Beyond the Whig history interpretation of history: lessons on ‘presentism’ from Hélène Metzger

Abadía, Óscar Moro

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2008.03.005

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“…Philosophical reflection featured prominently in these talks and reviews that were, by implication, quite unconventional. However, by zooming in on the conceptual work of Metzger so as the better to understand non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities, I do not intend to approach this part of Metzger’s oeuvre as a historical curiosity (Chimisso, 2001: 238; Moro Abadía, 2008: 197). Metzger herself was fiercely against picturesque histories and she was quite explicit about the importance of philosophical method in the history of science (Metzger, 1987[1937]).…”

Section: Metzger Among Logical Positivists and Chronological Empiricistsmentioning

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Non-reductive continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities

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2013

History of the Human Sciences

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This article engages with the philosophical reflections of the French historian of science Hélène Metzger (1886–1944) in order to develop a vocabulary for understanding the rise of non-reductive Continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities. The bibliography of current naturalist approaches in the arts and the human sciences is still in the making, but it is altogether clear that the trend is not scientist or historicist or relativist. This epistemological diagnosis refers us to Metzger, who found herself surrounded with the logical positivism of the Wiener Kreis, on the one hand, and the historicism of her French colleagues, on the other, as well as with the infiltration of the history of science by a chronological empiricism. In this article I will take the most recent book of Vicki Kirby – Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large from 2011 – as an exemplary case of non-reductive Continental naturalist scholarship in the humanities today and by reading it through the concepts of Metzger, I will demonstrate how this type of research leads to refreshing insights in what constitutes positive humanities knowledge and what is the role of the a priori in the field.

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Section: Metzger Among Logical Positivists and Chronological Empiricistsmentioning

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Non-reductive continental naturalism in the contemporary humanities

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2013

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“…En particular hay una tendencia minimizar las contribuciones europeas y francesas a algunos de los debates teóricos, como las discusiones sobre el presentismo y las revoluciones científicas, que han dado forma al enfoque desde los hablantes en inglés de la historia de la ciencia. (Moro-Abadía, 2008) Brenner, Soulez, Laugier y otros (citados en Moro-Abadía, 2008) han examinado las raíces francesas de la historia y filosofía de la ciencia estadounidense. En esta línea Chimisso ( 2008) señala que muchos de los principales rasgos de la nueva historia de la ciencia estadounidense que emergió en los años cincuentas y en los sesentas fue el objeto de un intenso debate y reflexión en Francia durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.…”

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