Spinoza, Feminism, and the History of Philosophy (Prof. Susan James)
Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast
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The Importance of Discipline in Philosophy
You seem to purposefully straddle a conventional divide between philosophy and intellectual history as we would understand it. Some writings like the content of social explanation focus on problems or stalemates facing contemporary theorists, whereas others draw insight from setting philosophers and their ideas in historical context. Could you tell us a bit more about your approach to disciplinarity? I think that blurring disciplinary boundaries is a particularly fruitful form of philosophical critique, we could say.
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