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What is intellectual history?

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What is intellectual history?
9.99 €
Richard Watmore, a leading exponent of intellectual history in the English-speaking world, provides clear answers to complex questions in a fascinating, meaningful, and concise book. Why and how do scholars reconstruct the ideas and worldviews of people of bygone eras? How closely is the discipline linked to the development of political thought? When does the public need for this type of knowledge arise? The author traces the evolution of the approach from the first experiments of Hume and Montesquieu to recent work by Skinner, Hunt, or Darnton, recounts the great discoveries of intellectual historians in New Age political philosophy, and answers basic theoretical questions. Watmore shows how philosophical, scientific, political, religious, and artistic ideas originate and take shape in different historical contexts and then themselves have direct effects on the development of society and people's decisions. While introducing the reader to the current state of intellectual history, the scholar offers his own - accessible and compelling - definition of the boundaries of the discipline. Richard Watmore is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews.
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