Leo Catana, 'Lovejoy’s readings of Bruno: Or how nineteenth-century history of philosophy was “transformed” into the history of ideas'
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Leo Catana, 'Lovejoy’s readings of Bruno : Or how nineteenth-century history of philosophy was “transformed” into the history of ideas'. / Catana, Leo.
In: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 71, No. 1, 2010, p. 91-112.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Leo Catana, 'Lovejoy’s readings of Bruno
T2 - Or how nineteenth-century history of philosophy was “transformed” into the history of ideas'
AU - Catana, Leo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Lovejoy made rather grand methodological statements about the nature of history of ideas in his Great chain of being (1936). These statemens were, it is argued, rhetorical declarations, intended to produce the conviction in the minds of his readers that history of ideas was distinct from history of philosophy and thus deserved institutional independence; they were not adequate descriptions of the method actually practiced. Instead, Lovejoy’s historiographical practice can be contextualized within nineteenth-century general histories of philosophy. His studies on Giordano Bruno, dating from 1904 and 1936 respectively, illustrate this historiographical continuity.
AB - Lovejoy made rather grand methodological statements about the nature of history of ideas in his Great chain of being (1936). These statemens were, it is argued, rhetorical declarations, intended to produce the conviction in the minds of his readers that history of ideas was distinct from history of philosophy and thus deserved institutional independence; they were not adequate descriptions of the method actually practiced. Instead, Lovejoy’s historiographical practice can be contextualized within nineteenth-century general histories of philosophy. His studies on Giordano Bruno, dating from 1904 and 1936 respectively, illustrate this historiographical continuity.
U2 - 10.1353/jhi.0.0068
DO - 10.1353/jhi.0.0068
M3 - Journal article
VL - 71
SP - 91
EP - 112
JO - Journal of the History of Ideas
JF - Journal of the History of Ideas
SN - 0022-5037
IS - 1
ER -
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