Brucker Versus Rorty? On the 'Models' of the Historiography of Philosophy

‘Mind in general’ by Sir Alexander Crichton

“…In his magisterial history of the histories of philosophy, Braun (1973) identified naïve, erudite, pragmatic, progressive, critical and romantic historiographical approaches to philosophy. A variety of other typologies and taxonomies are also available (Piaia, 2001).…”

“…Suffice it to mention major works by Brucker (1742-62), Tiedemann (1791 and Tennemann (1798Tennemann ( -1819. There has recently been an interesting effort to show that Brucker's historiography was more refined and concept-aware than had been thought hitherto (Piaia, 2001). 20.…”