A Companion to Intellectual History / Edition 1

A Companion to Intellectual History / Edition 1

by Richard Whatmore, Brian Young
ISBN-10:
1118294807
ISBN-13:
9781118294802
Pub. Date:
12/21/2015
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
1118294807
ISBN-13:
9781118294802
Pub. Date:
12/21/2015
Publisher:
Wiley
A Companion to Intellectual History / Edition 1

A Companion to Intellectual History / Edition 1

by Richard Whatmore, Brian Young
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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118294802
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 12/21/2015
Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
Pages: 480
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History. He is the author of Republicanism and the French Revolution (2000) and Against War and Empire (2012).

Brian Young is Lecturer in Modern History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He is the author of Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England (1998), and The Victorian Eighteenth Century (2007).

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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction Brian Young 1

Part 1 Approaches to Intellectual History 5

1 The Identity of Intellectual History Stefan Collini 7

2 Intellectual History and Historismus in Post-War England Brian Young 19

3 Intellectual History in the Modern University Cesare Cuttica 36

4 Intellectual History and Poststructuralism Edward Baring 48

5 Intellectual History as Begriffsgeschichte Keith Tribe 61

6 Intellectual History and History of the Book Jacob Soll 72

7 Michel Foucault and the Genealogy of Power and Knowledge Michael Drolet 83

8 Quentin Skinner and the Relevance of Intellectual History Richard Whatmore 97

9 J. G. A. Pocock as an Intellectual Historian Kenneth Sheppard 113

Part 2 The Discipline of Intellectual History 127

10 Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy: Their Genesis and Current Relationship Leo Catana 129

11 Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought Duncan Kelly 141

12 Intellectual History and the History of Science John F.M. Clark 155

13 Intellectual History and the History of Economics Donald Winch 170

14 Art History and Intellectual History Katharine Lorenz 184

15 Intellectual History and Global History Andrew Sartori 201

16 Intellectual History and Legal History John W. Cairns 213

17 The Idea of Secularisation in Intellectual History Peter E. Gordon 230

Part 3 The Practice of Intellectual History 247

18 Liberty and Law Ioannis D. Evrigenis 249

19 Education and Manners Deborah Madden 262

20 Republics and Monarchies Koen Stapelbroek 276

21 Barbarism and Civilisation Michael Sonenscher 288

22 Religion Natural and Revealed Norman Vance 303

23 Citizenship and Culture David Burchell 316

24 Democracy and Representation Manuda Albertone 331

25 Religion and Enlightenment Sarah Mortimer 345

26 Art and Aesthetics Francesco Ventrella 358

27 Natural Law: Law, Rights and Duties Knud Haakonssen Michael J. Seidler 377

28 Wars and Empires Sophus A. Reinert 402

29 Reason and Scepticism Mark Somos 417

Index 438

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