debates on the ideological assumptions and political aims of the European social sciences and humanities.

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Catherine König-Pralong is Full Professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. She has published monographs and articles on the history of knowledge, including Médiévisme philosophique et raison moderne. De Pierre Bayle à Ernest Renan (Vrin 2016). She is the co-editor of The Territories of Philosophy in Modern Historiography (Pagina-Brepols 2019).      

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