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History Of Ideas

The history of ideas is a field of research in history that examines the expression and evolution of human ideas. It is an interdisciplinary science at the intersection of the history of philosophy , the history of science and the history of literature.

The history of ideas has been replaced as concerns historians, by the intellectual history , but some researchers persist in claiming that branch of history, especially historians of political ideas.

Summary

Milestones

Including claimed by American Arthur O. Lovejoy , the term "history of ideas" that is the earlier. Ideologie und Utopie in (1927) . For both authors, the historian of ideas must take into account the multiple nature of "truth" throughout history. The ideas vary in different cultures and to account for, take note of the effects of fracture history, diverse ways of thinking of actors and semantic variations of language that can not conceive of a history of ideas homogeneous and continuous.

Historical Semantics

In this perspective was born the running of the " semantic history "(also known as" history of concepts "), represented notably by Reinhart Koselleck , Quentin Skinner , JGA Pocock , Christopher Hill , and in his latest work, Jean Starobinski.

History of Political Ideas

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Representatives: Isaiah Berlin , Paul Benichou , Zeev Sternhell , Mark Bevir , Pierre-Andre Taguieff , Marc Angenot , Daniel S. Larang etc..

References

  1. See his preface to the English edition of 1936, Ideology & Utopia. An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge, San Diege-New York-London, Harcourt, 1985.
  2. Paul Veyne, The Greeks did they believe their myths?, Paris, Editions du Seuil, Points-Essais, 1992, p. 39.

Bibliography

Olivier Nay , History of Political Thought, Paris, Armand Colin , 2007, 597 p.


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