The History of Ideas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049976 |
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| Authors | D Gross (0000-0002-5400-8708, University of Colorado System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 1970 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 210-214 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0370005210 |
| OpenAlex | W2314192849 |
| Language | EN |
George Boas' recent book The History of Ideas (New York, 1969) has all of the shortcomings of the discipline he attempts to describe. In his view, the task of intellectual history is to study ideas an sich. But what is an idea? For the Ideenhistoriker it is essentially a concept in a vacuum, i.e., a notion which somehow floats above time and space, and therefore above history. And yet, like Hegel's World Spirit, it also condescends to enter into the historical process, to occasionally fuse with individual thinkers while still not corrupting itself by confluence with real events (the “cunning of ideas”?)
Art history · Epistemology · George (robot · Hegelianism · Intellectual history · Management · Philosophy of history · Process (computing · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Task (project management · Computer Science · Globalization and political ideologies · History · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Highly cited | No |
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