Fieldwork and theorizing in intellectual history

✍ Scribed by Martin Jay

• Book ID: 104643093
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 639 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0304-2421
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00149842

✦ Synopsis

Accompanying the recent resurgence of interest in intellectual history has been a vigorous and increasingly sophisticated discussion of its methods and theoretical underpinnings. Absorbing lessons from philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, sociology, and other relevant fields, historians such as Quentin Skinner, Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, James Clifford, and Roger Chartier have become full-fledged participants in the larger cultural debates of our day. It is particularly gratifying to see Fritz Ringer join their number, for he has long been recognized as a master practitioner of the intellectual historian's craft. Those who have been fortunate to study with him, as I did in the midsixties, as well as those who know him solely through his exemplary books, The Decline of the German Mandarins and Education and Society in Modern Europe, 1 can only welcome his intervention.