DonaldR. Kelley

The Descent of Ideas (eBook, PDF)

The History of Intellectual History

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Produktbeschreibung

The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351545112
• Artikelnr.: 49365193

Autorenporträt

Donald R. Kelley is the James Westfall Thompson Professor of History at Rutgers University and the Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. He has written extensively on intellectual history, and his recent books include The Human Measure: Western Social Thought and the Legal Tradition (1990) and Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder (1998) with Fortunes of History: Historical Inquiry from Herder to Huizinga (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: What was the history of ideas?
Prelude: The new philosophy of Victor Cousin
Eclecticism in retrospect
The 'light of philosophy' reborn
The way of ideas and the ways of words
The new eclecticism
The history of literature
The history of science
Human sciences
The history of philosophy
After the new histories
Index.