History of ideas
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The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. The history of ideas is a sister-discipline to, or a particular approach within, intellectual history. Work in the history of ideas may involve interdisciplinary research in the history of philosophy, the history of science, or the history of literature. In Sweden, the history of ideas has been a distinct university subject since the 1930s, when Johan Nordström, a scholar of literature, was appointed professor of the new discipline at Uppsala University. Today, several universities across the world provide courses in this field, usually as part of a graduate program.
See also
- Anthropology
- Great Chain of Being
- Herbert Spencer
- Historiography, other approaches to history.
- Idea, and compare sociology of knowledge, the History of Consciousness, conceptual history and intellectual history.
- Isaiah Berlin
- Mark Bevir, author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (ISBN 0-521-64034-2)
- James Burke and The Day the Universe Changed
- Marjorie Hope Nicolson, A. O. Lovejoy student and colleague (1894-1979)
- Meme
- Robert Boyle
- Peter Watson, author of Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud (2005), ISBN 978-0060935641
