“Hey! What’s the Big Idea?” Ruminations on the Question of Scale in Intellectual History

Responding to the recent exhortation by the historian David Armitage to return to a history of "big ideas" traced over long periods of time, this paper examines reasons for the resistance to his advice voiced by both textualist and contextualist intellectual historians. Discussing the alte...

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Veröffentlicht in:	New literary history 2017-10, Vol.48 (4), p.617-631
1. Verfasser:	Jay, Martin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Dynamic semantics Essays Foucault, Michel Historical text analysis History of ideas Humanities Literary history Literary theory Modernity Philosophy Smoothing Trends
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