A Companion to Intellectual History by Whatmore, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Part One: Approaches to Intellectual History

Chapter One: The Identity of Intellectual History

Introduction The practice of intellectual history ‘Read like a critic’ Intellectual history and the history of disciplines Conclusion References

Chapter Two: Intellectual History and Historismus in Post-War England

Introduction: The history of political thought and the history of historiography Friedrich Meinecke and Historismus Historismus : from historical method to history of historiography Conclusion: Historismus and émigré scholarship References Further reading

Chapter Three: Intellectual History in the Modern University

Introduction The Sussex anomaly John Burrow as an intellectual historian Burrow and the working intellectual historian Conclusion References Further reading

Chapter Four: Intellectual History and Poststructuralism

Introduction What is poststructuralism? Jacques Derrida Deconstruction and social history New anxieties Reaffirming history References

Chapter Five: Intellectual History as Begriffsgeschichte

Introduction Koselleck and the origins of GG The content of GG Conclusion References

Chapter Six: Intellectual History and History of the Book

Introduction Philology and the history of ideas Roger Chartier and linguistic history Grafton, Jardine, Waszink and Lipsius References Further reading

Chapter Seven: Michel Foucault and the Genealogy of Power and Knowledge

Introduction Beginnings: From Nietzsche to the birth of archaeology The archaeology of the human sciences From archaeology to genealogy References

Chapter Eight: Quentin Skinner and the Relevance of Intellectual History

Introduction Defining linguistic contextualism Giving substance to the method Intellectual history and present politics References

Chapter Nine: J. G. A. Pocock as an Intellectual Historian

Language and discourse The rise and fall of paradigms The nature of history Situating Pocock References

Part Two: The Discipline of Intellectual History

Chapter Ten: Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy

Introduction The history of philosophy Offshoots from history of philosophy: history of science and history of ideas Intellectual history Intellectual history and the history of philosophy: Philosophy in History (1984) The context of the ‘Introduction’ in the Philosophy in History (1984) The current relationship between intellectual history and history of philosophy References

Chapter Eleven: Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought

The history of political thought and present politics Unspoken assumptions Conditions of possibility The global turn References

Chapter Twelve: Intellectual History and the History of Science

The new historical consciousness Science and history in the nineteenth century The history of science as an academic discipline Decline and redefinition Kuhn and the history of paradigms References

Chapter Thirteen: Intellectual History and the History of Economics

Introduction Naming the parts, mapping the territory Basic predicament Self-sufficiency and present-mindedness Survival and growth Disjunction or conjunction? References Further reading

Chapter Fourteen: Art History and Intellectual History

The nature of art history Organising, collecting and intellectualisation: art history before 1900 Kunstwollen and iconology: art history in the early twentieth century Portraiture studies as theology and natural science: physiognomics and identity Portraiture studies as history and philosophy: phenomenology and likeness Portraiture studies as psychology and sociology: the ‘facial society’ Conclusions References

Chapter Fifteen: Intellectual History and Global History

Westernism and Confucianism Diversification Connection Comparison Global concepts Conclusion References

Chapter Sixteen: Intellectual History and Legal History

Introduction More modern narratives The English problem The allure of the Ius Commune European legal history more generally Transnational and global legal history Some general comments by way of conclusion References

Chapter Seventeen: The Idea of Secularisation in Intellectual History

Secularisation and the Church Löwith’s Meaning in History Hans Blumenberg’s rejoinder Questioning Blumenberg Secularisation and the secular: beyond genealogy? References Further reading

Part Three: The Practice of Intellectual History

Chapter Eighteen: Liberty and Law

Ancients and moderns Hobbes, Locke and license Rousseau and tyranny New tyrannies, new despotisms References

Chapter Nineteen: Education and Manners

Introduction Virtue, politeness and liberty Education, civility and progress Conclusion References Further reading

Chapter Twenty: Republics and Monarchies

Introduction: freedom and modernity Venice and the United Provinces: trade republics France and Britain: commercial monarchies Conclusion: modern politics and ‘the problem of the republics’ References Further readinig

Chapter Twenty-One: Barbarism and Civilisation

Beginning with the Greeks The meaning of ‘civilisation’ Commerce and civility John Brown and noble savages The example of Russia The changing meaning of civilisation Civilisation and the state References

Chapter Twenty-Two: Religion Natural and Revealed

Introduction Natural religion Revealed religion: history and the Bible Philosophy of religion Postmodern and post-secular References

Chapter Twenty-Three: Citizenship and Culture

Introduction: family resemblances Norms and facts A secular concept The two cities Conclusion References Further Reading

Chapter Twenty-Four: Democracy and Representation

Introduction The ancient legacy Britain between Tradition and Radical Thought America and the birth of representative government France from the Old Regime to the Revolution Conclusion References Further reading

Chapter Twenty-Five: Religion and Enlightenment

Introduction Religious origins? Hobbes and Spinoza Jansenists and Augustinians Universal values Enlightenment and individual faith References

Chapter Twenty-Six: Art and Aesthetics

Antiquity and modernity Between poïesis and aisthēsis Art before art history The invention of the sensational subject Interiority, exteriority and connoisseurship The avant-garde and the art of shock Acknowledgement References

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Natural Law: Law, Rights and Duties

Introduction The ancient world The Middle Ages Grotius to Kant Modern times References

Chapter Twenty-Eigth: Wars and Empires

Defining empire Imperialism and international relations Republics and empires Economy and war References

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Reason and Scepticism

Introduction Ancient scepticism Renaissance revival and the early modern ‘sceptical crisis’ Secularisation, fideism, and the new science: sceptical reactions to scepticism Scepticism in the Enlightenment References

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