Ideas on the Move: Context in Transnational Intellectual History

Baring, Edward

doi:10.1353/jhi.2016.0031

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“…In Peter Gordon's words, this contextualism prevents us from 'imagining the possibility of semantic continuities across broad stretches of time' and at the limit it denies the possibility of our critical appropriation of those ideas 'in the present.'" 73 The question of temporality is thus crucial. Stated differently, is the history of Arabic thought irreducibly time-bound?…”

Section: Historicism and Methodsmentioning

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Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism

Shakry

2019

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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Arab intellectual history has been experiencing a resurgence of late, positioned as it is between the ascendancy of global intellectual history and the continued resilience of area studies. Such a precipitous conjuncture has led to a proliferation of Arab intellectual histories that belie the orientalist fallacy of the region as a “no idea producing area,” as once infelicitously described by Charles F. Gallagher. And yet the task of scholars of the Arab world is surely more complex than merely adding intellectuals and writers who have heretofore been ignored to the catalogue of intellectual history.

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Section: Historicism and Methodsmentioning

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Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism

Shakry

2019

Mod. Intell. Hist.

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“…As these examples suggest, the contexts tended to be places, and the more local the better." 61 This call to concentrate on immediate contexts simply assumes that intellectuals are primarily participants in debates taking place here and now. This is not always true: "What if it is the case that a given author wrote what he or she wrote aiming to speak to all times and places, that his or her intention was to transcend the immediate context from which the text came into being?"…”

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An Apologia for Arthur Lovejoy's Long‐range Approach to the History of Ideas

Mouton

2023

History and Theory

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Arthur Lovejoy's long-range approach to the history of ideas is little appreciated and largely abandoned. The list of Lovejoy's supposed sins is long. His critics have charged that, among other things, he treated ideas as timeless entities with essences that are independent of individual thinkers, separate from specific texts, isolated from immediate contexts, and insulated from intellectual change. This article defends Lovejoy against such attacks and argues that his approach is still viable and valuable.

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“…Yet it is hardly a coincidence that modern academic disciplines emerged as the modern international system spread unevenly across the globe. National contexts and transnational flows have been significant for different developments in IR (Wæver 1998) and in intellectual history more widely (Baring, 2016: 571). In relation to natural sciences too, the international is usually considered irrelevant to ‘science’, assumed, internalistically, to be universal and objective.…”

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What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations

Corry¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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While disciplinary identities are among the most fraught subjects in academia, much less attention has been given to what disciplinarity actually entails and what risks different disciplinary strategies involve. This article sets out a theory of disciplinarity that recognises not only their coercive but also their redeeming features, particularly in view of the coexistince of multiple competing disciplines and powerful transdisciplinary movements (such as rationalism). On this basis it identifies four disciplinary strategies and each is assessed in relation to the future of IR: (1) remaining a subdiscipline of Political Science (‘stay put’), (2) becoming an interdisciplinary field (‘reach out’), (3) dissolving into transdisciplinarity or abolishing IR (‘burn down’), or (4) establishing IR as a discipline in its own right (‘break out’). Rejecting the false choice of disciplinary constraint versus epistemic freedom, this framework allows IR and other subfields to more consciously consider a range of disciplinary strategies and to entertain the risks and affordances they each offer. The article concludes that a future independent discipline focused on the implications of ‘the international’ not just for politics but all fields – including disciplinarity – would make for a broader, more diverse IR, ultimately also better able to engage other disciplines.

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Ideas on the Move: Context in Transnational Intellectual History

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism

Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism

An Apologia for Arthur Lovejoy's Long‐range Approach to the History of Ideas

What’s the point of being a discipline? Four disciplinary strategies and the future of International Relations

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