摘要
Part 1 Founders: reflections on the history of ideas, Arthur O.Lovejoy a problem in the history of ideas, Frederick J.Teggart Geistesgeschichte vs history of ideas as applied to Hitlerism, Leo Spitzer reply to Professor Spitzer, Arthur O.Lovejoy Lovejoy's Essays in the History of Ideas, Theodore Spencer historiography and evaluation - a disclaimer, Arthur O.Lovejoy. Part 2 Followers: levels of meaning and the history of ideas, Abraham Edel the philosophical significance of the history of thought, Paul O.Kristeller logical significance of the history of thought, Philip P.Wiener some interpretations of the history of ideas, Joseph Anthony Mazzeo the autonomy of intellectual history, Leonard Krieger Arthur O.Lovejoy and the moral of The Great Chain of Being, Danile J.Wilson Arthur O.Lovejoy and the emergence of novelty, Kathleen E.Duffin Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being after 50 years, Daniel J.Wilson Lovejoy and the hierarchy of being, Edward P.Mahoney Lovejoy's unexplored option, Francis Oakley. Part 3 Questions: history changing form, Johann Huizinga a reply to J.Huizinga on the form and function of history, Joseph Katz two meanings of historicism in the writings of Dilthey, Troeltsch and Meinecke, Calvin G.Rand semantics in the methodology of the history of ideas, Nils B.Kvastad Creativity and Tradition, Paul O.Kristeller interpreting the enlightenment - a political approach, Lester G.Crocker the art of memory reconceived - from rhetoric to psychoanalysis, Patrick H.Hutton horizons of intellectual history - retrospect, circumspect, prospect, Donald R.Kelley.