Essays In The History Of Ideas

Author : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432382
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in the History of Ideas written by Arthur O. Lovejoy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843235
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against the Current written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273305
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in History written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Author : J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317355911
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Has a History written by J. B. S. Haldane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, first published in 1951, the central theme is that everything has a history, and that we cannot fully understand anything without some knowledge of its history. Professor Haldane writes mainly on geology, astronomy and zoology, but includes a variety of other topics, including eugenics, Einstein, and C. S. Lewis. His outlines of zoology, of the geology of England, and of the evidence for astronomical theories, will be of great use to students and teachers.

Author : Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in the History of Ideas written by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johns Hopkins University (BALTIMORE). History of Ideas Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in the History of Ideas. By Arthur O. Lovejoy written by Johns Hopkins University (BALTIMORE). History of Ideas Club and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Remington Havens
Publisher : Columbus : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and History in the Age of Ideas written by George Remington Havens and published by Columbus : Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Harris
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893080
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Gianni Vattimo written by Matthew Harris and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has postmodernism got to do with Christianity? To what extent can a nihilist derive an ethic from the history of a religion? Can a western approach to secularisation be applied to Islam? These questions are central to this collection of essays from 2011–2015 by Matthew Edward Harris. The essays are grouped around the interrelated themes of religion, ethics and the history of ideas and constitute a critically constructive approach to the subject matter. Harris defends Vattimo against some of his more strident critics, but nevertheless poses questions of his own. Along with a new introduction, outlining Vattimo’s life, thought and ideas, and a conclusion, which looks at how developments in Vattimo’s views on religion have wider implications for his ‘weak thought,’ the volume includes nine essays on Vattimo’s thought. Harris’ overall argument is that Vattimo is overly reliant upon history and that there is a contradiction within his style of ‘weak thought,’ which is against definitive pronouncements yet excludes outright anything that does not pertain to the history of linguistic messages.

Author : Vincent Blasi
Publisher : West Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781634599016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Speech in the History of Ideas written by Vincent Blasi and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Author : Fritz Ringer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733992
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward a Social History of Knowledge written by Fritz Ringer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost historians of intellectual life and education in Germany, Fritz Ringer has brought together in this volume several of his articles, most of which are not easily available are published here in English for the first time. They focus on a whole range of contemporary and historical debates about the relationship between ideas and their context, the role of education and middle-class consciousness, the social role of academics and intellectuals, and competing ideals of learning, science, and history.