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Logic of the History of Ideas by Mark Bevir (2002, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521016843

ISBN-139780521016841

eBay Product ID (ePID)2298077

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameLogic of the History of Ideas

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

SubjectEpistemology, History & Theory

TypeTextbook

AuthorMark Bevir

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Political Science

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"...ambitious and well-reasoned book...[Bevir] gives us a more valuable - if less ground-breaking - book. It is more valuable precisely because it engages the methodological and phenomenological literatuer to a degree that a rigidly defined 'logic' would not...this worthwhile study should be of interest not only to philosophers of the history of ideas but also to those who see themselves primarily as practicing historians of ideas." The Review of Politics

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Dewey Decimal190

Table Of Content1. On analytic philosophy; 2. On meaning; 3. On objectivity; 4. On belief; 5. On synchronic explanation; 6. On diachronic explanation; 7. On distortion; 8. Conclusion.

SynopsisThis book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas. It addresses three main questions: what sort of meanings do historians study? How can historians justify claims to have objective knowledge of such meanings? What sorts of explanations are appropriate to such meanings? By answering these questions Mark Bevir seeks to clarify the nature of the history of ideas so as to guide historians in their practice, and to illuminate the process by which human thought develops., This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas. Mark Bevir seeks to clarify the nature of the history of ideas so as to guide historians in their practice, and to illuminate the process by which human thought develops., Human cultures generate meanings, and the history of ideas, broadly conceived, is the study of these meanings. An adequate theory of culture must therefore rest on a suitable philosophical enquiry into the nature of the history of ideas. Mark Bevir's book explores the forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas, enhancing our understanding by grappling with central questions such as: What is a meaning? What constitutes objective knowledge of the past? What are beliefs and traditions? How can we explain why people held the beliefs they did? The book ranges widely over issues and theorists associated with post-analytic philosophy, post-modernism, hermeneutics, literary theory, political thought, and social theory.

LC Classification NumberB822 .B48 1999