{"product_id":"9781350591745","title":"Cultural History of Ideas Volumes 1-6","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCultural Histories Series\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCultural History of Ideas\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eVolumes 1-6\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSophia Rosenfeld | Peter T. Struck\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Social History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE\u003cbr\u003e2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow has the nature of ideas evolved over time? How have ideas been shaped, employed  and received in different social and cultural contexts?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a work that spans 2,800 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 62 experts, each contributing an overview of a particular theme in a specific period in history. The volumes explore the development of ideas , primarily in the West, from a range of disciplinary angles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndividual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, for ease of navigation, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This schema offers the reader the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes or following one theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the 6.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 6 volumes cover: \u003c\/b\u003e1. – Classical Antiquity (800 BCE - 500 CE); 2. – Medieval Age (500 - 1450); 3. – Renaissance (1450 - 1650) ; 4. – Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. – Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. – Modern Age (1920 – 2000+).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThemes (and chapter titles) are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe page extent is approximately 1,728pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors, Series Preface and Introduction, and concludes with Notes, Bibliography and an Index.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com .  Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophia Rosenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e A Revolution in Language: The Politics of Signs in Eighteenth-Century France \u003c\/i\u003e(2001); \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense: A Political History\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize; and \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and Truth: A Short History \u003c\/i\u003e(2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter T. Struck\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBirth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (2004); and \u003ci\u003eDivination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). Both won the Goodwin Award for best book in Classical Studies.  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