Corpora that Talk to Each Other

Intellectual history and philosophy do not talk to each other. Diverse methodological approaches, very little literature in common, diverse even the footnotes. The subjects are nonetheless the same ones: thought and its history. Looking for an intercultural model to the history of philosophy begins from a critical consideration of this nonspeaking. The idea is that the relation between historical and philosophical history of philosophy has always been and it is worth being questioned decade after decade. In this paper I shall talk of the history of philosophy, then, which encompasses both an appreciation of diversity as well as shared experiences, values, and aspirations. In this paper I will put forward examples of corpora of philosophical texts that talk to each other, which is a new trend made possible by the advances of state-of-the-art lexicography. With migration among the key issues at the top of public and academic agendas worldwide a re-consideration is urgent of the migrant practices of transfer of organizing principles and conditions for developing competences to act in multicultural settings, and ideas, which—wrote Arthur O. Loveyoy—“are the most migratory things in the world.”