intellectual history
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandhistory
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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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history
noun
uk/ˈhɪs.tər.i/us/ˈhɪs.t̬ɚ.i/
(the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandhistoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I thus focus on the founding debates and situate these in the political andintellectualhistoryof their times.
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Rather than writing "pure"intellectualhistory, these scholars seek to fuse the methods of intellectual, social, and political history.
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The book is unashamedlyintellectualhistoryof an old-fashioned kind, a narrative of great thinkers who wrote great books filled with great ideas.
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Or are they simply showing thatintellectualhistoryhas an important place in understanding capitalism?
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The answer seems to be that it explains the dynamics ofintellectualhistoryby using its own process of triangulation.
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The second half of the career may hold more opportunities, particularly for scholars working in and aroundintellectualhistory.
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What was once the intellectual armament of a party is transformed into a method of research in social andintellectualhistorygenerally.
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The essay combines the disciplines of law, literature, andintellectualhistoryto investigate these contrasting formulations and their changing relationship.
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Intellectualhistoryhas developed in much the same way.
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This has had three damaging consequences for the discipline ofintellectualhistory.
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Interestingly, both these historians later moved away fromintellectualhistoryto social history and the experience of the peasantry.
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I thought we could start off with some personalintellectualhistory.
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As a suggestive remark in a biography, this statement is acceptable; but asintellectualhistoryit requires considerable qualification and explanation.
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This approach may be able distinctively to revalue and reinvigorateintellectualhistory, including the history of psychology.
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He sketches vivid portraits of its chief members in a satisfying brew of social andintellectualhistory.
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This conclusion emerges logically from theintellectualhistoryand sociological analysis offered by this valuable study, marked by scrupulous scholarship and wide theoretical scope.
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But these are questions that we could put to any probingintellectualhistory.
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That signals something essential about the point and practice ofintellectualhistory, namely (my second claim) the mutuality, not opposition, of historicism and presentism.
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His starting point is a question ofintellectualhistory: how do we know which books were influential?
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His study is much more a traditionalintellectualhistory, developmental, idea-driven, often brilliantly argued.
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