How has the nature of ideas evolved over time? How have they been influenced and received by different social and cultural conditions? In a work that spans 2,800 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 61 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. The volumes explore the development of ideas throughout Western society from a range of interdisciplinary angles, as well as their receptions and contexts. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it easy to navigate, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6. The 6 volumes cover: 1. - Classical Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. - Medieval Age (500 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; History The page extent is approximately 1,728pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, Series Preface and Introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.
A Cultural History of Ideas
Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck
Examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy, religion, politics and art.Rights Sold
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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 06-10-2022
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pagesAbout the Editors
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of A Revolution in Language: The Politics of Signs in Eighteenth-Century France (2001) and Common Sense: A Political History (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize.
Peter T. Struck is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (2004) and co-editor, along with Rita Copeland, of The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (2010).
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