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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas is a biannual online journal that was created in 2010 and is published by the GISI (Gruppo Interdisciplinare di Storia delle Idee) research team at Turin University. Its aim is to encourage a global and exhaustive understanding of the history of ideas by identifying intellectual history as an intrinsically interdisciplinary object. Interviews and debates between researchers from different vantage points enrich the journal’s reflections on the intellectual foundations of contemporary culture.

philosophy --- history of ideas --- interdisciplinary

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Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and the history of literature and concepts. Within this frame, aspects of major interest are the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within the artefacts or genres they belong to, as well as strategies of functionalization in the context of a given part of the cultural net. Contributions cover a broad range of topics, including poetics of Early Modern Drama; political, institutional and social practices; history of themes and motifs (Stoffgeschichte); history of genres/cross-fertilization between genres; textual traditions and distribution of texts; questions of originality and authorship; theories of circulation and net structures in Drama Studies.

The arts --- Comparative Literature. --- Drama. --- Early Modern Europe. --- History of Ideas.

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Redécouvrir Montesquieu, en son temps et dans le temps long de l’histoire : les œuvres clés du siècle des Lumières, Lettres persanes, L’Esprit des lois, Considérations sur les Romains, prennent tout leur sens si l’on prend en compte à la fois leur dimension littéraire, politique, philosophique, historique, juridique. Des temps forts de l’histoire, comme la découverte des Indes par Alexandre, le voyage africain d’Hannon ou l’invasion de l’Europe par les Huns, la prise de pouvoir par Auguste et le long règne de Justinien, révèlent la puissance de l’esprit humain et la faiblesse des sociétés soumises au pouvoir d’un seul. L’histoire, ancienne ou récente, devient le champ d’action privilégié de la pensée politique, tout en révélant la place infime de l’individu à l’échelle des siècles et des nations. À travers ce monde sans héros, régi par des causes générales et profondes, apparaissent les qualités maîtresses d’un écrivain philosophe : la liberté de l’esprit et l’acuité du regard, révélées par la succession des lectures, parfois contradictoires, qui en ont été données. Rediscovering Montesquieu in his time and throughout history: the key works of the Enlightenment, Persian Letters, Considerations on the Romans, The Spirit of Law take on their full meaning if one takes into account their literary, political, historical and legal dimensions. Major historical events, such as Alexander the Great’s discovery of the Indies, Hanno the Navigator’s voyage around Africa or the invasion of Europe by the Huns, Augustus’ seizure of power and the long reign of Justinian, reveal the power of the human spirit and the weakness of societies subjected to the power of a single person. History, ancient or recent, becomes the preferred sphere of action for political thought and reveals the insignificance of the individual throughout centuries and across nations. Through this world without heroes, governed by deep-rooted, general matters, the dominant qualities of a philosophical writer…

Philosophy --- Literature (General) --- Montesquieu --- Lumières --- littérature --- philosophie --- histoire des idées --- Enlightenment --- literature --- philosophy --- history of ideas

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Ideas In Time deals extensively with the history of ideas. The aims of the book are: to provide a coherent theoretical account of the ill-defined field known as ‘the history of ideas’; to emphasise the longue durée or long view in intellectual and cultural history; to develop a reconfigured history of ideas, attentive both to the endurance of certain ideas and beliefs, and to breaks and shifts in meaning over time; and to support this general ambition with studies of specific ideas over long durations, namely: the ideas of progress, democracy, zero, charisma, the Olympic games, and the idea of the West. Ideas in Time emphasises both historical continuity and discontinuity, drawing on both perspectives in its reconstruction of the history of ideas. This theoretical model entails the possibility of tracing the history of certain ideas from their ancient origins to their present expression, while acknowledging alterations in meaning determined by changing social and cultural contexts.

E-books --- History --- Political Science --- democracy --- history of ideas --- beliefs --- progress --- alterations --- cultural contexts

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Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, and artistry. Combining fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy, 1650–1850 delivers a comprehensive but richly detailed rendering of the first days, the first principles, and the first efforts of modern culture. Its pages open to the works of all nations and language traditions, providing a truly global picture of a period that routinely shattered boundaries. Volume 27 of this long-running journal is no exception to this tradition of focused inclusivity. Readers will travel through a blockbuster special feature on the topic of worldmaking and other worlds—on the Enlightenment zest for the discovery, charting, imagining, and evaluating of new worlds, envisioned worlds, utopian worlds, and worlds of the future. Essays in this enthusiastically extraterritorial offering escort readers through the science-fictional worlds of Lady Cavendish, around European gardens, over the high seas, across the American frontiers, into forests and exotic ecosystems, and, in sum, into the unlimited expanses of the Enlightenment mind. Further enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews evaluating the latest in eighteenth-century scholarship.

Aesthetics, Modern. --- Civilization, Modern --- Idea (Philosophy) --- Nineteenth century. --- History. --- Enlightenment, Augustan, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Restoration.