Futurethoughts: Critical Histories of Philosophy

It is commonplace to note that, unlike analytical philosophy, modern European or so-called ‘continental’ philosophy operates with a conception of philosophy as a practice that is in large part constituted through its ongoing relations to its own history. It is less commonplace, however, to include in this thought not only broader, ‘non-philosophical’ social contexts (colonialism and industrial capitalism), but also the disciplinary and other institutional mediations through which such contexts are categorially filtered, as forms of knowledge, on their way to encountering philosophical reflection. Reflection on this fact draws attention to philosophy as a transdisciplinary as well as a historical practice. The writings in this collection – organized according to the institutional genres of the presentations within CRMEP from which they derive – revisit some of these encounters of philosophy with its constitutive boundaries.