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Seeing Things Their Way
While religious history and intellectual history are both
active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry,
historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid
little attention to one another's work. The intellectual historian
Quentin Skinner urged scholars to attend to the contexts as well as
the texts of authors, in order to 'see things their way.' Where
religion is concerned, however, historians have often failed to
heed this good advice; this book helps to remedy that failure. The
editors and contributors urge intellectual historians to explore
the religious dimensions of ideas and at the same time commend the
methods of intellectual history to historians of religion.
The introduction is followed by an essay by Brad Gregory
reflecting on issues related to the study of the history of
religious ideas. Subsequent essays by John Coffey, Anna Sapir
Abulafia, Howard Hotson, Richard A. Muller, and Willem J. van
Asselt explore the importance of religion in the intellectual
history of Great Britain and Europe in the medieval and early
modern periods. James Bradley shifts forward with his essay on
religious ideas in Enlightenment England. Mark Noll and Alister
Chapman deal respectively with British influence on the writing of
religious history in America and with the relationship between
intellectual history and religion in modern Britain. David
Bebbington provides a concluding reflection on the challenges
inherent in restoring the centrality of religion to intellectual
history.
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The Age of Projects
The Age of Projectsuses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during the late seventeenth century.
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A short history of stupidity
We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who've become too mindless to realise their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no less witless followers with groundless conspiracy theories and eye-wateringly foolish takedowns of scientific expertise. Our time, one might be forgiven for thinking, is one in which the fool's gold of stupidity has become a desirable commodity, a must-have, with bumbling celebrities venerated more than those who have more than two brain cells to rub together. Jeffries analyses how we got into this parlous state. He considers what great minds have to tell us about the slippery nature of stupidity. If today we are living in a fool's paradise, has our species become too dim to learn anything from its rich history of folly?
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Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz
In this work, author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests.
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The adventure of the human intellect : self, society and the divine in ancient world cultures
The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds.
* Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date theoretical underpinning, evidence, and scholarship
* Provides a broad scope of studies, including discussion of highly developed ancient or early civilizations in China, India, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
* Examines the world view of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine
* Considers a diversity of sources representing a wide array of particular responses to differing environments, circumstances, and intellectual challenges
* Reflects a more inclusive and nuanced historiographical attitude with respect to non-elites, gender, and local variations
* Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by an internationally renowned scholar
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Decolonization and the Cold War : negotiating independence
The Cold War and decolonization transformed the twentieth century world. This volume brings together an international line-up of experts to explore how these transformations took place and expand on some of the latest threads of analysis to help inform our understanding of the links between the two phenomena. The book begins by exploring ideas of modernity, development, and economics as Cold War and postcolonial projects and goes on to look at the era's intellectual history and investigate how emerging forms of identity fought for supremacy. Finally, the contributors question ideas of sovereignty and state control that move beyond traditional Cold War narratives. Decolonization and the Cold War emphasizes new approaches by drawing on various methodologies, regions, themes, and interdisciplinary work, to shed new light on two topics that are increasingly important to historians of the twentieth century.
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