Globalizing the Intellectual History of Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-107
Author(s):  
Samuel Moyn ◽  
Jean-Paul Gagnon
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

Samuel Moyn provides insight into how the history of democracy can continue its globalization. There is a growing belief that the currently acceptable fund of ideas has not served the recent past well which is why an expansion, a planetary one, of democracy’s ideas is necessary – especially now as we move deeper into the shadow of declining American/Western imperialism and ideology. Deciding which of democracy’s intellectual traditions to privilege is driven by a mix of forced necessity and choice: finding salient ground for democracy is likely only possible in poisoned traditions including European ones.

“All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed”:

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context

The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developments in conceptions of causality in post-formative Ashʿarī theology. In the latter respect, al-Yūsī’s writings on causality are compared to those of his contemporary in Damascus, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, with attention to the broader historiographic perils in comparing intellectual developments in the Early Modern period to those occurring in Europe. By placing al-Yūsī’s views in intellectual context, I seek to demonstrate how a more productive history of the natural sciences in the post-formative Muslim world might be written.


Von den Grenzen einer frühneuzeitlichen Biographie: Melchior Adams Vita Helii Eobani Hessi und ihre Quellen

Daphnis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-426
Author(s):  
Klaus-Dieter Beims
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Insight Into

Melchior Adam’s collection of biographies offers a unique insight into the intellectual history of the German-speaking cultural world from the late 15th century onwards. Using the Vita Helii Eobani Hessi as an example, this article examines the different sources available to Adam. Furthermore, the article analyses the selection and literary transformation of these sources in Adam’s biography. The image of Hessus in Adam’s main source already shows all the evidence of being just a construction; the essay examines if Adam is checking the construction in a critical manner or if he just accepts it. By comparing the sources that Adam used, the limits of the biography’s historical content are revealed.

Of Mandarins, Legal Consciousness, and the Cultural Turn in US Legal History: Robert W. Gordon. 1984. Critical Legal Histories. Stanford Law Review 36:57–125

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 167-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna L. Blumenthal
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
History Of Doctrine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Central Claim

This article traces the impact of Robert Gordon's “Critical Legal Histories” on scholars writing at the intersection of law and history. While Gordon's central claim about the constitutive character of the law has come to serve as a working assumption in the field, the case he made for the intellectual history of doctrine as articulated by legal mandarins has proven less influential in the twenty-five years since the article was published. Instead, legal historians have focused their attention on the interaction between official and lay forms of law-making with a decided emphasis on popular legal consciousness. For precisely this reason, the time may be ripe for reconsideration of mandarin materials, not only for what they have to tell us about the dynamics of cultural change, but also as sources of insight into basic puzzles of the human condition that have tended across time to be expressed in and through legal forms.

‘I think’ (the thoughts of others). The German tradition of apperceptionism and the intellectual history of schizophrenia

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-404
Author(s):  
Liesbet De Kock
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Aetiological Factor ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theories Of Subjectivity ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Insight Into

Although contemporary approaches to schizophrenia pinpoint ‘disturbances of the self’ as a central aetiological factor, historical insight into the link between accounts of schizophrenia and theories of subjectivity and self-consciousness is poor. This paper aims to overcome this gap by providing the outlines of a largely forgotten but crucial part of the intellectual history of schizophrenia. In particular, the impact of the German tradition of apperceptionism on nineteenth-century accounts of schizophrenia is unearthed. This tradition emerged from German Idealism, and culminated in Emil Kraepelin’s account of dementia praecox. In addition to filling an important gap in the historiography of psychiatry, this analysis contributes to ongoing efforts to correct some common misunderstandings regarding Kraepelin’s theoretical position.

THE WARREN COMMISSION AND THE DONS: AN ANGLO-AMERICAN MICROHISTORY

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN KIDD
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Direct Function ◽  
Kennedy Assassination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

Distortion in intellectual history is not a direct function of distance from the present. The recent past can create its own problems of perspective. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is a case in point. Is the controversy surrounding the assassination a worthy subject for an intellectual historian? After all, there is now little serious debate as to what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963. Mainstream historians regard the case as closed, an issue settled by the exhaustive and fair-minded deliberations of the Warren Commission, whose report, issued in the autumn of 1964, concluded that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, a sad and unsettled individual from a dysfunctional background, had killed the president. However, as we know, the topic remains, almost half a century later, a matter of huge fascination, but only outside the gates of the academy. The study of Kennedy's assassination is now best known to academics as a counterculture, which grossly caricatures the best practices of the academy and where extravagant theories tend to trump sound scholarship, plausibility and common sense. Indeed, this disjunction between the obsessions of amateur historians, known as buffs, and the reluctance of academic historians to lose caste by exploring subjects such as the Kennedy assassination which the wider public—but only the wider public—seems to find worthy of further research and explanation is, as Professor W. D. Rubinstein notes, an interesting sociological and historiographical phenomenon in its own right. Writing in 1994, Max Holland, the journalist and intelligence historian, noted that the history of the Kennedy era was “bifurcated”. For academic historian writing on the Kennedy presidency the assassination is “treated as a footnote or afterthought if it is addressed at all”, while “very few of the more than 450 books and tens of thousands of articles that compose the vast assassination literature published since 1964 have been written by historians.”

scholarly journals Tyumen ethical-philosophical tradition: history and conceptual framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Elena Nikolaevna Yarkova ◽  
Tat'yana Vladimirovna Dyagileva ◽  
Igor' Borisovich Murav'ev
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The object of this research is Tyumen ethical-philosophical intellectual tradition represented by F. A. Selivanov, V. I. Bakshtanovsky, Y. M. Fedorov, M. G. Ganopolsky, and others. The subject of this research is the history and conceptual framework of Tyumen ethical-philosophical intellectual tradition. In the introductory part, the following research positions are substantiated: 1) formulation of the essence of problem, which consists in the absence of research on the regional intellectual traditions of Russia; 2) demarcation of the concepts of “intellectual tradition” and “research tradition”; 3)outlining the research objective, which lies in examination of history and conceptual framework of Tyumen ethical-philosophical tradition, creation of a specific  field of research for the Russian regional intellectual traditions; 4) description of the theoretical-methodological research apparatus based on the approaches and methods characteristic to the interdisciplinary research direction of intellectual history, which is relevant in modern Russian science. The novelty of this work lies in the attempt to create a specific field of research dedicated to studying the Russian regional intellectual traditions. The first part of the article traces the history of establishment of Tyumen ethical-philosophical tradition, analyzes a particular ethical situation of industrial development of North Siberia, which unfolded in the late XX century and gave rise to this intellectual tradition. The second part of the article explicates the key ideas underlying the conceptual framework of Tyumen ethical-philosophical intellectual tradition (personalism, rationalism, praxeology),  and reveals the specificity of interpretation of these ideas by its representatives. In conclusion, it is claimed that the study of regional intellectual traditions contributes to broadening the existing ideas on the intellectual potential of Russia and growing spurts of human capital in the country. Such research a particularly important for Tyumen Region, as they demonstrate that this region is rich not only in natural resources, by intellectual resources as well.

scholarly journals INSIGHT INTO THE LINGUISTIC HISTORY OF THE ETHNONYM "CHUKCHA"

2018 ◽  
pp. 247-254
Author(s):  
M. S. Teikin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Soviet Regime ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Insight Into

Peoples of the North, though small-numbered, often obtain not one, but several names, which have the different frequency of use: they are self-names of specific groups and names given by their neighbours. The article deals with the evolution of the graphical depiction of the ethnonym Chukchi from the moment of its first appearance in documents of the mid-XVI century up to the final fixation of its spelling in the early XIX century’s legislation acts. The article also features the matter of regional Chukchi’s names and explains why the Russian language adopted this very ethnonym. The paper focuses on the peculiarities of the case inflection of the word Chukchi in the recent past. The author investigates the attempt to rename Chukchi to Luoravetlans, which the Soviet regime undertook in the pre-war period when many ethnonyms of the USSR peoples were changed, and explains why the new name did not take roots.

scholarly journals Revealed Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin K Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Context

The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developments in conceptions of causality in post-formative Ashᶜarī theology. In the latter respect, I compare al-Yūsī’s writings on causality to those of his contemporary in Damascus, ᶜAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, with attention to the broader historiographic perils in comparing intellectual developments in the Early Modern period to those occurring in Europe. By placing al-Yūsī’s views in intellectual context, I seek to demonstrate how a more productive history of the natural sciences in the post-formative Muslim world might be written.

scholarly journals Shadowlands of Objectivism and Comprehensiveness

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-262
Author(s):  
Jan Vrhovski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern China ◽  
General View ◽  
Republican China ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Modern China ◽  
Insight Into

The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang’s intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering a more concise picture of the main influences, developmental stages and finally also central ideas of Zhang’s thought. By offering a general view on the concrete confluences and dissonances between the keystones of Zhang’s philosophy on one side, and its alleged sources in Western and Chinese philosophy on the other, this study further aims at presenting a new insight into the unique characteristics of Zhang’s philosophy. At the same time, by setting the discussion on Zhang’s philosophy in a broader context of contemporary intellectual discourse, the article also endeavours to establish a tentative basis for the future critical analyses and potential revaluations of Zhang Shenfu’s role in intellectual history of modern China.

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