Le contextualisme de Quentin Skinner à l’épreuve du cas Machiavel by Sophie Marcotte-Chénard

“…In other words, is Skinner actually doing what he says one should do as a historian of ideas? Does his interpretation of Machiavelli’s intention correspond to his approach as an historian of ideas, or is it rather derived from an attempt to reflect on contemporary political issues? …”
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The Retro Style in Liberal Politics: A Review of Mark Lilla's ,The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics' by Robert Howse

“…<p>Columbia University’s Mark Lilla is an erudite and engaging historian of ideas, concentrating on political thought from the 18th century to the 20th.  …”
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On Cultural Transmission. A Case Study: Condillac and Italy by Andrea Gatti

“…The difficulties for the historian of ideas in formulating hypotheses about the relevance and modes of cultural transmission are evident even in a case such as Condillac’s, whose actual presence in Parma and Italy seems to support the obvious belief that such transmission necessarily occurred through the philosophers direct action: his conversations with local scholars, contacts with other philosophers, intellectual exchanges and so on. …”
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The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 by Johann Beukes

“… By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la sexualité, this essay highlights an acceleration in tempo after the publication of an edited fourth volume (Les aveux de la chair) in 2018. …”
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The current four volumes of Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité: a review of the state of research, 2022 by Johann Beukes

“… By providing a review of the present state of research regarding French historian of ideas Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) current four-volume series Histoire de la sexualité, this essay highlights an acceleration in tempo after the publication of an edited fourth volume (Les aveux de la chair) in 2018. …”
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A critical study of the literary works of J.A. Froude with special reference to the novels, the essays and the biography of Carlyle by Walsh, C, Walsh, C. J.

“…These texts (and especially the Carlyle biography), the most interesting and important of his works, are considered both as literary artefacts and as documents of value to the historian of ideas. The critical reception each work enjoyed is discussed where appropriate. …”

Recenzja: Katarzyna Wrzesińska, "Kultura i cywilizacja w myśli Narodowej Demokracji (1893–1918). Między ideą wychowania a polityką", Warszawa: Instytut Slawistyki PAN, Fundacja Sla... by Grzegorz Krzywiec

“…The book by Katarzyna Wrzesińska, a historian of ideas and Polish political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries, a researcher of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has an ambitious aim to deal with cultural politics of National Democracy, the largest political movement in the history of Polish lands, at the fin-de-siècle. …”
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Om den filosofiska filosofihistoriens idé by Lilli Alanen

“…It has been held out as a model for a properly philosophical history of philosophy and opposed to that written by historians of ideas, which are deemed to be merely historical without philosophical relevance. …”
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La représentation de la douleur animale chez les hippiatres latins by Valérie Gitton-Ripoll

“…Animal pain is linked to two crucial and different issues : in the Antiquity, horse doctors had to recognise pain in a mute animal, using signs (signa) known in daily practise and listed in veterinarian texts, in order to cure that pain ; modern historians of ideas have to understand what perception of animal pain those doctors had, and if that pain was really taken into account for the treatment. …”
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Nieskończoność Boga u Orygenesa: przyczyna wielkiego nieporozumienia by Damian Mrugalski

“… Many historians of ideas – philosophers and theologians – believe that the first thinker to introduce the concept of a positive understanding of the infinite­ness of God was Plotinus. …”
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Mazzarino e la storiografia greca by Barbara SCARDIGLI

“…<br /><br />ABSTRACT: Although in recent studies is proposed with new arguments the identification between the Anonimous post Dionem and Petrus Patricius, in this work is intended to defend the Santo Mazzarino thesis (and others before him) conducing to the diference between the two historians. This idea is based in the deep difference of the C. …”
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From Simulacrum to Phenomenon: the Status of Art in the Contemporary World by Roxana DONCU

“…In Fury, the story of a retired historian of idea that turns into a dollmaker and writer, Salman Rushdie takes up the mythical story of Pygmalion and Galathea and adapts it to the changing environment of the contemporary globalized world. …”
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Latin America and British international thought, 1880-1920 by Middleton, A

“…The case suggests that historians of ideas can benefit from paying more attention both to power politics, and to patterns of global exchange.…”

Religion i det svenska idéhistorieämnet by Anton Jansson, Hjalmar Falk

“…An investigation of dissertations and of articles in the journal Lychnos suggests that religion has been sparingly treated by historians of ideas. We also discuss this more qualitatively, departing from an overview of the history of ideas in Sweden, Svensk idéhistoria. …”
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Iran Zamin in Historiography of Ilkhanids and Mamluks by احمد فضلی نژاد

“…In this study, as for to reflection of conflicts between Ilkhanid and Mamluks in historical sources, interprets the approach of Iranian and Arab historians on Idea of Iran and analyzes this sources from the view point of Iranian identity.…”
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