Conferenza "Writing a Universal History of Philosophy: Soviet Philosophical Historiography in a Comparative Perspective"

Padova, FISPPA - Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia applicata

The conference aims to establish a comparison between historical Marxist-Leninist and contemporary Western and non-Western approaches to the history of philosophy. Philosophical historiography as theorised and practiced in the Soviet Union will be approached with respect to three groups of problems. The first thematic focus refers to the theory of philosophical historiography and the relevant debates held in the Soviet Union, especially in the 1960s-1980s. Contributors to this section will discu