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...
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2019
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Table of Contents:
- The historiography of ideas
- The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality
- Monboddo and Rousseau
- "Pride" in eighteenth century thought
- "Nature" as aesthetic norm
- The parallel of deism and classicism
- The Chinese origin of a romanticism
- The first Gothic revival and the return to nature
- Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history
- The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism
- Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism
- On the discrimination of romanticisms
- Coleridge and Kant's two worlds
- Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall
- The communism of St. Ambrose
- "Nature" as norm in Tertullian.