New Dictionary of the History of Ideas [6 Volumes]

The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of "what we think" accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism. Title Contents List of Articles Preface Historiography Reader’s Guide A Abolitionism. Absolute Music. Aesthetics. Africa, Idea of. African-American Ideas. Afrocentricity. Afropessimism. Agnosticism. Alchemy. Algebras. Alienation. Altruism. Ambiguity. America. Americanization, U.S. Analytical Philosophy. Anarchism. Ancestor Worship. Animism. Anthropology. Anticolonialism. Antifeminism. Anti-Semitism. Apartheid. Apocalypse. Appearance and Reality. Architecture. Aristotelianism. Artificial Intelligence. Arts. Arts, Periodization of. Asceticism. Asian-American Ideas (Cultural Migration). Assimilation. Astrology. Astronomy, Pre-Columbian and Latin American. Atheism. Authenticity, Africa. Authoritarianism. Authority. Autobiography. Autonomy. Avant-Garde. Aztlán. B Barbarism and Civilization. Baroque. Belief. Beauty and Ugliness. Behaviorism. Belief. Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Biodiversity. Bioethics. Biography. Biology. Biometry. Birth Control and Abortion. Black Atlantic. Black Consciousness. Black Orientalism. Body, the. Borders, Borderlands, and Frontiers, Global. Brain Drain. Buddhism Bureaucracy. Bushido. C Calculation and Computation. Calendar. Cannibalism. Capitalism. Cartesianism. Casuistry. Causality. Causation. Causation in East Asian and Southeast Asian Philosophy. Censorship. Cell Theory. Chain of Being. Change. Character. Chemistry. Chicano Movement. Childhood and Child Rearing. Chinese Thought. Chinese Warlordism. Christianity. Church and State. Cinema. Citizenship. City, the. Civil Disobedience. Civil Society. Class. Classicism. Classification of Arts and Sciences, Early Modern. Cleanliness. Cognitive Science. Colonialism. Comedy. Common Sense. Communication of Ideas. Communism. Communitarianism in African Thought. Community. Complementarity. Composition, Musical. Computer Science. Confucianism. Consciousness. Conservatism. Consilience. Constitutionalism. Consumerism. Context. Continental Philosophy. Contraception. Core/Periphery. Corruption. Corruption in Developed and Developing Countries. Cosmology. Cosmopolitanism. Costume. Creationism. Creativity in the Arts and Sciences. Creolization, Caribbean. Crisis. Critical Race Theory. Critical Theory. Cultural Capital. Cultural History. Cultural Revivals. Cultural Studies. Cycles. Cynicism. D Dada. Dance. Daoism. Darwinism Death. Death and Afterlife, Islamic Understanding of. Decadence. Deconstruction. Deism. Democracy. Democracy, Africa. Demography. Demonology. Dependency. Determinism. Development. Dialogue and Dialectics. Diasporas. Dictatorship in Latin America. Difference. Diffusion, Cultural. Discipline. Discrimination. Diversity. Drama. Dream. Dress. Dualism. Dystopia. E Eclecticism. Ecology. Economics. Ecosystem. Ecumenism. Education. Emigration. Emotions. Empire and Imperialism. Empiricism. Encyclopedism. Enlightenment. Entelechy. Environment. Environmental Ethics. Environmental History. Epicureanism. Epigenesis. Epistemology. Equality. Eschatology. Essentialism. Ethics. Ethnicity and Race. Ethnocentrism. Ethnography. Ethnohistory, U.S. Etiquette. Eugenics. Eurocentrism. Europe, Idea of. Everyday Life. Evil. Evolution. Examination Systems, China. Existentialism. Experiment. Expressionism. Extinction. Extirpation. F Fallacy, Logical. Falsifiability. Family. Family Planning. Fascism. Fatalism. Feminism. Fetishism. Feudalism, European. Fiction. Field Theories. Film. Form, Metaphysical, in Ancient and Medieval Thought. Formalism. Foundationalism. Freedom. Free Will, Determinism, and Predestination. Friendship. Frontiers. Fundamentalism. Futurology. G Game Theory. Garden. Gay Studies. Gender. Gender in Art. Gender Studies: Anthropology. General Will. Generation. Genetics. Genius. Genocide. Genre. Geography. Geometry. Gesture. Ghetto. Gift, the. Globalization. Gnosticism. God. Good. Government. Greek Science. H Happiness and Pleasure in European Thought. Harmony. Hate. Health and Disease. Heaven and Hell. Heaven and Hell (Asian Focus). Hedonism in European Thought. Hegelianism. Hegemony. Hell. Heresy and Apostasy. Hermeneutics. Hierarchy and Order. Hinduism. Historical and Dialectical Materialism. Historicism. History, Economic. History, Idea of. Honor. Honor: Middle Eastern Notions of. Human Capital. Human Rights. Humanism. Humanity. Humanity in the Arts. Humor. Hygiene. I Iconography. Idealism. Ideas, History of. Identity. Identity, Multiple. Images, Icons, and Idols. Imagination. Immortality and the Afterlife. Imperialism. Impressionism. Indigenismo. Individualism. Intellectuals. Intelligence, Artificial. Intelligentsia. Intentionality. Intercession in Middle Eastern Society. Interdisciplinarity. Internal Colonialism. International Order. Interpretation. Islam. Islamic Science. J Jainism. Japanese Philosophy, Japanese Thought. Jihad. Jouissance. Judaism. Justice. K Kantianism. Kingship. Kinship. Knowledge. L Landscape in the Arts. Language and Linguistics. Language, Linguistics, and Literacy. Language, Philosophy of. Law. Law, Islamic. Leadership. Learning and Memory, Contemporary Views. Legalism, Ancient China. Leisure. Lesbian Studies. Liberalism. Liberation Theology. Liberty. Life. Life Cycle. Linguistics. Linguistic Turn. Literary Criticism. Literary History. Literature. Logic. Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics, Modern. Love, Western Notions of. Loyalties, Dual. Lysenkoism. M Machiavellism. Machismo. Magic. Manichaeism. Maoism. Maps and the Ideas They Express. Marianismo. Marriage and Fertility, European Views. Marxism. Masks. Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought. Mathematics. Matriarchy. Matter and Forms of Matter. Mechanical Philosophy. Media, History of. Medicine. Meditation, Eastern. Meme. Memory. Men and Masculinity. Mestizaje. Metaphor. Metaphysics. Microcosm and Macrocosm. Migration. Millenarianism. Mind. Minority. Miracles. Modernism. Modernity. Modernization. Modernization Theory. Mohism. Molecular Biology. Monarchy. Monasticism. Monism. Moral Sense. Motherhood and Maternity. Motif. Motif Music Multiculturalism, Africa. Museums. Music, Anthropology of. Musical Performance and Audiences. Musicology. Mysticism. Myth. N Narrative. Nation. National History. Nationalism. Native Policy. Natural History. Naturalism. Naturalism in Art and Literature. Natural Law. Natural Rights. Natural Theology. Nature. Naturphilosophie. Negritude. Neocolonialism. Neoliberalism. Neoplatonism. New Criticism. New Historicism. Newtonianism. Nihilism. Nomadism. Nonviolence. Nuclear Age. Nude, the. O Objectivity. Obligation. Occidentalism. Ontogeny. Oral Traditions. Organicism. Orientalism. Orthodoxy. Orthopraxy. Other, the, European Views of. P Pacifism. Pan-Africanism. Pan-Arabism. Pan-Asianism. Pan-Islamism. Pan-Turkism. Paradigm. Paradise on Earth. Paradox. Patriotism. Peace. Peasants and Peasantry. Periodization. Periodization of the Arts. Person, Idea of the. Personhood in African Thought. Perspective. Phenomenology. Philanthropy. Philosophies. Philosophies, Eastern. Philosophy. Philosophy, History of. Philosophy, Moral. Philosophy and Religion in Western Thought. Philosophy of Language. Philosophy of Mind. Philosophy of Religion. Phrenology. Phylogeny. Physics. Pietism. Piety and Impiety. Platonism. Pluralism. Poetry and Poetics. Political, the. Political Protest, U.S. Political Science. Polytheism. Population. Populism. Positivism. Postcolonial Studies. Postcolonial Theory and Literature. Postmodernism. Poststructuralism. Poverty. Power. Practices. Pragmatism. Pre-Colombian Civilization. Prehistory, Rise of. Prejudice. Presentism. Primitivism. Privacy. Privatization. Probability. Progress, Idea of. Progressivism. Propaganda. Property. Prophecy. Protest, Political. Pseudoscience. Psychoanalysis. Psychology and Psychiatry. Public Sphere. Punishment. Puritanism. Pythagoreanism. Q Quantum. Queer Theory. R Race and Racism. Radicals/Radicalism. Rastafarianism. Rational Choice. Rationalism. Reading. Realism. Realism, Africa. Reason, Practical and Theoretical. Rebellion. Recapitulation. Reciprocity. Reflexivity. Reform. Reformation. Regions and Regionalism, Eastern Europe. Reincarnation. Relativism. Relativity. Religion. Religion and Science. Religion and the State. Renaissance. Representation. Reproduction. Republicanism. Resistance. Resistance and Accommodation. Responsibility. Revelation. Revolution. Rhetoric. Ritual. Romanticism in Literature and Politics. S Sacred and Profane. Sacred Places. Sacred Texts. Sage Philosophy. Saints and Sainthood. Samsara. Satire. Scarcity and Abundance, Latin America. Scholasticism. Science. Science, History of. Science Fiction. Scientific Method. Scientific Revolution. Secular Humanism. Secularization and Secularism. Segregation. Sex and Gender. Sexual Harassment. Sexuality. Shinto. Skepticism. Slavery. Sociability in African Thought. Social Capital. Social Contract. Social Darwinism. Social History, U.S. Socialism. Socialisms, African. Society. Socratic Method. Sophists, the. Sovereignty. Space. Species. Spontaneous Generation. Sport. State, the. State of Nature. Stoicism. Structuralism and Poststructuralism. Subjectivism. Sufism. Supply and Demand. Suicide. Superstition. Surrealism. Symbiosis. Symbolism. Syncretism. T Taste. Technology. Temperance. Terror. Terrorism, Middle East. Text/Textuality. Textiles and Fiber Arts as Catalysts for Ideas. Theater and Performance. Theodicy. Theology. Third Cinema. Third World. Third World Literature. Thomism. Time. Toleration. Totalitarianism. Totems. Trade. Tradition. Tragedy and Comedy. Translation. Transnationalism. Travel from Europe and the Middle East. Treaty. Tribalism, Middle East. Trope. Truth. U Universalism. Universe, Theories of. University. Untouchability. Upanishads. Utilitarianism. Utopia. V Veda. Victorianism. Virtual Reality. Virtue Ethics. Virtuoso. Visual Culture. Visual Order to Organizing Collections. Volksgeist. Volunteerism, U.S. Voodoo (Vodun). Voting. W War. War and Peace in the Arts. Wealth. Westernization. Wildlife. Wisdom, Human. Witchcraft. Witchcraft, African Studies of. Womanism. Women and Femininity in U.S. Popular Culture. Women’s History. Women’s Studies. Work. World Systems Theory, Latin America. YZ Yin and Yang. Yoga. Zen. Zionism. List of Contributors What are the origins of the concepts under which we organize societies, create institutions and think about our lives? Where did the concept of God or equal rights or democracy come from? How does one idea influence another? Such questions fuel debates, speeches, papers and assignments in history classes, school speaking competitions, ethics classes and more. The publication of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas marks the return of a reference work that is an essential tool to make the often complex history of'what we think'accessible to students and general readers. The original 1974 Dictionary of the History of Ideas has long been admired as a landmark document encapsulating the thinking of an era. This thoroughly re-envisioned New Dictionary of the History of Ideas brings fresh intelligence and a global perspective to bear on timeless questions about the individual and society. A distinguished team of international scholars explore new thinking in areas previously covered (communism, linguistics, physics) and present cross-cultural perspectives on more recent topics such as postmodernism, deconstruction and post-colonialism.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details. From Abolitionism To Zionism, This Encyclopedia Clarifies The Intellectual History Of More Than 750 Complex Ideas Of Concern To People Today. Like Its Classic Predecessor, The Dictionary Of The History Of Ideas (1973), This New Set Covers Core Western Ideas, While Expanding Its Coverage To Include The 'global Perspectives And Gender-inclusive' Concepts That Have Evolved In The Past 30 Years. Reader's Guides, Cross-references, Sidebars, And An Index Aid The Reader In Understanding The Way Ideas Combine With Other Ideas. -- Reference That Rocks, American Libraries, May 2005. V.1. Abolitionism-common Sense -- V. 2. Communication Of Ideas-futurology -- V.3. Game Theory-lysenkoism -- V. 4. Machiavellism-phrenology -- V.5. Physics-syncretism -- V. 6. Taste-zionism. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Editor In Chief. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.