Essays in the History of Ideas by Arthur O. Lovejoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962, author.

Contributor:

Johns Hopkins History of Ideas Club, issuing body.

Series:

Hopkins open publishing encore editions.

Hopkins open publishing encore editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Literature.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (unpaged).)

Edition:

Open access edition.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first essay of this collection, Lovejoy reflects on the nature, methods, and difficulties of the historiography of ideas. He maps out recurring phenomena in the history of ideas, which the essays illustrate. One phenomenon is the presence and influence of the same presuppositions or other operative "ideas" in very diverse provinces of thought and in different periods. Another is the role of semantic transitions and confusions, of shifts and of ambiguities in the meanings of terms, in the history of thought and taste. A third phenomenon is the internal tensions or waverings in the mind of almost every individual writer--sometimes discernible even in a single writing or on a single page--arising from conflicting ideas or incongruous propensities of feeling or taste to which the writer is susceptible. These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

Contents:

The historiography of ideas

The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality

Monboddo and Rousseau

"Pride" in eighteenth century thought

"Nature" as aesthetic norm

The parallel of deism and classicism

The Chinese origin of a romanticism

The first Gothic revival and the return to nature

Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history

The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism

Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism

On the discrimination of romanticisms

Coleridge and Kant's two worlds

Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall

The communism of St. Ambrose

"Nature" as norm in Tertullian.

Notes:

"Published for the History of Ideas Club of the Johns Hopkins University"--Title page verso.

Originally published: New York : George Braziller, Inc., 1955.

"Bibliography of the published writings of Arthur O. Lovejoy, 1898-1948."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8018-0392-6

1-4214-3237-4

OCLC:

1120069547