Syllabus
1. What is Intellectual History?
2. Arthur O. Lovejoy’s Discipline of the History of Ideas
3. Historicism. Ranke and Rankeans
4. Hermeneutics. Hans Georg Gadamer
5. Historical Contextualism and the Cambridge School
6. History of Concepts
7. Comparative History Approach
8. Epistemic Order and Historical Epistemology
9. Martin Jay’s Synoptic Content Analysis
10. Rethinking Intellectual History
11. Global Intellectual History
12. Workshop. Revisiting Methods and Approaches in Intellectual History
Annotation
Intellectual history is an interdisciplinary subject in historical studies dealing with understanding and reconstructing various ideas, including those in political thought, as emerging and evolving in the texts produced in their various historical contexts. The task of students and scholars of intellectual history is to engage in a reconstructive understanding of these ideas by also considering their contextual strengths and shortcomings.
Each session in this course covers a different approach highlighting different underlying questions posed, sources used, and argumentative strategies deployed.