Western Intellectual History Lecture Series - Introduction
Posted on February 12, 2008
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This lecture covers an overview of the series, including questions about why we study Western Intellectual History, what is not included in the series, the methodology and objectives of the series, as well as ideas about integrating the study of Western Intellectual History into our lives.
Outline
- What is Western Intellectual History?
- What comprises Western History?
- What comprises Intellectual History
- Why Study Western Intellectual History?
- Significance of the West
- Ideas have consequences!
- What the series is not
- Military History
- Social History
- Methodology of the Series
- Objectives
- To have a firm understanding of the intellectual currents of the West
- To interpret and reinterpret these currents
- To understand your own ideas and their consequences
- Integration
- Integrating the history of ideas into other pursuits
- avoiding Anachronism
Links:
Undoing the Holy Trinity of Race, Class, and Gender
Related Reading:
An Intellectual History of Modern Europe
Rethinking Intellectual History
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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