Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas establishes a new and comprehensive way of working in the history and sociology of ideas, in order to obviate several longstanding gaps that have prevented a fruitful interdisciplinary and international dialogues. Pushing global intellectual history forward, it uses methodological innovations in the history of concepts, gender history, imperial history, and history of normativity, many of which have emerged out of intellectual history in recent years, and it especially foregrounds the role of field theory for delimiting objects of study but also in studying transnational history and migration of persons and ideas.
The chapters also explore how intellectual history crosses the study of particular domains: law, politics, economy, science, life sciences, social and human sciences, book history, literature, and emotions.
Contents
Introduction: The Society of Ideas Part I: Problems. 1. Engaging Intellectual History Otherwise 2. Publicness and the Public Sphere 3. The Historicity of Texts: Intellectual History and Critical Hermeneutics 4. Plea for a Social History of Political Ideas 5. Normativity and Intellectual History 6. Quantitative Methods in Intellectual History
Amine Brahimi and Tristan Leperlier 7. Against Vanilla History: Why and How Histories of Sexual Acts Could Matter to Intellectual Historians. Part II: Domains in Intellectual History and the Sociology of Ideas. 8. The Legal Environment of Ideas and the Intellectual Making of Law: Copyright Law and International Law at the Crossroads of State and Disciplinary Boundaries 9. Nations, Networks, and Parties: Locating the Political Engagement of Intellectuals 10. From Political Culture to Economic Theology 11. History of Science, Intellectual History, and the World, 1900-2020 12. Methodological Approaches for the Life Sciences and Intellectual History 13. Reconceptualizing National Traditions in Intellectual History 14. Intellectual Histories of the Book and the Sociology of Texts 15. Literature, Knowledge, Worldview 16. History of Emotions and Intellectual History. Part III: Circulations. 17. Comparativism and Transfer: Relational Approaches in Intellectual History and the Sociology of Ideas 18. Connective Dimensionality 19. Intellectual Migration(s) 20. Circulations of Ideas and Intellectual History: The Role of Mediators. Afterword.
