Anti Intellectual History

Is There an Indian Intellectual History? Introduction to ‘‘Theory and Method in Indian Intellectual History’’

playful and profound in a way unique to him, entitled ‘‘Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?’’ According to the possible emphases, this sentence could express at least four different questions (‘‘Is,’’ present/past; ‘‘an,’’ singular/plural; ‘‘Indian,’’ local/general; ‘‘thinking,’’ familiar/alien), to which Ramanujan supplies at least eight equally reasonable answers. In the end, he seems to have...

Jan - Werner Müller European Intellectual History as Contemporary History

The first part of this essay examines the peculiar role European intellectual history played in coming to terms with the twentieth century as an ‘Age of Extremes’ and the different weight it was given for that task at different times and in different national contexts up to the 1970s. The second part looks at the contemporary history of politically focused intellectual history – and the possibl...

An Intellectual History of National Accounting

The world never sleeps and economies do not stand still. As the scope, sophistication and complexity of economic transactions increase, new products appear and the institutions engaged in these exchanges themselves change. The nature of economic relationships is continually being transformed, as activities appear more ambiguous and the interpretation of economic statistics grows ever more diffi...

Introduction : The intellectual history of election studies

An Intellectual History of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy

The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy and its predecessor the TOUR model are theories of robot and human commonsense knowledge of large-scale space: the cognitive map. The focus of these theories is on how spatial knowledge is acquired from experience in the environment, and how it can be used effectively in spite of being incomplete and sometimes incorrect. This essay is a personal reflection on the ...