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(1997) Soviet historiography of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
The aim of Soviet IFN was a complete Marxist-Leninist history of philosophy. This project was understood, firstly, as the reproduction of the historical process of philosophy, and, secondly, as a Marxist-Leninist science of that process, i.e. an explanation in terms of laws or regularities [Ch.4.iii].2 This points to a division of labor in IFN between presentation and interpretation, already noticed by Ballestrem in 1963, but it leaves unaffected the claim to a scientific understanding of an objective process.3 One of the consequences of this claim is the idea of a definitive account and explanation of that process, reflected by the project of a universal history of philosophy [Ch.3.ii–iv].
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8943-7_5
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van der Zweerde, E. (1997). The practice of IFN, in Soviet historiography of philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 115-140.
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