intellectual historian
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandhistorian
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intellectual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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historian
noun[C]
uk/hɪˈstɔː.ri.ən/us/hɪˈstɔːr.i.ən/
someone who writes about or ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandhistorianfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet the techniques are still plainly those of theintellectualhistorian, and the question of "identities" is left pretty much open.
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Theintellectualhistorianreads sociology, but also goes to movies.
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Be this as it may, the subject matter that particularly interests theintellectualhistorianinvites a hermeneutic rather than a causal analysis.
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He is too savvy anintellectualhistorianto adopt a pleading posture or not to make serious efforts to give critics of capitalism their due.
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This becomes particularly clear when one considers this period from the perspective of anintellectualhistorian.
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For being a goodintellectualhistorianis a condition of appropriating the past in ways which might open up the present, rather than merely endorse it.
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If one reads these chapters in the spirit of anintellectualhistorian, a genealogist of concepts, one is very likely to miss their point, or rather, their argument.
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Contact literature is, to be sure, a legitimate subject, and tracking how myths change as they migrate from culture to culture is among the central tasks of theintellectualhistorian.
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Do they have anything meaty or even interesting to offer to theintellectualhistorianwho delights in charting rich mental worlds and untangling gnarled intellectual genealogies?
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To examine how languages and discourses themselves were employed and adapted, to make sense of and influence the world, should be the goal of theintellectualhistorian.
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If not, perhaps this is because no one can ever remain purely anintellectualhistorian, since no one can describe ideas without lending them some sort of interpretative shape.
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His main academic strengths were as a biographer and as anintellectualhistorian.
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He was influential as anintellectualhistorian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism.
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He is primarily known as anintellectualhistorian, political philosopher and a shaper of mid- 20th century conservatism and as an authority on modern rhetoric.
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Yet they do not fully explain why intellectual historians have preferred to look northward.
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Each makes decisions about methods of historical reconstruction which are instructive for intellectual historians more generally.
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Intellectual historians should, it seems, carefully consider their current shibboleth of contextualization, using it not simply to demonstrate innovation, but also to analyse similarity.
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Themselves members of a larger community of humanists and social scientists, intellectual historians of disciplines have important stakes in the direction that social-scientific disciplines take.
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It also shows that not all intellectual historians need write about capitalism to sort out their discontent.
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There are indeed many portions of the book that will be of considerably more interest to intellectual historians than to philosophers.
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