Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History

This book is a collection of essays by leading practitioners of modern European intellectual history, reflecting on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the field. The essays each attempt to assess their respective disciplines, giving an account of their development and theoretical evolution, while also reflecting on current problems, challenges, and possibilities.

About the author

Darrin M. McMahon is the Ben Weider Professor of History at Florida State University.

Samuel Moyn is James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Colubmia University.

Summary

This book is a collection of essays by leading practitioners of modern European intellectual history, reflecting on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the field. The essays each attempt to assess their respective disciplines, giving an account of their development and theoretical evolution, while also reflecting on current problems, challenges, and possibilities.

Additional text

a superb collection ... The power of this book as a whole is to clarify the critical impact intellectual history can have on varied fields of inquiry and its centrality to historiography. The volume demonstrates elegantly that intellectual history remains an effective tool against disciplinary quiescence.

Product details

• Authors: Darrin M. Mcmahon, Darrin M. (Ben Weider Professor Mcmahon, Darrin M. Moyn Mcmahon
• Assisted by: Darrin M. Mcmahon (Editor), McMahon Darrin M. (Editor), Samuel Moyn (Editor), Moyn Samuel (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2014
• EAN: 9780199769230
• ISBN: 978-0-19-976923-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, Europe, European History, Westeuropa, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Western, History - General History