Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy: Their Genesis and Current Relationship

TY - CHAP

T1 - Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy

T2 - Their Genesis and Current Relationship

AU - Catana, Leo

PY - 2015/10/31

Y1 - 2015/10/31

N2 - This chapter outlines the origin and development of intellectual history and its methodology. The discipline emerged in the 1960s as a reaction to weaknesses in the methodology of another historical discipline, namely the history of ideas, first established in the 1930s. Ultimately, the history of ideas grew out of yet another discipline, namely the history of philosophy, dating back to the 1740s. It is argued that this disciplinary background is important to intellectual history since, to a large extent, it defines itself in opposition to history of philosophy, and since the future developments of intellectual history and history of philosophy, to some extent, depend upon the division of labour between these two disciplines.

AB - This chapter outlines the origin and development of intellectual history and its methodology. The discipline emerged in the 1960s as a reaction to weaknesses in the methodology of another historical discipline, namely the history of ideas, first established in the 1930s. Ultimately, the history of ideas grew out of yet another discipline, namely the history of philosophy, dating back to the 1740s. It is argued that this disciplinary background is important to intellectual history since, to a large extent, it defines itself in opposition to history of philosophy, and since the future developments of intellectual history and history of philosophy, to some extent, depend upon the division of labour between these two disciplines.

U2 - 10.1002/9781118508091.ch10

DO - 10.1002/9781118508091.ch10

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781118294802

SP - 129

EP - 140

BT - A Companion to Intellectual History

A2 - Whatmore, Richard

A2 - Young, Brian

PB - Wiley-Blackwell

CY - Chichester

ER -