Studies in Intellectual History

• VerfasserIn: Boas, George, 1891-1980,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, : Greenwood Press,, 1968 [1953]; ©1968 [1953]
• Year of Publication: 1953
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 225 pages))

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.

Table of Contents

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.