What Is Intellectual History?

by Richard Whatmore

Book Overview

What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men. Some consider the discipline to be among the most important in the humanities and social sciences because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745644929
• ISBN13: 9780745644929
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"