history of ideas

is concerned with determining when a specific concept appears, and this moment is often identified by the appearance of a new word.

I would like to distinguish between the 'history of ideas' and the 'history of thought.' Most of the time a historian of ideas tries to determine when a specific concept appears, and this moment is often identified by the appearance of a new word. But what I am attempting to do as a historian of thought is something different. I am trying to analyse the way institutions, practices, habits, and behaviour become a problem for people who behave in specific sorts of ways, who have certain types of habits, who engage in certain kinds of practices, and who put to work specific kinds of institutions. (Fearless Speech, 74)

is concerned with the analysis of a notion from its birth, through its development, and in the setting of other ideas which constitute its setting.

The history of ideas involves the analysis of a notion from its birth, through its development, and in the setting of other ideas which constitute its setting. (Fearless Speech, 74)

is the history of the spite of certain solitaries.

The history of ideas is the history of the spite of certain solitaries. Cioran E.M.

history of ideas, n.All

history of ideas