This article investigates the history of philosophy as an institution, analyzing its mechanisms of exclusion and its potential for openness. It examines the French historiographical tradition, from Victor Cousin to Martial Gueroult, and its reception in Brazil, focusing on the experience of the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP). It argues that the history of philosophy, although often operating as a normative and exclusionary field, carries within itself the key to it…
Read moreThis article investigates the history of philosophy as an institution, analyzing its mechanisms of exclusion and its potential for openness. It examines the French historiographical tradition, from Victor Cousin to Martial Gueroult, and its reception in Brazil, focusing on the experience of the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP). It argues that the history of philosophy, although often operating as a normative and exclusionary field, carries within itself the key to its own renewal. The article maintains that the supposed current crisis of the canon represents not a degeneration, but a “return of the repressed”: an opportunity to reaffirm a philosophical reflection on the history of philosophy itself.