Charles Van Doren
A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and ... [... more]
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New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
 Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 903 EAN: 9780684313771 ISBN: 0684313774 Number Of Pages: 2780 Publication Date: 2004-12 [... more]
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Michael Dirda
Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest ... [... more]
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Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest ... [... more]
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James Essinger
James Essinger is an Oxford graduate who has published more than thirty books. He is particularly interested in the history of ideas that have had a practical impact on the modern world. His previous writings and his time spent teaching English ... [... more]
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The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of ...
From Amazon.com: In just under 900 pages (with another 100 or so pages of notes and bibliography), sociologist Randall Collins elaborates upon his proposed model for how intellectuals--"people who produce decontextualized ideas"--work among one [... more]
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
One of the great philosophical traditions: It is a little known fact in the history of philosophy and ideas that many of the writings and principles that we have and consider as standard 'Western' products came to us through the Arabic traditions. In [... more]
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What's Left of Enlightenment?: A Postmodern Question
A Brilliant Anthology: This remarkable book reexamines the intellectual history of eighteenth century France and Germany in order to bring to light a richer, more nuanced view of this pivotal period. More specifically, many writers, commonly [... more]
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Brilliant!: Sir Isaiah Berlin was the greatest exponent of Liberal Pluralism in the 20th Century. "Against The Current" is probably his best collection of essays. The essays on Verdi and George Sorel are worth the price of the book alone. Do [... more]
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Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas
Author: John Cocking Binding: Library Binding Dewey Decimal Number: 128.3 EAN: 9780415058070 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0415058074 Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: 1991-12-20 [... more]
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Passion of the Western Mind
Excellent intellectual history of west: This book is an excellent text on history of ideas, which have shaped western world. Starting from classical (greece) the book takes you through how christianity evolved and what impact classical thought and Rome [... more]
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History ...
From Amazon.com: The Crooked Timber of Humanity contains eight of Isaiah Berlin's deservedly influential essays in the history of ideas, all dealing with political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the essays, "Joseph de Maistre and the [... more]
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