Skip to:ContentBottom
Cover image for Dictionary of the history of ideas : studies of selected pivotal ideas
Dictionary of the history of ideas : studies of selected pivotal ideas
Title:
Dictionary of the history of ideas : studies of selected pivotal ideas
JLCTITLE245:
Philip P. Wiener, editor in chief.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, [1973-74]
Physical Description:
5 volumes ; 29 cm
ISBN:
9780684132938

9780684132907

9780684132884

9780684132891

9780684132914

9780684132921
Abstract:
Contains overviews of religious, intellectual, literary, economic, political, and scientific concepts.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Physical Form Available:
Also issued online.
Contents:
v. 1. Abstraction in the formulation of concepts, to Design argument.--v. 2. Despotism, to Law, common.--v. 3. Law, conception of, to Protest movements.--v. 4. Psychological ideas, to Zeitgeist.--[5] Index.

v. 1. Abstraction in the formulation of concepts -- Academic freedom -- Agnosticism -- Alchemy -- Alienation in christian theology -- Alienation in hegel and marx -- Allegory in literary history -- Ambiguity as aethestic principle -- Analogy in early greek thought -- Analogy in patristic and medieval thought -- Analogy of the body politic -- Anarchism -- Ancients and moderns in the eighteenth century -- Anthropomorphism in science -- Antinomy of pure reason -- Appearance and reality -- Art and play -- Art for art's sake-- Association of ideas -- Astrology -- Atomism: antiquity to the seventeenth century -- Atomism in the seventeenth century -- Authority -- Axiomatization -- Baconianism -- Balance of power -- Baroque in literature -- Theories of beauty to the mid-nineteenth century -- Theories of beauty since the mid-nineteenth century -- Behaviorism -- Biological conceptions in antiquity -- Biological conceptions in antiquity -- Biological homologies and analogies -- Biological models -- Buddhism -- Casuistry -- Catharsis -- Causation in history -- Causation in islamic thought -- Causation in law -- Causation in the seventeenth century -- Causation in the seventeenth century, final causes -- Certainty in the seventeenth-century thought -- Certainty since the seventeenth century -- Chain of being -- Chance -- Chance images -- China in western thought and culture -- Christianity in history -- Church as an institution -- Modernism in the christian church -- The city -- Civil disobedience -- Class -- Classicism in literature -- Classification of the arts -- Classification of the sciences -- Sense of the comic -- Conservatism -- Constitutionalism -- Continuity and discontinuity in nature and knowledge -- Cosmic fall -- Cosmic images -- Cosmic voyages -- Cosmology from antiquity to 1850 -- Cosmology since 1850 -- Creation in religion -- Creativity in art -- Crisis in history -- Literary criticism -- Cultural development in antiquity -- Culture and civilization in modern times -- Cycles -- Cynicism -- Death and immortality -- Deism -- Democracy -- Demonology. -- v. 2. Design argument -- Despotism -- Determinism in history -- Determinism in theology: predestination -- Double truth -- Dualism in philosophy and religion -- Economic history -- Economic theory of natural liberty -- Education -- Empathy -- Enlightenment -- The counter-enlightenment -- Entropy -- Environment -- Environment and culture -- Epicureanism and free wil -- Equality -- Equity in law and ethics -- Eschatology -- Problem of evil -- Evolution of literature -- Evolutionism -- Existentialism -- Experiemental science and mechanics in the middle ages -- Expressionism in literature -- Faith, hope, and charity -- Form in the history of aesthetics -- Fortune, fate, and chance -- Free will and determinism -- Free will in theology -- Legal concept of freedom -- Freedom of speech in antiquity -- Game theory -- General will -- Genetic continuity -- Genius from the renaissance to 1770 -- Genius: individualism in art and artists -- Musical genius -- Gnosticism -- Idea of god from prehistory to the middle ages -- Idea of god, 1400-1800 -- Idea of god since 1800 -- Concept of gothic -- Happiness and pleasure -- Harmony or rapture in music -- Health and disease -- Hegelian political and religious ideas -- Heresy in the middle ages -- Heresy, renaissance and later -- Hermeticism -- Hierarchy and order -- History and dialectical materialism -- Historicism -- Historiography -- The influence of ideas on ancient greek historiography -- Holy (the sacred) -- Humanism in italy -- Iconography -- Idea -- Ideal in philosophy from the renaissance to 1780 -- Ideology -- Ideology of soviet communism -- Impiety in the classical world -- Impressionism in art -- Imprinting and learning early in life -- Indeterminacy in physics -- Types of individualism -- Infinity -- Inheritance of acquired characteristics (lamarckian) -- Inheritance through pangenesis -- Irony -- Irrationalism in the history of philosophy -- Islamic conception of intellectual life -- Justice -- Study of language -- Ancient greek ideas of law -- Ancient roman ideas of law -- Common law. -- v. 3. Concept of law -- Due process in law -- Equal protection in law -- Natural law and natural rights -- Legal precedent -- Legal responsibility -- Liberalism -- Linguistics -- Linguistic theories in british seventeenth-century philosophy -- Literary paradox -- Literature and its cognates -- Longevity -- Love -- Loyalty -- Machiavellism -- Macrocosm and microcosm -- Man-machine from the greeks to the computer -- Marxism -- Marxist revisionism: from bernstein to modern forms -- Relativity of standards of mathematical rigor -- Mathematics in cultural history -- Changing concepts of matter from antiquity to newton -- Metaphor in philosophy -- Metaphor in religious discourse -- Metaphysical imagination -- Millenarianism -- Mimesis -- Moral sense -- Motif -- Motif in literature: the faust theme -- Literary attitudes towards mountains -- Music and science -- Music as a demonic art -- Music as a divine art -- Myth in antiquity -- Myth in bibical times -- Myth in the middle ages and the renaissance -- Myth in english literature: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Myth in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centures -- Myth in the nineteenth and twentieth centures -- Medieval and renaissance ideas of nation -- Nationalism -- Naturalism in art -- Nature -- Necessity -- Neo-classicism in art -- Neo-platonism -- Newton and the method of analysis -- Newton's opticks and eighteenth-century imagination -- Number -- Optics and vision -- Organicism -- Oriental ideas in american thought -- Ethics of peace -- International peace -- Perennial philosophy -- Perfectibility of man -- Periodization in literary history -- Philanthropy -- Pietism -- Rhetoric and literary theory in platonism -- Platonism in philosophy and poetry -- Platonism in the renaissance -- Platonism since the enlightenment -- Poetry and poetics from antiquity to the mid-eighteenth century -- Positivism in europe to 1900 -- Positivism in latin america -- Positivism in the twentieth century (logical empiricism) -- Pragmatism -- Pre-platonic conceptions of human nature -- Primitivism -- Primitivism in the eighteenth century -- Probability: objective theory -- Progress in classical antiquity -- Progress in the modern era -- Property -- Prophecy in hebrew scripture -- Prophecy in the middle ages -- Protest movements. -- v. 4. Psychological ideas in antiquity -- Psychological schools in european thought -- Psychological theories in american thought -- Pythagorean doctrines to 300 b.c. -- Pythagorean harmony of the universe -- Ramism -- Rationality among the greeks and romans -- Realism in literature -- Recapitulation -- Reformation -- Relativism in ethics -- Relativity -- Origins of religion -- Ritual in religion -- Religion and science in the nineteenth century -- Religious enlightenment in american thought -- Religious toleration -- Idea of renaissance -- Renaissance idea of the dignity of man -- Renaissance literature and historiography -- Revolution -- Rhetoric after plato -- Right and good -- Romanticism (ca. 1780-ca. 1830) -- Romanticism in post-kantian philosophy -- Satire -- Victorian sensibility and sentiment -- Sin and salvation -- Skepticism in antiquity -- Skepticism in modern thought -- Social contract -- Social deomocracy in germany and revisionism -- Formal theories of social welfare -- Socialism from antiquity to marx -- Space -- Spontaneous generation -- The state -- Ethics of stoicism -- Structuralism -- Style in literature -- Sublime in external nature -- Symbol and symbolism in literature -- Symmetry and asymmetry -- Taste in the history of aesthetics from the renaissance to 1770 -- Technology -- Temperance (sophrosyne) and the canon of the cardinal virtues -- Theodicy -- Theriophily -- Time -- Time and measurement -- Totalitarianism -- Sense of the tragic -- Uniformitarianism and catastrophism -- Uniformitarianism in linguistics -- Unity of science from plato to kant -- Universal man -- Utilitarianism -- Utility and value in economic thought -- Utopia -- Ut pictura poesis -- Virtu in and since the renaissance -- Virtuoso -- Volksgeist -- Vox populi -- War and militarism -- Welfare state -- Wisdom of the fool -- Witchcraft -- Social attitudes towards women -- work -- Zeitgeist.
Go to:Top of Page