The History of Ideas: Substantive and Methodological Aspects of the Thought of Leopoldo Zea

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Hale
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy ◽  
Leopoldo Zea ◽  
Methodological Aspects

One of the most striking developments in Mexican historiography during the last twenty-five years is the burgeoning of the genre known as the ‘history of ideas’. The origins of the movement date back to 1925, when German historicist and existentialist philosophy made its entry into Mexico through the ideas of José Ortega y Gasset. More recently the impetus came from the seminar in the History of Ideas initiated at El Colegio de México and at the National University by the Spanish philosopher, José Gaos. So great has been the influence of Gaos that it is fair to say that until very recently die history of ideas or intellectual history in Mexico has been dominated by his students—men such as Luis Villoro, Francisco López Cámara, and Leopoldo Zea. Edmundo O'Gorman, while not a student of Gaos, shares his views and has come to be considered as a natural member of the history of ideas group.

scholarly journals M. Mandelbaum and Historiography of Philosophy

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-244
Author(s):  
Marina N. Volf
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
History Of

The views of M. Mandelbaum on the historiography of philosophy have undergone a certain evolution. The paper shows the epistemological foundations of Mandelbaum’s historical and philosophical position. From the standpoint of critical realism and its application to social sciences Mandelbaum shows the advantages and disadvantages of the monistic or holistic approaches, partial monisms and pluralism. He considers A. O. Lovejoy's history of ideas to be the most reasonable pluralistic conception, although its use as a historical and philosophical methodology is limited. Intellectual history, which replaced it, should be called a partial monism, however, according to Mandelbaum, it gets a number of advantages if it begins to use a pluralistic methodology. In this version of methodology, the history of philosophy and intellectual history can be identified. The paper also presents some objections of analytic philosophers against this identification.

scholarly journals Through the Walls of Time: A Short Reflection on Writing Early Modern Intellectual History

Zutot ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Irene Zwiep
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Jewish Historiography ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
History Of

This short piece takes a longstanding problem from the history of ideas, viz. the use of contemporary concepts in descriptions of past phenomena, and discusses its implications for broader intellectual history. Scholars have argued that being transparent about anachronism can be a first step towards solving the issue. I would argue, however, that it may actually interfere with proper historical interpretation. As a case study, we shall explore what happens when a modern concept like ‘culture’ is applied to pre-modern intellectual processes. As the idea of cultural transfer is prominent in recent Jewish historiography, we will focus on exemplary early modern intermediary Menasseh ben Israel, and ask ourselves whether his supposed ‘brokerage’ (a notion taken from twentieth-century anthropology) brings us closer to understanding his work. As an alternative, I propose ‘bricolage,’ again a central analytical tool in modern anthropology but, as I hope to show, one with unexpected hermeneutical potential.

History of Ideas in Management Communication Quarterly

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 583-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rooney ◽  
Bernard McKenna ◽  
James R. Barker
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Research Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Changes ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Published Research

For a quarter of a century, Management Communication Quarterly ( MCQ) has published research about communication in the context of work. This article charts the intellectual history of MCQ to trace its epistemic, theoretical, and identity changes. The authors consider how the journal’s published research has changed, why it has changed, and what its future direction should be. The article also considers MCQ as a place for a community of scholars and the journal’s identity as a member of that community. In providing this empirical study of MCQ’s history, it is hoped that organizational communication scholars can consider further questions about their research, their journals, and their communities within the research tradition.

PREFACE

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHRUTI KAPILA
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
South Asian ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Major Site ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

In a recent appraisal of the nature of the enterprise of intellectual history, it was remarked, not for the first time, that the “the only history of ideas to be written are histories of their uses in argument”. Though perhaps not in such a self-conscious manner, the essays in this issue consider the transformative capacity of ideas. Modern intellectual history in the European and American context grew out of a critique of the dominance of social history; by contrast, it has received little or no attention in the field of colonial and modern South Asia. Despite the vibrancy of the field in general, the two major works in Indian intellectual history were written almost half a century ago. Eric Stokes's English Utilitarians and India and Ranajit Guha's A Rule of Property for Bengal were both concerned with the making of the regime of colonial political economy. These two important books took the major site of the generation of ideas to be the colonial state and the major actors to be its official intellectuals. Interestingly, both these historians later moved away from intellectual history to social history and the experience of the peasantry. It is an ironic tribute to their books that the subsequent focus of much South Asian historical scholarship has been on the nature of the colonial state and its relation to politics, economy and society. However, the emphasis on the power and the work of ideas, in Stokes's and Guha's initial formulations, slowly but surely gave way to “ethnographies of the state”. A related historiographical move emphasized the politics and culture of resistance, as indeed did Stokes and Guha in their later work.

scholarly journals Ethan Kleinberg: Teoria da História como Fantologia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
André Da Silva Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theory Of History

Ethan Kleinberg is Professor of History and Letters of Wesleyan University. He is the Director of the Center for Humanities and the Editor-in-Chief of History and Theory. His first book, Generation Existential: Heidegger’s Philosophy in France, 1927-1961, published by Cornell University Press, was awarded the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch prize for the best book in intellectual history, by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Recently, Professor Kleinberg co-edited with Ranjan Ghosh the volume Presence: Philosophy, History and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century, published by Cornell University Press as well. His book, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, will appear in the Meridian Series from Stanford University Press in Fall 2017. He is also finishing the book The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas, centered on the Talmudic Lectures that the French-Jewish philosopher presented in Paris between 1960 and 1990. I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Professor Kleinberg in June 2016, when I was a Visiting Student Researcher in the Center for Humanities at Wesleyan University. We also took the advantage of the Second International Network for Theory of History conference (2nd INTH), that happened in Brazil at Ouro Preto from August 23 to August 26, to expand the interview.

The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Medieval Women ◽  
Medieval Music ◽  
The World ◽  
High Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Constant J. Mews's groundbreaking work reveals the wide world of medieval letters. Looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews demands that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. Mews has also expanded our knowledge of medieval music, and its theoretical foundations. In Mews' Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered and politicized. The essays in this volume pay tribute to Constant, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West.

Positivism, Science and 'The Scientists' in Porfirian Mexico

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Priego
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Leopoldo Zea

This book is intended for not only students and academics who undertake research on the history of Mexico during the half-century prior to the onset in 1910 of the Mexican Revolution, but also the parallel community of specialists on the history of ideas, philosophy and science throughout Latin America in this period. Its principal focus is to revisit the influential thesis of the Mexican philosopher Leopoldo Zea that the ideological group dubbed ‘the scientists’ by their opponents were guided by Positivism, particularly as interpreted by Herbert Spencer. It begins by reviewing previous research upon the formation and differentiation of ‘the scientists’, and the black legend which assumes that they legitimised the long dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Having established what Spencer himself believed and wrote, it analyses the prolific writings of two of the leading ‘scientists’, Francisco Bulnes and Justo Sierra. It explains the eclectic nature of their discourses, derived from the works of not only Spencer but also Charles Darwin, Auguste Comte and other European writers, which reached Mexico in a fragmented fashion. It concludes that, far from forming a homogeneous elite clearly committed to to a conservative insistence, derived from Spencerian Positivism, on political stability and modernisation, ‘the scientists’ had an ambivalent relationship with Díaz.

scholarly journals WACANA MISOGINIS DALAM DISKURSUS TAFSIR AKADEMIS (KAJIAN EPISTEMOLOGIS ATAS JURNAL TAHUN 2010-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Sherly Dwi Agustin
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Women Studies ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Critical Reasoning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Aspects

This study aims to examine misogynic interpretation issues in journals published in 2010-2019. Based on the assumption of journal stagnation in Indonesia on women studies, this study examined 32 journals published that year. Through an epithemological study, using literature review research methods and a philosophical approach, this study tries to examine bibliographically the articles that discuss the interpretation of misogyny verses. This study was conducted to analyze the tendency of writing on misogyny issues in journals. With Ignaz Goldziher's theory of the history of ideas, studies have succeeded in revealing that articles in journals tend to be based on interpretations of the formative era with quasi-critical reasoning dominated by modern feminist ideas from both the theme and methodological aspects. The implication of this study is the formation of a typology of misogynistic studies in journals, which can be used as a reference for the development of further studies, especially the development of the epistemology of al-Qur'an studies

scholarly journals BERLIN'S INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: INTERPRETATION OF MONISM AND PLURALISM

2021 ◽  
pp. 210-218
Author(s):  
Вера Павловна Потамская
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Main Ideas

Рассматривается история идей Исайи Берлина, представляющая собой историю изменения и смены моделей человеческого развития. Указывается, что его основные идеи представлены в виде дихотомий. Определяется сущность монизма и плюрализма в трактовке Берлина. The article is devoted to I. Berlin's history of ideas, which is the history of change and shifts of models of human development. It is pointed out that his main ideas are presented in the form of dichotomies. The essence of monism and pluralism, in Berlin's interpretation, is examined.

scholarly journals Alasdair Agonistes: MacIntyre and a New Discontent with Modernity

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Steven E. Pena
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Natural Kinds ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Rational Scheme ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identification Of Species ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Moral Enquiry

This paper is an examination of certain assumptions that, I hold, lie in the background of MacIntyre’s conception of the formation of the intellectual schema as found, most prominently, in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry. A thorough examination of MacIntyre’s concept of the rational schema, I will show, reveals that the parsing he proposes to carry out on intellectual history is confronted with a problem that finds its analogue in the field of biological taxonomy. In order to carry out this project of determining where the seams lie in intellectual history one must first recognize that the parsing itself is a scheme-dependent undertaking. As such it is not unlike the necessarily somewhat arbitrary identification of species and genera in the biological realm. In other words, it should be recognized that intellectual history, like the morphology of the plant and animal kingdoms, is continuous, not discreet. An almost wholly unexamined assumption that stalks through Whose Justice? and Three Rival Versions is that there are something like intellectual natural kinds in the history of ideas. Indeed, the notion that there are “traditions” at all in the sense in which MacIntyre uses the term may be a highly conventional artefact of an Enlightenment-era view of intellectual progress. This leads me to conclude that MacIntyre has failed to observe that the view of traditions and schemes neatly succeeding one another, on which much of his critique is dependent, is itself a product of the perspective he calls “encyclopedia.” This, in turn, will make manifest why it is that almost all of MacIntyre’s examples of rational scheme-switching are from the natural sciences rather than the normative, a fact I will show is connected to a paradigm of linear progression that one tends to find in the exact sciences, but not in praxis.

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