Global Intellectual History

Global Intellectual History

In: Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Edited by: Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori

Columbia University Press | 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/moyn16048

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Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline.

The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.

Author information

Samuel Moyn is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the editor of Pierre Rosanvallon's Democracy Past and Future and the author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History.

Andrew Sartori is associate professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital and the coeditor of From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition.

Reviews

David Armitage, Harvard University, author of Foundations of Modern International Thought:

As intellectual history takes a global turn, the field urgently needs inspiring examples and salutary skepticism. Global Intellectual History provides both in equal measure through multiple models drawn from exceptionally broad expanses of both time and space. The result is a milestone, a collection of the first importance for global historians and intellectual historians alike.

Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge, author of The Propriety of Liberty: Persons, Passions, and Judgement in Modern Political Thought:

Conceptually and substantively sophisticated, this volume of essays will be widely welcomed by a variety of historians. The field is a burgeoning one, but there is little to shape it collectively at present. This volume is among the first to focus on the comparative merits of global intellectual history.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	vii
Part I. A Framework for Debate
1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	3
Part II. Alternative Options
2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier Siep Stuurman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	33
3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity Sheldon Pollock and Sheldon Pollock Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	59
4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries Vanessa Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	81
5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy Andrew Sartori Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	110
6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century Christopher L. Hill Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	134
7. Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the “Muslim World” Cemil Aydin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	159
8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas Samuel Moyn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	187
9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet” Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	205
10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place Janaki Bakhle Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	228
11. Making and Taking Worlds Duncan Bell Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	254
Part III. Concluding Reflections
12. How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be? Frederick Cooper Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	283
13. Global Intellectual History Sudipta Kaviraj Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	295
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	321
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	325

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