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Intellectual History
Intellectual history refers to the historiography of ideas and thinkers. This history cannot be considered without the knowledge of the humans who created, discussed, wrote about, and in other ways were concerned with ideas. Intellectual history as practiced by historians is parallel to the history of philosophy as done by philosophers, and is more akin to the history of ideas. Its central premise is that ideas do not develop in isolation from the people who create and use them, and that one must study ideas not as abstract propositions but in terms of the culture, lives, and historical contex
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Conceptual historians of various stripes asked after the origins of ideas, but they sought them by tracing the changing meanings of words across different socio-historical contexts. My concern, by contrast, is with the practical origins of ideas: with the ways in which the ideas we live by can be shown to be rooted in practical needs and concerns generated by certain facts about us and our situation.
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― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
― The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
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Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.
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― Alien Biography
― Alien Biography
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