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The historian Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873–1962) coined the phrase history of ideas [8] and initiated its systematic study [9] in the early decades of the 20th century. Johns Hopkins University was a "fertile cradle" to Lovejoy's history of ideas; [10] 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. [11]
Historians engaged in the study of Intellectual history. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. E.
Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) [1] is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, [2] now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities.
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which is regarded as 'probably the single most influential work in the history of ideas in the United States during the last half century'. [1]
Peter Eli Gordon (born 1966) is an American historian of philosophy, a critical theorist, and intellectual historian.The Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Gordon focuses on continental philosophy and modern German and French thought, [2] with particular emphasis on the German philosophers Theodor Adorno and Martin ...
Daniel Walker Howe - political and intellectual history of the early republic and antebellum period Peter Iverson – 20th century U.S. West/Native American history (emphasis in Navajo history) Paul Johnson (born 1928) – author of A History of the American People and a biographer of George Washington
Dominick LaCapra (born 1939) is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies.He served as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, where he is now a professor emeritus.
Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. [1] Miller specialized in the history of early America and took an active role in a revisionist view of the colonial Puritan theocracy that was cultivated at Harvard University beginning in the 1920s.