Intellectual History as a Field of Methodological Self-Consciousness of Historians of Philosophy

The article discusses the problem of connection between the history of philosophy and intellectual history. The author analyses the development of the models of relations between the history of thought and the history of philosophy in time, problematises the most urgent historiographical questions, actualizes the modern situation of interaction between intellectual history and the history of philosophy. It is emphasized that in spite of the attempts to separate from historical knowledge, from the imperatives of the history of thought, the history of philosophy is still related to them at each stage of its development, in each of its methodological turn. The author discusses the current situation of interaction between intellectual history and the history of philosophy in the context of world tradition. The main questions are: "What do historians of philosophy get within the framework of the perspective of intellectual history?" and "How does this relation methodologically enrich the history of philosophy?" At the present stage, intellectual history is a problem field that allows the history of philosophy to make a transition from the problematisation of the history of the history of philosophy to the prob-lematisation of the philosophy of the history of philosophy and contributes to the development of philosophical historiography. The author analyses the methodological problems of text and context, the historicity and extra-historicity of philosophical truth, the verification of historical and philosophical interpretation. The dilemma of text and context prompted the development of the hermeneutic history of philosophy in Germany; the discussion of the problem of verifying historical and philosophical interpretation led to discussions about anachronism in the Anglo-American world. The contradiction between the historicity and extra-historicity of philosophy launched the development of the philosophy of the history of philosophy in France. Regardless of the national tradition, for historians of philosophy, intellectual history has become a field to problematise their own practice. The central author's thesis is that the appeal to intellectual history is the possibility for the procedural updating of the history of philosophy and the most logical (in the context of the modern time) way for the cultivation of self-consciousness of historians of philosophy and the development of historiography.

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