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Intellectual history means either:
  1. the history of intellectuals, or:
  2. the history of the people who create, discuss, write about and in other ways propagate ideas.

Intellectual history differs from (although it is related to) the history of philosophy and the history of ideas. Its central perspective suggests that ideas do not change in isolation from the people who create and use them and that we must study the culture, lives and environments of people to understand their ideas.

The social/intellectual context in the writings of history includes:

The Enlightenment - human rights, new science, democratic republic (scholarly sources Kant, Dilthey, Voltaire) Romanticism - individual, subjective, imaginative, personal, visonary (scholarly sources Carlyle, Rousseau, HookHook has a definition at Wiktionary: hook Hook may be a reference to: a fishing hook Captain Hook, a fictional character from J. Barrie's book Peter Pan Hook, a 1991 movie starring Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook hook, a catchy musical passage uppercut, a, HerderJohann Gottfried von Herder ( August 25, 1744 December 18, 1803), German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher, is best known for his concept of the Volk and is generally considered the father of ethnic nationalism. Biography Along with Wilhelm von Hu) Post-Romanticism /reaction to naturalismThis article is about the theatrical movement. For other meanings see Naturalist. For philosophical meanings, see Philosophical naturalism. Naturalism should also not be confused with naturism, i. Naturalism is a movement in theater and film. In theater,, opposes external-only observations by adding internal observations (scholarly sources ComteComte is a title of French nobility. In English, the title is count., von Ranke ) ModernismThis article focuses on the cultural movement labeled 'modernism' or 'the modern movement'. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. Just as the ancients drew the in - rejects tradition (scholarly sources BeardA beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, and the area above the upper lip (the opposite is a clean-shaven face). In the course of history, men with facial hair have been ascribed various and varying attributes such as wisdom, sexual potency, Novick ) Postmodernismsupergraphics of post-modern banners contrast with the neoclassical portico of the Field Museum, Chicago Postmodernism is an artistic, architectural, philosophical, and cultural movement or condition, said to arise after and in reaction to modernism. - rejects Modernism, meta-narrative - multiple perspective, role of individual (scholarly sources Lyotard, Foucault, Barthes) Structuralism - many phenomena do not occur in isolation but in relation to each other (scholarly sources Geertz, Levi-Strauss) Poststructuralism - deconstruction, destablizes the relationship between language and objects the language refers to (scholarly sources Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault) History of ideas

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