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  Intellectual history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Intellectual history differs from the history of philosophy and the history of ideas, although these fields are closely related and often overlap.
Central to development of intellectual history has been the birth of scholarship in ancient China, the creation of Confucianism with its extensive exigesis of the texts of Confucius, and the active part of scholars in governments.
In Korea, the yangban scholar movement drove the development of Korean intellectual history from the late Goryeo to the golden age of intellectual achievement in the Joseon dynasty..
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intellectual_history   (734 words)

  
 Intellectual - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas.
Some intellectuals have been vehemently anti-academic; at times universities and their faculties have been synonymous with intellectualism, but in other periods and some places the centre of gravity of intellectual life has been elsewhere.
In general practice intellectual as label is more consistently applied to fields related to the arts and social sciences than it is to disciplines in the natural sciences, applied sciences, mathematics or engineering.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intellectual   (863 words)

  
 Learn more about Intellectual history of time in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Anything that effects us intellectually or emotionally is the progenitor of the collective behavior of our species, which then becomes our knowledge, which we pass down through tradition and culture.
It's the ultimate contradiction of history that catastrophes aren't subject to science, and hence the biggest history-makers are unrepeatable in a laboratory.
The intellectual history of time is a subtle progression that weaves through the collective experience of generations, as it weaves through each individual's emotional and intellectual lives.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /i/in/intellectual_history_of_time.html   (2229 words)

  
 Historiological Notes: History of ideas, intellectual history and modernity
He takes it for granted that history of ideas now is linked to modernity theory, and that this is the only form of history of ideas and intellectual history.
Studying history of ideas in Oslo was very much a study of modernity (Krogh is and was amongst the ones deciding the curriculum) and I know that this has influenced my interest in modernity.
In Britain, however, intellectual history is integrated in the history departments and thus there is not necessarily a methodological gap between intellectual history and traditional (social) history.
www.historiologicalnotes.org /2005/04/history_of_idea.html   (1305 words)

  
 RILM Conference: Music's Intellectual History
The purpose of this paper is to chart the intellectual history of listening, a subfield still considered peripheral within the larger field of music’s intellectual history.
This paper shows that ironically, despite the continuously broadening range of historical information available, the history of music historiography, up to the early 20th century, is a history of gradual limitation and narrowing of perspectives, eventually resulting in the development of a concept of music historiography shaped by the ideology of supremacy.
Here, Mozart is accorded a dual role in music’s intellectual history: as one of the followers of the humanist tradition, and, in his positioning of the principal discourse of the Violinschule around the formulation of progress in music (undoubtedly the most current topic of the Enlightenment) as one of the founders of modern music scholarship.
www.rilm.org /RILMconference.html   (16266 words)

  
 Allan Megill
European history is not a growth area, and for various complex reasons intellectual history has a somewhat tenuous and marginal status within the historical discipline.
Accordingly, it might be thought that the aim of the new graduate student in intellectual history should be to operate in an interdisciplinary mode, blending history, philosophy, literature, and whatever else is connected with his or her specific areas of interest.
In addition, HIST 506 Philosophy of History is a class that all of my students ought to take: it is both a course in theory (which picks up themes in many of my articles on philosophy of history) and a course in one aspect of intellectual history.
www.people.virginia.edu /~adm9e/grad/grad.htm   (6795 words)

  
 Lecture 1: Modern European Intellectual History - An Introduction
Only such a combination of events -- at once political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural -- could have produced such a watershed in the history of man. For this reason, 1789 is often seen as a major turning point in the creation of the modern world.
It is the task of the intellectual historian to show how the ideas inherent in science, literature, religion, art, philosophy, political theory or a thousand other things interact with social realities, in other words, with real, living and breathing men.
There is no part of history so generally useful as that which relates to the progress of the human mind, the successive advances of science, the vicissitudes of learning and ignorance, the extension and resuscitation of arts and the revolution of the intellectual world.
www.historyguide.org /intellect/lecture1a.html   (3212 words)

  
 Rice History Department:Graduate Study
Graduate studies in intellectual history at Rice are strong in both the traditional and the new methodologies.
The department's strengths in intellectual history are complemented, moreover, by strong course offerings in American and European cultural history as well as the history of science.
The approach to the study of intellectual history at Rice is extremely flexible, allowing students maximum leeway in designing their own course of study.
cohesion.rice.edu /humanities/hist/graduate.cfm?doc_id=23   (1235 words)

  
 Conferences on intellectual history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Graduate Students in History at McGill University are pleased to invite proposals for the Third Annual McGill-Queen's Student Conference in History.
Papers are invited on aspects of mid-century culture, the history of science and scholarship, religious and antiquarian thought, natural history and the history of trivia, in particular, but not restricted to, those related to Browne.
Its aim is to open a dialogue between different approaches, theories and methodologies applied within and across disciplines and to encourage reflection on the present and future directions in the study of the 18th C and Romanticism.
www.history.ac.uk /conferences/intell.html   (2469 words)

  
 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Intellectual history has not remained unaffected by the language-oriented philosophy of the late twentieth century.
He has considered the purely documentary approach to intellectual history to be a mistake that has caused some complex texts to be excluded from relevant historical evidence only on the basis of them being 'literary'.
As for the conclusions that can be drawn, it is evident that the study of intellectual history cannot simply be turned into a study of the history of language or a study of literature, as the basic interests of the fields are radically divergent.
www.jyu.fi /~ptihalai/lanlit.html   (4804 words)

  
 Intellectual - Art History Online Reference and Guide
An intellectual is a person who uses his/her intellect to study, reflect, and/or speculate on a variety of different ideas.
The man of letters stood in many cultures for what we might take to be the contemporary intellectual; the distinction not having great weight when literacy was not fairly universal (and, incidentally, not assumed of a woman).
Some intellectuals have been vehemently anti-academic; at times universities and their professoriat have been synonymous with intellectualism, but in other periods and some places the centre of gravity of intellectual life has been elsewhere.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Intellectual   (687 words)

  
 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Finally, the neologism 'free- thinker', which was, in the early 1710s, generally used as a highly pejorative term to attack heterodoxies in religion and adversaries in politics, was widely disputed, but by the end of the decade it sometimes became defined as the ideal of the age.
LaCapra has seen no problem in using literary texts in intellectual history, determining their documentary and worklike aspects such as fact and fiction, concept and metaphor, the serious and the ironic, and placing them in the context of the author's intentions, his life, his 'corpus', society, culture, and the prevailing modes of discourse.
Melvin Richter, 'Reconstructing the History of Political Languages: Pocock, Skinner, and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe', History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, vol.
www.cc.jyu.fi /~ptihalai/lanlit.html   (4804 words)

  
 Honest Intellectual Inquiry: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
History of the Netherlands From the Romans to the present, but focusing on the time of the Renaissance onwards.
History Detectives Interactive PBS series on places and episodes in U.S. history: Do it yourself, quizzes, games and all sorts of fun for the whole family.
History of South America in General Documents in the recent history of many countries in South America, from the World History Archives.
www.dakotacom.net /~depriest/histchron.htm   (7847 words)

  
 Intellectual Property Guide: History
That reflected perceptions that most major questions had been settled and that the antecedents of current law were only of interest to historians of law or those concerned with the 'rise of the author'.
The authors of literary, musical, artistic and scientific works play a spiritual and intellectual role in society which is to the profound and lasting benefit of humanity and a decisive factor in shaping the course of civilisation.
The history of copyright is the history of mounting contradictions in the legal superstructure, as the changing forms of cultural production altered the social relations of the author, who gradually became a new kind of intellectual worker (a shift which relatively few of them recognised until after Schiller and Marx).
www.caslon.com.au /ipguide2.htm   (1574 words)

  
 Intellectual History Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It will be unique in encompassing both American and European intellectual history, and in having as one of its foci transatlantic intellectual exchanges.
Our focus will necessarily remain on the West, where most of the work in intellectual history is being done, but we will also encourage submissions in non-Western intellectual discourses that open transnational windows on the West and the larger world.
Specifically, it will regard the distinction between "intellectual" and "cultural" history more as a matter of emphasis than as a hard-and-fast divide, and will promote work that enriches both ends of this spectrum.
www.bu.edu /mih   (300 words)

  
 Intellectual history at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
25 full-text lectures on the intellectual history of Europe from Abelard to Nietzsche...
History of Intellectual Culture History of Intellectual Culture issn: 1492-7810...
The International Society for Intellectual History was created in 1994 to foster communication and interaction among the international community of intellectual historians and scholars working in related fields.
www.springknow.com /Intellectual_history.html   (611 words)

  
 Intellectual History
An ability to organize different types of source materials, relate them to each other by means of critical analysis, and use them in a way that produces greater insight into the complex subject matter of the course.
A sense of the variety of disciplines and approaches that contribute to the history of ideas and intellectual trends.
A greater understanding of the human experience by examining the intellectual dilemmas and moral challenges faced by men and women of the past.
www.longwood.edu /staff/munsonjr/jm468s03.html   (2502 words)

  
 Intellectual Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ SomethingPersonal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Intellectual History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400-1400 by Marcia L. Colish (Yale Intellectual History of the West; Yale University Press) This magisterial book provides an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400.
The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 by William J. Bouwsma (Yale Intellectual History of the West; Yale University Press) Historians have conventionally viewed intellectual and artistic achievement as a seamless progression in a single direction, with the Renaissance, as identified by Jacob Burckhardt, as the root and foundation of modern culture.
Burrow first outlines the intellectual context of the mid-nineteenth century, using ideas taken from physics, social evolution, and social Darwinism, and anxieties about modernity and personal identity, to explore the impact of science and social thought on European intellectual life.
www.wordtrade.com /history/europe/intellectualhistoryR.htm   (770 words)

  
 Intellectual History of Classical Liberalism
Like many European students of the history of modern philosophy before him, Manent argues that the idea of man's self-creation lies at the foundations of liberalism.
Postmodernism may be seen as the latest such effort, a truly ambitious enterprise which carries the liberal principle that the individual must always obey only those laws which he has authorized, consented to, or made, and hence must be both sovereign and free, to a new and dizzying extreme.
Indeed, one would like to know, for example, how Spinoza and Mill fit into his account of liberalism, for after all the one gave the theologico-political problem its name, and the name of the other is almost synonymous in the English speaking world with liberalism.
www.dailyrepublican.com /liberalhistory.html   (1770 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Yale Intellectual History of the West Se): ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The title provides a sufficient clue that this is a dry and plodding tome, and this impression is confirmed by each and every page, on which lengthy and opaque sentences coil about one another in pointless complexity without ever giving birth to a new idea or an important insight.
Her thesis, that the foundation of the Western intellectual mindset and tradition really began in earnest in the Middle Ages rathern than Greek antiquity is an interesting one, and one for which I beleive she gives good arguments.
In addition to her excellent discussion of European Medieval intellectual thought, Colish goes into the vernacular literature and day-to-day culture of the Medieval world and proves again that the "Dark Ages" were anything but in some very important ways.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300078528?v=glance   (1849 words)

  
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The constitutional history of Greece is a story of independent men freeing themselves from tyranny.
Aristotle's Rhetoric is a seminal treatise in the history of logic.
These two lectures are an investigation into the connection, in intellectual history, between epistemology and political philosophy.
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 UNC-CH Department of History - Lloyd Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Other research and teaching interests deal with the roles of intellectuals in modern societies and the theoretical foundations of historical knowledge.
In recent years he has developed a growing interest in Global History, and he occasionally teaches a course called "Global Issues in the Twentieth Century." One recurring theme in all of his research and teaching stresses the importance of cross-cultural exchanges in modern world history.
He is also co-author, with R. Palmer and Joel Colton, of A History of the Modern World, 9th edition (2002) and, co-editor with Sarah Maza, of A Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002).
www.unc.edu /depts/history/faculty/kramer.html   (248 words)

  
 University of Cambridge: Faculty of English
He is currently completing a book on 'The Question of Intellectuals' in 20th-century Britain, and his research interests include 'Condition-of-England' writing, social criticism, literary journalism, the history of literary criticism, and ideas of culture.
Her book, Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (2004), examines the ways in which changing conceptions of technology and intellectual property are both reflected in and challenged by the literary writing of the nineteenth century.
She is currently writing a cultural history of the famous meeting between Stanley and Dr. Livingstone in 1871.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /postgraduate/Post-1830_Info.htm   (2091 words)

  
 The History Guide -- Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The History Guide has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college.
The purpose of The History Guide is to better prepare yourself for your history classes and to make your time in class more enjoyable and proficient.
The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes.
www.historyguide.org   (288 words)

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