history of thought, n.Definitions

The History of thought is the domain where the development and transformation of forms of experience can situate themselves.

The History of thought is a history of ontologies which refer to a principle of freedom in which freedom is not defined as a right to be free, but as a capacity for free action.

The History of thought is the history of the way in which people begin to take care of something, of the way they become anxious about this or that for example, about madness, about crime, about sex, about themselves, or about truth.

The History of thought is an analysis of a specific problematization as the history of an answer the original, specific, and singular answer of thought to a certain situation.

The History of thought is concerned with analyzing the way institutions, practices, habits, and behavior become a problem for people who behave in specific sorts of ways, who have certain types of habits, who engage in certain kinds of practices, and who put to work specific kinds of institutions.

The History of thought is the analysis of the way an unproblematic, accepted set of practices becomes a problem, raises discussion and debate, incites new reactions, and induces a crisis in previously silent behaviour, habits, practices and, institutions.

A History of thought is concerned with what has made possible the transformations of the difficulties and obstacles of a practice into a general problem for which one proposes diverse practical solutions.

A History of thought's work is to rediscover at the root of diverse solutions the general form of problematization that has been made them possible.