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Global Intellectual History

Author : Samuel Moyn,Andrew Sartori
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231160483

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Global Intellectual History by Samuel Moyn,Andrew Sartori Pdf

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.

The Modernist Imagination

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454286

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Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Intellectual History

Author : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Intellectual life
ISBN : 0415662990

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Intellectual History by Richard Whatmore Pdf

Recent decades have seen a remarkable growth of interest in intellectual history. Intellectual history has become a popular branch of historical studies at the same time as it has a growing audience among students reading politics, philosophy, international relations, English and other academic areas across the Arts and Social Sciences. This collection will provide a comprehensive survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline, and of recent research undertaken by scholars in Britain, Europe, North America, and the wider world from ancient times to the present. Numerous chapters will provide an expert overview of the current practice of intellectual history, and include seminal writings by contemporary intellectual historians that have caused particular historiographical controversy. The work will provide a synthesis of past and current work but will pay special attention to prevailing controversies in order to provide readers with an up to date sense of the area. In line with the format prescribed for the series, the aim is a work that is an accessible guide to the field of intellectual history, while at the same time providing a critical overview of research as it currently stands.

An Intellectual History of Liberalism

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691207193

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An Intellectual History of Liberalism by Pierre Manent Pdf

Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes, he argues, derives from the liberal stance that political life does not serve a higher purpose. Through quick-moving, highly synthetic essays, he explores the development of liberal thinking in terms of a single theme: the decline of theological politics. The author traces the liberal stance to Machiavelli, who, in seeking to divorce everyday life from the pervasive influence of the Catholic church, separated politics from all notions of a cosmological order. What followed, as Manent demonstrates in his analyses of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Guizot, and Constant, was the evolving concept of an individual with no goals outside the confines of the self and a state with no purpose but to prevent individuals from dominating one another. Weighing both the positive and negative effects of such a political arrangement, Manent raises important questions about the fundamental political issues of the day, among them the possibility of individual rights being reconciled with the necessary demands of political organization, and the desirability of a government system neutral about religion but not about public morals.

A Companion to Intellectual History

Author : Richard Whatmore,Brian Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118294802

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A Companion to Intellectual History by Richard Whatmore,Brian Young Pdf

A Companion to Intellectual History provides an in-depth survey of the practice of intellectual history as a discipline. Forty newly-commissioned chapters showcase leading global research with broad coverage of every aspect of intellectual history as it is currently practiced. Presents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual history Written in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audience Surveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historians Pays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the field Demonstrates the ways in which intellectual historians have contributed to the history of science and medicine, literary studies, art history and the history of political thought Named Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 by Choice Magazine, a publication of the American Library Association

Toward an Intellectual History of Women

Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469620404

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Toward an Intellectual History of Women by Linda K. Kerber Pdf

As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women's history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber's essential contribution to the field is made clear. In this volume is gathered some of Kerber's finest work. Ten essays address the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in intellectual and cultural history, and explore the rhetoric of historiography. In the chronological arrangement of the pieces, she starts by including women in the history of the Revolutionary era, then makes the transforming discovery that gender is her central subject, the key to understanding the social relation of the sexes and the cultural discourse of an age. From that fundamental insight follows Kerber's sophisticated contributions to the intellectual history of women. Prefaced with an eloquent and personal introduction, an account of the formative and feminist influences in the author's ongoing education, these writings illustrate the evolution of a vital field of inquiry and trace the intellectual development of one of its leading scholars.

An Intellectual History for India

Author : Shruti Kapila
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521199759

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An Intellectual History for India by Shruti Kapila Pdf

This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity. As an intermediate history of connections between South Asia and the global arena the volume raises new issues in intellectual history. It reviews the period from the emergence of constitutional liberalism in the1830s, through the swadeshi era to the writings of Tilak, Azad and Gandhi in the twentieth century. While several contributions reflect on the ideologies of nationalism, the volume seeks to rescue intellectual history from being simply a narration of the nation-state. It does not seek to create a 'canon' of political thought so much as to show how Indian concepts of state and society were redrawn in the context of emergent globalized debates about freedom, the constitution of the self and the good society in the late colonial era. In so doing the contributions here resituate an Indian intellectual history that has long been eclipsed by social and political history. These essays were originally published in a Special issue of the journal Modern Intellectual History (CUP, April 2007).

What is Intellectual History?

Author : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745690292

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What is Intellectual History? by Richard Whatmore Pdf

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be among the most important in the humanities and social sciences because it facilitates a better understanding of contemporary ideological programmes and facilitates their rational evaluation. In this engaging and refreshing introduction to the field, Richard Whatmore begins by examining the historical development of intellectual history, before dissecting its various methodological debates. He presents various alternative ways in which we should think about intellectual history, as well as presenting his own very clear definition of the field. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples, Whatmore shows how ideas - philosophical, political, religious, scientific, artistic - originated in their historical context and how they were both shaped by, and helped to shape, the societies in which they originated. He ends by casting a critical eye over the current state of intellectual history, and a brief discussion of how it might develop in the future. What is Intellectual History? will become an essential textbook for scholars and students of intellectual history, philosophy, politics, and the humanities.

Revolution

Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839763595

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"Brilliant and beautiful. Now this book exists, it’s hard to know how we did without it." –China Miéville, author of October A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutions This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to José Carlos Mariátegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply shaped the history of the twentieth century. This book thus merges ideas and representations by devoting an equal importance to theoretical and iconographic sources, offering for our troubled present a new intellectual history of the revolutionary past.

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Author : Ctlin Avramescu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691152196

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An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Ctlin Avramescu Pdf

Annotation Based on the research he undertook in rare book collections housed in Scotland, the United States, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Germany and Austria, the author presents a systematic history of cannabalism as reflected in the mirror of philosophy.

Studies in Intellectual History

Author : George Boas
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421436555

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Studies in Intellectual History by George Boas Pdf

Originally published in 1953. In this collection of essays, prominent midcentury intellectual historians provide critical essays on their field of specialty. Studies in Intellectual History gathers work by Harold Cherniss, George Boas, Ludwig Edelstein, Leo Spitzer, and others.

The Worlds of American Intellectual History

Author : Joel Isaac,James T. Kloppenberg,Michael O'Brien,Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190459468

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The Worlds of American Intellectual History by Joel Isaac,James T. Kloppenberg,Michael O'Brien,Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Pdf

The Worlds of American Intellectual History follows American thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures. It also examines the multiple sites--from social movements, museums, and courtrooms to popular and scholarly books and periodicals--in which people have articulated and deployed ideas within and beyond the bordersof the United States.

What Were We Thinking

Author : Carlos Lozada
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982145620

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The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he’s found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today. He dissects works on the white working class like Hillbilly Elegy; manifestos from the anti-Trump resistance like On Tyranny and No Is Not Enough; books on race, gender, and identity like How to Be an Antiracist and Good and Mad; polemics on the future of the conservative movement like The Corrosion of Conservatism; and of course plenty of books about Trump himself. Lozada’s argument is provocative: that many of these books—whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, Trump’s true believers or his harshest critics—are vulnerable to the same blind spots, resentments, and failures that gave us his presidency. But Lozada also highlights the books that succeed in illuminating how America is changing in the 21st century. What Were We Thinking is an intellectual history of the Trump era in real time, helping us transcend the battles of the moment and see ourselves for who we really are.

International Political Economy

Author : Benjamin J. Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400828326

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International Political Economy by Benjamin J. Cohen Pdf

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting worldviews of its American and British schools, and the different ways scholars have sought to meet the challenges posed by an ever more complex and interdependent world economy. Benjamin Cohen explains the critical role played by the early "intellectual entrepreneurs," a generation of pioneering scholars determined to bridge the gap between international economics and international politics. Among them were brilliant thinkers like Robert Keohane, Susan Strange, and others whose legacies endure to the present day. Cohen shows how their personalities and the historical contexts in which they worked influenced how the field evolved. He examines the distinctly different insights of the American and British schools and addresses issues that have been central to the field's development, including systemic transformation, system governance, and the place of the sovereign state in formal analysis. The definitive intellectual history of international political economy, this book is the ideal volume for IPE scholars and those interested in learning more about the field.

An Intellectual History of Psychology

Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780299148430

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An Intellectual History of Psychology by Daniel N. Robinson Pdf

An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics. Daniel N. Robinson demonstrates that from the dawn of rigorous and self-critical inquiry in ancient Greece, reflections about human nature have been inextricably linked to the cultures from which they arose, and each definable historical age has added its own character and tone to this long tradition. An Intellectual History of Psychology not only explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, but also examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Robinson treats each epoch, whether ancient Greece or Renaissance Florence or Enlightenment France, in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers. Robinson also explores the abiding tension between humanistic and scientific perspectives, assessing the most convincing positions on each side of the debate. Invaluable as a text for students and as a stimulating and insightful overview for scholars and practicing psychologists, this volume can be read either as a history of psychology in both its philosophical and aspiring scientific periods or as a concise history of Western philosophy’s concepts of human nature.