history of ideas
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English
Noun
history of ideas (countable and uncountable, plural histories of ideas)
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- Synonym: intellectual history
- 1982, Isaiah Berlin, “Introduction by Roger Hausheer”, in Henry Hardy, editor, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page xvii:
- The history of ideas, because it attempts (among other things) to trace the birth and development of some of the ruling concepts of a civilisation or culture through long periods of mental change, and to reconstruct the image men have of themselves and their activities, in a given age and culture, probably makes a wider variety of demands upon its practitioners than almost any other discipline […]
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history of ideas
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Further reading
intellectual history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
