Bronowski, Jacob. Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
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New York, Harper Perennial, 1962. 534 pages. ISBN:
978-0061330018.
History of Ideas
Intellectual and Cultural History
History of Thinking, Philosophy, Reasoning, Collaboration
Biographies of Leading Thinkers and Intellectuals
History of Science, Technology, Medicine, Agriculture
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History of Ideas, Intellectual History,
Cultural and Social History
A good example, in my opinion, of a work of intellectual history or the "history of ideas" is the fine book by Peter Watson, The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century, (Harper 2002).
Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
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New York, Harper Perennial, 2000. Index, 877 pages. ISBN: 978-0060928834.
VSCL.
Blackburn, Simon. The Oxford
Dictionary of Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition
Revised,
1994, 2008. Chronology, 407 pages. ISBN: 9780199541430. VSCL.
Bronowski, Jacob.
Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel
The Cambridge Dictionary
of Philosophy. General Editor, Robert Audi. Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 1999.
1001 pages. ISBN: 9780521637220. VSCL.
Christian, James L. Philosophy: An
Introduction to the Art of Wondering. San Francisco, Rinehart
Press, c 1973. Index, notes, glossary, 524 pages. ISBN: 0030802598.
VSCL.
Cloud Hands
Blog By Mike Garofalo.
Copleston, Frederick S. J. A
History of Philosophy, Volume VII, Modern Philosophy: From the
Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. New York,
Doubleday, 1965, 1994. Index, bibliography, 496 pages. ISBN:
9780365470445. VSCL.
Copleston, Frederick S. J. A
History of Philosophy, Volume VIII, Modern Philosophy: Empiricism,
Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America. New York, Doubleday,
1967, 1994. Index, bibliography, 577 pages. ISBN: 9780365470452.
VSCL.
Dictionary of Philosophy: Ancient, Medieval, Modern. Edited
by Dagobert D. Runes. 15th Edition, Revised. Totowa, New Jersey,
Littlefied, Adams and Co., 1956, 1962. 343 pages. VSCL.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Volume III: Law, Concept of - Protest Movements; Volume IV: Psychological
Ideas in Antiquity - Zeitgeist.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas:
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, 4 Volumes. Philip P. Wiener, Editor in
Chief. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968, 1973. For example,
Volume 1: 677 pages, Contains: Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts to
Design Argument. An outstanding resource for under $70.00 for the four
volume paperback set. VSCL.
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Paul
Edwards, Editor in Chief. New York Macmillan Pub., 1967. Reprint of
1972. Four Volumes. Volumes 1 & 2, Abbagnano to Entropy.
Volumes 3 & 4, Epictetus to Logic. Volumes 5 & 6, Logic to Psychologism.
Volumes 7 & 8, Psychology to Zubiri.
Each volume is about 1,150 pages. VSCL.
The
Essays by Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Free Thinkers, Secular
Humanists, Atheists
Hartshorne, Charles. Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers: An
Evaluation of Western Philosophy. Albany, New York, State University
of New York Press, 1983. Index, 393 pages. ISBN: 0873956826.
VSCL.
Hartshorne, Charles.
The Mind of Charles Hartshorne: A Critical Examination. By Donald
Wayne Viney and George W. Shields. Process Century Press, Illustrated
Edition, 2020, 584 pages. VSCL.
History of Gardening and
Agriculture Compiled by Mike Garofalo.
History of Ideas, Blog Posts, Cloud Hands Blog
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Hofstadter, Richard.
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Intellectual History
- Wikipedia
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Holt, 2004. 448 pages. ISBN: 978-0805077766. VSCL.
Jay, Martin.
Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal
Theme. University of California Press, 2005, Index, 431 pages. VSCL.
Journal
of the History of Ideas
.
Oxford University Press, 2007, 2012. Index, bibliography, 1058 pages. ISBN: 978-0199656493.
VSCL.
Lacey, A.R. A Dictionary of Philosophy. New
York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. 239 pages. ISBN: 068414932X.
VSCL.
The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley.
New York, Crescent Books, 1990. ISBN: 0517624044. Index, glossary,
575 pages. Extensive black and white illustrations. TCPL.
Lovejoy, Arthur.
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken (1873–1962) Historian, Activist, Philosopher
Mechikoff, Robert.
A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World
Boston, McGraw
Hill Educatin, Fifth Edition, 2010. Index, 459 pages. ISBN:
9780073376493. VSCL.
Menand, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Passmore, John.
A Hundred Years of Philosophy.
Popular Books about the History of Ideas from Goodreads
Ree, Jonathan.
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English. Yale University,
2020, 768 pages. VSCL, Kindle.
The Religious Views of Michael
P. Garofalo
Roszak, Theodore (1933-2011)
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
Russell, Bertrand.
The History of Western Philosophy
Sagan, Carl (1934-1996).
Cosmos.
Introduction by Ann Druyan, and Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Reprinted
by Ballantine Books in 2013. Originally published by Random House in 1980.
Index, recommended reading, notes, 432 pages. ISBN: 9780345539435. VSCL. The most popular science book of
the last 50 years. The TV series, Cosmos (1980), has been viewed by
over 500 million people.
Siedentop, Larry.
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism. New York,
Penguin Books, 2014. Index, bibliography, notes, 434 pages. ISBN:
978-0141009544, VSCL.
Society of United States Intellectual History
Temple, Robert.
The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention.
Foreword by Joseph Needham. Inner Traditions, 2007, 288 pages.
TCPL = Tehama County Public Library in Red Bluff, California. My
local public library.
Van Doren, Charles.
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
Watson, Peter.
The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God
New
York, Harper
Perennial, 2005. Index, notes, references, 822 pages. ISBN: 978-0060935641. VSCL.
Watson, Peter.
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century. 
VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library, Red Bluff, California
Quotations, Sayings
History of Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Science and Technology
"Intellectual history refers to the
historiography of major ideas and thinkers. This history cannot be
considered without the knowledge of the men and women who created, discussed,
wrote about, and in other ways were concerned with ideas. Intellectual history
as practiced by
historians
is parallel to the
history of philosophy as done by philosophers, and is more akin to the
history of ideas. Its central premise is that ideas do not develop in
isolation from the people who create and use them, and that one must study ideas
not as abstract propositions but in terms of the culture, lives, and historical
contexts that produced them. Intellectual history aims to understand ideas from
the past by understanding them in context. The term "context" in the preceding
sentence is ambiguous: it can be political, cultural, intellectual, and social.
One can read a text both in terms of a chronological context (for example, as a
contribution to a discipline or tradition as it extended over time) or in terms
of a contemporary intellectual moment (for example, as participating in a debate
particular to a certain time and place). Both of these acts of contextualization
are typical of what intellectual historians do, nor are they exclusive.
Generally speaking, intellectual historians seek to place concepts and texts
from the past in multiple contexts."
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Intellectual History
- Wikipedia Includes a useful list of prominent historians
working in the area of intellectual history.
"The historian
Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas and
initiated its systematic study[1]
in the early decades of the 20th century.
Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of
ideas; he worked there as a professor of history, from 1910 to 1939, and for
decades he presided over the regular meetings of the History of Ideas Club.
Another outgrowth of his work is the
Journal of the History of Ideas. Aside from his students and
colleagues engaged in related projects (such as
René
Wellek and
Leo
Spitzer, with whom Lovejoy engaged in extended debates), scholars such as
Isaiah Berlin,
Michel Foucault,
Christopher Hill,
J. G. A. Pocock, and others have continued to work in a spirit close to that
with which Lovejoy pursued the history of ideas. The first chapter of Lovejoy's
book
The Great Chain of Being lays out a general overview of what he intended
to be the programme and scope of the study of the history of ideas."
- History of Ideas
- Wikipedia
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