1 st year modules 2012-2013 Term I

As a discipline that comes into being in the late 1930’s the History of Ideas puts roots in the soil of Western culture(s) already in the early 19^th century. Prefigurations of its agenda occur in the 18^th, and even in the 17^th century. Commonly regarded as a history of –isms, of, that is, sets of concepts, ideas, symbols able to encompass and explain reality, the History of Ideas is a must of Cultural Identity Studies. It sounds logical that it should feature on a Cultural Studies agenda.

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  Lovejoy, Arthur O., ‘The Study of the History of Ideas’, in King, Preston (ed.), The History of Ideas: An Introduction to Method, London & Canberra: Croom Helm; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983, 179-197 [MI].
  
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  Mandelbaum, Maurice, ‘On Lovejoy’s Historiography’, in Preston, King (ed.), The History of Ideas: An Introduction to Method, 198-207 [MI].
  

The History of Ideas stands in a relevant relation to Intellectual History, Cultural History, and the history of Mentalités.

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  Preston, King, ‘Introduction’, in Preston, King (ed.), The History of Ideas: An Introduction to Method, London & Canberra: Croom Helm; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983, 3-19 [MI].
  
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  Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony, ‘Some Interpretations of the History of Ideas’, in Kelly, Donald R. (ed.), The History of Ideas: Canon and Variations, 92-107 [MI].
  

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  Kelly, Donald R., ‘Introduction: Reflections on a Canon’, in Kelly, Donald R. (ed.), The History of Ideas: Canon and Variations, Rochester, N.Y.: U. of Rochester P., 1990, viii-xii [MI].
  
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  Krieger, Leonard, ‘The Autonomy of Intellectual History’, in Kelly, Donald R. (ed.), The History of Ideas: Canon and Variations, 108-125 [MI].
  

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  Auerbach, Erich, ‘Figura’, in Scenes from the Drama of European Literature, Foreword by Paolo Valesio, Theory and History of Literature, Volume 9, Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1984 (© 1959), 11-76 [MI].
  

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  Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957 (© 1953).
  
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  Auerbach, Erich, ‘Historical Introduction: The Idea of Man in Literature’, in Auerbach, Erich, Dante, Poet of the Secular World, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1974 (© 1961), 1-23.
  
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  Berlin, Isaiah, Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, London: The Hogarth Press, 1979.
  
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  Bouwsma, William J., ‘From History of Ideas to History of Meaning’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 12, No. 2, The New History: The 1980s and Beyond (II) (Autumn, 1981), 279-291.
  
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  Bredsdorff, Thomas, ‘Lovejoy’s Idea of “Idea”’, New Literary History, Vol. 8, No. 2, Explorations in Literary History (Winter, 1977), 195-211.
  
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  Foucault, Michel, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, New York: Vintage Books, 1988 (© 1967).
  
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  Foucault, Michel, A supraveghea şi a pedepsi – Naşterea închisorii, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1977 (© 1975).
  
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  Foucault, Michel, The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.
  

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  Gombrich, Ernst Hans, Ideals and Idols: Essays on Value in History and in Art, London: Phaidon Press, 1994 (© 1979).
  
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  Gombrich, Ernst Hans, The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication, London: Phaidon Press, 1999.
  
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  Hutton, Patrick H., ‘The History of Mentalities: The New Map of Cultural History’, History and Theory, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Oct., 1981), 237-259.
  
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  Kelley, Donald, The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
  
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  Kelley, Donald, ‘Eclecticism and the History of Ideas’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 62, No. 4, (Oct. 2001), pp. 577-592.
  
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  Kelley, Donald (ed.), The History of Ideas: Canon and Variations, Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1990.
  
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  Kelley, Donald, ‘What Is Happening to the History of Ideas?’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 51, NO. 1. (Jan. – Mar., 1990), pp. 3-25.
  
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  Kelley, Donald, ‘Horizons of Intellectual History: Retrospect, Circumspect, Prospect’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. – Mar., 1987), 143-169.
  
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  King, Preston (ed.), The History of Ideas: An Introduction to Method, London & Canberra: Croom Helm; Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.
  
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  Koyré, Alexandre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.
  

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  LaCapra, Dominick, ‘European Intellectual History and Post-Traumatic State’, in iichiko intercultural, Number 6 June 1994.
  
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  Lenoble, Robert, Esquisse d’une histoire de l’idée de Nature, Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1969.
  
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  Lovejoy, Arthur O., ‘Reflections on the History of Ideas’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. I, No. 1. (Jan., 1940), pp. 3-23.
  
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  Lovejoy, Arthur O., Marele lanţ al fiinţei – Istoria ideii de plenitudine de la Platon la Schelling, trans. Diana Dicu, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1997 (© 1936).
  
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  Mandelbaum, Maurice, ‘The History of Ideas, Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy’, History and Theory, Vol. 5, Beiheft 5: The Historiography of the History of Philosophy. (1965), pp. 33-66.
  
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  Marrou, Henri-Irénée, Sfîntul Augustin şi sfîrşitul culturii antice, trans. Draga Stoianovici & Lucia Wald, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 1997 (© 1983).
  
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  Merton, Robert, On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript, with an Afterword by Denis Donoghue and a Preface by the Author, San Diego – New York – London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1985 (© 1965).
  
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  White, Morton, Foundations of Historical Knowledge, New York & London: Harper & Row Publishers, 1965.
  

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  Whitehead, Alfred North, ‘Science and the Modern World’, in Adler, Mortimer J., Great Books of the Western World, Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993 (© 1952).
  
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  Wiener, Philip P., ‘Some Problems and Methods in the History of Ideas’, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Oct. – Dec., 1961), pp. 531-548.
  
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  Willey, Basil, The Seventeenth-Century Background, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1962 (© 1934).
  
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  Willey, Basil, The Eighteenth-Century Background, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 1972 (© 1940).