Table des matières

• Telescopes and Microscopes
• The Aims of This Book
• A ‘Discontinuous History of Ideas’
• The Structure of This Book

The Longue Durée Meets Intellectual History

• The Longue Durée
• Myth, Religion and Language

A Brief History of The History of Ideas

• What is an Idea?
• A Brief History of the History of Ideas
• Lovejoy’s ‘Unit-Ideas’ and Their Critics
• The Replication of Ideas: Memetics
• Going Viral: Internet Memes
• The Post-Lovejoyan History of Ideas

Methodological Problems in Intellectual History

• The Heterogeneity of Intellectual History
• Interpreting The Past
• The Discontinuist Challenge

Discontinuity in Foucault

• A ‘Philosopher of Discontinuity’
• Foucault’s ‘Controlled Use of Discontinuity’
• Discontinuity as a Technique of Difference
• Criticisms of Foucault’s Use of Discontinuity

• A ‘Magic Lantern’ View of History?
• The ‘Very Contrary’ of Discontinuity
• Tectonic Plates of History
• Continuity and Discontinuity

Other Models of Discontinuity

• The Bachelard-Canguilhem ‘Network’
• Bachelard’s Epistemological Breaks
• Scientific Change: ‘Discontinuous but Progressive’
• Canguilhem’s History of Concepts
• Althusser’s Radical Breaks
• The Fate of Kuhn’s Theory of Scientific Revolutions
• Paradigms and Revolutions
• Problems with Kuhn’s Model
• The Picture of Science

• The Focus on Narrative
• Narrative Sentences, Narrative Tactics
• Narrative Choices
• Discontinuous Narratives: The West and The Idea of the Olympic Games

Gadamer, Collingwood, Bakhtin

• The Past in the Present: Gadamer and Tradition
• Collingwood’s ‘Idea of History’
• Bakhtin’s ‘Dialogism’

Hodge and Kress, Serres, Agamben

• ‘Post-Foucauldian’ Intellectual History
• ‘Semiosis in Time’: Hodge and Kress
• Continuity and Change in Art
• Change and the Passage of Time in Contemporary Art
• Continuity and Change in Science
• Kneading Time: Serres
• Paradigm and Signature: Agamben
• Ideas in Time

Democracy and Progress

• Progress: How Grand a Narrative?
• Post-Enlightenment Progress
• The History of Democracy

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