history of ideas

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 […]

Translations

history of ideas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 思想史 (zh) (sīxiǎngshǐ)

• Finnish: aatehistoria (fi)
• French: histoire des idées f
• German: Ideengeschichte (de) f
• Hungarian: eszmetörténet (hu), szellemtörténet (hu)
• Polish: historia pomysłów f

Further reading

• intellectual history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia