Description
Book SynopsisA 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 practicedPresents an in-depth survey of recent research and practice of intellectual historyWritten in a clear and accessible manner, designed for an international audienceSurveys the various methodologies that have arisen and the main historiographical debates that concern intellectual historiansPays special attention to contemporary controversies, providing readers with the most current overview of the fieldDemonstrates 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
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Brian Young
Part One Approaches to Intellectual History 5
1 The Identity of Intellectual History 7
Stefan Collini
2 Intellectual History and Historismus in Post‐War England 19
Brian Young
3 Intellectual History in the Modern University 36
Cesare Cuttica
4 Intellectual History and Poststructuralism 48
Edward Baring
5 Intellectual History as Begriffsgeschichte 61
Keith Tribe
6 Intellectual History and History of the Book 72
Jacob Soll
7 Michel Foucault and the Genealogy of Power and Knowledge 83
Michael Drolet
8 Quentin Skinner and the Relevance of Intellectual History 97
Richard Whatmore
9 J. G. A. Pocock as an Intellectual Historian 113
Kenneth Sheppard
Part Two The Discipline of Intellectual History 127
10 Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy: Their Genesis and Current Relationship 129
Leo Catana
11 Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought 141
Duncan Kelly
12 Intellectual History and the History of Science 155
John F. M. Clark
13 Intellectual History and the History of Economics 170
Donald Winch
14 Art History and Intellectual History 184
Katharina Lorenz
15 Intellectual History and Global History 201
Andrew Sartori
16 Intellectual History and Legal History 213
John W. Cairns
17 The Idea of Secularisation in Intellectual History 230
Peter E. Gordon
Part Three The Practice of Intellectual History 247
18 Liberty and Law 249
Ioannis D. Evrigenis
19 Education and Manners 262
Deborah Madden
20 Republics and Monarchies 276
Koen Stapelbroek
21 Barbarism and Civilisation 288
Michael Sonenscher
22 Religion Natural and Revealed 303
Norman Vance
23 Citizenship and Culture 316
David Burchell
24 Democracy and Representation 331
Manuela Albertone
25 Religion and Enlightenment 345
Sarah Mortimer
26 Art and Aesthetics 358
Francesco Ventrella
27 Natural Law: Law, Rights and Duties 377
Knud Haakonssen and Michael J. Seidler
28 Wars and Empires 402
Sophus A. Reinert
29 Reason and Scepticism 417
Mark Somos
Index 438
