Geltung - Journal of Studies on the Origins of Contemporary Philosophy

About the Journal

Geltung explicitly proposes to keep an open and pluralistic attitude that, instead of deepening the parting of the ways, proposes to go beyond it insofar as it thinks from a strictly historical-philosophical perspective. The foregoing, however, does not imply making concessions to some kind of postmodern fad. Conceptual clarity and argumentative rigor, far from being the exclusive heritage of analytic philosophy, are aspects of all good philosophy and are part of its very meaning as an intellectual activity. Conceptual clarity and argumentative rigor, however, are seen here in a historical-philosophical perspective, that is, as reconcilable with rigorous hermeneutic zeal with texts and contexts. The perspective described obviously assumes that the journal does not establish an antinomy between philosophy and the history of philosophy, but that it considers philosophy as historical and the history of philosophy as philosophical, thus seeking to offer an alternative to a certain “presentist” cult that, without further ado, shorts the horizon of thinking by sacrificing the tradition of thought. Perhaps it should always be remembered that the present is not a flash of eternity, it is also historical.

Finally, it should be noted that the Geltung journal is another step in a long process. It began thirty years ago with the establishment of a study orientation that was formalized fifteen years later in the formation of a CNPq Research Group (Brazil) which ended up bringing together similar research efforts at the national level and which later began to organize an annual meeting that established a dialogue with the international scientific community. The journal's Editorial Board, made up of participants in such meetings, is the crystallization of such a process.

Geltung publishes, in a continuous flow, articles, reviews, translations, and interviews and profiles.

From the South, the Editors.

ISSN 2764-0892