Essays in the History of Ideas /
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 ope...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
|
| Edition: | Open access edition. |
| Series: | Hopkins open publishing encore editions.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full text available: |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | "Published for the History of Ideas Club of the Johns Hopkins University"--Title page verso. Originally published: New York : George Braziller, Inc., 1955. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 pages). |
| Bibliography: | "Bibliography of the published writings of Arthur O. Lovejoy, 1898-1948." Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421432397 |
| Access: | Open Access |