The History of Ideas in the Christian Middle Ages from the Fathers to Dante in American and Canadian Publications of the Years 1940-1952
Gerhart B. Ladner
The initial date chosen for this survey is the beginning of publication Journal History Ideas in 1940; final date, 1952, that appearance A Syntopicon Great Books Western World. These two events mark principal directions which method historical study ideas has moved on continent: first toward analytical ‘unit ideas’ as defined by Arthur O. Lovejoy (especially Chain Being , 1936), who also intellectual father Ideas; secondly synthetic ‘recording’ main currents and aspects ideological tradition West its entirety, unity, continuity, aimed at program Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, their collaborators.
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