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history of ideas

Discipline that studies the history and development of ideas and theories in terms of their origins and influences. The historian of ideas seeks to understand their significance in their original contexts.



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Many years ago the American writer and historian of ideas, Russell Kirk, attempted a definition of conservatism and laid down several general principles "upon which most eminent conservatives in some degree may be said to have agreed implicitly" (The Portable Conservative Reader, Viking Press/Penguin Books, 1982).
The uneasy alliance: liberalism, conservatism and religious belief by Coman, Brian J. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
Himmelfarb takes issue with Berlin from time to time, but her obvious debt to him reminds us that he is by far the more accomplished historian of ideas.
Common sense by Wolfe, Alan / Commonweal
In the opening chapter of the book, he dons the hat of historian of ideas, arguing that Western schools suffer from what is essentially a schizoid cultural parentage.
The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding by Hopewell, Brian R. / Roeper Review
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