{"product_id":"rethinking-modern-european-intellectual-history-9780199769247","title":"Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn relative terms, intellectual history is currently enjoying a moment of prominence and self-confidence greater than it has known in decades. Yet surprisingly for a field whose practitioners pride themselves on intellectual self-awareness, its star may have risen along with a decline in self-reflection. Few recent theoretical statements have attempted to justify intellectual history, to explain what makes its practice worthwhile and methodologically sound. This situation is ironic. The time of bitter and divisive disputes about the place of intellectual history in the humanities may be a living memory, but it is an improbably distant one. Everyone seems to be getting along these days: intellectual historians with other kinds of historians, and intellectual historians with one another. Yet only a generation ago, the field was faced with marginalization - if not extinction - by powerful external forces, which imposed a kind of exile, prompting a period of intense theoretical self-examin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis rich collection of articles explores the relatively recent past of the intellectual history of modern Europe in intriguing ways.... All of the authors are intellectually engaged with what intellectual history offers, intrigued by its future prospects, and aware of possible pitfalls of applying their proposals uncritically....This collection documents a field in an exciting state of evolution with many intriguing paths open to scholars and will be invaluable for anyone interested in understanding the current state of intellectual history. Many scholars will doubtless appreciate the clear paths through recent historiography of the various themes and sub-disciplines this collection treats. They will find a guide, a bibliography, and a thoughtful analysis of topics they might wish to pursue in their own work. * Kathleen Wellman, H-France *\u003cbr\u003eProvocative.... This volume challenges readers to think broadly and critically about historical knowledge, but it also shows specifically how a new generation of intellectual historians is revitalizing an eclectic sub-discipline that never stays the same and never disappears. * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003eAt the crossroads of many disciplines, intellectual history has emerged as a vital stimulus to the humanities as a whole. Shedding the residues of cultural condescension, European intellectual history in particular has come to be an endlessly renewable resource for creative thinking across the globe. As this lively volume amply demonstrates, it has a bright future in the hands of a new generation of gifted practitioners. * Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003eOver thirty years have passed since the last major attempt to reassess the field of modern European intellectual history. In light of the seeming eclipse of some orientations (such as Marxism), the reformulation of others (such as psychoanalysis), and the newer turns in the field (from the linguistic to the postsecular and the global), the time is certainly ripe for a new assessment. This volume will hold a key place in further efforts to 'rethink' the field both as a collection of significant contributions and as a focal point for constructive, critical debate. * Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University *\u003cbr\u003eThe study of modern intellectual history is gripped by the paradoxes of success. While scholarship in this area has flourished over the past generation, it has become so sprawling an enterprise that its very identity is in question. Perfectly timed to address the growing need for self-reflection in the field, Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History provides at once a map of the discipline, a meditation on its history, and a provocation to new thinking and writing on the history of European ideas. This collection is sure to become a landmark, not just for European intellectual historians, but for anyone with an interest in the history of ideas. * Joel Isaac, author of Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn *\u003cbr\u003ea superb collection ... The power of this book as a whole is to clarify the critical impact intellectual history can have on varied fields of inquiry and its centrality to historiography. The volume demonstrates elegantly that intellectual history remains an effective tool against disciplinary quiescence. * Carolyn J. Dean, American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction: Interim Intellectual History Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn ; 1. The Return of the History of Ideas? Darrin M. McMahon ; 2. Contextualism and Criticism in the History of Ideas Peter E. Gordon ; 3. Does Intellectual History Exist in France?:   The Chronicle of a Renaissance Foretold ; Antoine Lilti ; 4. On Conceptual History   Jan-Werner Muller ; 5. Scandalous Relations: Supplementing Intellectual and Cultural History Judith Surkis ; 6. Imaginary Intellectual History  Samuel Moyn ; 7. Has the History of the Disciplines Had Its Day? Suzanne Marchand ; 8. Cosmologies Materialized: History of Science and History of Ideas John Tresch ; 9. Decentering Sex: Reflections on Freud, Foucault, and Subjectivity in Intellectual History      Tracie Matysik ; 10. Can we see ideas? On Evocation, Experience, and Empathy Marci Shore ; 11. The Space of Intellect and the Intellect of Space  John Randolph ; 12. The International Turn in Intellectual History  David Armitage ; 13. Global Intellectual History and the Indian Political Shruti Kapila ; 14. Intellectual History and the Interdisciplinary Ideal Warren Breckman","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767078519127,"sku":"9780199769247","price":47.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199769247.jpg?v=1758712247","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-modern-european-intellectual-history-9780199769247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}