Intellectual History

How to Become an Iconic Social Thinker: The Intellectual Pursuits of Malinowski and Foucault

by Dominik Bartmanski

Published in European Journal of Social Theory

The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure... more The present article develops a new approach to intellectual history and sociology of knowledge. Its point of departure is to investigate the conditions under which social thinkers assume the iconic reputation. What does it take to become ‘a founding father’ of a humanistic discipline? How do social thinkers achieve the status of a trans-disciplinary star? Why some intellectuals attract tremendous attention and ‘go down in history’ despite personal and professional failures, while others enjoy only limited recognition or simply sink into oblivion, even if they have met all the standards of their day? Quite a few sociologists have tackled this elusive issue. Pierre Bourdieu, Michele Lamont and Randall Collins are among those who fleshed out strong explanatory frameworks. This project adds to this body of knowledge by emphasizing cultural factors that these authors downplayed in their seminal accounts, despite being aware of their significance. By showing why these underdeveloped aspects of their works need to be incorporated into the debate and how this can be achieved, this article introduces a new theorization of the iconic, lasting intellectual reputation substantiated by evidence from the lifeworks of Bronislaw Malinowski and Michel Foucault. As such, it aims, minimally, to make sociology of knowledge decisively ‘cultural’. Maximally, it seeks to demonstrate that the iconic success of intellectual intervention in social theory depends on carefully performed and contingently mediated engagement with the binary systems of symbolic classification.

Literacy, culture and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal

by Andras Kisery

in: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, pp. 34-46.

Misyurov D.A. Dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas // Credo New. 2012. №2

by Dmitry Misyurov

The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with... more The article suggests dialectical formulas based on the binary notation as the development formulas: formula with dominant and the non-dominant elements; universal formula; formula with symbolic weight of elements; tautological formula. For example, it suggests an opportunity to use the dialectical formulas for modeling and artificial intelligence creation, etc.

The German Community in Manchester, Middle-Class Culture and the Development of Mountaineering in Britain, c. 1850–1914

by Jonathan Westaway

Originally published as Westaway, J. (2009) The German Community in Manchester, Middle-Class Culture and the Development of Mountaineering in Britain, c. 1850-1914. The English Historical Review, CXXIV (508). pp. 571-604.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep144

The German community in Manchester formed the most significant international element in the Manchester bourgeoisie... more The German community in Manchester formed the most significant international element in the Manchester bourgeoisie c.1850-1914 and contributed significantly to the city's commercial and cultural life. This study examines German models of voluntary association that linked sport and recreation, education and culture in the context of the Germanophile cultural and intellectual life of the city. Nonconformist élites within Manchester shared liberal and reformist ideals with German émigré groups, not least in the area of education. The German-Unitarian contribution to the kindergarten system, progressive education and the gymnastics movement is examined in some detail. With their emphasis on the whole child, physical education, physical culture and the balance to be achieved between mind and body, these pedagogic innovations were to have a significant influence on the nascent outdoor movement in the region. A number of important implications for the historiography of mountaineering are drawn out. The presence of a gymnastic tradition in the city is relevant to the debates on the emergence of rock climbing as a sport distinct from mountaineering in the 1880s and 1890s. Historians of British mountaineering have tended to characterize the sport as dominated by the world view of the gentlemanly upper-middle class, shot through with the chivalric codes of manliness, athleticism and the exploratory impulse and intent on satisfying nationalistic and imperial preoccupations. This paper argues that, in the context of a regional middle-class sporting and recreational culture, cosmopolitan intellectual and cultural links were just as significant as the dominant national discourse. It opens up the possibility of understanding mountaineering as not just part of an imperial discourse of conquest but also one rooted in the Enlightenment tradition of inner exploration and intellectual bildung.

With William Poole. A Swede in Restoration Oxford: Gothic Patriots, Swedish Books, and English Scholars

by Kelsey Jackson Williams

Lias (forthcoming, 2012)

Call for papers - The Inner Revolution (16th and 17th century) [English version]

by Lo Sguardo - Rivista di Filosofia

This tenth issue of Lo Sguardo will be dedicated to the “inner revolution” of he 16th and 17th century; in particular it will delve into the matter of the interiorization of the world” and the development of an “individual interiority” in the period included betweenthe end of the Renaissance and the early modern Age. With this purpose the issue will consider the “psychology of the soul” livering over the role of the “auxialiry faculties” –such as memory, imagination, fantasy – in relation to the notion of apprehensio, to the practice of spiritual exercises and to the concept of homo faber sui.

Accepted languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German
Deadline for the delivery: September, 10th 2012

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Hodges- Review- Stephens and Giberson, “The Anointed- Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age”

by Blair Hodges

Nineteenth-­‐Century Natural Theology, Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology, Russell Re Manning (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

by Matthew Daniel Eddy

Natural theology came in different varieties during the nineteenth century. It functioned both as a way of seeing... more Natural theology came in different varieties during the nineteenth century. It functioned both as a way of seeing nature but also as a way of being in the world. This essay explores the intellectual and experiential facets of design arguments by focusing on who promoted them and, just as important, why they appealed to so many people on a daily basis. In short, we learn that natural theology was a way of knowing and doing. The essay is structured around three kinds of natural theologians: philosophers and theologians, savants and scientists, priests and pedagogues. Whilst I take care to address well-known names like William Paley and Charles Darwin and classical disciplines like physics and theology, my larger aim is to show the appeal of design to middle class readers and authors (especially women) and to the founders of the emerging human sciences like biomedicine and evolutionary anthropology.

“Clío y Minerva: reflexiones sobre la trayectoria de la Escuela de Historia en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 1974-2009“, Revista Reflexiones, Vol. 89, No. 1 (2010), pp. 191-204. En colaboración con Juan José Marín Hernández y Ronny Viales Hurtado.

by David Diaz-Arias

Das Wort Mammut in etymologischen Wörterbüchern

by Marek Stachowski

Federalismo. Perú

by Alex Loayza Pérez

Coautor con Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada. En: Javier Fernández Sebastián (Dir). Diccionario político y social del mundo Iberoamericano. La era de las revoluciones, 1750-1850. Vol. 1. Madrid: Fundación Carolina/ Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales/ Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2009.

What symbols

by Dmitry Misyurov

This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response? This article contains 12 questions about the symbols. What are your thoughts in response?

Kánonok és ontológiák

by Ferenc Laczó

Review of Balázs Trencsényi, A nép lelke (Budapest: Argumentum, 2011) in Buksz, 2011/3. In Hungarian. Review of Balázs Trencsényi, A nép lelke (Budapest: Argumentum, 2011) in Buksz, 2011/3. In Hungarian.

Hats, Heels, and High Ideals: The Student Dean Program at Syracuse University, 1931-1960

by Thalia Mulvihill

The Material-Cultural Turn: event and effect.

by Dan Hicks

Cite this paper as: Hicks, Dan 2010. The Material-Cultural Turn: Event and Effect. In Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: OUP, pp. 25- 98.

The full references are provided in the bibliography for the published volume.

The Illyrica Historia of Faustus Vrančić / Illyrica Historia Fausta Vrančića

by Iva Kurelac

Published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 22, 2005, pp. 173-187.

Besides numerous significant works concerning the fields of both natural and humanistic disciplines written by the... more Besides numerous significant works concerning the fields of both natural and humanistic disciplines written by the famous Renaissance scholar Faustus Vrančić, there is also a less well-known manuscript, Illyrica historia, fragmenta ex variis Historicis, cum Latinis, tum Graecis, hinc inde collecta a Fausto Verancio Siceno, Episcopo Chanadiensi. This article deals with precisely that unfinished compilation of fragments from the works of Greek and Roman authors. A detailed analysis of quotations included in this manuscript shows Vrančić’s good knowledge of the Greek and Roman literary corpus, and places him among the supremely learned persons of his times. The Illyrica historia presents Faustus Vrančić as an versatile Renaissance scholar and thinker. This work of his fully meets the criteria of quality of the contemporary historiography of his age, but today does not have a great scholarly value. However, the sources quoted in this compilation of fragments testify not only to the level of preservation and accessibility of particular works, but also to the interest of Vrančić himself, who by this work represented himself as a versatile Renaissance scholar. Besides the all mention above, this manuscript is valuable also because it contains quotations from some today less well-known and less often used works.
 
Keywords
historiography, Dalmatia, Šibenik, cultural history, humanism

Начальная летопись как источник по истории коллективного самосознания Древней Руси

by Dmitriy Dobrowolski

// Диалог со временем : альманах интеллектуальной истории. М., 2009. Вып. 27. С. 43–61.

Chronicles (lětopisi) are the most important form of Old Rus' historic consciousness. However, annalistic narrative... more Chronicles (lětopisi) are the most important form of Old Rus' historic consciousness. However, annalistic narrative structure gave chroniclers scanty possibilities to express their vision of the world, leaving the most part of it non-explicated. Several "review" fragments (eg. so-called preface to Pověst Vremennykh Lět) aren't enough to fulfill the lack. What we need is a thesaurus of chroniclers' opinions on all the basic social and historical problems.

(see also: http://rggu.academia.edu/DmitriyDobrowolski/Papers/1586465/_XI_-_XII_)

From Poetics to the Romantics: Conceptual History of Imagination In Poetry

by Arezou Zalipour

The starting point of the history of imagination in poetry can be traced to the early attempts to define poetry, as in... more The starting point of the history of imagination in poetry can be traced to the early attempts to define poetry, as in Aristotle’s Poetics. My investigation in the studies on imagination shows that there is no comprehensive work on the conceptual history of imagination in poetry. However, there are some comprehensive books that provide a chronological survey of the idea of imagination as it appears in various other disciplines. This paper aims to explore the general developmental trends in the concepts of imagination in poetry up to the Romantic period. The concepts are organized according to features that I consider significant to the conceptual history of imagination in poetry. The survey of available literature in the studies of poetic imagination will manifest the various treatments that poetic imagination receives over different periods of time. In the process, this paper will convey mainly in an indirect manner, the gaps and inadequacies in the studies of poetic imagination in an inside-out history of some of the most significant developments in the concepts of poetic imagination.

Article 19, in Le Pacte de la Société des Nations: Commentaire article par article. Kolb, R. (ed.), Pedone (à paraitre)

by Luigi Crema

Fortschrittsdiskurse in Frankreich und den USA im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

by Matthias Waechter