Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Here, ten philosophers explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analytic philosophy and history of philosophy.

This is the kind of history of philosophy that emphasises the status of a philosophical text as one document among others from a faraway intellectual world, and that tries to acquaint us with that world in order to produce understanding of the document. In this book, ten distinguished historians of philosophy, mostly trained in the analytic tradition, explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analytic philosophy and history of philosophy.

Introduction
1. The Philosopher's History and the History of Philosophy
2. Why Should Analytic Philosophers Do History of Philosophy?
3. On Saying No to the History of Philosophy
4. Is the History of Philosophy Good for Philosophy?
5. The History of Philosophy as Philosophy
6. What's Philosophical About the History of Philosophy?
7. The Ideology of Context: Uses and Abuses of Context in the Historiography of Philosophy
8. Locke, Therapy, and Analysis
9. Richard Burthogge and the Origins of Modern Conceptualism
10. Hope, Fear, and the Politics of Immortality