historian of ideas

C5817
concept

A historian of ideas studies the origin, development, and influence of concepts, beliefs, and intellectual movements across time and cultures.

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All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
historian of philosophy 13
cultural historian 12
historian of ideas canonical 10

Description generation (CDg)

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Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: historian of ideas
Generated description
A historian of ideas studies the origin, development, and influence of concepts, beliefs, and intellectual movements across time and cultures.

Instances (57)

Instance Via concept surface
Franco Venturi
linked to: Francesco Mario Venturi
intellectual historian
Wouter J. Hanegraaff historian of religion
Thomas Berry cultural historian
Edward Shorter historian of psychiatry
Aby Warburg
linked to: Warburg
cultural historian
Paul-Michel Foucault
linked to: Paul-Michel
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Isaiah Berlin —
Heraclides Ponticus historian of philosophy
H. Stuart Hughes intellectual historian
Hu Shi historian of philosophy
Hans Blumenberg —
Bruno Bauer historian of religion
Jean Starobinski —
Eduard Zeller historian of philosophy
Bruce Franklin cultural historian
Jacob Burckhardt cultural historian
Quentin Skinner intellectual historian
The Biographical History of Philosophy history of philosophy
Michel Foucault —
Dmitri Likhachev cultural historian
Jane Ellen Harrison historian of religion
Sydney M. Mead historian of religion
Friedrich Ueberweg historian of philosophy
Carl E. Schorske
linked to: Schorske
cultural historian
Anthony Kenny historian of philosophy
Étienne Gilson
linked to: Gilson
historian of philosophy
History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages history of philosophy
Arthur O. Lovejoy intellectual historian
Anders Sandvig cultural historian
Karl Kerényi historian of religion
Étienne Gilson
linked to: Cravant
historian of medieval philosophy
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
linked to: Wouter
historian of religion
Ronald Hamowy intellectual historian
Louis Menand —
Tzvetan Todorov —
Douglas Kahn cultural historian
David Shulman historian of religion
George Naʻope cultural historian
Mircea Eliade historian of religion
David Macey intellectual historian
Arnold Davidson historian of philosophy
Steve Farmer
linked to: Steve Farmer (critical of linguistic status)
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J. G. A. Pocock historian of political thought
Julius Guttmann historian of philosophy
Feng Youlan historian of philosophy
Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy history of philosophy
Sydney M. Mead
linked to: Mead
historian of religion
Walther Kranz historian of philosophy
William Turner (philosopher) historian of philosophy
Jean Starobinski
linked to: Starobinski
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