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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524705303321

Autore

Boas George <1891-1980, >

Titolo

Studies in Intellectual History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1953

New York, : Greenwood Press, , 1968 [1953]

©1968 [1953]

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 225 pages))

Disciplina

001.2

Soggetti

Learning and scholarship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Some problems of intellectual history, by G. Boas.--The history of ideas and ancient Greek philosophy, by H. Cherniss.--The golden chain of Homer, by L. Edelstein.--Language, the basis of science, philosophy, and poetry, by L. Spitzer.--Progress and perfectibility in Samuel Miller's intellectual history, by G. Chinard.--An historical analysis of the concept of infection, by O. Temkin.--The long neglect of a scientific discovery: Mendel's laws of inheritance, by B. Glass.--Lovejoy's rôle in American philosophy, by P.P. Wiener.--The History of Ideas Club, by D. Stimson.

Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1953. In this collection of essays, prominent midcentury intellectual historians provide critical essays on their field of specialty. Studies in Intellectual History gathers work by Harold Cherniss, George Boas, Ludwig Edelstein, Leo Spitzer, and others. George Boas (1891-1980) is the first of nine contributors to this volume. Boas was a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University for over thirty years, a Guggenheim fellow, and a central figure in the Journal of the History of Ideas and the fabled History of Ideas Club.