Essays in the History of Ideas

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvArthur O. Lovejoy,Arthur O Lovejoy,Arthur O Lovejoy

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Originally published in 1948. In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer—sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page—arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-01-26
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor380
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421432373

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Prefatory NoteForewordAuthor's PrefaceChapter 1. The Historiography of IdeasChapter 2. The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on InequalityChapter 3. Monboddo and RouseeauChapter 4. "Pride" in Eighteenth-Century ThoughtChapter 5. "Nature" as Aesthetic NormChapter 6. The Parallel of Deism and ClassicismChapter 7. The Chinese Origin of a RomanticismChapter 8. The First Gothic Revival and the Return to NatureChapter 9. Herder and the Enlightenment Philosophy of History Chapter 10. The Meaning of "Romantic" in Early German Romanticism Chapter 11. Schiller and the Genesis of German Romanticism Chapter 12. On the Discrimination of Romanticisms Chapter 13. Coleridge and Kant's Two WorldsChapter 14. Milton and the Paradox of the fortunate FallChapter 15. The Communism of St AmbroseChapter 16. "Nature" as Norm in TertullianBibliography Index