The Logic of the History of Ideas
The Logic of the History of Ideas
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USDThis book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas. It addresses three main questions: what sort of meanings do historians study? How can historians justify claims to have objective knowledge of such meanings? What sorts of explanations are appropriate to such meanings? By answering these questions Mark Bevir seeks to clarify the nature of the history of ideas so as to guide historians in their practice, and to illuminate the process by which human thought develops.
- Sophisticated study of the philosophy underlying the history of ideas
- Links well with a very strong part of our list - Skinner's work and the Ideas in Context series
- Should appeal across a range of disciplines in both humanities and social sciences - from politics and history to literary theory
Reviews & endorsements
"...ambitious and well-reasoned book...[Bevir] gives us a more valuable - if less ground-breaking - book. It is more valuable precisely because it engages the methodological and phenomenological literatuer to a degree that a rigidly defined 'logic' would not...this worthwhile study should be of interest not only to philosophers of the history of ideas but also to those who see themselves primarily as practicing historians of ideas." The Review of Politics
Product details
January 2005Adobe eBook Reader
9780511036132
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Table of Contents
- 1. On analytic philosophy
- 2. On meaning
- 3. On objectivity
- 4. On belief
- 5. On synchronic explanation
- 6. On diachronic explanation
- 7. On distortion
- 8. Conclusion.
